Web design, Leicester LE1
Web Design in Leicester for Restaurants, Cafés, Bars and Pubs
Websites, local search and branding for the restaurants, cafés, bars and pubs of the Golden Mile, the Lanes, the Market, the Cultural Quarter, Queens Road and Narborough Road, built by a twenty-year hospitality operator who comes up from London by train.
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The lights
Leicester, road by road
Scroll to switch on the Mile
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The Golden Mile
Belgrave Road: the sweet shops, the saris, the Diwali lights
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The Lanes
Silver Street, Loseby Lane and the independents
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The Market and the Cultural Quarter
The roof, the stalls, Curve and Orton Square
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Granby Street and the station
The walk in from the trains
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Queens Road and Clarendon Park
The village and the brunch
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Narborough Road and Braunstone Gate
The kitchens from everywhere
The Leicester year
- October
The lights switch on along Belgrave Road and the Golden Mile fills every evening
- November
Diwali: the fireworks, the sweets, every table on the Mile taken for a fortnight
- February
The Comedy Festival puts a crowd in the Cultural Quarter every night
- Match days
The King Power and Welford Road: early sittings, late pints
- Term time
Two universities, two campuses, and the weeknight trade that comes with them
Leicester as a market
Leicester eats along the Golden Mile and through the Lanes
Leicester's food is its neighbourhoods. The Golden Mile on Belgrave Road is the sweet shops, the sari shops and the restaurants of the city's Diwali celebration; the Lanes, Silver Street, Loseby Lane and St Martin's, are the independents in the old centre; the Market is the trade under the roof; the Cultural Quarter around Curve and Orton Square is the evening; Queens Road in Clarendon Park is the village with the brunch; and Narborough Road and Braunstone Gate are the longest run of kitchens from the most countries in the city.
- The Diwali lights switch-on, October
- Diwali on the Golden Mile, November
- Comedy Festival nights, February
- Match days at the King Power and Welford Road
- Saturday in the Lanes
- Who eats where
- Restaurants, sweet shops and cafés along the Golden Mile and the streets off it, the independent cafés, bars and restaurants of the Lanes, the stalls and cafés of the Market and the Cultural Quarter's restaurants and theatre bars, the brunch cafés and neighbourhood restaurants of Queens Road and Clarendon Park, the kitchens of Narborough Road and Braunstone Gate, and the match-day pubs between the station and the two grounds.
- When
- Weekday lunch in the Lanes and the Market, Friday and Saturday nights in the Cultural Quarter and the Lanes, Sunday on the Golden Mile and in Clarendon Park, the Diwali lights from the switch-on in October through the festival in November, Comedy Festival nights in February, match days at the King Power and Welford Road, and the students of both universities all term.
- Getting there
- Leicester station brings the trains from London in just over an hour and from the East Midlands; buses run the Golden Mile, Narborough Road and Queens Road; the ring road and the M1 bring the car trade; the centre is a walk from the station through the Cultural Quarter.
What a Leicester restaurant website has to do
Say which mile, which lane, which road
A search for dinner in Leicester could mean the Golden Mile, the Lanes or Queens Road, and they are a bus apart.
Diwali is a season, booked in September
From the switch-on to the festival the Golden Mile is full every evening and the tables go weeks ahead.
Match days and festival nights, each a page
The King Power, Welford Road, Curve and the Comedy Festival bring crowds that eat early and leave on time.
Rank for Leicester, by road
Searches name Belgrave Road, the Lanes, Queens Road or Narborough Road 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 Leicester site starts with the menu, the sittings and the margin, and only then with the design that sells them on the right road.
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 Diwali fortnight 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 the bus, a menu Google can read, the table bookable in two taps.
- Local searchThe Google Business Profile corrected to the road and the door, 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, road by road
- A booking pathThat works on a phone between the station and the Mile
- 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.
How it works
- 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.
- 02
A written scope
What will be built, mapped to a figure on the pricing page.
- 03
The build
Structure, copy, menus, booking and the local search set-up, built mobile first and reviewed with you at each stage.
- 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 Leicester: the questions people ask
How much does web design cost in Leicester?
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 Leicester other than restaurants?
EDC builds for the food and drink trade: restaurants, cafés, bars, pubs, sweet shops, bakeries and delis. That focus is the point; a site for a Golden Mile restaurant is built by someone who has run one.
Who designs restaurant websites in Leicester?
Epicurean Digital Consultants, based in Wimbledon in London and working in Leicester 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 Clarendon Park, Narborough Road and the suburbs as well as the centre?
Yes. The roads out of the centre are much of the city's trade, and the page is built around the road or the parade rather than the city name.
Do you need to visit the restaurant?
Usually once, and Leicester is just over an hour 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
Fizz, one of the concept sites in the Web Portfolios
This page shares its colour worlds with that demo: the magenta and the saffron, the glow that comes up when the lights go on. 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.