RestaurantSeagrove Beach, FL

Surfing Deer

Coastal editorial, with the menu finally out of a PDF.

chimaeraco.dev/work/surfing-deer/concept
Surfing Deer homepage on desktop
Overview

An upscale 30A restaurant's menu was trapped inside a PDF flipbook. We rebuilt the site with a coastal-editorial direction, a native searchable menu, and structured data so search engines could finally index every dish, price, and dietary note.

This is a concept: a redesign we built on our own to show a real business what its site could be. It is a working site, clearly labelled as a concept, and not affiliated with the business unless they take it further.

Industry
Restaurant
Location
Seagrove Beach, FL
Palette
Sun-bleached cream, deep teal, sunset coral
Type
Fraunces + Manrope
Status
Concept, live
The build

Top to bottom, and in your hand.

chimaeraco.dev/work/surfing-deer/concept
Full Surfing Deer homepage

Scroll inside the frame to read the whole page.

Surfing Deer on a phone
01

The problem

The current site keeps the dinner menu inside a slow-loading PDF viewer. Search engines can't read the dishes, prices, or dietary notes. When a tourist Googles the kind of food the restaurant actually serves, the restaurant doesn't show up. Their competitors do.

02

Our approach

Rebuilt as a clean, mobile-first marketing site with a real HTML menu page wrapped in structured data. Native sections for starters, mains, desserts, and cocktails, each with photography, pricing, and dietary tags. Sticky reservation CTA on every page, embed slot for their existing booking provider, gift card flow, private events page. Coastal-editorial aesthetic with warm cream backgrounds, deep teal primary, sunset coral accent.

03

Outcome

Concept site live as a leave-behind. Demo URL included in the cold pitch alongside a free audit report. Designed so the menu rebuild is the centerpiece of the engagement.

Built with
Next.jsReactTypeScriptTailwind CSSFramer MotionFrauncesManrope

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