Manhattan, steakhouse in Düsseldorf: the website designed by Dineora

A New York steakhouse in the heart of the Altstadt

Manhattan is a steakhouse in Düsseldorf’s Old Town, which announces itself as “Restaurant & Bar.” Its online menu focuses on grilled beef: a grilled hip steak, served with the side of your choice, a finely marbled entrecôte or rib-eye, a tender rump steak, a T-bone that brings tenderloin and strip loin together around the bone, and seared beef tenderloin tips, served in a delicate sauce.

Around the meat, the home page highlights what goes with it: a crunchy salad of carrots and thinly sliced vegetables with olives, sweet potato fries, house-made butters and sauces. The tone is that of a New York bar transposed to Düsseldorf: a name, a suspension bridge, skyscrapers, and a promise summed up in one line, “Steaks, Burger & mehr.”

End of the Manhattan dish sequence, “Reservieren empfohlen” stamp, then the slate with the restaurant’s name

The challenge: a strong theme, a tight menu

Manhattan carries a strong theme. The challenge was to embrace it without falling into postcard decor: New York had to remain a setting, and the meat the subject. The website also had to give its full scale to a menu focused on five cuts of beef, granting each the place of a main course rather than that of a line in a list.

Finally, the restaurant seats guests, prepares takeout and delivers. The website had to make these three uses obvious, with a fixed navigation bar at the top of the screen leading to the home page, the menu and ordering.

Manhattan home page on a smartphone: Bestellen button, title, stamps, sepia bridge and dishes

Manhattan home page on a smartphone, further down: grills, slogans, then the steak slate and its bull’s head

Art direction board for the Manhattan website

Weathered brown, aged cream and bronze

The palette evokes a sign worn by time: an almost black brown background, scratched like an old blackboard, aged cream lettering, bronze and golden rules, and the olive green of the navigation bar. The visuals are taken close to the dishes: steaks topped with herb butter, grilled cuts with crisp marks, sweet potato fries, a colorful salad, ramekins of tomato sauce and green butter. Behind them, in sepia, a suspension bridge and the skyline of skyscrapers take shape.

The name “Manhattan” is set in a typeface drawn from the letters of the logo, tall condensed capitals with serifs, with outlines worn like those of an old sign. Round and rectangular stamps, “Zarte Steaks, Grill, Perfektion” or “Reservieren empfohlen,” punctuate the page, and a Menü cartouche is surrounded by a grilled steak, cherry tomatoes, mustard and rosemary.

A home page that moves from the plate to the slate

The home page opens on the large title, the “Restaurant & Bar” line framed by lightning bolts and the promise “Steaks, Burger & mehr.” Further down, the dishes spread across the full width, each commented on with a handwritten word: “Frisch. Knackig. Hausgemacht.” for the salad, “Saftig. Würzig. Perfekt.” for the grills. The sequence closes on “Gut essen. Gute Zeit. Manhattan.”

The page then switches to a large slate. Under the name repeated in majesty and an engraved bull’s head, each cut of beef has its line and its old-style drawing: the entrecôte, the rump steak, the T-bone and its T-shaped bone. The slate ends on an engraved still life, carving fork, knife, salt, rosemary, pepper and garlic, around the cartouche that opens the menu.

Steak slate on the Manhattan home page: entrecôte, rump steak and T-bone drawn as engravings

The Manhattan ordering page on a laptop and a phone

Ordering for takeout or delivery

The ordering page opens under the title “Menu & Bestellen,” topped by a medallion in which a suspension bridge is cut out. The decor repeats the deep brown of the home page, worked with golden scrollwork from which silhouettes of skyscrapers and bridges emerge, small dishes of salt, mustard and sauce, and forks. In the center, the menu sits in a cream panel framed with gold, crowned by a small New York skyline and foliage.

Each steak appears with its name, its description, its price and a button to add it to the cart. You build your order, choose to pick it up at the restaurant or have it delivered, and pay online.

Manhattan ordering page on a computer: title “Menu & Bestellen,” suspension bridge medallion and golden scrollwork decor

Manhattan menu on a smartphone: steak panel framed in gold and cart bar

Manhattan's menu: a few dishes

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

Steaks
Gegrilltes Hüftsteak
Gegrilltes Hüftsteak vom Rind, auf den Punkt gebraten, serviert mit Beilage nach Wahl.
€21.90
Steaks
Entrecôte / Rib-Eye-Steak
Saftiges Entrecôte bzw. Rib-Eye-Steak vom Grill, mit feiner Marmorierung und intensiven Rindfleischaromen.
€24.90
Steaks
Rumpsteak
Klassisches Rumpsteak vom Rind, gegrillt und zart im Biss, mit Beilage nach Wahl.
€25.90
Steaks
T-Bone-Steak
Großes T-Bone-Steak mit Filet- und Roastbeefanteil am Knochen, auf dem Grill zubereitet.
€33.90
Steaks
Rinderfiletspitzen
Zarte Spitzen vom Rinderfilet, kurz gebraten und in einer feinen Sauce serviert.
€18.90

Booking under the bar lamps

The booking window takes up the atmosphere of a New York bar: on the left, a brick wall, a plant and a candle; on the right, a dark room under hanging lamps, with a bridge in the background; in the foreground, a steak with herb butter and its fries. In the center, a weathered panel titled “Reservierungen,” subtitled “Ihr Tisch im Manhattan,” presents in a few lines an honest cuisine, carefully chosen ingredients and an urban spirit.

The fields, the color of old paper, ask for the full name, phone, email, date, time, number of guests and a special request. A kraft paper note pinned to the wall gives the restaurant’s contact details, and the Reservierung button is surrounded by a steak, fries and sauces.

The Manhattan website on a phone resting on a set table

On a smartphone, the sign, standing up

On a smartphone, the “Manhattan” title takes up the full width and the stamps are spread on either side of the bridge. An olive-green Bestellen button stays centered at the top of the screen. The dishes then stack up, and the steak slate takes over with its engraved bull’s head.

The ordering page keeps its gold-framed panel: a small arrow unfolds the description of each steak, a menu icon sits at the top right, and the cart bar, dark red and ornate, stays at the bottom of the screen. The booking form switches to a single column, with its contact details on a kraft tag hanging from a string.

Manhattan booking form on a smartphone, in one column, with a hanging kraft tag

A website prepared for local searches

The website is prepared for the searches people actually make in Düsseldorf: a steak or a steakhouse in the Old Town, a restaurant in the Altstadt, a hamburger, or Manhattan itself and its menu. The page title, its description, its texts and its structured data present the restaurant, its neighborhood, its cooking and its cuts of beef in a clear and consistent way.

A detailed presentation page complements the home page, and the complete menu can be read as text on the ordering page. No one can promise a spot on Google: the work is to give search engines accurate, structured and consistent information.

Engraved still life on the Manhattan home page: carving fork, knife, salt, rosemary, pepper and garlic around the Menü cartouche

A website for a steakhouse in Düsseldorf: the grill in the old town

A steakhouse gets straight to the point: hip steak, rib-eye, rump, T-bone, beef tips, with sweet-potato fries and house butters. A steak restaurant website in Düsseldorf has to serve that short menu without frills, record takeaway and delivery orders, allow online payment and bookings, while keeping the look of a New York bar.

A short menu, a short cost: five meat dishes call for no agency quote, and delivering a T-bone earns a platform nothing.
Ready before the first service: once the restaurant’s name is given, the site, the menu and online ordering are built in a few minutes.
A sign weathered by time: near-black brown ground scratched like a blackboard, cream lettering, bronze rules, a sepia suspension-bridge silhouette.
Online at once, adjustable alone: the cut of the day changes price or a side is added, and the owner updates without calling anyone.
Nobody between grill and guest: orders, payments and bookings reach Manhattan with no marketplace and no third-party app.
From Düsseldorf to Houston or Sydney: the same software for steakhouses in other cities, in their language and currency.

For a steakhouse on the Bolkerstraße, that is a site crisp as a seared cut, keeping the tone of a New York bar.

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The result: a sign that keeps its visual promise

The Manhattan website embraces its New York theme without losing sight of the plate: the bridge and skyscrapers stay in the background, the meat, the sauces and the sides in the foreground. The short menu gains presence, and ordering, getting delivery or booking stay within reach. A website in the image of the restaurant, as Dineora designs it for every address.

The website in pictures

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

Manhattan home page on a computer: large cream title, “Restaurant & Bar,” bridge and skyscrapers in sepia, salad and sweet potato fries

Steak panel on the Manhattan ordering page, framed in gold and crowned with a New York skyline

Manhattan home page further down: platter of steaks with herb butter and grills, house sauces and Menü cartouche

Manhattan booking window on a computer: “Reservierungen” panel, brick wall, bar lamps and steak with fries

Manhattan: practical information

Address: Manhattan | Restaurant Düsseldorf, Bolkerstraße 10, 40213 Düsseldorf
See the address on Google Maps
Cuisine: Steakhouse, grills
Services: Online ordering for pickup · Delivery · Online table booking · Online payment
Menu sections: Steaks
The restaurant's website: dineora.io/manhattan