Portland · Website Studio
Restaurants, cafes, delis, bars, food trucks. Every site starts from deliberate decisions — type, color, layout, voice. The result is a single HTML file that looks and sounds like the place it's for.
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The Work
Buttercream and mustard. Big Anton headlines, split hero that leads with the address. Menu is a dot-leader list — no cards, no nonsense.
View site →Linen and persimmon. Bagel Fat One display type, scrolling marquee hero of the full menu. Loud without trying.
View site →Smokehouse dark, tiki red. Full-bleed hero, Bricolage + Newsreader. The type is as heavy as the smoke.
View site →Newsprint and forest. Newsreader body, IBM Plex Mono for metadata. Reads like the owner's blog with a menu attached.
View site →Bone and tiki red. Anton + Space Mono, rotated stickers, all-caps energy. Not for everyone. Definitely for them.
View site →Linen and burgundy. Cormorant Garamond + Caveat, polaroid frames, handwritten captions. Multi-generational recipes, treated accordingly.
View site →About
samtsites is Sam Thompson, a Portland-based designer who builds websites for local food businesses. Not an agency, not a platform — one person with a deliberate system and a short client list.
Every project goes through the same process: a 15-question intake form, a set of specific design decisions made out loud before any code gets written, and a single HTML file delivered at the end. The system is what keeps the sites from looking like each other.
Sam works with restaurants, cafes, delis, bars, and food trucks in the Portland area. If the business has a point of view, the site should too.
Based in
Portland, Oregon
Serves
Restaurants, cafes, delis,
bars, food trucks
Deliverable
Single HTML file — no platform, no subscription, no build step
Turnaround
5–7 days (Standard)
10–14 days (Full Build)
How It Works
A 15-question document about your business — hours, menu, story, suppliers, the one weird true detail no other restaurant could say. Takes about 20 minutes.
We look at the six reference sites together. You point to the one that feels closest to your place. This takes 10 minutes and saves three rounds of revision.
Font pairing, color system, hero layout, menu style, and voice — all stated and justified before any code is written. No surprises at the end.
You get a preview link. Real copy from your intake, no Lorem Ipsum. Anything missing gets a [TO CONFIRM] bracket so nothing slips through.
We walk you through pointing your domain. You go live. Menu updates and small changes after launch are a quick email away.
Service Tiers
You fill out the intake form completely. We make the design picks, write any gaps in copy, and build it. Best when you have a full menu, decent photos, and a clear sense of your place.
Starts with a 30-minute call. We fill out the intake together and write the copy with you — drawing out the specific details that make your place yours. For restaurants with a strong story that needs help onto the page.
Pricing on request — get in touch and we'll go from there.
Common Questions
Tell us what kind of place it is and where you're at. We'll take it from there.