For restaurants, pizzerias, bars and hotels
Your site isn’t for looking at. It’s for booking.
A restaurant website has one job: bringing people in. It has to say where you are, when you’re open and what there is to eat, and it has to let people book without phoning. You can build it yourself in five minutes, free, or leave it to us.
Two ways to get your site, and neither is second best
LyamFlow Websites is the builder inside the product: twenty-eight templates already designed for a restaurant, your text and your photos, live at lyamflow.com/s/yourvenue in five minutes. It’s free and it stays free. The bespoke site, on the other hand, is a project: original design, your own domain, content written together, optimisation for Google. We build it, priced by quote.
The difference isn’t the quality of the result: it’s who does the work and how far you want to go. A restaurant that needs to exist online by Saturday takes the first route. One that wants an identity of its own, a domain of its own and pages written to rank takes the second.
| You build it yourself | We build it | |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs | CHF 0, forever | By quote, one-off |
| How long it takes | Five minutes | A few weeks |
| Design | Twenty-eight templates to make your own | Designed from scratch for the restaurant |
| Address | lyamflow.com/s/yourvenue | Your own domain |
| Text and photos | You add them | We choose and write them together |
| Menu and opening hours | From the software, always up to date | From the software, always up to date |
| Reservations | The LyamFlow form on the page | The LyamFlow form on the page |
| Who edits it afterwards | You, whenever you like | You, in the same editor |
The site you build yourself, free
You pick a template, change the text and photos and press Publish. There’s no hosting to buy, no theme to configure and no paid step further down the line: the site goes live and stays live.
- 1. You register your restaurant Name, address, opening hours. The site is born attached to the business, and that’s where it will take the menu, hours and contact details from, without you typing them again.
- 2. Pick the template Twenty-eight designs made for restaurants, none kept back for a higher plan. Open one and you’re already halfway there.
- 3. Add your words Text, images, colours, fonts and shapes. Sections can be added, duplicated, reordered and hidden with a switch.
- 4. Publish One button, and the address is live that very instant. Until you press it, the draft stays invisible to the internet.
The builder isn’t just for restaurants: any local business uses it, and there’s also the route where you choose nothing and the AI writes the site in five minutes. This page is about the site designed for restaurants; that one is about the builder.
Twenty-eight templates, one for every character
- Sipario Editorial and cinematic: the first screen opens like a stage curtain, and the dishes change as you scroll. The flagship template.
- Mercato Bright and direct. It suits almost everyone, and it’s the right place to start when you don’t have a clear idea yet.
- Terrazza Photography fills everything and the text has room to breathe. For those with beautiful pictures and little to say.
- Gazzetta Like a magazine: two columns and lots of white space.
- Notturno Dark, gold and quiet. Fine dining and hotels.
- Forno Paper and warmth. Trattorias, pizzerias, bakeries.
- Insegna Huge type and blocks of colour, for a name that wants to shout.
- Giardino Soft greens and gentle shapes. Natural cooking, brunch, vegetarian.
- Atelier Almost nothing: white, a thin rule, the content.
- Riviera Sky blue, sand and sun. Seafood, beach clubs, seaside spots.
- Officina Visible grid and monospace type. Street food, breweries, taprooms.
The sections you can put together
A page isn’t a form to fill in: you add what you need and leave out the rest. Every section has several layouts to choose from.
- Opening screen — headline, big photo and the button that leads to booking
- About us — the restaurant’s story, with a photo alongside
- Highlights — the cooking, the terrace, the wine list
- Menu — the real dishes from the software, at today’s prices
- Signature dishes — two or three dishes with a large photo
- Gallery — dining room, dishes, kitchen: mosaic, grid or strip
- Opening hours — the real ones, with an ‘open now’ status
- Booking — the LyamFlow form right on the page
- Reviews — what guests say
- FAQ — the answers that save a phone call
- Contact — address, phone, email and the map
- Call to action — a band of colour with just one thing to do
You also get the things that usually cost extra: a Google title and description for every page, favicon, Google Analytics, custom CSS and HTML. None of it is kept for a higher plan, because there is no higher plan.
The menu never needs updating, because it isn’t a copy
The site doesn’t contain your menu: it reads it from the software the moment the page is drawn. The same goes for opening hours and contact details. Change the price of a dish in the kitchen and the site already shows it, without calling anyone.
It’s the difference between a living site and a flyer online. The web is full of restaurant sites with a three-year-old menu typed by hand into the page, a price that’s no longer right and summer opening hours still up in November: it isn’t the restaurateur being lazy, it’s that updating it means opening a control panel nobody ever opens.
- Menu Categories, dishes and prices come from the software. Whoever changes them is the same person who changes them on the floor.
- Opening hours The real opening hours, with today’s status worked out on the spot. Unscheduled closures included.
- Contact Address, phone and email taken from the restaurant’s profile: entered once, valid everywhere.
- Booking It isn’t a form that sends an email: it’s the real booking system, the one that takes the table on the floor.
The site we build
When a template isn’t enough, the site gets designed: original design built around the restaurant’s character, your own domain, text written together, chosen photographs, optimisation for Google and integrations — WhatsApp, map, reviews, bookings. It’s the same work we’ve been doing for five years under the name lyamweb.com, with LyamFlow built in from the start rather than bolted on afterwards.
How it works
- 1. A chat, twenty minutes What kind of place it is, who comes, what’s missing today. Out of that comes a quote with a price in it, not a range.
- 2. Structure and content How many pages, what each one says, which photos are needed. If there’s no copy yet, we write it.
- 3. Design and build A draft to look at before the site exists, then the real site: fast, easy to read on a phone, ready for Google.
- 4. Launch and handover Domain, certificate, redirects from the old site and half an hour together so you learn to edit it yourself.
What’s included
- Essential the site you need Up to five bespoke pages, responsive design for phone and computer, contact form, basic SEO, speed and security optimisation.
- Premium the site people remember Unlimited pages, original design and animation, built-in bookings and WhatsApp, Google Maps and reviews, a refresh of the logo and visual identity, digital business cards and brochures, advanced SEO.
- Bespoke when you need something else Several restaurants, several languages, a catalogue, a members’ area, or an existing site to rebuild without losing the positions it has earned on Google.
The price depends on how many pages are needed, how much content already exists and what the site has to do: it’s settled after the first call, not before. The LyamFlow software has its own separate subscription, with a fourteen-day trial — the price list is on the main page.
Some of our work
These aren’t mock-ups: they’re real restaurants, with real customers booking and ordering through them. The full list, with screenshots, is on the studio’s portfolio.
- Alleria Trattoria Pizzeria Trattoria and pizzeria: menu, atmosphere and contact details on a single page.
- Ristorante DA NOI — Oskar & Luise Chef-driven cooking: big photography and a story that comes before the menu.
- Sfizi Partenopei Lugano Neapolitan cooking in Ticino: a strong identity and everything within thumb’s reach.
- ICM Industrial Constructions Outside hospitality: when a corporate site is needed, we do that too.
A site that takes bookings, not one that promises them
The ‘Booking’ section isn’t a contact form: it’s LyamFlow’s booking system inside the page. The guest only sees times that are genuinely free, and on confirmation the table shows as taken on the floor that same instant.
The site stays free even with that section in it; what actually does the work, though, is the bookings, and those are the software: a fourteen-day trial, then a fixed subscription, with no fee per cover.
And if you already have a site
- Paste the widget into your pages: it’s a box, and it works anywhere — WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Framer
- Or add a button that leads to the restaurant’s booking page
- Or the QR code, printed on the table, on a business card or on the window
In all three cases the bookings end up in the same place, together with the ones taken over the phone. How they work.
What it costs
The site you build yourself costs CHF 0 and doesn’t expire. The site we build is quoted per project. The software — meaning the bookings, the floor, the menu and the rest — is a separate subscription, with a fourteen-day trial and no credit card.
- CHF 0 LyamFlow Websites Twenty-eight templates, modular sections, per-page SEO, favicon, Analytics and the address lyamflow.com/s/yourvenue. The LyamFlow signature stays at the foot of the page.
- By quote bespoke site Design concept, content, your own domain, SEO and integrations. A one-off fee, and afterwards you carry on editing it yourself.
- Included in Pro software plan Choose Pro and you also get the restaurant’s showcase site with bookings built in, with no website costs on top.
Prices in Swiss francs, excluding VAT: LyamFlow is Swiss and you’re charged in francs. From an Italian account, the bank converts at the day’s rate. The software price list is on the main page.
Frequently asked questions
Is the site really free, or is it a trial?
It’s free and it doesn’t expire. You don’t need a credit card, there’s no plan that kicks in after thirty days and the site doesn’t switch off if you don’t buy anything else. What you pay for is the software, meaning the real bookings, and you only switch that on if you need it.
Do I need computer skills to build it myself?
You need to be able to type in a box and upload a photo. You pick a ready-made template, change the text and images and press Publish. You don’t even type the menu and opening hours: it takes them from the software.
Can I use my own domain?
With the free site, the address is lyamflow.com/s/yourvenue. Your own domain is part of the bespoke site: we connect it for you, along with the certificate and redirects, so the positions you’ve already earned on Google aren’t lost.
I already have a site. Do I have to rebuild it to get bookings?
No. The booking form pastes into the site you already have, as a box inside your pages, and it works with WordPress, Wix, Squarespace or anything else. Alternatively, you add a button that leads to the restaurant’s booking page.
Who updates the menu when I change the dishes?
Nobody, and that’s the point. The site doesn’t hold a copy of the menu: it reads it from the software the moment the page is drawn. Change the price of a dish in the kitchen and the site already shows it.
How much does a bespoke site cost?
It depends on how many pages are needed, how much content already exists and what the site has to do. It starts with a twenty-minute call, and from there comes a quote with a price in it, not a range.
Can I edit the site from my phone?
On a phone you can view it and publish it; to edit it you need a slightly wider screen. A two-column editor on six inches isn’t usable, and pretending otherwise would be worse.
If I stop one day, is the site still mine?
The content is yours and can be exported. The domain, if there is one, is in your name: we don’t hold it hostage, and it can be pointed elsewhere at any time.
Your restaurant, online, by tonight
If you want to try it yourself, the builder is free and doesn’t ask for a card. If you’d rather someone else did it, twenty minutes on the phone is enough to work out what you really need.