Work
9 restaurants, 9 different sites.
Each of these started the same way: a neighbourhood restaurant with good food and a website that was letting it down. We built the redesign first, unpaid, and sent it over. No two use the same layout, because no two rooms feel the same.
These are independent concept redesigns. The restaurants are real, and none of them commissioned, paid for or approved this work — menus, hours and photography come from each restaurant’s own public listings. If you own one of these and would like the build taken down, email us and it is gone the same day.
The Gilded Fork
Modern European · Mount Prospect, IL
Fine dining with a Polish soul, lit and paced like the dining room it belongs to.
Concept redesign · independent work, not affiliated with the restaurant
Chick 'N Fizz
Wings & specialty sodas · Arlington Heights, IL
44 named sodas and 15 sauces organised so a first-time visitor can actually order.
Concept redesign · independent work, not affiliated with the restaurant
Via Roma
Roman Italian · Des Plaines, IL
A hand-drawn Trastevere façade instead of stock pasta, around a 45-seat family room.
Concept redesign · independent work, not affiliated with the restaurant
KOW Korean BBQ
All-you-can-eat KBBQ · Des Plaines, IL
Tabletop fire as the hero, with the AYCE tiers made legible on a phone.
Concept redesign · independent work, not affiliated with the restaurant
The Chef Grill
Halal Turkish & Mediterranean · Elk Grove Village, IL
Charcoal grill work shot warm, with the full menu transcribed rather than dumped as a PDF.
Concept redesign · independent work, not affiliated with the restaurant
Plateia Mediterranean Kitchen
Greek · Des Plaines, IL
A town-square idea carried through the type, so the site feels like the room.
Concept redesign · independent work, not affiliated with the restaurant
Giacomo's Ristorante
Southern Italian · Des Plaines, IL
A family restaurant since 1988, given an editorial layout instead of a template.
Concept redesign · independent work, not affiliated with the restaurant
La Marina Mariscos
Nayarit-style Mexican seafood · Des Plaines, IL
Bright, saturated seafood photography with a persistent order bar on mobile.
Concept redesign · independent work, not affiliated with the restaurant
Log Cabin Bar
Polish beer garden & sports bar · Des Plaines, IL
A bocce-and-beer-garden neighbourhood bar, told without pretending to be fine dining.
Concept redesign · independent work, not affiliated with the restaurant
Yours would be built the same way.
We build it first, on your real menu and your real photos, and you look at the finished thing before any money changes hands.
Get your free demoSee it working before you spend a dollar.
Tell us what eats your week, or just send us your current website. We come back with the real thing built on it.
- cylo2026@gmail.com
- Service area
- Chicago & the Northwest suburbs · remote everywhere else