Web design, Oxford OX1
Web Design in Oxford for Restaurants, Cafés, Bars and Pubs
Websites, local search and branding for the restaurants, cafés, bars and pubs of the Covered Market, Jericho, the Cowley Road, Summertown, Gloucester Green and the High, built by a twenty-year hospitality operator who comes up from London on the Paddington line.
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The High
Oxford, from the Covered Market to Magdalen Bridge
Scroll to walk the High
Swipe along the High
AI-generated illustration The Covered Market and the High
The visitors, the lunch trade and the old traders.
Jericho and Walton Street
The restaurants, the cinema and north Oxford's money.
AI-generated illustration The Cowley Road and St Clement's
Every cuisine and the city's own evening.
Summertown and the Banbury Road
Brunch, the delis and the family dinners.
AI-generated illustration Gloucester Green and George Street
The market, the buses and the restaurants round the square.
The Westgate and St Ebbe's
The chains, the rooftop and the cinema crowd.
Oxford as a market
Oxford eats in Jericho and drinks on the Cowley Road
Oxford's trade runs between the colleges and the two roads out.
- Who eats where
- Restaurants, cafés and the old traders in the Covered Market, pubs and restaurants on the High and down Turl Street, restaurants and the cinema-night tables on Walton Street in Jericho, every cuisine and the late bars of the Cowley Road and St Clement's, brunch rooms, delis and family restaurants in Summertown, the restaurants and market stalls of Gloucester Green, the chains and the rooftop at the Westgate, the college-gate pubs and the riverside pubs by the punts, and the hotel dining rooms on the Banbury Road and by the station.
- When
- Term time from October, January and April, May Morning at dawn and Eights Week on the river, the visitors from Easter to October, graduation weeks in the summer, conference dinners in the colleges in July and August, Friday and Saturday nights on the Cowley Road, Sunday lunch in Summertown and the riverside pubs, the Christmas light nights on Broad Street, and the quiet weeks of the vacations when the city eats with itself.
- Getting there
- Oxford station brings the trains from London Paddington in about an hour and from Marylebone, Reading and Birmingham, the park-and-ride buses bring the county in from five car parks at the ring road, the A34 and the A40 bring the car trade, the M40 brings London and Birmingham, Magdalen Bridge carries the Cowley Road to the High, and the bikes carry everyone else.
- May Morning at dawn
- Eights Week on the river
- The first week of Michaelmas term
- Sunday lunch by the punts
- Saturday night on the Cowley Road
- Christmas lights on Broad Street
What an Oxford restaurant website has to do
Term and vacation are two cities
In term the Cowley Road, Jericho and the college-gate pubs fill with students and dons; in the vacations the visitors and the conferences take over the centre and the river.
Say Jericho, Cowley or Summertown
A search for dinner in Oxford could mean Walton Street, the Cowley Road or the Banbury Road, and they are different evenings and different money.
Visitors decide on the High with a phone
A family outside the Covered Market picks lunch from a phone in a crowd.
The park-and-ride is part of the booking
Much of the county arrives by bus from the ring road.
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 term-time 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 in Eights Week.
On the screen
- The websiteMobile first, fast on a phone outside the Covered Market, a menu Google can read, the table bookable in two taps.
- Local searchThe Google Business Profile corrected to the road 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, road by road
- A booking path that works on a phone between the bus stop 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 Oxford: the questions people ask
How much does web design cost in Oxford?
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 Oxford other than restaurants?
EDC builds for the food and drink trade: restaurants, cafés, bars, pubs, tea rooms, bakeries and delis. A site for a Jericho restaurant or a Cowley Road bar is built by someone who has run one.
Who designs restaurant websites in Oxford?
Epicurean Digital Consultants, based in Wimbledon in London and working in Oxford 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 Summertown, Headington and the Cowley Road as well as the centre?
Yes. Summertown, Headington, Cowley, Jericho, Botley and the villages along the Thames are part of the same trade as the High, and the local search work names the road and the quarter 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 bus stop or the station; the rest is by video call and email. Oxford is about an hour from Paddington, so a visit is a morning, not a day.
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
Lensfolk, one of the concept sites in the Web Portfolios
This page shares Lensfolk's photographic idiom: the photographs given the room and the page moving through them one frame at a time, here the colleges seen through arches along one street. 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 Jericho from the Cowley Road and Eights Week from a vacation Tuesday
Everything EDC does, for Oxford 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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