Vindby — a Scandinavian 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.

Go on — change something.

Vindby is near-black with a teal that reads as cold light on water. Yours might be white tile and morning light, or brass and candles, or something nobody has built yet.

The controls beside the frame are not an illustration of the Theme tab — they are the Theme tab, driving the same engine that publishes real restaurants. Press whatever you like; nothing is stored and nothing is signed up for. Go on.

The entire site, page by page

6 pages, and every one of them is here. None of this is an image. The frame runs the real renderer — the one that publishes live restaurants — so each tab is the actual page and the links go where they say. Press Phone and watch it reflow.

The room it imagines

A rural Scandinavian restaurant is asking guests to drive, and the website has to make the drive feel like the point. The overture opening does it with a single held image and a line of text — patience as a design decision.

The palette is near-black with a cold teal, and the typography is a high-contrast serif over a plain sans, generously spaced. It reads as a landscape rather than a restaurant, which is precisely the sell.

The first page, in pieces

Nine blocks, arranged slowly:

• Hero — Big opening image, name & buttons, in the Overture treatment: Full-bleed room with a three-column tonight bar along the base.
• Pull quote — A large standout quotation.
• Menu preview — A few dishes on a sliding rail.
• Sourcing — The growers and makers behind the menu.
• Numbers — Headline stats.
• Press bar — Press mentions or awards as a ruled band.
• Gallery — Grid, masonry or moving strip.
• Reservation form — Live availability slot picker, saved to your Inbox.
• Call to action — Headline + button band.

A menu that reads like a card and indexes like a page

This template uses the Plate layout — every section leads on one photographed dish and lists the rest as type — imagery where it persuades, type where it informs. The plated layout gives each section its signature dish as a photograph and lists the rest as type — right for a short seasonal menu where a few preparations do the persuading.

The season lives in the section subtitle; the specifics live in the description. Because it is structured text rather than a designed image, rewriting the menu when the season turns is a five-minute job rather than a design brief.

The layout can change; what does not is that each dish, its description and its price are text on the page, wrapped in Restaurant schema — rather than a PDF or a picture of a card.

Ordering, on your own terms

This is the part worth pressing. Vindby uses the Classic list ordering layout — the printed-menu look, with dotted leaders running from each dish to its price. The classic priced list is right for a small retail arm — preserves, bread, a hamper — where the description sells and a photograph is unnecessary.

Quantities and sizes are inline, the total stays visible, and Payment goes into your own Stripe account and we take no commission. Stripe’s standard card-processing fees apply to online payments.

Each mode collects only what it must: a table number for dine-in, a telephone number for collection, an address for delivery.

The story and visit pages

The story page carries the landscape, the building and the kitchen — narrative, sourcing, interview, timeline — and the gallery page holds the photography that a place like this accumulates across a season.

The menu builds itself from a photograph

Here is the hour you were dreading, deleted. Photograph the card, the board or the takeaway sheet — up to ten pages at a time — and hand it to TableSpark. It is read into proper fields — section, dish, description, price, dietary marks, spice level — rather than pasted in as a lump of text. Then you read it through, correct whatever the lens misread, and save.

It behaves like data, because it is data. From there the same data runs 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.

For the search snippet, a Write with AI button drafts the title and description out of the page itself. It is a draft, not a decision: edit it, then publish.

Publish today, take bookings tonight

Nothing here needs to be built, because it already is. The hard parts are finished; the personal parts are not, and only you can do those. Most restaurants go from opening the builder to a published site on their own address inside ten minutes, and the reservation form answers from the moment it publishes. You see it in the inbox, they see a confirmation in theirs, both within seconds.

Add your Stripe account and the same site takes booking deposits and order payments, with the money landing in your account rather than ours. TableSpark takes 0% commission at every plan level. Stripe’s standard card-processing fees apply to online payments. Nothing else is deducted.

1. Pick VindbyEverything copies across — pages, blocks, menu, the lot.
   1 min
2. Change the name and the wordsEvery block is edited in place. Change the name once.
   4 min
3. Upload your menuA photograph of the menu becomes a structured menu.
   3 min
4. PublishLive. The reservation form starts working immediately.
   1 min
5. Connect StripeNow you can take deposits on tables and payment on orders — direct to your account.
   1 min

Your domain, our plumbing

An address is branding that people type. The TableSpark address gets you live in minutes; your own domain takes over the moment you want it to, with nothing rebuilt.

TableSpark manages the technical side: the certificate, the secure connection, the redirect from the bare domain to the one you chose, and keeping search engines pointed at the right address so the move does not cost you what you have already earned. An existing domain works fine. You get one instruction, not a documentation site.

The email nobody thinks about, designed properly

What lands in the inbox after a booking is doing more work than most restaurants realise. The confirmation goes out immediately: date and time, party size, the address and phone number, and a link that releases the table if something changes. It also carries the reminder the day before, the deposit receipt and any cancellation.

The design is not a TableSpark email with your name in it — it is your email. Six templates to choose between, then colour, logo, cover image, header style, sign-off wording, links and socials are all yours to set. Hook up the domain and even the sender is you.

The frame below is the real thing: it is drawn by the same renderer the booking system uses, not a picture of one. Press a style or a colour and watch it change.

Where the template ends and you begin

• Yours from the first minute: the name over the door, all the words, every photograph, the menu, the prices, your hours and address, and the whole palette and type system.
• Kept for you: the mechanics — how a very long menu paginates, how ordering behaves on a phone, how every block reflows, and how text stays readable against any background you pick.
• Never locked: reorder or delete any section, add any module, and add or remove pages. The template is where you begin, not where you must stay.

Being on the internet is not being in search

Any tool can put a page on the internet. Fewer can make sure a search engine understands what is on it. It fails quietly: noindex directives nobody noticed, conflicting canonical URLs, orphan pages, menus buried in PDFs, no structured data about the restaurant, and search verification that was never completed. The bill arrives as dependence — guests looking for your kitchen land on a directory or a marketplace that charges you for the introduction.

This is packaged into the site rather than sold separately. There is no promise of a position or of being indexed, because nobody can make one. There is a promise that you will not be hiring someone to fix the basics.

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