Orinoco Sur — a Latin American restaurant 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.

Orinoco Sur is a dark counter with an acid-lime accent that comes off a market crate. Yours might be white tile and morning light, or brass and candles, or something nobody has built yet.

Rather than explain, here is the thing itself: the builder’s Theme controls on one side, the live site on the other, both real. You cannot break it, nothing saves, and no account is required to have a go. Go on.

Every page, as it publishes

5 pages, and every one of them is here. What follows is the site itself rather than pictures of it. The same engine that publishes a live restaurant is drawing it here, links and all. The Phone toggle shows the small-screen version.

Who this was drawn for

A small room cooking across two countries has to explain itself quickly, and a counter opening does it: the hours, the address, what is on tonight, and a way to book. There is no space wasted on establishing atmosphere before establishing facts.

Dark ground and acid lime is a combination that reads as market rather than fine dining, which is the correct register for a kitchen whose ambition is in the cooking rather than in the tablecloths.

What is on the home page

Eight blocks, arranged for a small room:

• Hero — Big opening image, name & buttons, in the Counter treatment: Copy and opening hours held on the dark side of a counter photograph.
• Announcement — Slim notice bar at the top.
• Menu preview — A few dishes on a sliding rail.
• Feature rows — Alternating image and text rows.
• Text + image — A paragraph beside a photo.
• Numbers — Headline stats.
• Gallery — Grid, masonry or moving strip.
• Call to action — Headline + button band.

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. An indexed menu — sections listed then opened in turn — suits a short, changing carte. It is also the fastest structure to maintain, which matters in a kitchen where the person editing the menu is also the person cooking it.

The description line carries the country, the technique and the ingredient, which on a two-tradition menu is what makes a dish legible. Dietary marks and heat levels are structured fields, consistent everywhere the menu appears.

Whichever layout you choose, the point is the same: every dish, description and price is real text in the page with Restaurant schema around it, not a PDF and not a photograph of a laminated sheet.

Ordering: a delivery app that belongs to you

This is the part worth pressing. Orinoco Sur uses the Classic list ordering layout — the printed-menu look, with dotted leaders running from each dish to its price. The classic priced list with dotted leaders is right for a room selling composed plates rather than fast food — quick to scan, honest about what it is, and not pretending to be an app.

It still works as a basket: quantities, inline options, a total that stays on screen, and modes that ask only for what they need. Payment goes to your own Stripe account. TableSpark takes 0% commission. Stripe’s standard card-processing fees apply to online payments.

What the guest is asked depends on how they are eating: table number, phone number or address, and never all three.

The pages behind the menu

The story page carries the two-country narrative, the family and the sourcing, with a timeline, an interview and a gallery. The visit page handles a small room where the practical details — the door, the hours, whether you take walk-ins — get asked constantly.

Upload your menu. The AI does the typing.

The menu is the longest thing on any restaurant site, and it is the thing you type least. Whatever the menu is printed on, photograph it and upload it; the format does not matter. TableSpark reads it and builds the structured menu for you: sections in the right order, dish names, descriptions, prices, and the dietary and spice marks where it can see them. You review it, fix anything the camera got wrong, and it is done.

The distinction that matters is that a search engine can read every word of it. Everything downstream reads from it: 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.

A Write with AI button on each page writes the search title and description from what is on it, so no page publishes with those fields empty. Always your last word — the draft lands in the field for you to edit before anything publishes.

How long this actually takes

The gap between deciding and being live is measured in minutes, not weeks. The template is already a finished site; the work is making it yours. Ten minutes is a fair estimate from first login to a live address, and bookings start working the instant you publish. Reservations collect in your TableSpark inbox and each guest is confirmed by email automatically.

Payments are one link away. Connect Stripe and deposits and order payments flow directly to you. Zero commission, permanently. Stripe’s standard card-processing fees apply to online payments. That is the end of the list.

1. Pick Orinoco SurThe complete site lands in your account, ready to edit.
   1 min
2. Change the name and the wordsClick, type, replace a photograph. The name updates site-wide.
   4 min
3. Upload your menuUpload a picture of the card; the AI does the sections and prices.
   3 min
4. PublishPublished, on your own address, with the booking form answering.
   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

What is printed at the bottom of the menu should be your own. Go live immediately on a TableSpark address, and swap in your own domain at any point afterwards — including one you already own.

Certificates, HTTPS, the redirect from the naked domain and the search-engine housekeeping around a move are all handled for you. Bring a domain you already own, and we will tell you exactly which record to change.

After the booking: an email that looks like you

Between booking and arriving, the confirmation email is the whole relationship. The moment a guest books, TableSpark sends them a confirmation on your behalf: the date, the time, the party size, where you are, how to reach you, and a link to release the table if their plans change. The pre-service reminder, the deposit receipt and the cancellation note share it.

None of it has to look like us. Six designs to start from, plus your colour, your logo, a photograph, the header treatment, your own closing line, your links and your socials. Connect your domain and it sends from your address too — so what lands in a guest’s inbox looks like it came from the restaurant, because it did.

Not a mock-up: the frame runs the actual guest-email renderer. Press a template or an accent and watch it change.

What you control

• Yours from the first minute: the wording anywhere on the site, the photographs, the menu and prices, your hours and location, and the palette and typefaces.
• Kept for you: the parts that break when hand-built: a menu that still reads at two hundred dishes, a basket that works one-handed, and contrast that holds whatever colour you choose.
• Never locked: add, delete or reorder any section on any page. Add pages. Delete the ones you do not want. The template is the starting line.

Findable, not merely online

There is a gap between a website that loads and a website that gets found, and it is wider than most owners expect. Working link, zero visibility. It happens through stray noindex rules, conflicting canonicals, orphaned pages, PDF menus, absent structured data and unfinished verification. And the restaurant pays for it: people searching your own name find aggregators and commission-charging platforms instead, so you rent back an audience that was yours.

It is handled in the box, not in an add-on. No guarantees about rankings or indexing exist anywhere in this industry. What exists here is the technical work, finished.

Questions before you start