The huge variety of themes and templates available for WordPress is both a strength and con of the platform, it can be time consuming and difficult to sort through the bulk to find the best. Whether you’re building your own website or working with a designer, starting with a pre-built theme is a great way to get your restaurant website up and running quickly.
Whilst a predesigned theme will never get you the uniqueness of the best restaurant websites, it’s a great way to get a professional website on a budget. We’ve done some of the hard work for you and found our top 4 restaurant themes:
The Flavour
The Flavour is a clean, responsive theme with a clever one-click setup option. A large full screen slider and retina-ready functionality is focused on putting your food photography front and centre. Restaurant specific functionality like taking reservations and displaying menus is built right in.
Rosa
The Rosa theme, built for exclusively for restaurants features parallax scrolling and an optional one page layout. Reservation functionality is handled by built-in OpenTable integration and the theme includes pre-designed menu layouts.
Eatery
Eatery is a simple, responsive theme suitable for a more casual restaurant brand. Key features include a sidebar menu and full screen background image. Reservations are possible through the built in form and OpenTable integration.
Cafe Pro
The Cafe Pro theme, built on the Genesis framework is a great option for artisanal brands. Subtle parallax scrolling and well thought out typography, although no prebuilt reservation integration.