Web design, Birmingham B1
Web Design in Birmingham for Restaurants, Cafés, Bars and Pubs
Websites, local search and branding for the restaurants, cafés, bars and pubs of the canals, the Jewellery Quarter, Digbeth, Colmore Row and the Balti Triangle, built by a twenty-year hospitality operator who comes up from London by train.
Book a thirty-minute callSee every price
The cut
Birmingham, read along the water
Scroll to sail the cut
- Stop 01
Gas Street Basin
Where the canals meet: the pubs and the boats
- Stop 02
Brindleyplace
The squares, the terraces, Symphony Hall next door
- Stop 03
The Mailbox
The canal-side restaurants under the old sorting office
- Stop 04
Grand Central and the Bullring
Off the water: the station, the markets, the shopping
- Stop 05
Digbeth
The Custard Factory, the Irish Quarter, the warehouses
- Stop 06
The Jewellery Quarter
St Paul's Square and the workshops turned restaurants
Birmingham as a market
Birmingham trades along its canals and in its quarters
Birmingham is a city of quarters joined by water. Gas Street Basin and Brindleyplace are the canal-side rooms the city shows visitors; the Mailbox carries the restaurants by the water down to the station; Colmore Row feeds the business lunch; Digbeth is the warehouses, the Irish pubs and the night trade; the Jewellery Quarter has turned its workshops into dining rooms around St Paul's Square; and the Balti Triangle, out along Ladypool Road, is a cuisine the city gave its name to. New Street brings the trains, the Hippodrome and Symphony Hall bring the pre-show sittings, and the Frankfurt market fills the centre every winter.
- The Frankfurt Christmas Market, November to December
- Test match weeks at Edgbaston
- Pre-theatre at the Hippodrome
- Summer on the canals
- Sunday lunch in Moseley
- Who eats where
- Canal-side restaurants and bars at Brindleyplace, the Mailbox and Gas Street Basin, business-lunch rooms on Colmore Row and in the Colmore district, the restaurants and pubs of St Paul's Square and the Jewellery Quarter, Digbeth's warehouses, pubs and street food, Chinatown and the Arcadian, the Balti houses of Ladypool Road and Stoney Lane, and the village trade of Moseley, Kings Heath and Harborne.
- When
- Business lunch from Monday to Thursday on Colmore Row, a commuter and shopper trade around Grand Central, pre-theatre at the Hippodrome and the Symphony Hall on performance nights, Friday and Saturday nights in Digbeth and the Jewellery Quarter, Sunday lunch in the villages, test-match weeks at Edgbaston, and the Frankfurt Christmas Market from November.
- Getting there
- New Street, Moor Street and Snow Hill bring the trains; the trams run from the centre to the Jewellery Quarter and beyond; the canals are the walking routes between the quarters; the villages and the Balti Triangle are a bus or a car.
What a Birmingham restaurant website has to do
Say which quarter, by the water or off it
A search for dinner in Birmingham could mean the Mailbox, Digbeth or the Jewellery Quarter, and they are a different walk from New Street.
A terrace on the cut that books itself
On a warm evening the canal-side fills from Gas Street down.
Pre-show with a time on it
The Hippodrome and Symphony Hall fill the centre with people who must be seated by six and out by seven thirty.
Rank for Birmingham, by quarter
Searches name Brindleyplace, the Jewellery Quarter, Digbeth or the Balti Triangle.
What we do, how we do it, what you get
Built from the kitchen outwards by someone who has run one
EDC's founder spent twenty years running hospitality operations before founding the consultancy in June 2024. A Birmingham site starts with the menu, the sittings and the margin, and only then with the design that sells them to the right quarter of the city.
On the floor
- Menu and marginThe menu costed line by line and priced against your margin before it is designed.
- Service flowSittings, turn times, the pre-show promise and the Christmas-market weeks planned before the booking system is switched on.
- Allergens and specsAn allergen matrix and recipe spec sheets the kitchen works from and the website can quote.
- Team and standardsOpening checklists and service standards written for the people who will run the room on a Saturday.
On the screen
- The websiteMobile first, fast on the train, a menu Google can read, the terrace bookable in two taps.
- Local searchThe Google Business Profile corrected to the quarter and the street, listings matched to it, reviews answered.
- BrandA logo, palette, type, menus and signage files that look the same on the door, the table and the phone.
- Email and socialA customer email system and a social plan that say what is on this week, kept current by someone who knows the kitchen.
- A written scopeMapped to a figure on the pricing page before anything is built
- A site you ownOn your own domain, with the files and the logins
- A menu Google can readNot a PDF: dishes, prices and allergens as text
- A profile that matchesThe Google Business Profile corrected to the site, quarter by quarter
- A booking pathThat works on a phone between New Street and the canal
- One person to callAli, the founder, from the first call to launch and after
Website packages, in pounds
- Starter£1,650one-offPerfect for small businesses just getting started online
- Pro£2,950one-offIdeal for established businesses needing more features
- Standard£5,800one-offMid-range option for growing businesses
- Premium£6,500one-offMulti-location or high-end venues
The same in every area EDC works. What each package includes is on the pricing page.
- Local VisibilityLocal SEO£850per month
- Growth SEOLocal SEO£1,550per month
- Full Brand KitBranding£1,850one-off
- Menu EngineeringMenu£2,500one-off
- Quick ZoomAudit£450one-off
- Social Media – StarterSocial£850per month
How it works
- Bridge 01
A thirty-minute call
You talk to Ali about the venue, the trade you want more of, and what the current site does and does not do.
- Bridge 02
A written scope
What will be built, mapped to a figure on the pricing page.
- Bridge 03
The build
Structure, copy, menus, booking and the local search set-up, built mobile first and reviewed with you at each stage.
- Bridge 04
Launch and after
Go live, Google Business Profile and local listings checked, then the support period of the package you chose.
Questions people ask
Web design in Birmingham: the questions people ask
How much does web design cost in Birmingham?
The same as anywhere EDC works. Website – Starter is £1,650, Website – Pro £2,950, Website – Standard £5,800 and Website – Premium £6,500, one-off figures in pounds. The pricing page lists what each includes. Local SEO is separate, from £850 per month.
Do you design websites for businesses in Birmingham other than restaurants?
EDC builds for the food and drink trade: restaurants, cafés, bars, pubs, bakeries and delis. That focus is the point; a site for a Digbeth bar is built by someone who has run one.
Who designs restaurant websites in Birmingham?
Epicurean Digital Consultants, based in Wimbledon in London and working in Birmingham by train and by video call, founded in June 2024 by Ali Solak after twenty years running hospitality operations. You deal with Ali directly, not an account manager.
Do you cover Moseley, Harborne and the Balti Triangle as well as the centre?
Yes. The villages and the Balti houses are much of the city's trade, and the page is built around the road, the square or the canal bridge rather than the city name.
Do you need to visit the restaurant?
Usually once, and Birmingham is a direct train from London. The first thirty-minute call is by phone or video and costs nothing.
How long does a restaurant website take?
It depends on the package and on how fast menus, photography and copy come back from you. The written scope after the first call gives a date.
Where this page's design comes from
SUMMIT 2027, one of the concept sites in the Web Portfolios
This page shares its drawn-line idiom with that demo: one line the viewer follows, with the content arriving as the line is travelled. It is a concept site with a fictional brand, built to show what a site can feel like; it is not a client and no business on it is real.