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The Dolphin Inn.A local that looks the part.
A traditional village pub and restaurant in Grampound, near Truro. We built them a website with the same warmth as the pub itself: menus, events, the Sunday carvery and private hire, with booking a table never more than a tap away.
- Website design
- Menus & events
- Online booking
- Private hire enquiries
The brief
A proper village local that deserved a proper website.
People choose a pub on their phone, often an hour before they go. The site needed to make the Dolphin the easy choice.
- 01
Look like the pub
The site had to feel like walking in: warm, traditional and properly Cornish, not like a chain.
- 02
Answer the usual questions
What's on the menu, when's the carvery, is there anything on this week, where do we park?
- 03
Get the booking
Most visitors are deciding where to eat tonight or on Sunday. Booking a table had to be one tap away.
- 04
More than meals
Events and private hire bring in a different kind of customer, and needed their own pages.
What we built
Everything a guest checks before they come in.
A page for each reason people visit, written in the pub's own voice and built to load fast on a phone signal in the car park.
- 01
Food & drink
Menus that are easy to read.
Food and drinks menus split into simple tabs, readable on any phone without zooming into a PDF.
- Food menu
- Drinks
- Dietary info
- 02
Sunday carvery
Its own page, because people search for it.
The carvery is one of the biggest reasons to visit, so it has a dedicated page that can show up when locals search for a Sunday roast.
- Carvery page
- Times
- Book for Sunday
- 03
Events
What's on, kept current.
Live music and events listed clearly, so regulars know what's coming up and new visitors have a reason to try it.
- Events listing
- Live music
- 04
Private hire
Parties and functions.
A private hire page with an enquiry form, so bookings for birthdays, wakes and celebrations arrive with the details already filled in.
- Private hire page
- Enquiry form
- 05
Bookings
One tap to book a table.
A booking button on every page and a bar that stays at the bottom of the screen on phones, linked straight to their table booking system.
- Book a table
- Sticky phone bar
- Click to call
- 06
Find us
Everything a first visit needs.
Opening times, a map with directions and parking, and their Google rating, all where people expect to find them.
- Map & directions
- Opening times
- Google rating
On a phone
Built for the moment someone decides where to eat.
Most visits happen on a phone, so we designed for it first: big photos of the bar, the menu a tap away and the booking button always in reach. Analytics only run if the visitor agrees, with a cookie banner that keeps the pub on the right side of the rules.
Your business
Run a pub, café or restaurant?
We'll build a one-page demo of your new homepage for free, so you can see it on your phone before deciding anything. Read more about our website design, or ask for your demo page below.
Free demo page
See your new website before you spend a penny.
Tell us about your business and we'll build a one-page demo of your new homepage, live on a link you can open on your phone. If you like it, we build the rest. If not, no hard feelings.
- 01
A real, live page
Not a mock-up or a PDF. A working page you can click, scroll and share.
- 02
Written for your customers
We write the words from what you tell us and what's on your current site.
- 03
Built properly
Fast on every phone and ready for Google, the same standard as a full build.
- 04
The full picture
Which pages we'd add and how the finished site would bring in enquiries.
Rather email? sam@automative.agency