01 / Restaurant · Web — 2026
Multilingual Restaurant Platform
8-language menu and marketing site for an Algarve restaurant — built, deployed and maintained solo.
- Role
- Coordinator + sole builder
- Stack
- Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Netlify, i18n
- Year
- 2026
- Status
- Shipped & live
(01) The problem
A busy Algarve restaurant served guests in eight languages with a paper menu and no web presence. Tourists couldn't find opening hours, the menu, or book a table — and every season the menu changed faster than any agency workflow could keep up.
(02) What I did
- 01
Scoped the project directly with the owner: languages, menu structure, seasonal update cadence and budget — then committed to a timeline I would personally deliver.
- 02
Built an 8-language site (ES/IT priority) with hash-based menu routing, so every dish and section is directly linkable from QR codes on tables.
- 03
Set up full SEO infrastructure — sitemap, robots, structured data, LLM indexing — and optimized LCP with WebP images for slow holiday-resort 4G.
- 04
Extracted the build into a reusable restaurant starter kit, so the next menu change is a content edit, not a rebuild.
(03) The outcome
Live on Netlify with global CDN delivery and free-tier hosting costs.
Menu updates now take minutes — the owner sends changes, I ship them same day.
Mobile-first UX fixes (contact, navbar) measurably improved usability for the tourist audience.
- 8
- Languages
- 2 days
- Build to launch
- €0/mo
- Hosting cost