Eetcafés, bistros and grand cafés
Daily menu, drinks and events, and requests for parties and groups. Four fictional businesses, four very different sites: from five pages to a site with more than ten pages. Whatever you come up with, we can make.
Bistro Le Petit Coin
Bistro. The name hangs above every page like a painted shop sign, and the menu of the day is written in white marker on the bistro mirror, as in Lyon and Paris. Bottle green from the façade, the paper of the tablecloth, zinc from the bar and the pink of the praline tart: you taste the bistro before you’ve booked.
See example →Eetcafé De Gouden Leeuw
Eetcafé. You can read a local pub from its bar: the taps in a row, the dish of the day on the board and your rounds as pencil marks on the beer mat. That’s why this site revolves around lists instead of cards, with a beer mat as the logo, warm oak brown and bottle green colours and a sturdy typeface like on the pub window.
See example →Grand Café De Brug
Grand café. A bright grand café by the water, so no brown wood but daylight: the photos stand on the quay and reflect in the river, and on the homepage the white drawbridge really opens. Anyone arriving by boat sees straight away where to moor.
See example →Grand Café De Oude Waag
Grand café. First you step into the café: a smoke-brown ceiling, two copper chandeliers and oak panelling with brass plaques, and only then comes the photo. Every chapter sits on a brass weighing-house weight, the daily menu hangs like a newspaper on the reading stick and the menu lies on a Persian table rug, because De Oude Waag is a large brown café in a real old weigh house.
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