Olive & Ember
An atmospheric, cinematic homepage for a wood-fired coastal restaurant, built around one job: reserve a table.
Scroll inside the frame to browse the full page.
Open full-resolution designWhat the design had to do.
Restaurants are sold on feeling. The site needed to bottle a candlelit room above the ocean, show the menu is serious, and put a reservation one tap away at every scroll depth, on the phone screens where nearly all of this traffic lives.
Craft notes: Fraunces and Cormorant serifs on charcoal and cream, with ember accents and gold keylines.
Photography carries the mood
A full-bleed candlelit hero under a dark scrim, with elegant serif type over it. No illustration, no gimmicks, just the room and the food.
A menu that reads like the real thing
Six dishes with honest AUD prices and dotted leaders, plus a Fire Menu tasting card. Specific beats generic for building appetite and trust.
Reserve, everywhere
Reserve a table lives in the nav, the hero, and its own booking band with service times, so the next step is never more than a glance away.