Web design and websites for restaurants and hospitality businesses
Web design for restaurants, bars, hotels and hospitality businesses: fast sites with local SEO and online bookings. From 890 €, delivered in 2–4 weeks.
Sites so fast they load before the guest blinks.
We measure every site with PageSpeed Insights before delivery. The aim is for the main content to load in under 1.5 seconds on mobile, with no layout jump. Every second of waiting is someone who leaves before they see the menu.
Astro if we start from zero; WordPress or Wix if you already have a site
When the project starts from zero and we can choose, we build it with Astro: a static site served from a global CDN, the same kind of stack companies such as Stripe, Linear or Vercel use, without slow plugins or a database to maintain. Measured with PageSpeed: main content in under 1.5 seconds on mobile.
If the site already exists on WordPress or Wix and it should stay, we work on it, inside the Basic plan or as a project on the same plans: we improve it, extend it and connect bookings, a digital menu and the Google listing. The project picks the tool.
Not a pretty website. A machine for local bookings.
Why a restaurant website works or fails is explained, layer by layer, in our reference article on what makes a restaurant website successful.
Each page is built to rank for the searches people make within 2 km of the restaurant. Local SEO, structured data and conversion are in the code from line 1.
Hyperlocal SEO architecture
Clean URLs by neighbourhood, city and type of cuisine. Internal links towards your Google Business Profile. LocalBusiness + Restaurant + Menu + Review schema.
Built to convert
A Book button that stays visible, sticky on mobile. Click-to-call up front. The call to action follows the hour: lunch at midday, dinner at night. Conversion tracking with GA4 and Search Console.
Booking-system integration
CoverManager, TheFork, OpenTable or Tableo — we connect the native widget with no extra commission. Your own form if you do not want to depend on a platform. The price and commission comparison is in our article on online bookings for restaurants.
Mobile-first, for real
70% of bookings come from a phone. We design at 390px first and scale up. Every interaction is meant for one hand and 3 seconds of attention.
Digital menu with allergens
The 14 EU allergens, in line with Regulation 1169/2011. Filters by type (vegan, gluten-free and the rest). Updates in seconds from a simple panel, without touching code. The comparison of a free plan, your own menu and a platform is in our article on QR menus for restaurants.
Languages built in
Up to 5 languages, each with its own URL (/es/, /en/, /fr/...) and correct hreflang. Each language can rank on its own — 30% of foreign guests search in their language.
The real challenge of web design and websites for restaurants and hospitality
A restaurant website is the first impression a large share of your future customers get: they check it, almost always from their phone, before they decide whether to book, order delivery or walk in. If your site is slow, looks wrong on a phone, has no clear booking button or does not show an up-to-date menu, you are not losing "visits": you are losing real bookings every day. We design professional websites not only for restaurants — also for hotels, gastro bars, cafés, pastry shops, bakeries, bakery workshops, chocolate shops, gourmet stores, food trucks, dark kitchens, cooking schools, catering companies and professional chefs who sell their personal brand. Each page is built for one thing: turn visits into real bookings and rank on Google from day one.
What you get
A fast site that loads in under 2 seconds
A design that reflects the identity of your restaurant
A digital menu that is easy to update
Integration with booking systems (CoverManager, TheFork, OpenTable, Tableo)
Optimised for SEO from day one
Responsive: right on phone, tablet and desktop
How we work
The same method on every hospitality project. Clear milestones and a deliverable at each stage.
We understand your restaurant, your audience and your digital goals.
We create a custom design that reflects your food concept.
We build the site with modern technology, fast and optimised for SEO.
We publish, set up analytics and train you to manage the content.
Not only restaurants. We design for the whole food business.
Each kind of food business needs a different site. A pastry shop is not a dark kitchen, and the website should not pretend they are.
Restaurants and gastropubs
Bookings, digital menu, reviews
Cocktail bars
Signature menu, room, bookings
Pizzerias and burger restaurants
Online orders, your own delivery
Seafood restaurants and grills
Catch of the day, traceability, local SEO
Bakeries and pastry shops
Catalogue, pre-orders, the bakery
Gourmet shops and delis
Online shop, gift vouchers, subscriptions
Food trucks and markets
Live location, a menu that changes
Dark kitchens and virtual brands
No dining room, several brands, orders
Catering and events
Online quotes, gallery, calendar
Cooking schools
Courses, calendar, online enrolment
Professional chefs
Personal brand, books, talks, courses
Hotels and food-led stays
Direct bookings, the hotel restaurant
The 12 blocks a professional restaurant website needs
From hospitality websites we have settled on 12 blocks a professional site needs. Miss one and the site leaves money on the table every day.
A hero with a clear offer
In 5 seconds the visitor has to see what you are, where you are and why to choose you. A real photo of the signature dish, a direct headline and a Book a table button without scrolling.
A booking button that stays visible
A sticky button on mobile and desktop. It connects to CoverManager, TheFork, OpenTable, Tableo or your own form. Each extra click loses 20% of bookings.
A menu you can update
Not a PDF: real HTML with filters for allergens, vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and spicy. You update it without touching code. Menu schema so Google can show it in the result.
A gallery of real dishes
Not generic stock photos. Professional photos of your real dishes, ready for the web (WebP, lazy loading, descriptive alt text). A good photo sells more than a line of copy.
Team and philosophy
The chef, the story, the product, the suppliers. That is what separates the restaurant from a chain. Google and guests reward something real — and so do AI models.
Map, address and how to get there
An embedded Google Map, an address that opens Maps on the phone, nearby parking, the metro or bus stop, access. LocalBusiness schema with the correct name, address and phone.
Real reviews on the page
A carousel of real reviews from Google, TripAdvisor or TheFork — not invented quotes. AggregateRating schema so the stars can show in the Google result.
Events and private hire
Groups, celebrations, birthdays, corporate events and company dinners get their own page and a proper form. For a typical restaurant that is one of the larger sources of revenue.
A local SEO blog
Posts that answer real searches: what to do on a Sunday in your neighbourhood, a tasting menu in your city, a local dish on your street. It is the SEO work that compounds over 6–12 months.
More than one language, when it matters
In tourist areas, English at a minimum — and French, German or Italian when the guests need it — doubles qualified traffic. A native translation, not a machine one. Google treats machine-translated pages as weak content.
WhatsApp and click-to-call
A floating WhatsApp button and a tap-to-call button on mobile. People want to ask before they book. The restaurant that answers fast on WhatsApp gets the booking.
A footer with the legal details and local SEO
Company details, tax ID, email, phone, the exact address, full hours, links to Google Maps, social profiles and the legal notice. It is not decoration — Google reads it as a trust signal.
8 mistakes that cost your current site bookings
If the site has any of these 8 problems, it is missing bookings every day. We see it on every Local SEO Audit Pro.
Loads in more than 4 seconds on mobile
A template site with extra plugins is often slow on 4G, and every second of waiting is someone who leaves before the menu. We build light and measure with PageSpeed before delivery: the aim is under 2 seconds.
It does not work on a phone
People look up a restaurant on the phone, often already on the way. If the menu is unreadable, the booking button needs a zoom or the map falls off the screen, that guest is gone.
The menu is a PDF
Google does not read it properly, phones are slow to open it and someone with an allergy cannot filter. The menu has to be HTML, updated by you, with Menu schema and diet filters.
The booking button is hidden or missing
A small booking button buried in the header hands the booking to someone else. It has to be large, always visible and connected to your booking system.
Stock photos or old photos
Visitors can tell a stock photo in under a second. Old or stock photos create distrust at once. A proper food photographer every 12–18 months is part of the site.
Spanish only in a tourist area
In central Madrid, Barcelona, Marbella, Mallorca, Ibiza, Valencia or any tourist area, a Spanish-only site cuts off 40–60% of the potential market. English at a minimum, French as well when the guests need it.
Reviews hidden or missing
Hiding real reviews wastes the strongest reason to book. They should be visible from the first scroll, with the guest photo and a link to the source.
No neighbourhood or street SEO
The site names the city and not the neighbourhood, the street, the metro stop or the landmark. That competes on national searches instead of the hyperlocal ones, where conversion is twice as high.
Connected to the platforms you already use
The site is not an island. We connect the booking system, the payment method, delivery, the CRM and the marketing tools, without clumsy redirects or pop-ups. The guest books on your site, not on someone else’s.
Online bookings
- CoverManager
- TheFork (ElTenedor)
- OpenTable
- Tableo
- Bookline
- Resy
- Restoo
- Your own form
Delivery and takeaway
- Glovo
- Uber Eats
- JustEat
- Mr Rappi
- Deliveroo (where it operates)
- Your own click and collect
Payments
- Stripe
- Redsys
- PayPal
- Bizum
- Apple Pay
- Google Pay
Email and CRM
- Mailerlite
- Resend
- Mailchimp
- HubSpot Free
- Your own CRM
Analytics and SEO
- Google Analytics 4
- Google Search Console
- Tag Manager
- Meta Pixel
- TikTok Pixel
- Microsoft Clarity
Reviews and reputation
- Google Business Profile
- TripAdvisor
- TheFork Reviews
- Trustpilot
A custom site vs a generic template vs a website builder
The differences you notice on day 1: speed, SEO, conversion and who owns the data. If you already have a WordPress or Wix site, we improve what is there.
| Criterion | Custom GastroSEO site | Free WordPress theme | Wix / Squarespace with a template |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mobile speed | Optimised and measured before delivery | Depends on the theme and the plugins | Depends on the template and the apps |
| Restaurant + Menu schema | Yes, built in | Manual, needs a plugin | Limited or none |
| Digital menu with allergen filters | Yes, you can edit it | Only with a paid plugin | No, only a PDF or a gallery |
| Native CoverManager / TheFork / OpenTable | Yes, a clean embed | A generic iframe | Only an external link |
| More than one language | Up to 5 real languages | An extra plugin (WPML) | A higher plan, and limited |
| You own the data and the code | 100% yours | 100% yours | Rented from the platform |
| Local SEO on day 1 | Yes, included | No, it needs a consultant | Generic, not specialised |
| Cost in year 1 | 890€ – 2.490€ (domain and hosting included) | 120-400€ plus paid plugins | 180-500€/year, recurring |
| Cost from year 2 | ~80€/year (hosting) | 120-400€/year | 180-500€/year, recurring |
| A person who knows hospitality | Yes, direct WhatsApp | No | Generic support |
Who this service is for
Choose the plan that fits your restaurant or other hospitality business
Three clear options, by the size and ambition of the business. They fit restaurants, pastry shops, bakeries, gourmet shops, food trucks, dark kitchens, catering, cooking schools and any other food business. Every plan includes a fully responsive design and direct support.
A one-page landing for restaurants that need a professional online presence quickly. Right for new businesses or those starting digitally.
The middle option: a multi-page site with a dynamic digital menu, online bookings and an SEO blog built in.
For restaurant groups, gastronomic restaurants and businesses with online sales. Includes an online shop, several languages and maintenance.
The website and the traffic, together
A website with no visitors does not fill tables. These packs join the website with local SEO, the Google listing, the copy and visibility in AI assistants, at a closed price. The months of service have no lock-in: afterwards you continue at the catalogue price only if you want to.
To open or relaunch with the website and local SEO starting together. The audit sets the starting point and three months of work push the site and the listing in your area.
For businesses where the Google listing is the main shop window: bars, cafés, neighbourhood restaurants and tourist-area restaurants.
For groups, gastronomic restaurants and businesses with online sales: website, copy, local SEO and visibility in AI assistants from day one.
What a restaurant website costs in 2026
In Spain, a restaurant website costs from about 300 € if you build it yourself with a template to more than 6,000 € if it includes a shop or custom ordering. A hospitality agency sits between 1,200 € and 4,000 €. Our sites, on their own, run from 890 € to 2,490 € with delivery in 2–4 weeks; the packs with local SEO, the Google listing or GEO go up to 3,890 €. The ranges come from public rates of agencies and platforms in the sector, checked in September 2026.
| How you build it | Usual range | What you usually get | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| A template or a builder (Wix, Squarespace, WordPress with a theme) | 300-800 € plus the platform’s monthly fee | A generic design, a PDF menu, no local SEO; you depend on the platform | Days, you do it |
| An all-in hospitality subscription | 30-130 €/month | A standard site with basic bookings and a menu; if you stop paying, the site is not yours | 48 h to 1 week |
| A hospitality agency | 1.200-4.000 € | A custom design, bookings built in, an HTML menu, local SEO and structured data | 2-8 weeks |
| GastroSEO | 890-2.490 € one-off + ~80 €/year of hosting | Your own Astro site, bookings, a menu with allergens, local SEO, up to 5 languages; the site is yours | 2-4 weeks |
| An advanced site with online orders or a shop | 3.000-10.000 € | A shop, your own delivery, custom integrations | 2-3 months |
Market references: public rates from five hospitality web-design agencies and platforms in Spain (subscriptions between 39 and 129 €/month; custom sites from 390 € to 4,000 €) and the price guides those agencies publish, all checked in September 2026 and filed in docs/research/. GastroSEO prices are the ones on this page.
Web design for each kind of hospitality business
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They are online and you can open them. It is the clearest way to show the work.
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Restaurant web design by city
We cover these cities from the studio in Madrid. The neighbourhood search, the local competition and the dishes that define each market are part of the project. We are a hospitality web design agency working across Spain.
- Restaurant websites in Alicante
- Restaurant websites in Barcelona
- Restaurant websites in Bilbao
- Restaurant websites in Ferrol
- Restaurant websites in Girona
- Restaurant websites in Granada
- Restaurant websites in Madrid
- Restaurant websites in Málaga
- Restaurant websites in Mallorca
- Restaurant websites in Marbella
- Restaurant websites in Ourense
- Restaurant websites in San Sebastián
- Restaurant websites in Santiago de Compostela
- Restaurant websites in Sevilla
- Restaurant websites in Tenerife
- Restaurant websites in Valencia
- Restaurant websites in Zaragoza
Your city is not listed? We work remotely across Spain →
Common questions about web design and websites for restaurants and hospitality
How long will it take to see tangible results after the web design of my restaurant?
Usually, the first results in visibility and bookings start to show between 2 and 4 weeks after launch, especially if the web design is paired with a local SEO strategy. Ongoing optimisation, such as the work we do on our Basic GastroSEO Plan, settles those results over the medium term.
What makes your web design prices different from a generic agency?
Our prices reflect an exclusive focus on hospitality, with key features such as booking systems, digital menus and local SEO built in from the start. A generic agency might offer a low starting cost, but it will not have the sector experience that improves the return for your restaurant.
What makes GastroSEO web design different from a generalist web designer?
The difference is a deep knowledge of hospitality. We do not only make attractive sites: we make sites that work for restaurants, optimised for bookings, with menus that are easy to update, strong dish galleries and a focus on conversion. A generalist does not understand those details, and they matter to the success of your business.
What information or materials should I prepare before we start the web design of my restaurant?
We will need your menu, high-quality photos of dishes and the venue, your logo, contact details, hours and any booking system you use. It also helps to know your audience and your signature dishes, so the design lines up with your offer.
What does your web design service for restaurants include, and what does it not include?
The service includes responsive design, booking-system integration, an editable digital menu, an image gallery, a contact form and basic SEO. It does not include writing the copy (although we can advise) or social media management, which are separate services.
How do you measure the success of my restaurant's new website?
We measure success through specific KPIs: more direct bookings, more website traffic (especially local), time on the page, bounce rate and conversions on the digital menu. These figures are reviewed monthly so the site keeps serving its commercial goals.
How much does a professional restaurant website cost?
At GastroSEO we offer three closed plans with no surprises: Essential Website 890€ (a one-page site ready in 2 weeks for restaurants that are starting), Professional Website 1.490€ (the middle option: multi-page, with bookings + 2 languages + an SEO blog) and Gastro Premium Website 2.490€ (multilingual, an online shop for gourmet products or gift vouchers, multi-brand or multi-location). Every plan includes the domain, hosting for the first year, basic on-page SEO and a final training session.
Which online booking integrations does your restaurant website support?
We integrate natively with CoverManager, TheFork, OpenTable and Tableo, the 4 booking systems most used in Spain. If you use another (CovermanagerPRO, Resy, Restoo, Bookline or your own form), we connect that too. The integration is direct, with no odd redirects: the customer books without leaving your site, which raises the conversion rate compared with pages that send the user to an external platform.
What if my restaurant needs a website in several languages (Spanish, English, French)?
It is one of our strengths. The Professional Website plan includes 2 native languages (not machine translation: the copy is rewritten by a native hospitality copywriter). The Gastro Premium plan includes up to 5 languages. This matters if you work in tourist areas such as central Madrid, Barcelona, Marbella, Mallorca, Ibiza, San Sebastián or the Canary Islands, where up to 60% of searches for "restaurant near me" come from foreign visitors whose browser is in another language.
How long does Google take to rank a new restaurant website?
For very local keywords such as "restaurant in [your neighbourhood]" you start to appear in 2–4 weeks. For more competitive keywords such as "Japanese restaurant in [city]" it usually takes 3–6 months of continuous SEO work. That is why we deliver the whole site optimised for SEO from day one (Restaurant + Menu + LocalBusiness schema, sitemap.xml, meta tags, speed under 2 seconds, Core Web Vitals in the green) and we recommend pairing it with our monthly GastroSEO Plan at 350€ to speed up the ranking.
Is a website of your own better than Wix, Squarespace, Webnode or a free WordPress template?
It depends on where you start. A site built for hospitality wins on four things. (1) Speed: it is built without extra themes or plugins, and it is measured on a phone before delivery. (2) SEO: it carries Restaurant and Menu schema, the data Google uses to show your menu and hours in the result. (3) Customisation: your restaurant does not have to fit a template mould. (4) Ownership: the domain, the hosting and the code are yours. And if you already have a site on WordPress or Wix and it works, we also work on it: we optimise it and connect it to bookings, a digital menu and the Google listing.
Do you also design websites for cooking schools, caterers or bakeries?
Yes. They are three of our main niches. For cooking schools we design sites with a course calendar, online enrolment, teacher profiles and an educational blog. For caterers we build sites with an online quote, an availability calendar, an event gallery and qualified forms (B2B and B2C). For bakeries and pastry shops we design visual catalogues, a pre-order system for key dates (Epiphany, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day) and bread subscriptions.
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