Late August—Concept Restaurant Web Design
Savannah, GA
PROJECT SCOPE
CLIENT TYPE: CONCEPT
INDUSTRY: RESTAURANT (FINE DINNING)
DELIVERABLES: WEBSITE DESIGN, HOMEPAGE, PRIVATE DINING PAGE, MOBILE HOMEPAGE
YEAR: 2026
Late August is a fine dining restaurant in Savannah, Georgia, built around the hour when summer starts to turn. Chef-owner Everett Hale cooks over cedar and oak, ages his own meat, and buys from Georgia farms for as long as the harvest allows. The menu changes with the season, and so does the mood: figs, smoke, the last of the sweet corn.
The project began as a menu and grew into a restaurant web design. The challenge was to carry the quiet confidence of a printed page onto a screen without it feeling like a template. A fine dining site has one job, which is to make someone want to sit down, so everything here works toward that table.
LAYOUT DESIGN
SUMMARY
Type hierarchy — A single old-style serif (Century Old Standard) in roman and italic does the talking, with small spaced capitals for labels and navigation. The italic accents in the headlines echo the printed menu and tell the eye where to pause.
Color logic — The wine red from the menu anchors the navigation and footer. Olive marks every action, so the reservation button is the one thing you can’t miss. Dusty rose and sage hold the quieter sections.
Image curation — Every photo was chosen for warmth and gesture: a plate being passed, candlelit tables, figs split open. The goal was the feeling of arriving, not a catalog of dishes.
Page structure — The homepage is built around one decision. Every section moves the visitor toward reserving a table, with private dining presented as a second, bookable path instead of a footnote.
Private dining page — Designed to turn interest into inquiries. The occasions come first, then the room, then the menu, and one inquiry button appears at the top and again at the bottom.
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