Web design, Bolton BL1
Web Design in Bolton for Restaurants, Cafés, Bars and Pubs
Websites, local search and branding for the restaurants, cafés, bars and pubs of Churchgate, Victoria Square, Bolton Market, Bradshawgate, Horwich and Bromley Cross, built by a twenty-year hospitality operator who comes up from London by way of Manchester.
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The mule
Bolton, spun one draw at a time
Churchgate, Deansgate and the Market Cross
The old inns, the pubs and the street the town grew from
Victoria Square, Le Mans Crescent and the Octagon
The Town Hall steps, the theatre crowd and the food festival
Bolton Market and Ashburner Street
The food hall, the fishmongers and the lunch counters
Bradshawgate and Nelson Square
The late bars, the clubs and the weekend
Horwich, Middlebrook and the Wanderers
Match day, the retail-park tables and the road to Rivington
Bromley Cross, Egerton and the moor edge
The village pubs, the Sunday walks and the long lunches
Bolton as a market
Bolton eats at the market, drinks on Churchgate and walks it off on the moor
Bolton's trade sits between the Town Hall and the moor.
Churchgate, Deansgate and the Market Cross are the old inns, the pubs and the street the town grew from; Victoria Square, Le Mans Crescent and the Octagon are the Town Hall steps, the theatre crowd and the food festival; Bolton Market and Ashburner Street are the food hall, the fishmongers and the lunch counters; Bradshawgate and Nelson Square are the late bars and the weekend; Horwich, Middlebrook and the Wanderers are match day, the retail-park tables and the road to Rivington; and Bromley Cross, Egerton, Harwood and the moor edge are the village pubs, the Sunday walks and the long lunches after them. The Food and Drink Festival on the August bank holiday, the Wanderers at home, a pasty barm from the market, a show night at the Octagon, Christmas on Victoria Square and Winter Hill above every street set the calendar.
- The Food and Drink Festival in August
- The Wanderers at home
- A pasty barm from the market
- A show night at the Octagon
- Christmas on Victoria Square
- A Sunday on Rivington Pike
- Who eats where
- The old inns and the real-ale pubs of Churchgate and Deansgate, the restaurants and the pre-theatre tables around Victoria Square and the Octagon, the food-hall counters, the cafés and the stalls of Bolton Market, the late bars and the clubs of Bradshawgate and Nelson Square, the restaurants in the vaults under the Market Place, the Indian, Italian, Turkish and Chinese kitchens of the town centre and the roads out of it, the match-day pubs and the retail-park dining of Horwich and Middlebrook, the dining pubs of Heaton, Lostock and Chorley New Road, and the village pubs and tea rooms of Bromley Cross, Egerton, Belmont and Rivington.
- When
- The market on its trading days and the lunch queue at the food hall, a Friday and a Saturday night on Bradshawgate and Churchgate, the Wanderers at home and the pubs of Horwich that fill from noon, the Food and Drink Festival when the August bank holiday fills Victoria Square, a show night at the Octagon and the tables before it, the students in term, Christmas lights on the Town Hall, Sunday walkers coming down off Rivington Pike and Winter Hill hungry, and the January weeks when the town eats with itself.
- Getting there
- Bolton station brings the electric trains from Manchester in about twenty minutes and the lines on to Preston, Blackburn and Wigan, the interchange beside it brings the buses from every side of the borough, the M61 brings Preston, Chorley and the M60, St Peter's Way brings the motorway into the middle of town, the A58 brings Bury and the A666 brings Darwen and Blackburn over the moor, Horwich Parkway serves the stadium and Middlebrook, and the mast on Winter Hill stands at the end of every view north.
What a Bolton restaurant website has to do
Manchester is twenty minutes away, so give them a reason to stay
A Bolton evening competes with a train to Manchester.
Festival weekend is the year's shop window
The Food and Drink Festival puts the whole borough on Victoria Square over the August bank holiday, and the kitchens that are ready for it are remembered until Christmas.
Say Churchgate, Bradshawgate, Horwich or Bromley Cross
A search for dinner in Bolton could mean a pint on Churchgate, cocktails on Bradshawgate, a table before the match in Horwich or a roast in Bromley Cross, and they are different evenings and different money.
The moor sends you walkers every Sunday
Rivington Pike and Winter Hill empty onto the pubs of Horwich, Belmont and Egerton every dry weekend.
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 Bolton site starts with the menu, the sittings and the margin, and only then with the design that sells them on Churchgate or in Horwich.
On the floor
- Menu and marginThe menu costed line by line and priced against your margin before it is designed.
- Service flowSittings, turn times and the match-day plan decided 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 festival weekend.
On the screen
- The websiteMobile first, fast on a phone on the train from Manchester, a menu Google can read, the table bookable in two taps.
- Local searchThe Google Business Profile corrected to the street and the village, 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.
What you get
- 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, street by street
- A booking pathThat works on a phone between the station and the door
- One person to callAli, the founder, from the first call to launch and after
Website packages, in pounds
- WebsiteStarter£1,650one-offPerfect for small businesses just getting started online
- WebsitePro£2,950one-offIdeal for established businesses needing more features
- WebsiteStandard£5,800one-offMid-range option for growing businesses
- WebsitePremium£6,500one-offMulti-location or high-end venues
The same in every area EDC works. What each package includes is on the pricing page.
Other prices
- 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
A thirty-minute call
You talk to Ali about the venue and the trade you want more of.
A written scope
What will be built, mapped to a figure on the pricing page.
The build
Built mobile first and reviewed with you at each stage.
Launch and after
Go live, listings checked, then the support period of your package.
Questions people ask
Web design in Bolton: the questions people ask
How much does web design cost in Bolton?
From £1,650 for Website – Starter, the same in Bolton as anywhere EDC works. The pricing page lists every package and what it includes.
Do you design websites for businesses in Bolton other than restaurants?
EDC builds for the food and drink trade: restaurants, cafés, bars, pubs, tea rooms, bakeries and delis. A site for a pub on Churchgate or a kitchen in the market's food hall is built by someone who has run one.
Who designs restaurant websites in Bolton?
Epicurean Digital Consultants, based in Wimbledon in London and working in Bolton by train and by video call, founded in June 2024 by Ali Solak after twenty years running hospitality operations.
Do you cover Horwich, Westhoughton, Farnworth and Bromley Cross as well as the town centre?
Yes. Horwich, Westhoughton, Farnworth, Heaton, Lostock, Harwood, Bromley Cross, Egerton and the villages toward the moor are part of the same trade as Churchgate, and the local search work names the street and the village as well as the town, so the right people find the door.
Do you need to visit the restaurant?
One visit is usual at the start, to see the room, the kitchen and the walk from the station or the car park; the rest is by video call and email. Bolton is about three hours from Euston with one change at Manchester, so a visit is a day, not a week.
Where this page's design comes from
Flowmotion, one of the concept sites in the Web Portfolios
This page shares that demo's idiom: a film you run with the scroll, here a drawn spinning mule that steps frame by frame as the page moves. It is a concept site with a fictional brand; no business on it is real.
A website that knows Churchgate from Bradshawgate and a Wanderers Saturday from festival weekend
Everything EDC does, for Bolton and everywhere else