Web design, Exeter EX1
Web Design in Exeter for Restaurants, Cafés, Bars and Pubs
Websites, local search and branding for the restaurants, cafés, bars and pubs of Cathedral Green, Gandy Street, Fore Street, the Quay, Magdalen Road and Topsham, built by a twenty-year hospitality operator who comes down from London on the Paddington line.
Exeter as a market
Exeter eats on the Green and drinks on the Quay
Exeter's trade sits between the cathedral and the river.
- Who eats where
- Restaurants and hotel dining rooms around Cathedral Green and the Close, independents and wine bars on Gandy Street and Catherine Street, chains and the lunch trade in Princesshay and on the High Street, bars, cafés and late kitchens on Fore Street and in the West Quarter, waterside cafés and pubs on the Quay and the canal basin, delis, bakeries and brunch rooms on Magdalen Road, the pubs on the Strand and the restaurants of Topsham, the match-day pubs near Sandy Park and St James Park, and the student cafés along Queen Street and up to the Streatham campus.
- When
- Lunch on the Green on any dry day, Friday and Saturday nights on Gandy Street and Fore Street, Saturday brunch on Magdalen Road, Sunday lunch in Topsham, the first warm evening on the Quay, Chiefs match days at Sandy Park, the students' terms from September, the Christmas market on Cathedral Green from November, and the summer weeks when the Quay and the estuary villages do the trade the city centre loses to the beach.
- Getting there
- St Davids brings the trains from London Paddington, Bristol and the north, Central brings Exmouth and the estuary line through Topsham, the M5 brings Bristol and the Midlands, the A30 and the A38 bring Cornwall and Plymouth, Exeter Airport brings Europe, and the park-and-ride buses bring the county in on a Saturday.
- The first warm evening on the Quay
- Chiefs match days at Sandy Park
- The Christmas market on the Green
- Saturday brunch on Magdalen Road
- Sunday lunch in Topsham
- The students back in September
The reaches
Exeter, from the Green to the estuary
Cathedral Green and the Close
Lunch in the sun, the hotels and the Christmas market.
Gandy Street and the High Street
The independents, Princesshay and the evening restaurants.
Fore Street and the West Quarter
The bars, the late kitchens and the hill down to the river.
The Quay
The canal basin, the cafés and the first warm evening.
Magdalen Road and St Leonard's
The delis, the brunch rooms and the neighbourhood restaurants.
Topsham
The pubs on the water and the Sunday walkers.
What an Exeter restaurant website has to do
Say the Green, the Quay or Magdalen Road
A search for dinner in Exeter could mean Gandy Street, the Quay or a deli table on Magdalen Road, and they are different evenings.
Match days and the Green need their own pages
A Chiefs home game fills Sandy Park and the pubs around it on a timetable; a dry Saturday fills every table on the Green by half past twelve.
The weather decides the Quay
The first warm evening sends the city down to the water with no plan.
Term time and summer are two cities
From September the students fill Queen Street and Fore Street; in July the trade moves to the Quay, Topsham and the coast.
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.
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 a Saturday.
On the screen
- The websiteMobile first, fast on a phone between St Davids and the Green, a menu Google can read, the table bookable in two taps.
- Local searchThe Google Business Profile corrected to the street and the quarter, 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 scope mapped to a figure on the pricing page before anything is built
- A site you own on your own domain, with the files and the logins
- A menu Google can read not a PDF: dishes, prices and allergens as text
- A profile that matches the Google Business Profile corrected to the site, street by street
- A booking path that works on a phone between the station and the door
- One person to call Ali, the founder, from the first call to launch and after
Website packages, in pounds
- StarterPerfect for small businesses just getting started online£1,650one-off
- ProIdeal for established businesses needing more features£2,950one-off
- StandardMid-range option for growing businesses£5,800one-off
- PremiumMulti-location or high-end venues£6,500one-off
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, the trade you want more of, and what the current site does and does not do.
A written scope
What will be built, mapped to a figure on the pricing page.
The build
Structure, copy, menus, booking and the local search set-up, built mobile first and reviewed with you at each stage.
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 Exeter: the questions people ask
How much does web design cost in Exeter?
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 Exeter 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 a Gandy Street restaurant or a Quay café is built by someone who has run one.
Who designs restaurant websites in Exeter?
Epicurean Digital Consultants, based in Wimbledon in London and working in Exeter 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 Topsham, St Leonard's and the Quay as well as the city centre?
Yes. Topsham, Magdalen Road, the Quay, Heavitree and the estuary villages are part of the same trade as the Green, and the local search work names the street or 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. Exeter is a little over two hours from Paddington, so a visit is a day, not a week.
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
Maison Cuir, one of the concept sites in the Web Portfolios
This page shares that demo's luxury editorial idiom: few words and the photograph given the room, here the quay and the Green. 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 Green from the Quay and a match day from the first warm evening
Everything EDC does, for Exeter 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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