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Saltbox Kitchen

A forty-cover neighbourhood restaurant whose menu currently lives in a PDF that nobody can read on a phone, and whose booking link is three taps deep in a navigation menu.

The Saltbox Kitchen website on a phone

Why it looks like this.

A neighbourhood small-plates restaurant should feel generous and loud before anyone reads a word, so the first screen is one dish taking itself apart. This week's plate - buffalo mozzarella, heritage tomatoes and torn basil - sits photographed from above in a rounded mustard window, with SALTBOX set huge in bottle green on either side of it. The tomatoes, garlic, lemon, chilli and basil are cut-out photographs tucked around the rim. As you scroll, the window pins and the plate explodes: every ingredient flies outwards and turns, the wordmark splits, and small labels appear like an exploded technical drawing, saying where each one comes from. Bowlby One gives the headlines their fat, friendly weight, and Schibsted Grotesk keeps dish descriptions and allergen tags crisp. After the plate, a tilted tomato ticker, a poster-sized typeset menu whose dishes pop a round photo on hover, sticky stacking cards for what regulars already know, and the dining room opening from a slit as you reach private hire.

Palette

Mustard#EDB83D
Bottle Green#1D3A2B
Tomato#C43A22
Paper#FBF4E6
Deep Green#16301F

Typography

Display
Bowlby One
Body
Schibsted Grotesk

On the page

  • The exploded plate
  • This week's menu
  • Before you come
  • Private hire
  • Book a table
  • Find us

What this build does differently.

Pinned exploded-plate scene

The dish of the week comes apart ingredient by ingredient as you scroll, so the menu’s freshness is felt before it is read.

Ingredient labels with where each one comes from

Local growers and foraged garlic are named on the plate itself, which is the restaurant’s real selling point.

Typeset weekly menu with allergen tags and hover photos

Diners with allergies can check every dish at a glance, and the photos show portion and plating without leaving the list.

Table booking by day, guests and time

Turns browsing into a booking for the busy Thursday to Saturday nights without a phone call.

Private hire panel for up to 40

Gives birthdays and work dos a clear route to the most valuable bookings.

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