A restaurant site has the shortest job description on the web: show the menu, the hours, the address, and the way to book or order, to someone standing on a sidewalk holding a phone. Everything else is decoration. Most restaurant sites fail that job while paying good money to do it, so this page is as much about what not to buy as what to pick.
What diners actually check, in order
The menu, with prices, as a real web page. The hours, current ones, including holidays. The address with a tappable map link. And the reservation or ordering path. That's the whole site. The single most common failure is the menu as a PDF: slow to load, miserable to pinch-zoom on a phone, and invisible to search engines and AI assistants, which means when someone asks "does anywhere near me have good mussels," the restaurant with an HTML menu gets cited and the PDF one doesn't. If you change one thing, change that.
The picks
Best for most restaurants: Framer
The food business is a looks business, and Framer is the builder whose output looks like your restaurant has taste. Menu as a designed page, hours editable by whoever's running the floor that week (the partner test matters in a restaurant more than anywhere), $10 a month. See the full review. Free tier here.
If you need reservations and ordering built in: Wix
Wix's app market covers table booking, ordering, and menus as structured features rather than things you design yourself, and nothing on it will confuse whoever updates the site. You'll pay $17 a month and up and the site will look like a nice template. See the full review. Try it here.
The one-bill option: Hostinger
Site, domain, and email for under $100 across four years, renewal caveats in the full review. Right for the spot that just needs to exist credibly online. Current price here.
What to skip
The commission trap first: building your whole web presence inside a delivery platform's storefront, where every order pays 15 to 30 percent forever and the customer list belongs to the platform. Have your own site, then link out to whatever delivery services you tolerate. Skip the restaurant-specific site builders that charge steakhouse prices for what the general tools do better. And skip the reservation widget upsells until you've checked what your POS or OpenTable-type service already gives you free as an embed.
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