Restaurant Marocain Atlas in Bayonne: the website by Dineora

A Moroccan table in the Saint-Esprit district

Restaurant Marocain Atlas is located in Bayonne, in the Saint-Esprit district. Its menu, tightened to about thirty dishes and drinks, follows the order of a Moroccan meal. Starters first: zaalouk, a caviar of grilled eggplant with olive oil, garlic and parsley, taktouka, pastilla or bissara. Then come the tagines, Meknassi with chicken and onion compote, Beldi, Barqoq, Lalla Fatima, Slaoui, Soleil d’Orient, Agadir or Verdoyant, followed by the couscous, from chicken to royal, and the Atlas grills, lamb chops or chicken skewers. Moroccan tea closes the march.

The dining room has a strong character: walls painted with red and green panels under golden friezes, lanterns pierced with arabesques, round mirrors ringed with copper, a large painting in a gold frame and, on the counter, pastries under glass domes. The logo sums it all up in one drawing: a tagine under an arch, between two palm trees, topped with a star.

Home page further down: “Zaalouk & taktouka”, three painted ceramic plates on a turquoise stone table

The challenge: making people want to push open the door

For a neighborhood Moroccan restaurant, the website has to do two things at once: show the dining room as it is, with its colors and its decor, and make clear in a few images what people come here to eat. A short menu, centered on tagines and couscous, is better told dish by dish than simply listed.

Booking and takeout ordering also had to stay accessible at any time without breaking the atmosphere: the two buttons had to belong to the decor, not to an interface laid on top.

Home page of Restaurant Marocain Atlas on a phone, Réserver and Commander buttons at the top of the screen

Panel “Zaalouk, pour commencer” on a phone, on a midnight blue background decorated with a lantern

Art direction board for the Restaurant Marocain Atlas website

Red, green and gold: an art direction drawn from the dining room

The palette comes straight from the restaurant’s walls: the red and green of the panels, the gold of the friezes and the lanterns, a deep midnight blue for the inset panels, cream for the texts. The visuals stage the cooking in this decor: zaalouk and taktouka on painted ceramic plates, set on a turquoise stone table in front of golden mashrabiyas; a spoonful of tagine sauce, still steaming, raised in the middle of the dining room; a dish topped with vegetables and chickpeas on a plate painted yellow and red.

The headings are set in a typeface with generous serifs, cream, gold or red depending on the screen, often underlined with a golden rule with a floral pattern. The Réservation and Commander buttons are painted in the world of the place: midnight blue cartouches crowned with an arch, ringed with gold and green zellige tiles.

A home page that unfolds like a film

The home page is a film that advances as you scroll. It opens at the counter, on a copper bell in the foreground and the title “Le Maroc, à Bayonne”, followed by an invitation: pastilla and Moroccan tea await those who push open the door. The camera then glides along the counter lit in blue, and stops on “Zaalouk & taktouka”: three plates in a row, full, half-eaten, then empty, like a meal that is shared.

Further on, “Le tajine mijote” evokes the Meknassi, Beldi or Barqoq tagines, served steaming in their terracotta. Midnight blue panels, decorated with a golden lantern, then accompany the story dish by dish, such as “Zaalouk, pour commencer”, which tells how the eggplant is grilled, then crushed with garlic, parsley and spices.

The home page film moving over the turquoise table and the golden reflections

The Restaurant Marocain Atlas ordering page on a laptop and a phone

A takeout menu stretched like a tapestry

The ordering page opens on a decor of dark green velvet, copper scrollwork, palms and white flowers, lit by two lanterns and bordered by Moorish arches; at the bottom, a copper tagine, spices, dates and mint. Each category is presented like a hanging suspended from copper rings, edged with blue and orange zellige stars: starters, tagines, couscous, Atlas grills and drinks.

A bar at the top of the screen lets people move from one category to another. Each dish appears with its visual, its name, its price and a small copper bell marked with a plus sign, which adds it to the basket. Customers put their order together, then collect it at the restaurant; on a phone, the basket bar stays at the bottom of the screen the whole time they read.

Ordering page on a computer: green and copper decor with lanterns, hangings for the starters and tagines

Menu on a phone, starters category, zaalouk and taktouka, with the basket bar

Restaurant Marocain Atlas's menu: a few dishes

Dishes as they appear on Restaurant Marocain Atlas's online menu, with the restaurant's own names, descriptions and prices.

Entrées
Zaalouk
Caviar d'aubergines grillées, huile d'olive, ail, persil, épices
€8.50
Entrées
Taktouka
Poivrons grillés, ail, sauce tomate, épices, huile d'olive
€8.50
Entrées
Baqola
Épinard, ail, épices, huile d'olive
€8.50
Tajines
Tajine Meknassi
Poulet, compotée d'oignons, olives, frites ou semoule
€15.50
Tajines
Tajine Lalla Fatima
Poulet, compotée d'oignons, olives, raisins secs
€15.50
Tajines
Tajine Beldi
Viande, pommes de terre, haricots verts, petits pois, carottes
€16.50
Couscous
Couscous Poulet
1 viande : poulet, bouillon, légumes et raisins secs
€16.40
Couscous
Couscous Boeuf
1 viande : bœuf, bouillon, légumes et raisins secs
€17.40
Grillades Atlas
Côtelettes d'agneau
3 pièces, salade + frites
€19.80
Grillades Atlas
Brochettes de poulet
3 pièces, salade + frites
€19.80
Boissons
Soda 33cl
Canette 33 cl
€3.30
Boissons
Eau gazeuse
Canette 33 cl
€3.30

A booking form framed in gold

The Réservation button opens a form painted in the colors of the dining room: a deep green panel, framed with golden arabesques, with two red arch-shaped niches in the corners and a border of zellige stars. It is titled “Réservations” in golden letters, above the restaurant’s name.

It fits on a single screen and asks for the essentials: full name, phone number, e-mail, date, time, number of guests and special request. The send button reuses the midnight blue and gold cartouche of the buttons at the top of the page, so that the form stays in the same world as the rest of the website.

The Restaurant Marocain Atlas website on a phone resting on a set table

On a phone, the same dining room in vertical format

On a phone, the home page is recomposed in height: the Réserver and Commander buttons stay side by side at the top of the screen, the logo and the title “Le Maroc, à Bayonne” sit in the center, above the copper bell. The story panels take up almost the full width, with their golden lantern, and their texts can be read at a glance.

On the ordering page, the menu hangings stack one after the other, a house-shaped button leads back to the home page, and the basket bar stays accessible at the bottom of the screen.

Restaurant Marocain Atlas — Website screenshot

A website prepared for searches in Bayonne

The website is prepared for the searches people actually make around Bayonne: a couscous in the city, a Moroccan restaurant in Bayonne or in the Saint-Esprit district, the restaurant’s name, or its menu before coming. The page title, its description, its texts and its structured data present the restaurant, its district, its cuisine and its dishes clearly.

A detailed presentation page complements the home page, and the full menu can be read as text on the ordering page. Nobody can guarantee a position on Google: what can be worked on is accurate, well-structured information that is consistent everywhere it appears.

“Le tajine mijote” in the dining room, then the midnight blue panel “Zaalouk, pour commencer”

A website for a Moroccan restaurant in Bayonne: tagines, couscous and grills to order from the Basque Country

A Moroccan restaurant menu reads in the order of the meal: zaalouk and taktouka to start, a Meknassi or Beldi tagine, couscous with chicken or beef, grilled lamb cutlets, mint tea to finish. A Moroccan restaurant website in Bayonne should therefore convey the room itself, with its red and green walls trimmed in gold, before offering couscous and tagine takeaway orders and a table booking in the Saint-Esprit district.

On budget, it is nothing like hiring an agency: the site grows out of the restaurant’s name in a few minutes, with no commission on takeaway orders. It is visible straight away, and the owner changes a tagine of the day or a closing time personally. Its art direction comes from Atlas’s own dining room, the gilded friezes and lanterns, not from a stock layout.

Orders and bookings go directly to the restaurant, with no marketplace in the middle. And the software is not confined to Bayonne: tables in Lausanne, London or Rabat use it, in their own language and currency.

For a Moroccan restaurant in Bayonne and the Basque Country, this is a takeaway Moroccan food site that makes people want to walk in.

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The result: Atlas’s dining room, open online

The website of Restaurant Marocain Atlas looks like its dining room: red, green and gold, lanterns, steaming tagines and a counter bell to welcome visitors. It keeps the two useful actions within reach, booking a table and ordering takeout, without ever leaving this world. This is what Dineora aims for with every restaurant: a website that extends the place instead of summing it up.

The website in pictures

Screenshots of the live website, on a computer and on a phone.

The menu on a computer with its category bar: starters, tagines, couscous, Atlas grills, drinks

The home page film moving along the counter, lit in blue, with its pastries under glass domes

Booking form on a computer, green panel framed with golden arabesques and titled “Réservations”

Restaurant Marocain Atlas: practical information

Address: Restaurant marocain Atlas grillades bayonne halal, 2 Bd Jean d'Amou, 64100 Bayonne
See the address on Google Maps
Cuisine: Moroccan cuisine
Services: Online ordering for pickup · Online table booking
Menu sections: Entrées · Tajines · Couscous · Grillades Atlas · Boissons
The restaurant's website: dineora.io/atlas-bayonne

Questions about this project

Who designed the website of Restaurant Marocain Atlas?

The website of Restaurant Marocain Atlas was designed by Dineora: art direction, opening film, online menu, takeout ordering page and booking form.

Can you order takeout online from Restaurant Marocain Atlas?

Yes. The ordering page presents the whole menu, category by category: you add your dishes to the basket, then send the order to collect it at the restaurant.

Can you book a table at Restaurant Marocain Atlas on its website?

Yes. The Réservation button, at the top of the screen, opens a form that asks for the full name, phone number, e-mail, date, time, number of guests and a special request.

How should a Moroccan restaurant present its tagines and couscous online?

Follow the order of the meal: starters, tagines, couscous, grills, drinks. Each section stays easy to read on a phone, and guests can order takeaway or book without leaving the site.

Does a Moroccan restaurant in Bayonne need a web agency?

No. The owner builds the site by entering the restaurant’s name, then keeps it current alone: dishes, prices and hours, with no developer.