Ember
A restaurant site you can almost smell
- Category
- Hospitality
- Focus
- Art direction · Build
- Year
- 2024
Overview
A site for a twelve-seat chef's counter with the warmth of the room itself — charred palette, candlelight type, and a tasting menu set like poetry.
Restaurant sites are where design goes to die: stock templates, unreadable PDF menus, booking widgets that bounce you to another domain. Ember is the opposite — atmosphere first, and everything works on the phone you're booking from at 11pm.
Design direction
The decisions that give Ember its own personality — and keep it from looking like anything else on this page.
- 1
The menu treated as typography — serif courses, dotted leaders, prices set like verse. No PDFs anywhere.
- 2
A palette pulled from the room itself: charcoal, cream, and one terracotta ember.
- 3
Reservations inline and native-feeling, with tonight's seatings one tap away.
- 4
Ruthless mobile performance — tiny pages, instant paint, thumb-first layout.
What's inside
Typographic tasting menu
Candlelight palette
Inline reservation flow
Late-night mobile performance
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