Faro

// what it is

A concept for Faro, a Mediterranean restaurant in the invented coastal town of Port Ellery, with an invented chef. Built to cover a vertical the rest of my work did not: food and hospitality.

// the problem

Restaurant sites usually fail at the only two things a hungry visitor wants — reading the actual menu, and getting a table. Both are routinely buried behind a PDF and a contact form.

// decisions

1. 01

   The menu is part of the site

   Laid out as real content rather than linked as a PDF, so it reads on a phone one-handed and can be changed without a designer.

2. 02

   A reservation flow, not a contact form

   Date, time, and party size are asked for up front, because those are the three facts that decide whether a booking is possible at all. A free-text 'message' field would just mean asking for them again by email.