Web design, Newcastle NE1
Web Design in Newcastle for Restaurants, Cafés, Bars and Pubs
Websites, local search and branding for the restaurants, cafés, bars and pubs of Grey Street, the Quayside, Jesmond and Ouseburn, built by a twenty-year hospitality operator who comes up from London by train.
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The six bridges
Newcastle, bridge by bridge, down the river
Scroll to sail the Tyne
- Bridge 01
Grey Street and Grainger Town
The Georgian streets and the theatre
- Bridge 02
The Quayside
The bridges, the Sunday market and the river
- Bridge 03
The Bigg Market and the Diamond Strip
The Saturday night
- Bridge 04
Jesmond
Osborne Road and the brunch
- Bridge 05
Ouseburn
The valley, the breweries and the music
- Bridge 06
Gosforth and Heaton
The high streets of the suburbs
Newcastle as a market
Newcastle eats between the bridges
Newcastle's trade runs down the hill from Grey Street to the river and along both banks. Grey Street and Grainger Town are the Georgian streets, the restaurants, the theatre crowd and the office lunch; the Quayside is the bridges, the bars under the arch, the Sunday market and the Gateshead side across the water; the Bigg Market and the Diamond Strip are the Saturday night the city is known for; Jesmond is Osborne Road, the brunch and the students; Ouseburn is the valley of breweries, music and warehouses; and Gosforth and Heaton are the suburbs with their own high streets. St James' Park, two universities, the Great North Run and the Christmas market set the calendar, and Central Station brings London in under three hours.
- Match days at St James'
- The Great North Run, September
- The Hoppings, June
- Sunday market on the Quayside
- The Christmas market at the Monument
- Who eats where
- Restaurants and the pre-theatre trade on Grey Street and Grainger Town, bars and restaurants on the Quayside and under the bridges, the bars of the Bigg Market and the Diamond Strip, cafés and brunch rooms on Osborne Road in Jesmond, breweries, taprooms and music venues in Ouseburn, the high-street cafés and restaurants of Gosforth and Heaton, the match-day pubs below St James', and the hotel dining rooms by the station.
- When
- Match days at St James', Saturday night in the Bigg Market and on the Diamond Strip, Sunday brunch in Jesmond and the Sunday market on the Quayside, Friday night in Ouseburn, the Great North Run weekend in September, the Hoppings on the Town Moor in June, the Christmas market around the Monument from November, and the students' terms setting the weeknights in Jesmond and Heaton.
- Getting there
- Central Station brings the trains from London, Edinburgh, York and Leeds, the Metro runs to Jesmond, Gosforth, the coast and the airport, the bridges join the Quayside to Gateshead, buses run to Heaton and Ouseburn, and the A1 brings the car trade.
What a Newcastle restaurant website has to do
Say which side of the river and which bridge
A search for dinner in Newcastle could mean Grey Street, the Quayside or the Gateshead bank, and the walk between them is a bridge.
Match days are a sitting of their own
St James' brings a crowd that eats early, drinks after and walks down the hill on a timetable.
Saturday night and Sunday brunch are different pages
The Bigg Market crowd and the Jesmond brunch queue search for different things at different hours.
Rank for Newcastle, by neighbourhood and by bridge
Searches name the Quayside, Jesmond, Ouseburn and Grey Street 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 Newcastle site starts with the menu, the sittings and the margin, and only then with the design that sells them on Grey Street or down on the Quayside.
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 the Metro and the door, a menu Google can read, the table bookable in two taps.
- Local searchThe Google Business Profile corrected to the street and the bank, 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, bank by bank
- 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 tide table: 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
- Lamp 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.
- Lamp 02
A written scope
What will be built, mapped to a figure on the pricing page.
- Lamp 03
The build
Structure, copy, menus, booking and the local search set-up, built mobile first and reviewed with you at each stage.
- Lamp 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 Newcastle: the questions people ask
How much does web design cost in Newcastle?
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 Newcastle other than restaurants?
EDC builds for the food and drink trade: restaurants, cafés, bars, pubs, taprooms, bakeries and delis. A site for a Quayside restaurant or a Jesmond café is built by someone who has run one.
Who designs restaurant websites in Newcastle?
Epicurean Digital Consultants, based in Wimbledon in London and working in Newcastle 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 Jesmond, Ouseburn, Gosforth and the Gateshead bank as well as the centre?
Yes. The neighbourhoods and both banks are the trade, and each page is built around the street, the bridge and the Metro stop rather than the city name.
Do you need to visit the restaurant?
Usually once, and Newcastle is under three hours 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
Keystone Build, one of the concept sites in the Web Portfolios
This page shares that demo's drawn-structure idiom: structures that assemble themselves in line, here the bridges of the Tyne, member by member. 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 Grey Street from Ouseburn and a match day from a Sunday on the Quayside
Everything EDC does, for Newcastle 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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