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Web Design in Wigan for Restaurants, Cafés, Bars and Pubs

Websites, local search and branding for the restaurants, cafés, bars and pubs of King Street, Wigan Pier, Standish and the towns around, built by a twenty-year hospitality operator who comes up from London by train.

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Written by Ali Solak, founder.

A canal basin with old brick warehouses, a narrowboat moored at the quay and people at a waterside café: an AI-generated illustration
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The record box

Wigan, single by single

Scroll to flick through the box

  1. Single 01

    King Street

    The bars and the Saturday night

  2. Single 02

    Wallgate and Standishgate

    The town centre, the market and the arcade

  3. Single 03

    Wigan Pier

    The canal quarter and the towpath

  4. Single 04

    Standish

    The village, the pubs and the Sunday

  5. Single 05

    Hindley and Ashton

    The towns with their own high streets

  6. Single 06

    The DW Stadium

    Match days, Latics and Warriors

Wigan as a market

Wigan eats in the town, at the pier and in the villages

Wigan's trade has three centres. The town centre, Wallgate, Standishgate and the Grand Arcade, feeds the shoppers and the offices by day, and King Street takes the night; Wigan Pier is the canal quarter on the Leeds and Liverpool, the old warehouses and the towpath walk; and Standish is the village to the north with the pubs and the Sunday lunch. Hindley, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Orrell and Leigh each keep their own high street and their own regulars, and the DW Stadium brings the Latics and the Warriors crowds through the pubs on match days. Pies are a serious subject here, and the town says so. Two stations put Manchester under half an hour away and London about two hours.

  • Match days at the DW
  • Saturday night on King Street
  • Sunday lunch in Standish
  • The Diggers' Festival, September
  • The World Pie Eating Championship, December
Who eats where
Bars and late venues on King Street, cafés and the market around Standishgate and the Grand Arcade, canalside pubs and restaurants at Wigan Pier, the village pubs and restaurants of Standish, the high-street cafés and takeaways of Hindley, Ashton and Orrell, the match-day pubs between the stations and the DW, and the pie shops and bakers everywhere.
When
Saturday afternoons in the town centre and Saturday nights on King Street, Sunday lunch in Standish and at the canal, match days at the DW for the Latics and the Warriors, Friday nights in the villages, the Diggers' Festival in September, the World Pie Eating Championship in December, and the run of office parties filling the restaurants from November.
Getting there
Wigan North Western brings the trains from London, Glasgow, Preston and the West Coast line, and Wigan Wallgate the trains from Manchester, Southport and Kirkby; buses run to Standish, Hindley, Ashton and Leigh from the bus station; the M6 and the M58 bring the car trade, and the towpath brings the walkers to the pier.

What a Wigan restaurant website has to do

Badge 01

Say which Wigan you are

A search for food in Wigan could be a Saturday night on King Street, a Sunday in Standish or a walk along the canal, and each wants a different page.

Badge 02

Match days are a sitting of their own

The DW brings two crowds, football and rugby league, who eat early, drink after and leave on a timetable.

Badge 03

Pies deserve a menu Google can read

A pie shop, or a pub with a name for its pies, gets found for the pie rather than the postcode.

Badge 04

Rank for Wigan, by town and by street

Searches name Standish, Hindley, Ashton or King Street as often as the town.

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 Wigan site starts with the menu, the sittings and the margin, and only then with the design that sells them on King Street or in Standish.

The dance floor

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.
The DJ booth

On the screen

  • The websiteMobile first, fast on a phone between the station 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 town, 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.
The singles: what you get
  • 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, street by street
  • 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 set list: 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

  1. Step 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.

  2. Step 02

    A written scope

    What will be built, mapped to a figure on the pricing page.

  3. Step 03

    The build

    Structure, copy, menus, booking and the local search set-up, built mobile first and reviewed with you at each stage.

  4. Step 04

    Launch and after

    Go live, Google Business Profile and local listings checked, then the support period of the package you chose.

A town-centre street at night with bar windows lit and people arriving in coats: an AI-generated illustration
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A stone village pub on a Sunday with families at tables outside and a church tower beyond: an AI-generated illustration
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Questions people ask

Web design in Wigan: the questions people ask

How much does web design cost in Wigan?

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 Wigan other than restaurants?

EDC builds for the food and drink trade: restaurants, cafés, bars, pubs, pie shops, bakeries and delis. A site for a King Street bar or a Standish pub is built by someone who has run one.

Who designs restaurant websites in Wigan?

Epicurean Digital Consultants, based in Wimbledon in London and working in Wigan 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 Standish, Hindley, Ashton and Leigh as well as the town centre?

Yes. The towns and villages are much of the trade, and each page is built around the street and the station rather than the borough name.

Do you need to visit the restaurant?

Usually once, and Wigan is about two 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

Velvet Hour, one of the concept sites in the Web Portfolios

This page shares that demo's night idiom: a room lit after dark where things glow and turn, here a record deck and a crate of singles. 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.

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Nearby

A website that knows King Street from Standish and a match day from a Sunday

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Everything EDC does, for Wigan and everywhere else

One operator, the whole trade: the site, the search, the menu, the room