Websites for Restaurants | Menus & Bookings

Choosing where to eat is a fast decision made on a phone, and it almost always comes down to two things: can I see the menu, and can I book a table. If your site hides the menu behind a slow-loading PDF, or sends people to a phone number nobody can answer at 7pm on a Friday, you lose the booking to the place that made it easy. Page Forge builds restaurants a fast website that puts the menu and the booking within a thumb’s reach, so the person browsing becomes the party sitting down.

You will not need to touch anything technical, and during service you would not want to. Tell us your menus, your hours, how you take bookings and the feel of the room, and we design it, write it and host it. One page, built light so it opens instantly on a phone, because that is where the decision happens, often at the end of a workday when someone is scanning three places at once. We write it so Google reads you as the restaurant in your area, and we set up your Google Business Profile so your photos, hours and reviews show on the map when someone nearby searches for dinner tonight or a table for four.

We are based in Hassocks and work with independents across Sussex and beyond. If you have a large or frequently changing menu, a booking system to plug in, private dining, events and set menus, or an online shop for vouchers and produce, that is more than one page. In that case we quote the bigger build per project rather than squeezing it into the one-page price and making it worse. Plenty of restaurants, though, do very well with a single sharp page that shows the food honestly and makes booking effortless.

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What It Needs

What your website needs to bring in work

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A menu that opens instantly

Your menu as real, readable text, not a PDF that makes a phone chug and forces the customer to pinch and zoom. It loads fast, reads on any screen and Google can index the dishes, which is exactly what someone searching for a particular meal in your town is looking for. A menu that is quick and pleasant to read is quietly one of the strongest selling tools a restaurant has, and most sites still get it wrong.

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Book a table without friction

A clear, obvious way to book, whether that is a button through to your reservation system, a short form or a prominent phone number. The easier the booking, the fewer tables you lose to the restaurant that asked for one less tap. We place it where a ready diner expects to find it, so nobody who has already decided to eat with you gives up because the booking was buried three scrolls down the page.

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The food and the room

Strong photos of the plates and the space, because people eat with their eyes and want to picture the evening before they commit to it. We lay them out to load fast and look sharp, front and centre rather than buried below the fold. The right pictures also set the tone, so a diner arrives expecting the kind of night you actually deliver, which is how you earn the good review rather than the disappointed one.

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Hours, service times and closures

Lunch and dinner service, last orders, the days you are closed and any holiday changes. We put them where nobody can miss them and keep them matched to your Google listing, so a hopeful walk-in is never met by a locked door and a wasted trip. Getting service times clear also cuts the phone calls during prep and stops the awkward moment when someone arrives ten minutes after the kitchen has stopped taking food.

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Reviews and reputation

We surface real reviews and any accolades, an AA rosette, a Michelin mention, a local award or a good write-up in the paper. That way a first-time diner sees the confidence others already have in you before they gamble an evening and a bill on somewhere new. We never invent a review, we simply put the ones you have genuinely earned where they carry the most weight, which is right next to the decision to book.

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Events, private dining and set menus

Christmas menus, Sunday roasts, private hire, tasting nights, wine dinners. If it earns you money, it gets a clear place on the page so the enquiry lands with you rather than getting lost in a social feed that scrolled past a week ago. The bigger private bookings are often where a restaurant makes its best margins, so it pays to show them off properly rather than treat them as an afterthought at the bottom of the page.

How It Works

Three steps. That’s it.

No jargon, no committees, no six-week timelines. We get your area businesses online fast.

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Tell us about your business

A quick call or email. What you do, where you work, your contact details. That’s all we need to get started.

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We build your site

We design and write everything a professional one-page website with your services, area, and contact info. Ready for review within days.

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You’re live

Domain registered, hosting sorted, site live. You focus on the work we keep everything running.

Don’t Just Take Our Word For It

What our clients say

Real businesses we’ve helped get online. Real feedback.

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A much bigger project than a typical small business site, and Nick handled it brilliantly. Multiple pages, interactive guides, the lot. Fast, well built, and he understood exactly what we needed as a technology consultancy. Couldn’t be happier with the result.

Paul SmithC4C Group, Technology Consultancy

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Nick at Page Forge built our site in under a week. It looks proper professional and we’ve started getting enquiries from the website itself. Straight-talking, no nonsense, just gets on with it.

Phoenix PilingPiling Contractors, Sussex, Surrey & London

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Page Forge sorted out our website, hosting and email in one go. No tech headaches, no waiting around. The site looks the part and customers actually find us on Google now. Properly recommend.

BW ElectricalElectricians, Hassocks

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Nick is a pleasure to work with, very informative, professional and quick to respond. Absolutely love the website that he has produced for me. Highly recommended.

SteveOilfire Heating, Uckfield

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Fantastic service. They listened to what we needed and wanted as a business, suggested ways to increase productivity and have provided 100% support. Couldn’t recommend highly enough.

EmilyRuby’s Bakery, Burgess Hill

Our Work

Sites we’ve built

A look at some recent client work. Click through to see them live.

Multi-Page Project

C4C Group

A larger multi-page build for an enterprise technology consultancy. Multiple service sections, in-depth interactive guides and a lead-generation toolset, all built for speed and search performance.

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Building Contractors

Sindall Building

A multi-page site for a Haywards Heath building firm with 200+ 10/10 Checkatrade reviews. Premium, fast and fully optimised for both Google and AI search.

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Tilers

Prestige Tiling

A professional multi-page site for a Burgess Hill wall and floor tiler with 25+ years’ experience, after Wix and Squarespace could not do their work justice. Tiling is a visual trade, so a proper gallery puts the finished work front and centre.

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FCA Regulated

Clermont Mortgage

An FCA-compliant website for an independent Essex mortgage broker. Regulatory status, risk warnings, fee disclosure and complaints information all built in, written in plain English and approved by the principal firm’s compliance team.

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Heating Engineers

Oilfire Heating

A confident site for an Uckfield oil boiler engineer who is also a qualified electrician, so boiler and wiring are sorted in one visit. Built to turn local searches into calls.

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Bakery

Ruby's Bakery

A refreshed, faster website for an award-winning Burgess Hill family bakery, off a slow Wix site, with a managed product catalogue we keep current for them.

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Electricians

BW Electrical

Lime-green branding for an NICEIC-certified Hassocks-based electrical contractor. Clean, trustworthy design with clear service breakdown and instant contact options.

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Piling Contractors

Phoenix Piling

Bold dark and fire-orange palette built to convey strength and reliability. Targets piling services across Sussex, Surrey and London with WhatsApp Business integration.

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Live Band

The Vests

Playful retro design for a Hassocks-based covers band playing Britpop, classic rock and indie anthems. Bold sunburst hero, setlist and gig listings, with an easy booking call-to-action.

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Pricing

Simple, honest pricing

No hidden fees, no long contracts. The prices below are our starting point for a standard website.

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From£29/month

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Prices are a starting point for a standard website. Bigger projects, such as lots of products, custom features or ongoing work, are quoted to match, so you only ever pay for what you need.

FAQ

Common questions

Can a restaurant really work with just one page?

Many can, yes. If your menu is fairly stable and you take bookings by phone or through a single reservation system, one strong page that shows the food, the hours and the booking does the job well and gets you live fast. If you have multiple long menus, a private dining arm, a busy events calendar and an online shop, that is genuinely more than one page, and we will tell you so and quote the bigger build per project. We would rather size the site to how you actually trade than sell you the wrong thing.

Can you connect my booking system?

In most cases yes. We can link a clear booking button through to the reservation platform you already use, so guests move from your page to booking a table in one tap. If you do not have a system yet, we can point you at sensible options that suit your size. The key thing is that booking is obvious and quick, because a fiddly booking flow is where restaurants quietly lose tables every night without ever knowing the covers were nearly theirs.

Why not just put the menu up as a PDF?

Because a PDF is the slowest, most awkward way to read a menu on a phone. It downloads, it loads badly, it needs zooming and dragging, and Google cannot read the dishes properly for search. We put your menu on the page as real text, so it opens instantly, reads on any screen and helps you show up when someone searches for a dish you serve. It is a small thing that makes a real difference to both the customer experience and how often you turn up in the right searches.

Our menu changes often. Is that a problem?

Not at all. You send us the new menu and we update it, included, up to six times a year, which covers most seasonal changes comfortably. If your menu changes weekly or daily with the market or the specials, we will talk through the best setup for that, which may be a slightly bigger build so you can update it yourself in a moment. We would rather fit the tool to how you genuinely work than sell you a one-page site that fights the way your kitchen runs.

What does it cost and how fast is it live?

A one-page restaurant site is £99 to set up, then £29 a month or £299 a year, including hosting, updates and a real person in Sussex to call, and it is usually live in about five working days. A larger build with online ordering, multiple menus, vouchers or an events system is quoted per project so the price matches the work rather than a guess. SEO to climb the local results and turn up for “restaurants near me” starts from £99 as a one-off.

Websites for restaurants that fill the tables.