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◆ 980°CTier 02 · EssentialRestaurant · Hospitality

Ember & Ash

A live-fire restaurant that reads one way by day and another by night. Warm, atmospheric, and quick to load, with the menu, the room, and the booking all one scroll away.

Role
Design + build
Type
Restaurant site
Stack
GSAP · Lenis
Status
Concept build
The idea

One room, two very different moods.

Scroll — the room turns from day to night

A live-fire kitchen is a lunch spot and a late-night room in the same four walls. The site should know which one you're arriving for.

So the design carries a day and a night register — the same content, re-lit. It stays warm and textural throughout, but the mood shifts the way the room itself does between noon and midnight.

Underneath the atmosphere, the practical work is done: the menu, a sense of the room, and a way to book are never more than a scroll apart, and the whole thing loads fast on a phone at the table.

What went into it
Atmosphere

Day / night registers

Lighting and mood shift across the page so the restaurant feels like a real room with a time of day, not a static brochure.

Utility

Menu, room, booking

The three things a diner actually wants are always close — expression never gets in the way of the task.

Motion

Smooth, considered scroll

Orchestrated scroll and reveals give the page a hospitality-grade sense of pace, calm rather than busy.

Speed

Fast at the table

Built to open quickly on mobile data — the most common way anyone actually reaches a restaurant site.

Light the kiln

Run a place worth booking?

Tell me about it. I'll come back with whether it's a Tier 01 or Tier 02 job, a timeline, and a fixed quote.

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