The brief, the decisions and the delivery
A clearer welcome for two Cornish restaurants
The challenge
The Tiny Thai needed a website that conveyed the character of its food and restaurants while making everyday decisions easy. Visitors needed to explore the menu, choose between Wadebridge and Newquay, and find the right booking or takeaway route. The existing Squarespace site carried the brand, but the next version needed a more deliberate content structure, lighter page delivery and a practical editing system for a growing two-location business.
Keep the character, give the content room
We retained the recognisable Tiny Thai identity and built a fresh layout around its food, team and restaurant photography. White space, clearer navigation and distinct sections make the pages easier to scan without losing the warmth and energy of the brand. The homepage introduces both restaurants and gives menu, booking and takeaway decisions their own routes. On mobile, a persistent action bar keeps Book, Menu and Order within reach.
Give each restaurant its own journey
Wadebridge and Newquay have dedicated pages with their own imagery, contact information, opening hours and visit details. Booking and takeaway destinations are managed separately for each venue, so visitors are taken to the appropriate existing provider. The website connects those customer journeys; it does not replace the restaurant's operational booking or payment systems with a newly built engine.
Make the menu useful on a phone
The new website presents the food as browsable content, with menu sections, item details and dietary information alongside a downloadable menu. Supporting food, kitchen and story pages introduce the people and cooking behind the dishes. WordPress and ACF give the team structured fields and reusable content layouts, so updating a dish, photograph or venue detail does not mean editing the site's code.
Expand useful content and protect the migration
The rebuild adds dedicated information for menus, both restaurants, bookings, takeaways, gift vouchers, group visits, dietary questions and FAQs. We implemented page titles and descriptions, canonical URLs, restaurant structured data and a sitemap, with redirects from the old website's URLs. The aim is to give visitors and search engines clearer, more specific pages, not to claim that adding pages automatically produces higher rankings.
Build performance into the implementation
The custom WordPress theme uses responsive images, modern image formats, local assets and controlled JavaScript rather than carrying over the previous platform's page delivery. Performance was checked alongside responsive layouts, accessibility and customer navigation. The public homepage's recorded launch-day Lighthouse results were 98/100 for mobile performance and 100/100 for desktop performance.
Show the change with real evidence
The before-and-after comparison covers the homepage, food page and both restaurant pages, showing the previous Squarespace website alongside the redesigned WordPress website at the same scale, with matching desktop and mobile captures. The old website was captured on 21 October 2026; the new website on 28 October 2026. The wider gallery shows the delivered menu, venue pages, story and mobile experience, rather than a proposed design or a recreation of the old site.
The website, before and after
Before
Squarespace / 21 Oct 2026
After
WordPress / 28 Oct 2026
What we delivered
- Complete website redesign and Squarespace-to-WordPress migration
- Custom ACF-managed theme with editable content and menu structures
- Photography-led homepage, food, story and kitchen presentation
- Dedicated Wadebridge and Newquay restaurant journeys
- Mobile navigation and prominent menu, booking and order actions
- Connections to the existing venue-specific booking, takeaway and voucher providers
- Expanded customer information and technical SEO foundations
- Responsive image optimisation, performance testing and migration redirects
The outcome
The new website brings two restaurant journeys into one coherent experience. Guests can explore the food, find the right venue and continue to the appropriate booking or takeaway service, while the team has a custom WordPress editing system behind the design. The launch audit recorded 17 published pages. The dated desktop and mobile captures document the visual change from the old Squarespace site to the delivered WordPress rebuild.
Recorded launch-day lab results
- Desktop performance
- 100/100
- Mobile performance
- 98/100
- Desktop LCP
- 0.7 s
- Mobile LCP
- 2.4 s
Performance figures are individual Lighthouse homepage lab measurements of the public website recorded on 23 October 2026, not current live scores, field Core Web Vitals or a guarantee for every device. Tests used the public hostname with valid TLS and verified public DNS because the test machine retained an old DNS answer. The earlier audit and new tests were not run under established equivalent conditions, so no percentage speed improvement is claimed. No increase in bookings, revenue, traffic or rankings is claimed. The before screenshots date from 21 October 2026 and the after screenshots from 28 October 2026, using matching desktop and mobile viewport sizes.
What this means for your project
A restaurant website needs more than attractive food photography. It should help a guest choose a venue, find the menu and complete the next step without ambiguity. Plan those journeys, the editing structure and the technical migration together, then test the finished pages on mobile as well as desktop.
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