A lot of restaurants have terrible websites. There, I said it.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. This day and age, you don’t need to have a boring, static website with a menu on a PDF file. (Seriously, that’s the absolute worst!)
With one of these outstanding WordPress restaurant themes, you can have a modern, professional site that gives a wonderful first impression, gives your potential customers all the info they need to find your place of business.
The restaurant business is a tough racket, so the absolute last thing you want to do during the process of starting up a new cafe, diner, restaurant, BBQ joint, coffee shop, dessert shop or any other sort of food service company, is to spend weeks, maybe even months, crafting a website that fits with the look and feel of what you want in a website. These pre-made WordPress restaurant themes give you the design and functionality you’re looking for in a website. We’ve found a bunch of themes that will make it easy to get an online presence quickly, without having to learn how to code, which lets you give your diners the very best experience you can. We’ve found an assortment of incredible restaurant themes that we know you’ll love. We think you’ll love this collection of themes.
(Seriously, don’t put your menu on a PDF.)
Augustan
Augustan is a classic, classy restaurant theme for WordPress by Theme of the Crop. They are a dedicated team of theme makers and WordPress developers who have created a handful of highly specialized WordPress restaurant themes that you should absolutely consider for your website. If you want a clean, classic layout, plenty of attractive options for building a food menu, a responsive design and an easy to manage set of customization tools, a Theme of the Crop theme like Augustan could be a great choice.
Traditional and elegant, classy and professional, Augustan lets you set your new website up quickly, allowing you to add content, add a food menu, customize colors, upload your font and more. It’s everything you need to make a totally professional, custom look for your site. The built in reservation system lets you take online reservations, it even allows for email notifications to remind people of their reservation time. Food and drink menus, a business profile for building your local SEO, event organizer, reviews and testimonials and it works with Yoast SEO for really helping build traffic.
Aperitive
This is Aperitive, a delightful and tasty looking WordPress restaurant theme from Themes Kingdom. Creating an unforgettable dining experience, that’s what your goal is at your restaurant. Creating an unforgettable browsing experience, that’s the goal of Aperitive and I think they’ve gotten the job done. With a sleek, simple and modern layout, Aperitive gives you the visual impact, the clear-cut navigation and the features to build an amazing site for your restaurant. Aperitive has a dedicated food menu page that makes it simple to list all of your offerings, as well as a reservations plugin so your customers can reserve a table with just a few clicks. The sidebar remains hidden until your customers open it up, which creates a slim, attractive layout that’s easy to get around in. Aperitive offers an attractive blog too, so you can update people on your latest news and offerings. Colors, typography, that stuff is all customizable and like with all new WordPress themes, Aperitive is responsive. I think you’ll really enjoy this theme.
Ultra
Ultra is a premium quality WordPress theme with drag and drop page builder included and one of the 60 or so demo sites that are packaged with this theme is a high quality restaurant template, you can see the screenshot above. Ultra makes it easy to create a website that looks great, with any sort of content you want it to have. Ultra is completely responsive, so it loads up perfectly even on mobile devices. That’s a nice feature to have for a restaurant website, since so many people will likely access your site on their mobile devices. With Ultra’s restaurant demo, you can import dummy content, then switch out images, text, addresses and hours of operation to have your site online quickly. Themify.me created Ultra to be among the most flexible themes on the market and I believe they’ve done a fantastic job of it. What do you say, is this a theme you enjoy?
Café Pro
This is Café Pro, which is basically a combination of a couple of StudioPress’ most popular WordPress, Genesis Framework child themes. Combining the Foodie theme with the Parallax theme, Café Pro is a perfect choice for nearly any kind of café, bakery, restaurant or coffee shop. Café Pro offers an amazing, simple style with cool parallax effect to grab your reader’s attention. Use one of the four home page widget areas to add contact information, your restaurant’s location and hours of operation too. There are several custom page templates included and you can customize your site’s header as well. Café Pro is like all Genesis Framework child themes from StudioPress, in that it’s SEO friendly, loads fast, is purely responsive and is constantly updated to work right with the latest version of WordPress.
Carbone
CSSIgniter is getting into the restaurant site design game and I think they’ve got a real winner with Carbone. This modern, flexible and elegant theme is great for any sort of restaurant, bar, cafe or other food and beverage related site. With any restaurant, the website is a critical part of your success, since so many people will want to find out about your menu, location and hours, lone before they set foot in your establishment. Carbone gives a great first impression. There’s a live theme customizer to allow you to make all sorts of changes and see what they’ll look like even before you hit ‘update’. Build landing pages using any page builder, such as Visual Composer or Site Origin’s page builder plugin. There’s a simple reservation form for integration with services like Open table and Carbone is SEO optimized too. There are a couple different menu styles, even a blog to keep customers updated on the latest news.
Gourmet
Themefuse’s premium WordPress theme called ‘The Core’ has well over a dozen different demo sites, including this fresh, attractive and professional restaurant demo called Gourmet. If you’d like to give your prospective customers a great first impression and let them know what your restaurant is all about, Gourmet is an excellent choice. Drag and Drop page building give you the flexibility to offer any layout you want, with features that perfectly fit your needs. You can switch up fonts and colors to match your restaurant’s branding, upload your logo and more. No matter what kind of restaurant you have, from fine dining to a food cart, a coffee shop to a hot dog stand, Gourmet is an excellent, flexible choice.
Salt & Pepper
Tesla Themes presents Salt & Pepper, a perfectly crafted theme for restauranteurs, with bold images, easy to customize to fit your branding and enough features to keep you happy. With responsive layout, Salt & Pepper looks fantastic on all sorts of devices, which is very important these days, particularly for a restaurant, since so many potential customers will be looking at your site on their cell phone or tablet. For those who want to share recipes, Salt & Pepper offers a cool recipe filter and also allows you to add images and tutorials for preparing any kind of delightful dish.
Igloo
For an incredible restaurant website, you need a great looking theme, which is why I recommend Igloo. This theme has everything you need to craft a winning website and it’s easy to use even for beginners. That’s not to say that it lacks the features you’d expect in more expensive website templates, it’s really very powerful and flexible too. Igloo is that perfect balance that allows you to have a great looking site without spending all of your time on building your website. Considering how tough it is to run a restaurant, that’s going to be a big relief for a lot of restauranteurs, bar owners, caterers and more.
Igloo is perfectly responsive so that it looks great on all devices. The layout is unique and can be easily customized to fit your brand, with simple, efficient logo upload, color controls and typography. The food menu builder is simple to use and makes for a solid presentation of everything you have to offer. There are places for main courses, desserts, apps and more. With four unique content types, you have the flexibility to showcase all that you serve and all of the amazing things about your restaurant, from testimonials to menus, sliders and image galleries too. Custom widgets help you manage your social media accounts, helping you stay in touch with your customers. Igloo is even SEO optimized for fantastic performance in the SERPs.
Daily Dish Pro
Daily Dish Pro presents your food and recipes with style and it’s a great looking theme for presenting your restaurant, giving potential customers all the information they need to choose your restaurant for their next meal. Daily Dish Pro is also a full featured food blogging theme with stylish presentation and lots of features that help make your content delicious and enticing as any dish, savory or sweet. The Daily Dish is a Genesis Framework theme, which produces incredibly flexibility in terms of design and features and the perfect code, the constant updates and fluid, mobile friendly responsiveness all prove valuable to any blogger. The key factor here though is a custom recipe plugin that makes your concoctions look incredibly tasty and delicious. The Daily Dish looks great displaying all your content, videos, images, recipes and a whole lot more. The Daily Dish also allows you to craft an awesome online shop with WooCommerce. I love a theme that combines blog with eCommerce and an awesome portfolio, it makes for a very professional presentation.
The Flavour
A delightfully crisp and clean layout helps make The Flavour one of the very best WordPress themes for a restaurant, café, catering business, deli, food truck, food cart or any other kind of food service industry website. No matter what you throw at it, the Flavour can handle it. Bells and whistles? Sue, the Flavour has those. But it’s also simple and clean to look at too, so the design isn’t completely in your face. It’s a great blend of styles that I think you might really like.
The Flavour is ultimately customizable, responsive and retina ready, so it will look great on any device or on a traditional desktop display. Animated sliders, responsive and retina ready layout, a clean and powerful pagebuilder, which is Theme Fuse’s Unyson framework, an open source and free page builder. The Flavour is a gorgeous WordPress restaurant theme for regional or ethnic foods such as Norwegian or perhaps Polish, fast food, fine dining or fast casual, noodle shops, cafeterias or pizza parlors are a good way to have your culinary business stand out from the others out there. All in all, I think the Flavour is a really nice choice for any restaurant.
Molino
Molino is another variation of the theme ‘The Core’ by ThemeFuse, and the example pictured above comes from the bakery or coffee shop version of be basic theme. This one is ready-made to give your customers a professional first impression when they search your company out on the web. All of the Core themes have drag and drop flexibility, letting you move page elements anywhere you’d like, without having to hack into any code. Molino is flexible in terms of the design elements too, you can easily change the fonts and colors to fit your restaurant, upload your logo, create a menu page, a map to the restaurant and much more. Themefuse has outdone themselves with a truly fantastic WordPress theme, it’s called ‘The Core’. We think you’ll love it.
Vincent
Vincent markets itself as a pizza shop template, but I don’t see any reason it couldn’t work for nearly any sort of restaurant. Vincent’s got a nice design, though through the inclusion of Visual Composer, you don’t need to be content with any of the pre-made designs that are included, you can create something that precisely fits what you want your site to look like.
Vincent has the contact information up to, right where you want it. (Many sites overlook that factor, but most visitors really just want to see your menu and location/store hours.) This theme is highly visual, with lots of places to put high quality images that really help sell your products. Speaking of selling products, Vincent is WooCommerce ready, so if you want to sell merch or sauces, something like that, you can easily set up an online shop too.
Vincent is mobile friendly too, which is increasingly important, since so many folks may be looking for a place to eat while browsing on a handheld device. All in all, Vincent is a really solid option for any kind of restaurant.
The Butcher
Looking for a WordPress theme for a steak house or bar and grill? Well, The Butcher is a fantastic option for any restaurant that wants a bold, masculine style website with clear navigation and outstanding features. The Butcher calls itself a theme that was ‘designed for meat lovers’ and I think they’re right about that. There are four basic premade designs, one called Plucked Chicken, one called Burger Bomb, there’s Street Food and then, of course, the classic layout pictured above. The Butcher is fully responsive with a professional and clean design, coded with the W3C school standards and it rates highly on themecheck.org too. Compatible with Visual Composer and WooCommerce, this theme uses the Redux framework to give you a lot of options for customization.
Salt Kitchen
Salt Kitchen is a premium theme for retail/restaurant. It comes with very friendly and attaction design to help your customers navigate your site with ease. This is exactly restaurant website should be. A great WordPress theme is a slick and extremely easy to customize selection for any types of dining places, from cultural or ethnic foods such as Portuguese or Greek, pubs, fast food, fast casual or fine dining, pizza parlors or coffeehouses. Salt Kitchen makes it easy to get your social page links out there, the street address is featured front and center and the food menu also enjoys prominent placement. Too many themes ignore these obvious, necessary features.
Pizzaro
Pizzaro was built to be a cutting edge pizza shop theme, with online ordering, a bunch of great looking food menus, easy navigation, fantastic high-res images and more. It’s the ultimate pizzaria theme, but it doesn’t stop there. This unbelievably scrumptious looking WordPress theme is an ideal option for an extraordinary and exceptionally functional web site for your establishment, regardless of whether it’s a hot dog stands, sandwich shops, bar food, fine dining, fast casual or fast food or cultural or ethnic foods such as Norwegian or perhaps Irish.
This gorgeous, easy to use, cutting edge, versatile and reliable theme permits you to supervise delivery and inventory, build your company, market brand new items, advertise existing items and communicate with shoppers and more.
The most popular WordPress drag and drop page builder plugin is called Visual Composer, as it is an exceptionally compelling and quite functional solution to create the sort of website you would like with the design and functions you’d like.
This theme is extremely multi-purpose so you can use it on any kind of site, one that offers numerous helpful, popular abilities, built with classic style and a gorgeous design, user friendly with a lot of fantastic help and documentation and professionally designed and responsive so it works well on any kind of screen.
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