Web design, Edinburgh EH1
Web Design in Edinburgh for Restaurants, Cafés, Bars and Pubs
Websites, local search and branding for the restaurants, cafés, bars and pubs of the Old Town, the New Town, Leith and Stockbridge, built by a twenty-year hospitality operator who comes up from London by train.
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The Old Town: the castle, the Mile and the spires The New Town: the Georgian grid, the column and the dome
The two towns of Edinburgh
The Old Town
The Royal Mile, the Grassmarket, the Cowgate, Victoria Street
- Lunch
- Visitors on the Mile, the university on the Cowgate
- Dinner
- The closes and the Grassmarket, pre-theatre in August
- Late
- The Cowgate and the Grassmarket take the night
- August
- Every room full, every hour, for the Fringe
The New Town
George Street, Thistle Street, Rose Street, Stockbridge
- Lunch
- The offices of George Street and Charlotte Square
- Dinner
- The dining rooms of Thistle Street and the Georgian squares
- Late
- The pubs of Rose Street and the bars of George Street
- August
- The Book Festival crowd and the escape from the Mile
Edinburgh as a market
Edinburgh is two towns and one month that changes everything
Edinburgh trades in two towns on either side of Princes Street. The Old Town runs down the Royal Mile from the castle through the closes to Holyrood, with the Grassmarket, the Cowgate and Victoria Street below it, and it belongs to the visitors and the university. The New Town is the Georgian grid: George Street and its offices, Thistle Street's dining rooms, Rose Street's pubs, and Stockbridge down the hill with its Sunday market. Leith, at the end of the tram, has made the Shore a restaurant quarter of its own, and Bruntsfield and Morningside hold the neighbourhood trade. Then August arrives, and for one month every room in the city is full.
The Royal Mile and the closes
The Old Town's spine
The Grassmarket and Victoria Street
Pubs, restaurants and the night
George Street and Thistle Street
The New Town's dining rooms
Rose Street
The pubs
Stockbridge
The village down the hill and its Sunday market
The Shore, Leith
The restaurant quarter at the end of the tram
- The festivals, August
- Hogmanay, 31 December
- Six Nations weekends at Murrayfield
- The Stockbridge market, Sundays
- The students back, September
The festival month
August, and the year around it
- Early August
The Fringe opens; the Old Town fills by the first weekend
- Mid August
The International Festival, the Tattoo and the Book Festival all running
- Late August
The last week, the fireworks, and the city breathing out
- September
The students back; the locals reclaim their tables
- December
Christmas in Princes Street Gardens and Hogmanay on the last night
What an Edinburgh restaurant website has to do
Old Town or New Town, say which
A search for dinner in Edinburgh could mean the Grassmarket or Thistle Street, and they are different crowds and a different walk from Waverley.
August, a page of its own
The festival month has its own hours, menus, sittings and booking rules, and the visitor searching from a phone on the Mile decides in seconds.
The visitor and the local, both served
The Mile trade arrives once and searches on a phone; the Stockbridge trade comes back weekly.
Rank for Edinburgh, by street
Searches name the Royal Mile, the Grassmarket, George Street, Stockbridge or Leith.
What we do, how we do it, what you get
Built by someone who has run a room through a festival month
EDC's founder spent twenty years running hospitality operations before founding the consultancy in June 2024. An Edinburgh site is built the way a good room is run in August: the kitchen, the sittings and the margin first, then the design that sells them to the people coming out of Waverley.
On the floor
- 01Menu and marginThe menu costed line by line and priced against your margin before it is designed, August and winter versions both.
- 02Service flowSittings, turn times, the walk-in rules and the festival plan decided before the booking system is switched on.
- 03Allergens and specsAn allergen matrix and recipe spec sheets the kitchen works from and the website can quote.
- 04Team and standardsOpening checklists and service standards written for the people who will run the room on the first Saturday of the Fringe.
On the screen
- 01The websiteMobile first, fast on the train, a menu Google can read, the table bookable in two taps.
- 02Local searchThe Google Business Profile corrected to the close or the street, listings matched to it, reviews answered in your voice.
- 03BrandA logo, palette, type, menus and signage files that hold up on the Mile, in the New Town and on a phone.
- 04Email 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
- An August pageThe hours, the sittings and the booking, live by July
- 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.
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
- Step 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.
- Step 02
A written scope
What will be built, mapped to a figure on the pricing page.
- Step 03
The build
Structure, copy, menus, booking and the local search set-up, built mobile first and reviewed with you at each stage.
- Step 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 Edinburgh: the questions people ask
How much does web design cost in Edinburgh?
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 Edinburgh 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 Grassmarket pub is built by someone who has run one.
Who designs restaurant websites in Edinburgh?
Epicurean Digital Consultants, based in Wimbledon in London and working in Edinburgh 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 Leith, Stockbridge and Bruntsfield as well as the Old Town and New Town?
Yes. The Shore, Stockbridge and the neighbourhood parades are much of the city's trade, and the page is built around the street, the square or the tram stop rather than the city name.
Do you need to visit the restaurant?
Usually once, and Edinburgh 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
Keystone Build, one of the concept sites in the Web Portfolios
This page shares its drawn idiom with that demo: a skyline built in line at render time, and a page that draws itself as you scroll. 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.