A bespoke Next.js site for a Norwich burger brand - built around the menu, the booking rules, and a small team who need to keep it up to date themselves.
bun-x.co.uk ↗
The brief
Bun X serves smash burgers and fried chicken from Micawbers Tavern, a 260-year-old corner pub on Pottergate with just 36 seats. The brand is loud and playful, but the realities of a tiny kitchen are serious: strict allergy limits, a cap of six people per table, and menus that change often.
They needed a site that felt as bold as the food, put the menus front and centre, and made sure guests read the booking rules before booking - without making those rules feel like a lecture. They also needed to update it themselves, from new menu items to gallery photos, without calling a developer every time.
The build
I designed and built the site on Next.js with a hand-made, zine-style look - paper texture, stamped borders, tape and tilted stickers, all drawn from the Bun X brand. Visits are counted without cookies, and Google Maps, Instagram and OpenTable only load once a visitor accepts, so the site stays usable for anyone who declines.
Behind it sits a custom admin the team signs into with a magic link. They can edit menus, prices and sizes, FAQs, the gallery, opening hours, page wording and the homepage. Every save is recorded as a change to the site's code, so the full history is kept and any change can be rolled back.
Key features
A pre-booking check, not a policy page
Guests answer three quick questions about allergies, party size and anything else before OpenTable appears - so the kitchen's limits are explained at the point they matter, not hidden in small print.
Menus that work everywhere
Each printed menu appears as a zoomable photo and as structured text, with sizes, prices, dietary tags and menu data search engines can read.
An admin built for a busy kitchen
Menus, prices, FAQs, gallery photos, opening hours and homepage content can all be edited without code, and each save becomes a tracked change to the site.
The result
Bun X gets a site with the same energy as the food and a booking flow that protects a tiny kitchen. The team can keep it current themselves, from new specials to new photos.
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