Web design, Chester CH1
Web Design in Chester for Restaurants, Cafés, Bars and Pubs
Websites, local search and branding for the restaurants, cafés, bars and pubs of the Rows, Brook Street, Hoole and the Groves, built by a twenty-year hospitality operator who comes up from London by train.
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The six bays
Chester, bay by bay, on two levels
Scroll to lift the Rows
- Bay 01
The Rows
Watergate, Eastgate, Bridge and Northgate, on two levels
- Bay 02
The Town Hall square
The bars, the cathedral and the market
- Bay 03
Brook Street
The independents by the station
- Bay 04
Hoole
The cafés and bistros of Faulkner Street
- Bay 05
The Groves
The riverside and the boats on the Dee
- Bay 06
Handbridge
The village across the bridge
Chester as a market
Chester eats on two levels
Chester's trade runs along four streets from the Cross, and on two levels of each. Watergate Street, Eastgate Street, Bridge Street and Northgate Street carry the Rows, the galleried first floor that has had shops and eating houses on it for centuries, with the street-level cafés and bars below. Brook Street by the station is the independents and the city's Chinese, Thai and Indian kitchens; Hoole is the neighbourhood of cafés and bistros on Faulkner Street; the Groves is the riverside, the bandstand and the boats on the Dee; Handbridge is the village across the bridge; and the walls join all of it in one walk. The racecourse fills the city from May, the Christmas market fills it from November, and the station puts London about two hours away.
- Race days from May
- The Midsummer Watch, June
- The Christmas market at the Town Hall
- Sunday on the Groves
- Saturday on the Rows
- Who eats where
- Cafés, tea rooms and restaurants on the Rows and below them on Watergate, Eastgate and Bridge Street, bars on Northgate Street and around the Town Hall square, the independents and Asian restaurants of Brook Street, the cafés and bistros of Hoole, pubs and ice cream on the Groves, the village pubs of Handbridge, hotel dining rooms by the Eastgate, and the race-day crowds spilling in from the Roodee.
- When
- Race days from May to September, the May festival first, Saturday on the Rows and in the Town Hall square, Friday night on Northgate Street and Brook Street, Sunday on the Groves when the weather holds, the Midsummer Watch parade in June, the Christmas market outside the Town Hall from November, and the university's terms filling the weeknights.
- Getting there
- Chester station brings the trains from London Euston, Liverpool, Manchester, Crewe and North Wales, and Brook Street runs from it to the walls; buses run to Hoole, Handbridge and the zoo from the bus interchange; the A55 and the M53 bring the car trade from North Wales and the Wirral, and the park-and-rides bring the race-day crowd.
What a Chester restaurant website has to do
Say which level and which street
A Rows restaurant is up a flight of steps that first-time visitors cannot see from the pavement, and a Hoole bistro is a different trip entirely.
Race days book out, so should the page
Race days bring a crowd that has planned the day and wants the table booked weeks ahead.
Visitors and residents want different pages
The visitor wants the Rows and the walls; the resident in Hoole wants Tuesday.
Rank for Chester, by street and by level
Searches name the Rows, Brook Street, Hoole and the Groves more often than the city.
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 Chester site starts with the menu, the sittings and the margin, and only then with the design that sells them on the Rows or in Hoole.
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 race-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 a Saturday.
On the screen
- The websiteMobile first, fast on a phone between the station and the Cross, a menu Google can read, the table bookable in two taps.
- Local searchThe Google Business Profile corrected to the street and the level, 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, 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
- 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 slate 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
- Course 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.
- Course 02
A written scope
What will be built, mapped to a figure on the pricing page.
- Course 03
The build
Structure, copy, menus, booking and the local search set-up, built mobile first and reviewed with you at each stage.
- Course 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 Chester: the questions people ask
How much does web design cost in Chester?
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 Chester other than restaurants?
EDC builds for the food and drink trade: restaurants, cafés, bars, pubs, tea rooms, bakeries and delis. A site for a Rows restaurant or a Hoole bistro is built by someone who has run one.
Who designs restaurant websites in Chester?
Epicurean Digital Consultants, based in Wimbledon in London and working in Chester 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 Hoole, Handbridge and Brook Street as well as the Rows?
Yes. The neighbourhoods are much of the trade, and each page is built around the street and the level rather than the city name.
Do you need to visit the restaurant?
Usually once, and Chester is about 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
Keystone Build, one of the concept sites in the Web Portfolios
This page shares that demo's idea of a building that assembles itself in front of you, here a street of the Rows drawn in isometric and taken apart storey by storey. 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 Rows from Hoole and a race day from a quiet Tuesday
Everything EDC does, for Chester 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.
- The PassEvery TuesdayUK hospitality and AI news in one email a week; confirm by email, leave any time.