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Restaurant owners juggle a lot of tasks on any given day. From hiring new employees to ordering ingredients for their signature dish, the last thing on their minds is updating the restaurant’s website.

There’s only one problem. The restaurant customer experience starts on the Internet.

Potential patrons learn about your restaurant through social media and reviews. You can persuade diners with a modern site design that offers everything from the latest menus to the best food photography.

There’s no better time than now to give your restaurant website a makeover. Here are seven of the best WordPress themes for restaurants. 

1. Delicio

Captivate your customers with Delicio. This WordPress theme offers a unique layout for your restaurant or coffee shop. The drag-and-drop interface makes it easy for a novice to customize. The responsive layout also adapts to fit any screen resolution on desktop and mobile devices.

In a rush? No worries. Delicio comes with a ready-made food menu page. You can add more than one menu item at a time. Plus, with the WooCommerce integration, you can set up an ordering system in minutes.

You also can accept reservations and table bookings directly on your site with the free Restaurant Reservations plugin for WordPress. That way, you can stay ahead of your competitors and book more tables.

2. Plantables

Who said meat eaters should have all the fun? Vegetarian or vegan restaurants can partake in a stylish website with Plantables

This theme offers a light, fresh design for your patrons to quickly select their favorite meals. It comes with a film slider on the homepage along with booking and ordering call-to-action buttons to accept reservations. Customize this theme with a variety of modules, widgets, and plugins to create a one-of-a-kind site.

Plantables is multilingual-ready to serve diners from around the world. It’s also optimized for foodies to find your website on Google or Bing. You’ll have everything you need to spread a positive light on your veggie dishes.

3. Rosa 2

Give your visitors a mind-blowing experience with Rosa 2. This WordPress theme offers full-bleed images along with the smoothest parallax scrolling effect. The build-in animations also will help your restaurant stand out from the competition.

You have the option to choose predefined color palettes and fonts or create your own to fit your brand. The Food Menu block is truly unique, allowing you to group items by category, add prices, and highlight specific dishes.

Rosa2 integrates with the WooCommerce plugin to create an online store to sell additional products or services, like apparel, merch, and pre-packaged items. This WordPress restaurant theme also comes with premium customer support to answer any of your questions.

4. Piquant

This delicious WordPress theme is a perfect way for any restaurant, pub, or bar to showcase their meals. Piquant comes with a ready-made food menu along with a collection of food templates. So, you don’t have to start your website design from scratch.

Choose from six different font icon packs to customize your site. You can encourage visitors to share your menus via the Twitter and Instagram feed widgets. Also, take advantage of the Google Maps feature, parallax sections, and full-width carousel slider.

This theme includes several shortcodes to quickly build your site. For example, there’s a shortcode to embed your pricing table on multiple pages. If you dream it, you can create it with Piquant.

5. Bakes and Cakes

Designed to satisfy any sweet tooth, Bakes and Cakes is beautifully crafted to highlight the creations of any baker or pastry chef. You can create an interactive cafe website with stunning photos for your visitors. This SEO-friendly theme also makes it possible to rank higher on search engines. 

The Bakes and Cakes WordPress theme comes with several tailored-made sections, including featured product, about us, blog, our staff, and event. You can enhance the functionality of this theme by installing the recommended plugins: Contact Form 7, WooCommerce, and Regenerate Thumbnails.

Serve an international audience? No problem. This theme is translation-ready to serve your global clientele. Boost your visitor engagement with this professional design.

6. Umami

Umami is a feature-packed WordPress theme for restaurants that features a full-screen design. You can create a distinct background with a stylish image or compelling slideshow. The responsive design fits all screen sizes, including smartphone and tablet devices.

With the Theme Customizer, add your restaurant’s logo and select colors that fit your brand. There are more than 600 Google Fonts at your fingertips. More importantly, the food menu allows you to easily add items. You can display your menu via the shortcode, page template, or navigation. 

Other useful tools for restaurant websites include automatic theme updates, staff section, and built-in image gallery with 10 styles. Try adding the staff section to introduce key team members to your patrons.

7. Dine

Dine rounds out our list of the best WordPress themes for restaurants. Specialized for high-quality food and service, this theme rises to the occasion for elegant restaurants and cafes. The one-click import demo allows you to transfer data from your old site to this new layout.

It’s easy to customize with the WP Bakery page builder. The Slider Revolution adds a beautiful hero image of your fanciest dish. It’s also optimized for speed to ensure your patrons can quickly look at the menu.

Build your own reservation with OpenTable, allowing customers to book a table in advance. This restaurant website theme also integrates with WooCommerce for you to sell additional products to your guests.

Explore These WordPress Themes for Restaurants

It’s time to get rid of your outdated restaurant website. Explore these WordPress themes to give your site that much-needed facelift. Your patrons will enjoy the new menu layout and reservations options for their dining experience.

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