Web design, Bournemouth BH1
Web Design in Bournemouth for Restaurants, Cafés, Bars and Pubs
Websites, local search and branding for the restaurants, cafés, bars and pubs of the seafront, the Triangle, Westbourne, Boscombe, Charminster Road and Southbourne, built by a twenty-year hospitality operator who comes down from London by train.
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The huts
Bournemouth, hut by hut, as a web designer walks it
Scroll to walk the promenade
- Hut 01
The seafront and the Pier
The summer and the visitors
- Hut 02
The Triangle
The independents and the night out
- Hut 03
Westbourne
The village at the top of the chines
- Hut 04
Boscombe
Coming back street by street
- Hut 05
Charminster Road
A long run of international kitchens
- Hut 06
Southbourne Grove
The family brunch by the cliffs
Bournemouth as a market
Bournemouth eats by the season and by the suburb
Bournemouth's trade turns with the weather. The seafront, the Pier and the Lower Gardens are the summer and the visitors; the Triangle is the independents and the night out all year; Westbourne is the village of cafés and delis at the top of the chines; Boscombe and its precinct are coming back street by street; Charminster Road is a long run of international kitchens; and Southbourne's Grove is the family brunch by the cliffs. Two universities keep the town full in term time, and the station brings London in two hours.
- The Air Festival, late summer
- Summer weekends on the seafront
- Christmas lights in the Gardens
- Match days at the Vitality
- Freshers and graduation
- Who eats where
- Seafront restaurants and beach cafés from the Pier to Boscombe, the bars and small restaurants of the Triangle and Old Christchurch Road, the cafés and delis of Westbourne, the kitchens of Charminster Road, the brunch cafés and pubs of Southbourne Grove, the hotel dining rooms on the East Cliff and West Cliff, and the student trade around Lansdowne and Winton.
- When
- Summer weekends and the school holidays on the seafront, Friday and Saturday nights in the Triangle all year, Sunday brunch in Westbourne and Southbourne, the Air Festival weekend in late summer, the Christmas lights in the Gardens, match days at the Vitality Stadium, graduation and freshers at the two universities, and a quiet town on a wet Tuesday in February.
- Getting there
- Bournemouth station brings the trains from London Waterloo and Southampton; buses run the length of the coast from Westbourne to Southbourne and inland to Winton and Charminster; the airport brings the summer visitors; everyone else walks the promenade.
What a Bournemouth restaurant website has to do
Two seasons, one site
A seafront room has a July and a February, and they want different pages.
The visitor searches from the beach
On a hot Saturday the decision is made on a phone on the sand.
The Air Festival and the match, each a page
The Air Festival weekend and the Vitality bring crowds that fill the town and leave on time.
Rank for Bournemouth, by suburb
Searches name Westbourne, Southbourne, Boscombe or Charminster more often than the town.
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 Bournemouth site starts with the menu, the sittings and the margin, and only then with the design that sells them in the right season.
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 summer plan and the festival weekends 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 a Saturday.
On the screen
- The websiteMobile first, fast on the beach, a menu Google can read, the table bookable in two taps.
- Local searchThe Google Business Profile corrected to the suburb 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, suburb by suburb
- A booking pathThat works on a phone between the beach and the door
- 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.
The kiosk's price board: 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
- Flag 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.
- Flag 02
A written scope
What will be built, mapped to a figure on the pricing page.
- Flag 03
The build
Structure, copy, menus, booking and the local search set-up, built mobile first and reviewed with you at each stage.
- Flag 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 Bournemouth: the questions people ask
How much does web design cost in Bournemouth?
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 Bournemouth other than restaurants?
EDC builds for the food and drink trade: restaurants, cafés, bars, pubs, beach cafés, bakeries and delis. That focus is the point; a site for a Triangle bar is built by someone who has run one.
Who designs restaurant websites in Bournemouth?
Epicurean Digital Consultants, based in Wimbledon in London and working in Bournemouth 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 Poole, Christchurch and Wimborne as well as Bournemouth?
Yes. The conurbation is one trade, and the page is built around the road, the quay or the village rather than the town name.
Do you need to visit the restaurant?
Usually once, and Bournemouth is two hours from London by train. 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
Maris, one of the concept sites in the Web Portfolios
This page shares that demo's seaside pace: water that moves at its own speed, and lights that come on one at a time. 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.
A website that knows the seafront from the Triangle and July from February
Everything EDC does, for Bournemouth and everywhere else
One operator, the whole trade: the site, the search, the menu, the room
- WebsitesDesign, build and launchA site built from the menu outwards, mobile first, with a booking path that works on a phone.
- Local searchGoogle and the AI answersThe Google Business Profile corrected, listings matched, the page a model can quote.
- Menu and marginCosted before it is designedMenu engineering: every dish costed, priced against your margin, laid out to sell.
- Opening a venueThe playbooksConcept to first service, step by step, for restaurants, cafés, pubs and bars.
- Staff and standardsTraining and checklistsOpening checklists and service standards written for the people who run the room.
- AppsTools we builtForecasting, menus, CVs and more, made for operators by an operator.
- MiseBooks, kits and templatesPlaybooks, calculators, spec sheets and the novels, from the shop.
- EDC AcademyVideo lessonsShort lessons for hospitality owners on the website, the numbers and AI.
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