Web design, Manchester M1
Web Design in Manchester for Restaurants, Cafés, Bars and Pubs
Websites, local search and branding for the restaurants, cafés, bars and pubs of the Northern Quarter, Ancoats, Spinningfields, Castlefield, Chinatown and the villages, built by a twenty-year hospitality operator who comes up from London by train.
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The threads
Manchester, woven quarter by quarter
Scroll to weave the cloth
- Thread 01
The Northern Quarter
The independents in the cotton warehouses
- Thread 02
Ancoats
The mills around Cutting Room Square
- Thread 03
Spinningfields and Deansgate
The offices, the business lunch, the big rooms
- Thread 04
Castlefield
The canal basin under the viaducts
- Thread 05
Chinatown and the Village
The late trade
- Thread 06
Didsbury and Chorlton
The villages and their Sunday lunch
Manchester as a market
Manchester eats in its old mills and its new quarters
Manchester's trade runs through its warehouses. The Northern Quarter is the independents in the old cotton buildings off Oldham Street; Ancoats, the next mills along, has become the city's dining neighbourhood around Cutting Room Square; Spinningfields and Deansgate are the offices, the business lunch and the big rooms; Castlefield is the canal basin under the viaducts; Chinatown and the Village hold the late trade; and Didsbury, Chorlton and West Didsbury are the villages with the Sunday lunch. The trains come into Piccadilly and Victoria, the trams run between them all, and it rains, which is why the rooms matter.
- The Christmas markets, November to December
- Match days at Old Trafford and the Etihad
- Thursday night in Ancoats
- Sunday lunch in Didsbury
- Freshers' week on Oxford Road
- Who eats where
- Independent cafés, bars and restaurants in the Northern Quarter's warehouses, the dining rooms and bakeries of Ancoats, the business-lunch and big-night rooms of Spinningfields and Deansgate, canal-side bars under the arches at Castlefield, Chinatown's restaurants and the Village's bars, the Curry Mile on Wilmslow Road, and the neighbourhood restaurants and pubs of Didsbury, Chorlton and Altrincham's market.
- When
- Weekday lunch in Spinningfields and the Northern Quarter, Thursday to Saturday nights from Ancoats to the Village, Sunday lunch in the villages, match days at Old Trafford and the Etihad, gig nights at the arena and the Apollo, the Christmas markets filling the squares from November, and the students of Fallowfield and Oxford Road all term.
- Getting there
- Piccadilly and Victoria bring the trains from London, Leeds, Liverpool and the north; the trams join the quarters to the villages and the stadiums; the free buses loop the centre; the ring road and the airport bring the rest.
What a Manchester restaurant website has to do
Say which quarter, and which mill
A search for dinner in Manchester could mean Ancoats, the Northern Quarter or Didsbury, and they are a different tram from Piccadilly.
Rain is a booking
On a wet Thursday the decision is made on a phone under an awning.
Match days and gig nights, each a page
Old Trafford, the Etihad, the arena and the Apollo bring crowds that eat early and leave on time.
Rank for Manchester, by quarter
Searches name the Northern Quarter, Ancoats, Spinningfields or Didsbury 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 Manchester site starts with the menu, the sittings and the margin, and only then with the design that sells them in the right quarter.
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 match-day plan and the Christmas-market weeks 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 tram, a menu Google can read, the table bookable in two taps.
- Local searchThe Google Business Profile corrected to the quarter and the mill, 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, quarter by quarter
- A booking pathThat works on a phone between the tram stop 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 pattern card: 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
- Bobbin 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.
- Bobbin 02
A written scope
What will be built, mapped to a figure on the pricing page.
- Bobbin 03
The build
Structure, copy, menus, booking and the local search set-up, built mobile first and reviewed with you at each stage.
- Bobbin 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 Manchester: the questions people ask
How much does web design cost in Manchester?
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 Manchester 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 an Ancoats dining room is built by someone who has run one.
Who designs restaurant websites in Manchester?
Epicurean Digital Consultants, based in Wimbledon in London and working in Manchester 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 Didsbury, Chorlton and Altrincham as well as the centre?
Yes. The villages and the suburbs are much of the city's trade, and the page is built around the road, the square or the parade rather than the city name.
Do you need to visit the restaurant?
Usually once, and Manchester 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
Prism, one of the concept sites in the Web Portfolios
This page shares that demo's idea of pattern as texture: a repeating structure the eye reads as cloth, here the warp and weft of a loom. 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.