A menu you can change tonight
Publish your menu as a formatted page and update it yourself in minutes: new specials, new prices, no waiting on anyone else.
Industry guide
The restaurant diners find before they choose.
Most diners look a restaurant up before they visit. Pendro gives you a fast site with your menu, your photos, and a simple way for guests to get in touch, and you can update it yourself whenever the menu changes.
Free plan forever. No credit card to start.
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The whole stack
Everything you need to run it.
The menu, the photos, the reservation enquiries, and the regulars list: one system, run from your phone between services.
What your site needs
The three jobs your website must do.
Photos that sell the room
Gallery sections built for food and interiors, sized and compressed automatically so they look rich and still load fast on a phone.
Reservation enquiries you never miss
Guests send a request through your contact form and it lands in your email the moment they hit send.
Made for restaurants & cafés
The right sections, ready to drop in.
- Photo gallerydishes, interiors, events
- Google reviewsshow your rating where diners decide
- FAQdietary options, parking, groups
- Announcement barholiday hours, seasonal menus
Try this briefExample
“Family-run Italian trattoria in Bristol, wood-fired pizza, courtyard seating, walk-ins and group bookings”
You get a draft with the menu on its own page, a gallery for the room and the plates, and a reservation enquiry form pointed at your inbox.
It starts from a template made for the trade. Here that is Restaurant, the one rendered live at the top of this page.
Write your own briefAn example, not a live demo. Nothing runs on this page.
Why it works
A website that does the whole job.
A new diner usually meets your restaurant in a search result. Someone typing "Sunday roast near me" picks the site that opens instantly, shows tonight's menu, and answers "do they take groups?". Pendro pages are pre-rendered and served from a global edge network, so they load in under a second on a patchy phone connection outside the door. Your menu is a page you edit like a document, not a PDF: change a price, add a special, publish before service.
Regulars are made between visits. The announcement bar puts your seasonal menu or bank-holiday hours at the top of every page. The built-in newsletter turns walk-ins into a list you can reach directly, so a supper-club date or a new brunch menu lands in inboxes without a separate mailing tool. The Google reviews section shows your live rating where a hesitant diner is deciding, so the proof does the persuading while you run the pass.
Every plan starts free — see what each plan includes.
Squarespace is the design-led default for food and hospitality, so it is the comparison most restaurant owners want: what a beautiful template costs you in menu-editing speed and built-in review sections. Read the full Pendro vs Squarespace comparison, or see how Pendro measures up against Wix, Framer and WordPress.
Templates
Start from a template made for your trade.
Questions
Asked by restaurants & cafés.
Can I put my menu on the site and change it myself?
Yes. Your menu is a page you edit in the browser, with sections for starters, mains, and specials formatted to match your site. Change prices or dishes at any time and publish in one click. No PDFs and no waiting on anyone else.
Can guests book a table through the site?
Guests send a reservation enquiry through your contact form with the date, party size, and any requests, and it lands in your email the moment they hit send. You confirm by reply, so the book stays yours and there is no per-cover platform fee.
Do I need professional food photography first?
It helps, but you do not need it to start. The gallery sections make good phone photos look intentional, and every image is compressed and resized automatically so pages stay fast. Launch with what you have and swap in better shots as you get them.
How long does it take to get a restaurant site live?
An afternoon is realistic. Describe your restaurant in one sentence and the AI drafts the whole site, menu page, gallery, story, and contact, which you then make your own. The free plan has no time limit, so you can launch before you spend anything.
Free to start
Live by tonight.
Looking designed.
No card, no time limit. One site free forever, and nothing you change can make it look undesigned.