Bad restaurant websites

As prompted by a Twitter post from Rhodri M.:

Restaurant websites drive me up the wall. They should be forced by law to excise all music, animation and general poncing about.

Share your most loathed examples.

this is a thing isn't it

seems i forget these baroque flash abortions (and the restaurants themselves) but if you want to make this a campaign then i cosign

someone c&p the Wolcott's discussion from the Chicago thread

fine, I'll do it:

For added lulz, check out their website, with their employment application consisting of a link to a generic .pdf residing on the servers at the Alaska Department of Labor and Workplace Development.

― it's an old pantyhound, that's who (Jesse), Monday, March 29, 2010 9:53 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

xp Their website is kind of sad/funny in a number of ways. There are stock photos of food that don't appear to be on the menu (antipasto plate? waffles?) It says that Fat Tire beer is from Belgium and that the bar's hours are 4 AM to 1 PM. "Wine" is misspelled as "whine" (and I don't think it's deliberate, like at Glenn's Diner). The "more" links on the food menu and wine list don't work.

― jam master (jaymc), Tuesday, March 30, 2010 8:12 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

That level of attention to detail does not feel me with confidence that I will not find hair in my food.

― she is writing about love (Jenny), Tuesday, March 30, 2010 8:15 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

but WHAT IF the bar really is open from 4 a.m. to 1 p.m.?

can you imagine THAT?

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, March 30, 2010 8:18 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Ha - I told Courtney what JMC said and she just emails me

Budweiser is also spelled wrong. You're killing me Wolcott's!!

― it's an old pantyhound, that's who (Jesse), Tuesday, March 30, 2010 10:04 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Google search for Wolcott's:

Welcome to Wolcott's Bar in Chicago, Illinois
Wolcot'ts Bar - fine dining with great service from some of the chicago's best chefs and fine restaurants.

― jam master (jaymc), Tuesday, March 30, 2010 10:06 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

And with that as a prompt:

http://www.wolcottschicago.com/

the pink boots were one thing....

http://www.angussteakhouse.co.uk/
The menu is brilliant for carnivores, with seven cuts of steak in various weights, we also offer options for vegetarians and have a great children’s menu and killer desserts.

Their dessert PDF does not inspire confidence.

http://www.angussteakhouse.co.uk/_images/childrens_menu_on.jpg

http://www.menupalace.com/menupalace/internetservices/portfolio_websitesflash.asp

have 5,000

godawful website, godawful restaurant, perfect match imo. (xp)

Wait, Mr. Greek?

lolling at Wolcott's using what sounds like an Omni Trio track as their site music

http://www.watami.com.hk/eng/index.php

http://www.wegz.com/

The sports bar you'd build if you had the money!

Their dessert PDF does not inspire confidence.

Check the prices, £4 - over US$6 - for a tiny slice of lemon meringue pie. Eating out at one of the major chains in the UK is not only disappointing, it's expensive.

http://www.watami.com.hk/eng/zone.html

Interactive Zone

Under Construction

Even money says it's been like that since 2004.

http://www.wegz.com/

^LOL two different load bars. instabackspace

all of these sites must look great on the iPad

I can live with a little cheery amateurishness cz my favourite restaurant ever is a weekends-only thing by a super-nice couple of artists in my home village and obviously they are not also webdesigners - ok, their website looks like it is from 1996 and has Comic Sans on, but they are good people and it has all the useful information on

but opening a webpage and hearing a midi string quartet start up is pretty unforgivable, as is having yr opening hours wrong or not listing any useful contact details, and if you have paid for professional webdesign then I want to see some menus, not a memory-sucking Flash gallery scrolling through shots of the chandelier in yr dining area

and if you link to a google map of your postcode, please check it actually has mapped your postcode to somewhere approximately near your restaurant, thanks

That page with all the sites which ksh linked is an endless parade of horrors.

holy shit that wegz website is awesome, i feel like I'm playing sega genesis while I salivate

xpost -- It's also not helping that it makes Toronto seem like Guy Fieri's Valhalla.

http://www.chimichanga.ca/

wegz chooses henry vs man u for its opening montage = sigh

TRAIN WRECK ~ honeycomb-cut potatoes topped with WEGZ chili, cheddar
cheese and sour cream with fresh-cut scallions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$9.50

"Menu" - lizards
"Reservations" - a revolver
"Events" - a donkey

There's a local Nepalese restaurant which has registered 3 domain names, made 2 of them say "under construction", and put some useful info on the 3rd. Which isn't linked to from the first 2, and is considerably lower down on Google. Hi guys, if someone finds a website for you and it has nothing at all on it, they're not going to think "hm, maybe there's another one"!

http://yabbapot.com/index-1.html

FAQ
- Lorem ipsum dolor sit ame?
- Ipsum dolor sit amet, conseteturs sadipscing elitr.
- Dolor sit amet, consetetur?
- Sit amet, consetetur sadipscing eli sed diam.
- Amet, consetetur sadipscin?
- Consetetur sadipscing elitrseddian nonumy eirmod.

Copyright 2005. All Rights Reserved. Italian Restaurant.

execrable italian gastrohaunt

http://yabbapot.com/images/4f1.jpg

Latin Filler-Text Restaurant.

Pfft:

http://www.menupalace.com/banzai/

important thread: http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=72829

Try holding CTRL while clicking on the links above

Okay WHERE did they get this name and idea from:

http://www.menupalace.com/buttr/

CRAZYSEXYCOOL URBAN LOUNGE YOU GUYS

What the

http://www.menupalace.com/draelion/home.html

alternate thread title: "Skip intro"

Ulti-Posh Zen dining experience? WTF?

wtflol

http://www.halpertcatering.com/

can u make my logo blobbier thx

http://www.halpertcatering.com/images/logo.jpg

KIDS COME FIRST – THEY ARE A TREASURED RESOURCE THAT WE MUST STRIVE TO NURTURE, TEACH AND PROTECT.

...before we KILL THEM AND EAT THEM

kewl fadez

http://www.halpertcatering.com/images/top_bg.jpg

o canada

http://www.comfortsrestaurant.ca/images/logo.jpg

     BAD
RESTA   URANT

Okay this one I feel kinda bad about because they're a catering service that has emergency response teams as their clientele -- so that's a very good thing. The website is not:

http://www.swadleysemergencyreliefteam.com/

haha the soundtrack is a bunch of news audio clips about tornado warnings

http://www.halpertcatering.com/images/logo.jpg
well hey thanks guys, I am looking for a caterer for my wedding and this is just around the corner from my place! ILX saves a ho again.

i dont know if ive ever seen a restaurant website that could be described as "good"

the flash thing is INSANELY frustrating when youre on an iphone and you just want to check a restaurants dam hours or its menu or something and they desire to entice you with some horrible "intro" from a parallel universe where websites are constructed entirely from the rotting corpse of adobe flash

Just go to Yelp or Menupages.

JUST GO TO HELL

http://www.domeats.com/

great restaurant, but takes the prize for the twin cities imo

autoplay video of the chefs talking. front page.

JUST GO TO HELL

― max, Thursday, April 8, 2010 12:51 PM

http://www.clubheavenandhelldc.com/hell.html

http://www.le-bernardin.com/

GEEZ

Ate at this place for like the 10th time tonight. Love the food but the website is so awful, and so is the decor in their second location:
http://www.pamrealthaifood.com/

http://www.motokazi.com.hk/

http://neversaidaboutrestaurantwebsites.tumblr.com/

http://www.slate.com/id/2301228

Ha, thank you, I was wondering earlier 'Did I start a thread on this already, I can't remember...'