The Cross and East Street
The restaurants, the lunch trade and the gallery crowd.
Web design, Chichester PO19
Web Design in Chichester for Restaurants, Cafés, Bars and Pubs
Websites, local search and branding for the restaurants, cafés, bars and pubs of the four streets, the Pallants, the harbour villages and the Goodwood weeks, built by a twenty-year hospitality operator who comes down from London on the Victoria line.
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The gates
Chichester, gate by gate
South Street and the cathedral
The pubs beside the close and the evening walk.
North Street and the Buttermarket
The cafés, the bakeries and the Saturday shoppers.
West Street and the theatre
Pre-theatre dinner and the hotel dining rooms.
The harbour villages
Bosham, Dell Quay, Itchenor and the Witterings.
Goodwood and the Downs
Lavant, Singleton and the racing weeks.
The walls and the Cross
The Roman walls, the four gates and the Market Cross at the middle; the harbour villages off to the south-west, Goodwood and the Downs to the north. Each card lights its gate.
Chichester as a market
Chichester eats inside the walls and drinks by the harbour
Chichester is a Roman cross: North, South, East and West Street meet at the Market Cross, and most of the trade is within a few minutes' walk of it. South Street runs down to the cathedral and the pubs beside it; East Street and the Pallants hold the restaurants, the gallery crowd and the lunch trade; North Street has the cafés and the Saturday shoppers; and West Street is the cathedral green, the theatre crowd walking up to Oaklands Park and the hotel dining rooms. Beyond the walls the harbour villages, Bosham, Dell Quay, Itchenor and the Witterings, fill with sailors and beach days from May to September, and the Downs bring Goodwood three times a year. The Festival Theatre season, the racing, the Festival of Speed and the Revival set the calendar; the rest of the year is the cathedral city, the gallery, the college and the retirement trade that lunches early and books ahead.
- Festival Theatre nights
- The Festival of Speed, July
- Glorious Goodwood, late July
- The Revival, September
- The Sloe Fair, October
- Summer Saturdays at the Witterings
- Who eats where
- Restaurants and wine bars on East Street and in the Pallants, the pubs along South Street and by the cathedral, cafés and bakeries on North Street and in the Buttermarket, the theatre-night restaurants on West Street and Northgate, hotel dining rooms within the walls, the sailing-club bars and pub gardens of Bosham, Dell Quay and Itchenor, beach cafés at the Witterings, the farm shops and country pubs under the Downs at Lavant and Singleton, and the hospitality marquees that come and go with Goodwood.
- When
- Pre-theatre dinner at six on Festival Theatre nights, Saturday lunch inside the walls, Sunday roasts in the harbour villages, race days on the Downs through the summer, the Festival of Speed in July, the Qatar Goodwood Festival at the end of July, the Revival in September, the Sloe Fair in October, the Christmas market on the four streets, and summer weekends when the Witterings road queues from breakfast.
- Getting there
- Chichester station brings the trains from London Victoria, Brighton, Portsmouth and Southampton, the A27 brings the car trade from both coasts, the A286 brings Midhurst and the Downs, buses run to the harbour villages and the Witterings, and on Goodwood weeks the roads out to the Downs are the busiest in Sussex.
What a Chichester restaurant website has to do
Programme note
Theatre nights need a six o'clock page
On a Festival Theatre night the whole city eats at six and leaves at quarter past seven.
Programme note
Goodwood is three different weeks
The Festival of Speed, the racing and the Revival bring three different crowds to the same roads.
Programme note
Say harbour or city
A search for lunch in Chichester could mean East Street or a pub garden in Bosham, and they are different days.
Programme note
The early sitting books ahead
Chichester lunches early and books in advance, often by phone from a kitchen table.
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 Chichester site starts with the menu, the sittings and the margin, and only then with the design that sells them on East Street or by the harbour.
The kitchen side of the cloister
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 theatre-night 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 race day.
The screen side of the cloister
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 or 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.
The keystones: 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
- 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 programme's price list: 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
- Furlong I
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.
- Furlong II
A written scope
What will be built, mapped to a figure on the pricing page.
- Furlong III
The build
Structure, copy, menus, booking and the local search set-up, built mobile first and reviewed with you at each stage.
- Furlong IV
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 Chichester: the questions people ask
How much does web design cost in Chichester?
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 Chichester other than restaurants?
EDC builds for the food and drink trade: restaurants, cafés, bars, pubs, tea rooms, bakeries, delis and farm shops. A site for an East Street restaurant or a Bosham pub is built by someone who has run one.
Who designs restaurant websites in Chichester?
Epicurean Digital Consultants, based in Wimbledon in London and working in Chichester 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 the harbour villages and the Witterings as well as the city?
Yes. Bosham, Dell Quay, Itchenor, West Wittering and the villages under the Downs are part of the same trade as the four streets, and the local search work names the village as well as the city, 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. Chichester is on the Victoria line from Wimbledon's side of London, so a visit is a morning, not a day.
How long does a restaurant website take?
A Starter site is usually live within a few weeks of the written scope; a Standard or Premium site with menus, booking and local search set-up takes longer. The scope gives the date before anything is built.
Where this page's design comes from
Lensfolk, one of the concept sites in the Web Portfolios
This page shares Lensfolk's photographic idiom: images laid out and developed like a contact sheet, here arriving through the cathedral's arches and laid over each other like a festival programme. 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 a theatre night from a race day and East Street from Bosham
Everything EDC does, for Chichester 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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