Hospitality · Restaurant
Swagat India Bar & Bistro Website Design
A warm, story-led website for an Edmonton Indian kitchen: a namaste welcome, a thali that fills itself as you scroll, and a searchable menu of 150+ dishes.
Start a similar project →01 · Location
Edmonton
02 · Project type
Website Design & Development
03 · Timeline
Launched 2026
04 · Live site
The challenge
- Website Design
- Web Development
Swagat cooks North Indian, Indo-Chinese and Nepali food under one roof, and its regulars already loved the kitchen. Online it looked like any other template restaurant.
The old site had a long menu that was hard to use on a phone, no sense of the warmth of the dining room, and nothing that gave a first-time diner a reason to choose Swagat over the place next door.
Swagat means welcome. We built the restaurant a website that says it before a guest ever reaches the door on 118 Avenue.
Screens from the live site.
On mobile
Every screen works at thumb size.
What success had to look like.
Hospitality first
A first impression that feels like being welcomed into an Indian home, not handed a flyer.
A menu people can use
150+ dishes across three kitchens, searchable and filterable for vegetarian, spicy and house favourites.
Built for phones
Most diners decide on a phone, so every section had to read and tap cleanly at thumb size.
Services on this project.
Art direction, UI design for every page, front-end development, menu data and search, scroll animation, on-page SEO, and launch on the restaurant's own domain.
Now reading
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Art direction
- 01
Art direction
A maroon-and-gold system with toran garlands, jaali patterns, brass thalis and Devanagari accents.
- 02
Website design
Home, menu, story and visit pages designed around food, warmth and an easy path to order or call.
- 03
Web development
A fast, hand-built site with GSAP scroll animation, smooth scrolling and no CMS overhead.
- 04
Menu UX
Instant search, dietary filters and sticky category tabs across the full menu.
How it came together.
The visit opens with a namaste: two hennaed brass hands that part like temple doors to reveal the homepage. From there a brass thali fills itself course by course as you scroll — basmati, butter chicken, shahi paneer, chana masala, garlic naan and gulab jamun — each with its story and price.
The menu became its own dark, candle-lit room. Guests can search 150+ dishes, filter for vegetarian, spicy or house favourites, and jump between categories with tabs that stay pinned as they scroll. The story and visit pages carry the same warmth, with a live open-or-closed status, hours, and one-tap directions and calling.
OUT/01 · Result
150+
Dishes searchable in seconds
OUT/02 · Result
3
Kitchens on one menu
OUT/03 · Result
Mobile
Designed thumb-first
OUT/04 · Result
Live
Open and closed status in real time
Our brand finally feels as warm and welcoming online as the dining room does in person.
