For restaurants · free to look, pay only to publish

Do you need a website for your restaurant? Read yours, then decide.

It is a fair question and it deserves a better answer than “yes, obviously”. So here is ours: give us your restaurant name and your town, and about a minute later you are reading the actual site — menu, hours, address, a number that dials, a booking form. Then you can answer the question with something in front of you.

A laid table in a warm, brick-walled dining room at dusk, with pendant lights burning over empty tables in the background.

§ 01 — what the page has to do

The honest answer: you need the four facts to exist somewhere you control.

A restaurant genuinely can trade on a social profile and a map listing for a while — plenty do. What goes wrong is slower than that. The menu lives in a photograph nobody can read on a phone. The Christmas hours are announced in a story that vanishes. The map listing shows a review you cannot answer and a menu somebody else uploaded in 2019. None of it is yours, and none of it can be corrected in one place.

FACT 01

Are you open, and when?

Written as text, day by day, including the day you close and the week you shut in January. This is the single most-searched thing about any restaurant and the single most likely to be wrong on a map listing.
FACT 02

What is on, and what does it cost?

The menu as readable text with prices, grouped the way you serve it — not a photograph of a printed card that has to be pinch-zoomed, and not a PDF that opens in a different app.
FACT 03

How do I book, right now?

A number that dials on one tap for tonight, and a form that takes a date, a time and a headcount for everything else. Both on the first screen.

What is on the page when it opens

Your menu as text, grouped and pricedTo start, larger, sweet — your groups, your dishes, a line of description and a price. Readable without zooming.
Opening hours, day by dayText, including closed days. A person can read it, and so can a search engine.
Your address and your roomWhere you are, and a photograph of the space if you send one.
A number that dials on one tapA real dialling link, on the first screen and three more times down the page, for the eight-o’clock “have you got a table”.
A booking enquiry formDate, time, how many — arriving in your email rather than a portal.
Local business schema, filled inAddress, opening hours and every dish you list, in the format search engines parse.

Everything above comes from what you type and what you send us. Nothing is written on your behalf — no reviews, no claims about your business, no numbers you did not give us. Build mine — free

Hours, the room, the menu, and a number that works with one thumb. Everything else is decoration.

§ 02 — the proof

This is what one looks like finished.

Salt & Sorrel is a twenty-six-seat restaurant in Providence, Rhode Island, with a menu in three courses, hours down to the Monday it closes, an address and a working booking form. The whole site is live on the system that will serve yours. It takes ninety seconds to read, and it will answer the “do I need one” question better than another paragraph from us.

The Salt & Sorrel restaurant site on a phone: a photograph of the dining room behind a panel with the restaurant name, tagline, a See the menu button, a phone number and the opening hours. — Salt & Sorrel at 390 pixels wide, which is where the table gets booked.

DEMO-TABLESalt & Sorrel · demonstration build

Twenty-six seats and a menu you can actually read.

Eight dishes across three courses, each with a price. Tuesday to Sunday hours with the Monday stated. Wickenden Street on the page. A number at the top and a booking form at the bottom. Nothing to pinch-zoom.

Menu as text, priced
Hours & address
Booking enquiry form
Local business schema

Open the restaurant site

The whole thing, at this address openhousesites.com/app/for/salt-sorrel-providence-ri Salt & Sorrel is a demonstration business, invented so a restaurant site could be built in full — menu, room, hours. The address is live. The restaurant is not, so do not turn up hungry.

Yours gets built the same way, with restaurants in mind instead of somebody else's trade. Build mine — free

§ 03 — the bill

Starts at

59 US dollars per month

Cancel any time, by email.

$59/moUnited States, Canada and everywhere else

£49/moUnited Kingdom — billed in pounds, not converted

Or pay once — $599, and no monthly fee. $599 is about ten months of $59, and it covers twelve. Twelve months of the monthly plan comes to $708, so paying once keeps $109 in your pocket and leaves nothing to cancel. In pounds: £499 once, against £588 over a year. You choose at the moment you publish, not before.

14 days to change your mind Full refund, no reason required — on one email to contact@openhousesites.com. Back to the card that paid it.

Build my site — free

Nothing is charged while you look. The payment button only appears once your site exists and you have read it.

The finished restaurant siteBuilt on the layout your trade gets, with your services and your town on it — not a blank template with your name dropped in.
Your contentServices, prices, hours, area served, what you actually do — written on the page, not left as placeholder.
Mobile-first pagesComposed narrow first, because that is the screen your customers are holding.
A contact form that worksMessages land in your inbox. Not in a dashboard you will never log into.
SEO setup and local business schemaSo search engines know what you do, where you are, and when you are open.
Your own domain, hosting and SSLConnected and included on both plans — twelve months of it if you pay once, and for as long as it runs if you pay monthly.

No retainer. No lock-in. After the first year, keep it with us or take it anywhere you like — it is yours. And none of it costs anything until you say publish.

§ 04 — straight answers, for restaurants

The questions restaurants actually ask.

We do fine on Instagram and Google. Why add a website?

Keep both — they are working. The site is for the things they are bad at: a menu with prices that can be read without zooming, hours you can correct yourself in one place, and an address that belongs to you rather than to a platform that can change its rules. It is the one page in your online life that nobody else can edit, throttle or put an advert on.

Our menu changes constantly. Is that a problem?

It depends how constantly. Structural changes — courses, sections, most of the dishes — are exactly what the revisions round is for. If you rewrite the whole card at four every afternoon, be honest with yourself: a website is not the right tool for that, and we would rather you knew before paying than after.

Do we need online booking built in?

Not to open. What is included is a form that takes a date, a time and a headcount and emails it to you, plus a number that dials on one tap — which is how most tables in most restaurants are still booked. If you already run a booking system, tell us and we will point the button at it.

What does it cost to publish?

From $59 a month, or £49 in the United Kingdom, billed in pounds and cancelled with one email whenever you want. Or pay once: $599 — £499 — which covers the first twelve months with no monthly fee. That is about ten months of $59, and it covers twelve. Either way: your own domain connected, hosting and SSL, the working booking form, one round of revisions. Reading the site costs nothing, and there are fourteen days after payment to change your mind and be refunded in full.

§ 05 — not your trade?

Different trade? There is a page for that one too.

Coffee shops “Are you open” — answered before anything else on the page. Barbers Walk-ins, a price list and a number that dials on tap. Plumbers Areas covered, emergency number, quote form — above the fold.

Whatever you do, the front door is the same one: the Openhouse home page, or type your trade straight into the form and we build from that.

Free to look · pay only to publish

Start with your business name.

That is genuinely the whole thing. Two fields here, your town on the next screen, and we build your restaurant site. You read all of it, on your own phone, on your own time — and then you decide whether it is worth $59 a month.