Web design, Portsmouth PO1
Web Design in Portsmouth for Restaurants, Cafés, Bars and Pubs
Websites, local search and branding for the restaurants, cafés, bars and pubs of Gunwharf Quays, Old Portsmouth, Albert Road, the seafront, Guildhall Walk and North End, built by a twenty-year hospitality operator who comes down from London on the Waterloo line.
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The moorings: six on the chart
Portsmouth, quarter by quarter
- Mooring 01
Gunwharf Quays and the Hard
The waterfront, the outlet crowd and the ferries
- Mooring 02
Old Portsmouth and the Camber
The harbour pubs, the fish and the Hot Walls
- Mooring 03
Albert Road and Palmerston Road
Southsea's independents, the bars and the evening
- Mooring 04
The seafront and the Common
The summer, the pier and the festival weekends
- Mooring 05
Guildhall Walk and Commercial Road
The students, the theatre and the lunch trade
- Mooring 06
North End, Cosham and Port Solent
The local high streets and the marina that eat at home all year
Portsmouth as a market
Portsmouth eats at Gunwharf and drinks on Albert Road
Portsmouth's trade is laid out along the water. Gunwharf Quays and the Hard are the waterfront, the outlet crowd, the ferries and the tower; Old Portsmouth and the Camber are the harbour pubs, the fish and the Hot Walls; Albert Road and Palmerston Road are Southsea's independents, the bars and the evening; the seafront and the Common are the summer, the pier and the festival weekends; Guildhall Walk and Commercial Road are the students, the theatre and the lunch trade; and North End, Cosham and Port Solent are the local high streets and the marina that eat at home all year. Pompey at Fratton Park, Victorious on the Common over the August bank holiday, the Great South Run in October, the kite festival, the Isle of Wight ferries and the hovercraft, the naval base in the middle of the city and a station that puts Waterloo about an hour and a half away set the calendar, and the sea sets the city apart.
Waterfront restaurants, bars and the outlet lunch trade at Gunwharf Quays, the harbour pubs and the fish restaurants of Old Portsmouth and the Camber, the independents, bars and late kitchens of Albert Road, the cafés and restaurants of Palmerston Road and Osborne Road, the seafront kiosks, the pier and the hotel dining rooms along the Common, the student bars and the pre-theatre tables of Guildhall Walk, the match-day pubs around Fratton Park, the local pubs and cafés of North End and Cosham, and the marina restaurants at Port Solent.
Visitors from Easter to October along the seafront and the Dockyard, Gunwharf every Saturday, Albert Road every Friday and Saturday night, Pompey at Fratton Park on a Saturday afternoon, Victorious over the August bank holiday, the kite festival in August, the Great South Run in October, the students' terms from September, the ferry crowd through the summer, Sunday roasts in Southsea and North End, and the quiet weeks in January when the city eats with itself.
Portsmouth Harbour and Portsmouth and Southsea bring the trains from London Waterloo in about an hour and a half, from Southampton in under an hour and from Brighton along the coast, the M275 brings the M27 and the A3 straight into the city, the A27 brings Chichester and the coast, the Isle of Wight ferries and the hovercraft bring the island in at the Hard and Southsea, the park-and-ride at Tipner brings the car trade, and the seafront buses bring Southsea to the Dockyard.
- Victorious on the Common, August
- Pompey at Fratton Park
- The Great South Run, October
- The kite festival on the Common
- A Friday night on Albert Road
- The ferry crowd in July
What a Portsmouth restaurant website has to do
Gunwharf and Albert Road are two different trades
Gunwharf sells lunch to a family that has come for the outlet and the water and will not be back for a year; Albert Road sells dinner and a late drink to people who come every week.
The summer arrives by sea and by festival
The seafront fills from Easter, the ferries and the hovercraft bring the island across all summer, and Victorious puts a festival crowd on the Common for a bank holiday weekend.
Say Gunwharf, Southsea or Old Portsmouth
A search for dinner in Portsmouth could mean a table on the water at Gunwharf, a bar on Albert Road or a pub by the Camber, and they are different evenings and different money.
Match day and the students run on their own clock
When Pompey are at home the pubs around Fratton fill from lunchtime; when term starts, Guildhall Walk and Albert Road fill from Thursday.
The Dockyard: where the visitors’ summer begins, and the café on the cobbles catches it.
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 Portsmouth site starts with the menu, the sittings and the margin, and only then with the design that sells them at Gunwharf or on Albert 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 and the bank-holiday 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 festival Saturday.
On the screen
- The websiteMobile first, fast on a phone on the seafront, 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.
- 01A written scopeMapped to a figure on the pricing page before anything is built
- 02A site you ownOn your own domain, with the files and the logins
- 03A menu Google can readNot a PDF: dishes, prices and allergens as text
- 04A profile that matchesThe Google Business Profile corrected to the site, street by street
- 05A booking pathThat works on a phone between the ferry and the door
- 06One person to callAli, the founder, from the first call to launch and after
Website packages, in pounds
- Berth 01Starter£1,650one-offPerfect for small businesses just getting started online
- Berth 02Pro£2,950one-offIdeal for established businesses needing more features
- Berth 03Standard£5,800one-offMid-range option for growing businesses
- Berth 04Premium£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 tally: 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
- Light 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.
- Light 02
A written scope
What will be built, mapped to a figure on the pricing page.
- Light 03
The build
Structure, copy, menus, booking and the local search set-up, built mobile first and reviewed with you at each stage.
- Light 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 Portsmouth: the questions people ask
How much does web design cost in Portsmouth?
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 Portsmouth other than restaurants?
EDC builds for the food and drink trade: restaurants, cafés, bars, pubs, tea rooms, bakeries and delis. A site for a Gunwharf restaurant or an Albert Road bar is built by someone who has run one.
Who designs restaurant websites in Portsmouth?
Epicurean Digital Consultants, based in Wimbledon in London and working in Portsmouth 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 Southsea, North End and Cosham as well as the city centre?
Yes. Southsea, Fratton, North End, Cosham, Drayton, Port Solent and Hayling across the bridge are part of the same trade as Gunwharf, and the local search work names the street 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 station, the ferry or the seafront car parks; the rest is by video call and email. Portsmouth is about an hour and a half from Waterloo, 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
Maris, one of the concept sites in the Web Portfolios
This page shares that demo's idea of a place by the sea that is lit by the hour and travelled through rather than read: Maris is a clifftop house whose light you drag from dawn to night; here it is the harbour after dark, a buoy on the Solent and a camera that scrolls out to the harbour mouth. 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 Gunwharf from Albert Road and a Pompey Saturday from a Victorious weekend
Everything EDC does, for Portsmouth 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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