Anywhere in the US
Websites for Louisiana restaurants and seafood houses
Vexil Studio builds websites for restaurants, seafood houses and cafés across Louisiana. Every site is hand-written, works on a phone first, and the menu is real text you can update rather than a PDF nobody can read.
You describe the restaurant by email and get a fixed price back. Email suits most people, but a call is available if you want one. No hourly billing.
What a restaurant website actually has to do
Most restaurant sites fail on the same four things. None of them are about how it looks.
The menu has to be text
A PDF menu cannot be read by Google, cannot be searched, and pinch-zooming it on a phone is the fastest way to lose a table. Menus here are real text on the page.
Hours have to be right
It is the single most-checked fact on a restaurant site and the one that generates the angriest phone calls when it is wrong. That includes the holiday hours everyone forgets.
It loads on bad signal
Most people open a restaurant site standing on a sidewalk deciding where to eat. A page that takes six seconds has already lost to the place next door.
The catch changes
If the menu cannot be changed in two minutes without calling a designer, it stops being changed. Then the site is lying to your customers by Thursday.
A finished example you can open
Pontchartrain Fish House is a seafood house on the lakefront. It is a complete, working site — not a picture of one. Open it, use it, look at it on your phone.
Open Pontchartrain Fish House See all fourteen styles
Pontchartrain Fish House is an invented business, built to demonstrate the style. It is not a client.
Two that are real
The demos are invented. These two are live and serving actual visitors right now.
Redstick Strategies
A live business site, built and deployed.
The Adventurist’s Log
A content site running at real scale with its own tools.
What every build includes
These are not upgrades. They are in every demo above — open one on your phone and check.
Works on a phone
Designed for the small screen first, because that is where nearly everyone will see it.
Loads fast
Hand-written pages with no page-builder bloat behind them. Nothing to slow it down.
A way to reach you
A contact form, your phone number, your hours — whatever the way in should be.
Findable
Page titles, descriptions and structure set up so search engines can read the site properly.
Usable by everyone
Real contrast, keyboard navigation, and text that scales. Some customers need it; everyone benefits.
Yours to keep
Plain files on your own domain. No platform lock-in and no monthly rent to me for hosting.
What it costs
Most sites land between $900 and $2,400. A one-page site and a six-page site with online booking are not the same job, so every one is quoted on its own — but that band covers nearly everything. Sites with real functionality behind them, like booking with deposits or live availability, start at $5,000.
Send the form describing what you need and you get a fixed number back by email — and if it is not a job I can do well, I will tell you that instead.
Questions
Do you only work in Louisiana?
No. Louisiana is home and most of the demo businesses are set there, but the whole process runs by email, so where you are makes no practical difference.
Can I change the menu myself?
Yes. The menu is plain text in the page rather than an uploaded PDF, so it can be edited directly. If you would rather not touch it, send me the changes and I will make them. Either way there is no monthly platform fee attached to editing your own menu.
Do you build online ordering?
It depends on what you need. Taking payment on the site is a different job from showing a menu, and it changes the price. Describe what you want in the form and I will tell you what it takes, or tell you if a third-party service would serve you better and cheaper.
How much does a restaurant website cost?
It is quoted per project. A one-page site for a food truck and a fifteen-page site with online booking are not the same job, so a single advertised price would be wrong for one of you. Send the form describing what you need and you get a fixed number back.
Do I have to get on a phone call?
Not unless you want one. It runs by email by default — you describe the restaurant, I send a fixed price, and if you go ahead I build it. Most people prefer email because it leaves a written record. If you would rather talk it through, just ask and we will set up a call.
Do I own the site when it is done?
Yes. They are plain files on your own domain, not a page locked inside a builder. There is no monthly rent to me for hosting and nothing stops you handing the files to somebody else later.
What if my food photos are bad?
Say so in the form. A site built around strong typography and a clear menu can work well without a single photograph, and that is usually a better outcome than filling the page with dim phone pictures of plates.