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Gio’s café · Dudelange

Gio’s café: a bright website for a neighborhood café-bistro in Dudelange

In the Italian quarter of Dudelange, Gio’s café serves coffee, draft beer, bruschettas and small dishes. Dineora designed a website that lets the sunshine of the place in from the first screen, unrolls the whole menu like a blackboard and keeps takeout ordering one tap away.

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The Gio’s café website shown on a laptop and a phone
Restaurant
Gio’s café
Location
Dudelange, Italian quarter
Cuisine
Café-bistro
Designed by Dineora
Website, online menu, takeout ordering

A café-bistro in the Italian quarter of Dudelange

Gio’s café is a café-bistro in Dudelange, Luxembourg, in the Italian quarter. People come for a coffee, a draft beer or a simple dish, and its menu, with about twenty sections, covers the whole day. On the kitchen side: bruschettas with ham and cheese, with goat cheese or vegetarian, croques monsieur, madame or with goat cheese, nuggets, grandmother’s, farmhouse or gourmet salads, sandwiches from the classic to the raclette, plates such as the steak à cheval, a steak tartare, pasta bolognese, carbonara or arrabbiata and a dish of the day.

The bar holds an equal place: white wines from Luxembourg such as rivaner or elbling, rosés, reds, crémant and champagne, aperitifs, draft and bottled beers, from Bitburger to Orval, coffees, cappuccinos and Irish coffee. The sweets end with a homemade dessert of the day and ice cream sundaes, dame blanche or café liégeois.

The Gio’s café menu as a blackboard on the home page: hot drinks, soft drinks, croques, salads, sandwiches

The challenge: an everyday café with a brasserie menu

Gio’s café presents itself first as a café, with its takeaway drinks, but its menu is that of a small brasserie, where the drinks count as much as the plates. The website had to say both at once: the spirit of a neighborhood place, simple and friendly, and a very complete offering, from the first espresso to the draft beer.

It also had to keep such a dense menu readable, on a computer as on a smartphone, and make takeout ordering accessible at any time, wherever you are on the page.

Gio’s café website home page on a smartphone, with the painted Commander button at the top of the screen
The full Gio’s café menu as a blackboard in two columns, on a smartphone
Art direction board for the Gio’s café website

Sunshine, greenery and blackboard: a café art direction

The palette is that of a café bathed in light: golden ambers, the deep green of the walls and the plants, the cream of paper and the black of the board. The visuals created for Gio’s café alternate scenes: iced coffees in takeaway cups stamped with the logo, the sign set against a blue sky, a ground-beef steak topped with a fried egg between a salad and gratinéed toasts, a large rectangular ham and cheese pizza on a slate, in front of a bar with shelves loaded with bottles.

The name is written in a large brush signature, underlined with a sage-green stroke, and handwritten chalk words punctuate the images, such as “Des saveurs qui rassemblent”. The Commander button is painted in the world of the place: a dark red plaque decorated with a coffee cup, beans and leaves, edged with a green, white and red trim.

A home page in scenes, down to the big menu board

The home page is explored by scrolling down, scene after scene. The first screen is split in two by a tear in the paper: on the left, the sunlit dining room and the coffee cups, under the name and the line “Café & saveurs locales”, with the phrase “Bon café. Belles journées.”; on the right, the sign under the sky and the line “Le même goût, partout avec vous.”. A slate sums up the spirit of the place: specialty coffee, homemade small dishes, local ingredients, a friendly atmosphere.

Next comes the plate, with a napkin that reads “Plus qu’un café, un lieu de vie”, then the entire menu, presented as a big blackboard titled “Notre menu”, with a chalk-drawn icon for each section and handwritten notes in the margins. Further down, the scene of the bar, the salad and the pizza comes with the line “Un cadre simple et chaleureux”.

Aperitifs, ice cream sundaes, plates, steak tartare and pasta on the blackboard of the Gio’s café home page
The Gio’s café ordering page on a laptop and a phone

An online menu for takeout ordering

The ordering page opens on a dark backdrop of green and gold scrollwork, surrounded by tomatoes, basil, olives and bread, with at the center a steaming coffee cup in a medallion, above the title “Menu & Commander”. Each section is presented on a cream cartouche, edged with a garland of olives, tomatoes and garlic, topped with an olive oil cruet and a mortar of spices. A bar at the top of the screen leads straight to the wines, the soft drinks, the beers, the bruschettas or the nuggets.

Each item has its visual, its name, its price and a button to add it to the cart. The customer builds the order, sends it to pick it up at the café and can pay online. On a smartphone, the cart bar, decorated with two cups, stays at the bottom of the screen the whole time the menu is being read.

Gio’s café ordering page on a computer: scrollwork backdrop, coffee cup in a medallion and white wines cartouche
Gio’s café menu on a smartphone, white wines section, with the cart bar

Gio’s café's menu: a few dishes

Dishes as they appear on Gio’s café's online menu, with the restaurant's own names, descriptions and prices.

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On a smartphone, the same café in portrait

On a smartphone, the first screen keeps its tear in the paper: the name, the welcome phrase, the sign and the slate recompose vertically, and the Commander button stays at the top of the screen. The big menu board shifts to two tight columns, and the plate scenes take up the full width, with their handwritten words.

On the ordering page, the cartouches stack in one column, with their visuals of bottles and glasses, their prices and their add buttons. The section bar scrolls along the top of the screen and the cart bar stays fixed at the bottom.

The Gio’s café website on a phone resting on a set table

A website prepared for local searches

The website is prepared for the searches people actually make in Dudelange: a restaurant, a resto, a snack bar or a café in town, a restaurant near Burange, a steak, pasta, vegetarian dishes, or simply the name Gio’s café. The page title, its description, its texts and its structured data present the place, its neighborhood and its menu in a consistent way.

A detailed presentation page complements the home page, and the full menu can be read as text on the ordering page. No website can guarantee itself a place on Google: the work consists of giving search engines accurate, structured information that is identical from one page to the next.

Rectangular ham pizza, salad and iced coffees on the Gio’s café home page

A website for a café-bistro in Dudelange, from draft beer to bruschetta and croques

A neighborhood café-bistro like Gio’s café in Dudelange lives on its counter menu: coffee and decaf, Bitburger or Bofferding on tap, Luxembourg wines, crémant, then bruschetta, croques, nuggets and sandwiches to settle a hunger. A café website needs no fine-dining staging: it needs a chalkboard readable on a phone and a takeout order for the lunch break.

  • A site sized like a counter tab. No agency behind it and no commission on the croque or bruschetta taken away: the café keeps what the café earns.
  • Ready between two espressos. The café’s name is enough to get the drinks and snacks menu, the images and the order pages within minutes.
  • A sun, a deep green, a blackboard. The art direction is Gio’s own, with its logo cups and chalk lettering, not an off-the-shelf theme.
  • Chalk, screen edition. A beer changes, a wine runs out, a sandwich disappears: the owner fixes the menu himself and the site shows it instantly.
  • From the counter to the guest’s screen. Orders land at Gio’s with no app and no agency in between.
  • From Dudelange’s Italian quarter to the wider world. The same software in Luxembourg, Lausanne, London or Rabat, in each owner’s language and currency.

For a café or bistro in Dudelange, in Luxembourg and across the Greater Region, it puts the sunlit room online, hot drinks and draft beer included.

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The outcome: a neighborhood café, menu in hand

The Gio’s café website looks like the place it presents: bright, simple and warm, with a café-bistro menu written as on a blackboard. It keeps in the foreground the action that matters: ordering takeout. A website that matches the café, designed by Dineora.

The website in pictures

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

Gio’s café website home page on a computer: sunlit dining room, iced takeaway coffees, sign under the blue sky and slate
Gio’s café aperitifs on cream cartouches edged with olives and tomatoes, with the section bar
Ground-beef steak topped with a fried egg, salad and gratinéed toasts, with the line “Plus qu’un café, un lieu de vie”
Gio’s café waters section on a smartphone, with the section bar and the cart bar
Bar scene, rectangular pizza and iced coffees on the Gio’s café home page on a smartphone

Gio’s café: practical information

Address
9 Rue de la Rivière, 3549 Dudelange
See the address on Google Maps
Cuisine
Café-bistro
Services
Online ordering for pickup · Online payment
Menu sections
Vins Blancs · Vins Rosés · Vins Rouges · Champagne-Crémant · Boissons Chaudes · Les Softs · Les Eaux · Apéritifs · Bières Pression · Bières Bouteilles · Bruschettas · Nuggets et Croques · Salades · Sandwichs
The restaurant's website
dineora.io/gios-cafe

Questions about this project

Who designed the Gio’s café website?

The Gio’s café website was designed by Dineora: art direction, home page, online menu and takeout ordering page.

Can you order takeout from Gio’s café online?

Yes. The ordering page presents the whole menu: you add your items to the cart, then send the order to pick it up at the café, with the option to pay online.

What is on the Gio’s café menu?

Bruschettas, croques, salads, sandwiches, plates, a steak tartare, pasta and a dish of the day, as well as wines, beers, aperitifs and hot drinks.

Does a small café really need a website to take orders?

Yes, if it wants to sell takeaway sandwiches and drinks without going through an app. Dineora builds it from the café’s name, with the whole menu readable on a phone and no agency.

How does a neighborhood bistro keep its drinks list up to date?

The owner edits beers, wines and prices himself from his dashboard: the site updates immediately, with no developer and no commission on sales.

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