Nordvik — a luxury tasting menu website template

Starter is £19/mo excl. VAT and includes a complete restaurant website, a live structured menu, enquiry and newsletter forms, and managed search readiness. Growth is £39/mo excl. VAT and adds direct live bookings, a custom domain with managed SSL, and table and floor-plan operations. Full is £69/mo excl. VAT and adds online ordering and multi-site management for up to five restaurant sites. TableSpark commission is 0%. Stripe's standard card-processing fees apply to online payments.

Press something. It is your restaurant now.

Nordvik is near-black with a teal that behaves like brushed metal. Yours might be white tile and morning light, or brass and candles, or something nobody has built yet.

So do not read about it. The panel on the right is the real Theme tab out of the builder, and the frame beside it is the real site — the same renderer that publishes a live restaurant. Nothing is a mock-up, nothing you touch is permanent, and nobody is asking you to sign in first. Go on.

Every page, as it publishes

6 pages, and every one of them is here. This is the live site, not a gallery. Every tab renders through the engine that publishes real restaurants, and the links inside it work. Try the Phone view.

Who this was drawn for

At the very top of the market a website has one job: to look as expensive as the bill. That is achieved through restraint and space rather than ornament, and this design is built almost entirely out of both — a staggered opening that reveals in stages, wide margins, and photography given room to breathe.

A near-black ground with a cool teal accent avoids the warm-gold cliché that luxury restaurants default to. The soft serif keeps it from feeling corporate, and nothing anywhere on the page is decorative.

Everything on the home page, named

Nine blocks, revealed in stages:

• Hero — Big opening image, name & buttons, in the Stagger treatment: Three staggered frames with the name set vertically on the spine.
• Intro statement — Big opening statement line.
• Scroll story — Numbered chapters beside a pinned photo.
• Signature dish — One dish, full screen — name, story, price.
• Text + image — A paragraph beside a photo.
• Numbers — Headline stats.
• Reviews — Guest quotes with stars.
• Reservation form — Live availability slot picker, saved to your Inbox.
• Newsletter — Email signup band.

The statement block currently reads Short seasons, long memories — preserved, fermented, and served in their own time. — one line you will rewrite in about four seconds.

The menu page, and why it is text

This template uses the Index layout — the sections are listed first and open in turn, so the shape of the whole menu is visible before any single dish is. The indexed layout is right for a long sequence across several rooms — the sections named, then opened in turn, so the shape of a three-hour meal is legible before any single course is.

Supplements, pairings and the cellar all have their own structures rather than being appended to the food menu. Every price is a field, so an increase reaches the menu page, the previews and the structured data at once.

Any of the layouts leaves the substance intact: real text for every dish, description and price, marked up as Restaurant data rather than published as an image.

Ordering that works like the apps — without the commission

This is the part worth pressing. Nordvik uses the Roomy rows ordering layout — the basket sits beside the menu rather than beneath it, so a table watches the bill build as they choose. The split ordering layout keeps the basket beside the list, which suits a cellar and retail arm where a basket may hold several bottles and a guest wants to watch the total.

Case and size options are inline, and payment settles into your own Stripe account. TableSpark takes 0% commission on any of it. Stripe’s standard card-processing fees apply to online payments.

The form adapts to the mode. Eating in? A table number. Collecting? A phone number. Delivery? An address. Nothing more is demanded.

The pages behind the menu

The story page carries the house narrative, the sourcing and the chef, with a timeline and an interview. The gallery page holds the room and plating photography that a restaurant at this level accumulates constantly.

You will not be retyping the menu

This is the part that saves an afternoon. Take a picture of the menu you already have: the pressed card, the board behind the pass, a PDF from the printer. Back comes the whole menu as data: ordered sections, named dishes, their descriptions and prices, plus dietary and spice marks wherever the card showed them. Check it over — a smudged price or an ambitious accent is a two-second fix — and save.

What arrives is not a picture of a menu — it is real data. One menu then feeds the menu page, the ordering page, the highlights on the home page and the Restaurant structured data a search engine reads. Change a price once afterwards and all of them follow.

The search copy gets the same treatment: a Write with AI button reads the page and drafts its title and description, so those fields are never blank. Nothing is published on your behalf; the draft waits for you.

How long this actually takes

There is no build phase to wait through. Structure, styling and behaviour are done. Names, dishes and pictures are yours. Reckon on ten minutes to a published site, and reservations working from that same moment. Bookings land in your TableSpark inbox, and the guest gets a confirmation email straight away.

Taking money is a single connection: link Stripe and deposits on tables and payment on orders go straight to your own account. There is no cut for us — 0% commission on every plan. Stripe’s standard card-processing fees apply to online payments. Nobody else charges anything.

1. Pick NordvikThe whole thing is duplicated into your account to edit.
   1 min
2. Change the name and the wordsClick a block, change the words, swap the picture.
   4 min
3. Upload your menuPhotograph the menu; review what the AI read back.
   3 min
4. PublishLive on your address, with reservations working.
   1 min
5. Connect StripeNow you can take deposits on tables and payment on orders — direct to your account.
   1 min

Point your own domain at it

A domain is signage, and signage matters. Nothing about going live depends on owning a domain first; connect yours later and the site simply answers to it.

The plumbing is ours: certificate, secure connection, redirect, and keeping canonical URLs, sitemap and robots pointing at the live address as the domain changes. Own it already? Good. The instruction is a single record, spelled out.

The email after the booking is yours to design

A confirmed booking is not the end of the conversation; it is the start of one. A confirmation is sent the second the booking lands, carrying the time, the covers, your address and contact details, and a self-service cancellation link. The same system sends the reminder before service, the deposit receipt and the cancellation notice.

The whole thing is yours to set, down to the sign-off. Six looks, one accent colour, your logo and cover photograph, the header layout, the sign-off line, and whichever links and social accounts you want on it. Add your domain and the from-line is yours too — the last detail that separates a real restaurant email from a system notification.

The email below is being generated live by the same code that sends it for real. Try the templates and the accent colours.

What is editable — which is nearly everything

• Yours from the first minute: names, headings, body copy, pictures, dishes, prices, opening times, the address, and every colour and typeface.
• Kept for you: everything that has to keep working at 200 dishes, at 390 pixels wide, and after you have changed every colour in the theme.
• Never locked: change the order of anything, remove whatever you do not want, add modules from the full library, and add or delete pages at will.

Findable, not merely online

Putting a page online is not the same as delivering a restaurant site that search engines can reliably discover and understand. A misconfigured robots file, a noindex left in place, canonical tags in conflict, pages with no internal links, a PDF menu, missing Restaurant schema or incomplete verification — any one is enough to keep a live site invisible. You feel it in the margin — guests reach commission-charging platforms first, and demand you should own outright becomes demand you rent.

This template ships with that work done. No one can promise rankings or guaranteed indexing — but nothing here is left for you to hire a technician to assemble.

Questions before you start