Inspiration, design & online visibility on the menu 🍽️

In a world where the customer experience often starts on the screen, creating a restaurant website is no longer a luxury: it is a necessity. To attract new customers, a professional site must present the menu, tell the identity of the restaurant and facilitate online reservations at the same time. A good restaurant website is the window of your establishment, and your first tool to offer a customer experience from the first click.

Immersive photos, clear Restaurant Menu, 2-click reservation, mobile-friendly design... each page should inspire, reassure, and convince. As website creators, our team at Studio Elias is inspired by the largest restaurant sites to design websites tailored to the needs of restaurant owners and their visitors.

So here it is Our ranking of the 30 best restaurant websites in 2025. On the agenda: showcase sites, reservation platforms, and immersive experiences that show how a restaurant website can become a powerful sales tool.

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Online booking, review and visibility portals

Before discovering your site, potential customers often search for a restaurant via essential platforms. These tools boost the visibility of your restaurant and influence customer choice:

1. Google Business Profile — To appear on Google Maps, show your hours, address and customer reviews. Essential for online presence.
2. facebook — Convenient for sharing your menu of the day, managing messages and integrating your online reservation system.
3. Tripadvisor — An international reference platform, ideal for collecting customer reviews and attracting tourist customers.
4. TheFork — (also called La Fourchette) — A free and powerful online reservation system, used on thousands of establishment sites.
5. instagram — The photo is at the heart of cooking. A good visual can make you want to book. Consider integrating it on your restaurant website.
6. Uber Eats — To offer your take-away meals while strengthening the online visibility of your restaurant.

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Top 30 best restaurant websites in 2025

These websites show how to present the restaurant's identity while offering smooth navigation, inspired design, and key features such as the online menu or reservation. Here's why they deserve their place in this ranking:

1. Fuga (France) — Narrative design, fluid navigation, strong branding: a digital immersion in the creative and committed universe of the Fuga channel.
2. Girl & the Goat (Chicago) — Innovative lateral navigation, immersive photos, and an original layout that makes your mouth water as soon as you arrive on the site.
3. Tiki Chick (New York) — Tropical colors, cheerful branding, and Instagram integration for a relaxed and festive atmosphere that perfectly reflects the identity of the place.
4. Sweet Jesus (Toronto) — An exuberant site with XXL visuals, confident artistic direction and easy navigation to order the craziest ice creams.
5. Sunday in Brooklyn (New York) — Soft aesthetics, refined typography, and warm storytelling: UX accurately conveys the brunch atmosphere.
6. Mizlala (Los Angeles) — Sleek design, clear buttons for online ordering, and engaging visuals that enhance every dish on the menu.
7. Chubby's Jamaican Kitchen (Toronto) — Tropical ambiance, immersive carousel and thoughtful layout: a digital journey to the heart of the Caribbean.
8. Lucky Folks (France) — Strong visual identity, fun graphic universe and intuitive booking process. The perfect example of a site that attracts and converts.
9. Flaner (France) — Elegant animations, modern interface and fluid user experience: the site makes you want to linger as you stroll on the terrace.
10. Gucci Osteria Florence (Italy) — Luxury, calm and pleasure: this site focuses on elegance to reflect the quality of its Michelin-starred restaurant.
11. HEAT (France) — An urban platform where raw design and XXL visuals highlight the new generation food court spirit.
12. Pinza! (Dubai) — A humorous tone, a well-structured menu and an ultra-efficient order tunnel: an accessibility model for online restaurants.
13. Quay Restaurant (Sydney) — Minimalist site with great full-screen photos. Each section highlights the excellence of contemporary Australian cuisine.
14. Pujol (Mexico City) — The site embodies fine Mexican gastronomy through a simple design, elegant typography and perfectly structured content.
15. Noma (Copenhagen) — Ultra simple and efficient interface, reflections of Scandinavian minimalism. Booking a table becomes an experience in its own right.
16. El Nacional (Barcelona) — The site showcases the architecture of the place through an immersive visit, supported by very high quality photos.
17. The Cheesecake Factory (International) — A dense but well-organized platform, with a rich online menu, photos of various dishes and intuitive navigation.
18. Ultraviolet by Paul Pairet (Shanghai) — Experimental in content and form, the site reflects the multi-sensory experience of the restaurant.
19. Mercato Centrale (Italy) — The visual identity is friendly, colorful, bilingual, and supported by well-thought-out content to present the various stands and cuisines.
20. Sublimotion (Ibiza) — A site that dares anything: video, sound effects, 3D animation. Like the unique gastronomic experience of the place.
21. Septimius (Paris) — Elegant simplicity, beautiful photos of dishes and a refined vertical layout: the site respects the codes of modern Michelin-starred gastronomy.
22. MirAzur (Menton) — The site offers a visual immersion in the vegetable and refined universe of chef Mauro Colagreco, with very well organized content.
23. Arpège (Paris) — Highlighted seasonal menu, concise text and clean navigation: the site gives pride of place to responsible and plant-based cuisine.
24. Osteria Francescana (Modena) — One of the greatest restaurants in the world deserved a site that reflected its image: elegant, discreet, with a touch of poetry.
25. The Abyss (Paris) — Franco-Japanese fusion on the table and in web design. The user experience is fluid and minimalistic.
26. Kei Restaurant (Paris) — The site reflects the delicacy of Franco-Japanese cuisine by chef Kei Kobayashi, with an emphasis on the visual and calm.
27. Tickets (Barcelona) — Bright colors, fun activities and a dynamic structure: a site that reflects the creativity of chef Albert Adrià.
28. Eleven Madison Park (New York) — Simplicity and clarity. The site is being removed to let the sustainable values of the restaurant and its new vegetable menu speak for themselves.
29. Le Bernardin (New York) — Classic but effective navigation, with a strong visual presence of the team and signature dishes.
30. Central (Lima) — The site evokes exploration, with a unique narrative structure and immersive content to discover the flavors of Peru.
31. Girl & the Goat (Chicago) — Innovative lateral navigation, immersive photos, and an original layout that makes your mouth water as soon as you arrive on the site.

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What these sites teach us (and how to learn from them)

Beyond aesthetics, these 30 sites share common points that can inspire the creation of an effective restaurant website, regardless of the establishment:

• The identity of the restaurant is legible from the home page : atmosphere, cooking style, tone of voice... everything is in line with the brand.
• The menu is accessible in one click and often enriched with appetizing photos. Some even add filters by diet or type of dish.
• The visuals are of high quality and authentic: no generic stock photos, but shots of the place, the team and the dishes.
• Navigation is simple and smooth, often thought of as mobile-first.
• Online booking is central, whether via a native tool or integrated into a third-party platform (TheFork, OpenTable...).
• The showcase site is also a conversion tool : good SEO, fast loading time, and engaging design.
• Some pages tell a story : that of the chef, the vision of the restaurant or the origin of the products. This creates a strong bond with the visitor.

To be inspired by these best practices is to design a restaurant website that does not only exist online, but that attracts, convinces and retains potential customers.

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Fuga, or how to design a stylish restaurant website

The site of Fuga, created by Studio Elias, shows how creating a website for a restaurant can become a real branding project. The objective: to help the restaurant owner present his universe, highlight the quality of his recipes, and offer a simple, fluid and personalized online experience.

The site was designed to adapt to all screens, optimize SEO, and integrate a simple management tool via Webflow. A strong design, a coherent identity, a clear menu: this is what your customers expect from a restaurant site today.

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Creating a restaurant website: the keys to a good start

If you are a restaurant owner or website creator, here are some essential points for creating an effective restaurant website:

• Adapting the design to the identity of the restaurant (atmosphere, cuisine, customers)
• Integrate a clear online menu with prices and visuals of the plates
• Provide a simple online reservation system
• Add customer reviews Or stars
• Optimize the visibility of the restaurant via Google and social networks
• Offer a mobile-friendly experience
• Use a website creation tool like Webflow, Wordpress or Wix, according to your needs

A well-designed restaurant site can become your best salesperson: it works 24 hours a day, meets the needs of your customers, and reflects the image of your establishment.

At Studio Elias, we create adapted, aesthetic and efficient sites, designed for demanding restaurateurs. Creating your own restaurant website means offering your customers a consistent experience, from online research to the bill.

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Need help creating a restaurant website or rethinking your online presence? Contact us.

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