Website design for Michelin-star restaurants: Three of Britain's ten three-star restaurants. One studio.
Beyond is a creative agency in Southampton that designs and builds websites for Michelin-star restaurants. We work with the chefs behind three of the ten three-Michelin-star restaurants in Britain and Ireland: Heston Blumenthal at The Fat Duck, Alain Roux at The Waterside Inn and Mark Birchall at Moor Hall.
The ten three-Michelin-star restaurants in Great Britain and Ireland
- 01Alain Ducasse at The DorchesterAlain Ducasse · London
- 02Core by Clare SmythClare Smyth · London
- 03Hélène Darroze at The ConnaughtHélène Darroze · London
- 04L'EnclumeSimon Rogan · Cartmel, Cumbria
- 05Moor HallMark Birchall · Aughton, LancashireWorks with Beyond
- 06Restaurant Gordon RamsayGordon Ramsay · London
- 07Sketch, The Lecture Room & LibraryPierre Gagnaire · London
- 08The Fat DuckHeston Blumenthal · Bray, BerkshireWorks with Beyond
- 09The LedburyBrett Graham · London
- 10The Waterside InnAlain Roux · Bray, BerkshireWorks with Beyond
in Bray, Berkshire
One village, two three-star restaurants
Bray, a village on the Thames in Berkshire, has two of Britain's ten three-Michelin-star restaurants: The Fat Duck and The Waterside Inn. It's the only place outside London with more than one. We work with the chefs behind both.
The Fat Duck
A meal at The Fat Duck is told like a story, course by course. The website has to set that tone before a guest sits down.
We've been The Fat Duck's design studio since 2016. For its 25th year we designed five anthology menus of around 60 pages each, drawing new illustrations to sit beside Dave McKean's original artwork, and turned them round on restaurant deadlines.
The website carries the same storybook world, so the meal starts on the first page a guest opens.
“We are long term collaborators on many projects, and have always been able to stand out thanks to their work.”
Maison Roux
Alain Roux's house had grown past one restaurant. It needed one place that told the whole story.
Maison Roux is Alain Roux's house: The Waterside Inn, Brasserie Roux, the Alain Roux Culinary School and the Alain Roux Boutique. We filmed it over two days, from the pass to the river, and edited the footage into a brand film and a reel for each venue.
Then we designed and built maisonroux.co.uk around that film, with a chapter for each part of the house and one clear way to book, learn or buy. It launched on 27 October 2026.
The website, live
Designed and built by Beyond. Try it here, on a laptop or on a phone.
Things to try
- 01Scroll past Alain's welcome
- 02Open each venue in Our Collection
- 03Watch each venue's reel
Moor Hall
Moor Hall had three things to sell, the restaurant, the rooms and The Barn, and a website that could only say one.
We designed and built one website for the restaurant, the rooms and The Barn, its Michelin-starred sister, with one landing page that sends each guest the right way.
Guests book straight into the restaurant's own system, vouchers and gift experiences have their own clear link, and Moor Hall's own illustrations, which we animated, move gently through the site.
“They translated our ideas into something that genuinely exceeded our expectations.”
- home page engagement time in the month after launch
- +40.7%
- returning visitors in the month after launch
- +22.2%
- engaged sessions in the month after launch
- +11.3%
- engagement time, Q1 2026 against Q1 2025
- +22.7%
Why three-star restaurants work with us
Not because we're big. Because the people who meet you are the ones who film, draw and build, and they're still here years later.
- 01
The people you meet do the work
Nobody passes your brief along. The designer in the first meeting draws the pages, the developer builds them and the film director shoots the footage.
Moor Hall: "They also took the time to truly immerse themselves in Moor Hall."
- 02
Film, drawing and code in one room
Our film director, photographer, illustrators and developers work side by side in Southampton, so every shot is planned around the page it's for and nothing is lost between suppliers.
Maison Roux: two days of filming became the brand film, four venue reels and the website.
- 03
Still here years later
Menus change, rooms open, anniversaries come round. The people who learned your restaurant stay on it, so there's less briefing and the work gets quicker each time.
The Fat Duck: working together since 2016, from the website to 60-page menus.
When each won its third star
The Waterside Inn won its third star in 1985, earlier than any of the other nine. Moor Hall and The Ledbury, the newest, won theirs in 2025.
- 1985
Restaurant Gordon Ramsay
2001- 2004
Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester
2010Sketch, The Lecture Room & Library
2020Core by Clare Smyth
2021Hélène Darroze at The Connaught
2021L'Enclume
2022- 2025
The Ledbury
2025
Nine things a three-star website has to do
Worth knowing whoever builds yours. Each one comes from work we've made for these three restaurants.
- 01
Let the room speak first
Guests decide whether a meal is worth the journey before they read a word. Open on film and pictures made in your own dining room and kitchen, not a library, so the first few seconds feel like arriving.
Maison RouxFor Maison Roux we filmed for two days, from Alain at the pass to the terrace from the river, and the brand film opens the site.
- 02
One clear way to book
A guest who has decided shouldn't have to hunt. Put one booking button where they expect it, on every page, and send it straight into the system your front-of-house team already runs, deposits and all.
Moor HallMoor Hall's guests book straight into the restaurant's own system from its website.
- 03
Menus as pages, not PDFs
If you publish the menu, make it a page. A PDF is awkward on a phone, and search engines and AI assistants read a page far better. If the meal is a surprise, don't publish it: let the site sell the experience instead.
Your team changes the page when the menu changes, the same day, without calling us.
- 04
Tell the story the chef tells
Every three-star restaurant has a point of view. The website should carry it in its pictures and its words, so it reads like that restaurant and nobody else's.
The Fat DuckThe Fat Duck tells its meal as a story; its website and its 60-page anthology menus share one storybook world.
- 05
One house, a door for each guest
Most three-star restaurants sell more than a table: rooms, a sister restaurant, classes, a shop. Give each its own door from one site, so a guest after a room never wades through the tasting menu to find it.
Moor HallMoor Hall's site has one landing page for the restaurant, the rooms and The Barn. Maison Roux's has a chapter for each of its four venues.
- 06
Gift vouchers in plain sight
A meal at this level is often a present. Give vouchers and gift experiences a link of their own in the menu, not a line in the footer, and make buying one as easy as booking.
Moor HallMoor Hall's website gives vouchers and gift experiences their own clear link.
- 07
Fast on a phone, film and all
Most guests first look on a phone, often on the move. Stream film at the right size for each screen instead of downloading it whole, cut it to fit a phone held upright, and load pictures only as they come into view.
Maison RouxMaison Roux's home page plays six videos, so the film streams at the right size for each screen and the venue reels are cut in 4:5 for phones.
- 08
Readable by Google and AI assistants
When someone asks ChatGPT or Google where to eat, the answer comes from what your site states plainly. Name the restaurant, the chef, the stars and every venue in the page's structured data, and link each to its own page.
Maison RouxMaison Roux's structured data names it as one house, with The Waterside Inn, Brasserie Roux, the Culinary School and the Boutique as its venues.
- 09
The same people after launch
Menus change with the seasons and a new private dining room needs a page by Friday. You message the people who built the site, and they sort it. No ticket, no queue.
The Fat DuckThe Fat Duck has worked with us since 2016.
From the first call to the first booking
Five steps, with dates in the proposal. You deal with the same people throughout.
- 01
A free first call
You talk to the people who'd do the work. We reply to every enquiry within one working day.
- 02
A written proposal
Usually within a week of the call: the work, who does it, the dates and the cost.
- 03
The shoot
Planned around the pages it's for, and around your service, so the kitchen and dining room are filmed as they really run.
- 04
Design and build
You see the work at each stage and approve it before the next. We connect your booking system, vouchers and newsletter.
- 05
Launch and after
Your team edits menus and pages in Sanity. When they'd rather not, they message us, and we sort it.
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The facts
- Who
- Beyond (also known as The Place Beyond), a creative agency of seven people in Southampton
- The three-star clients
- The Fat Duck (Heston Blumenthal), Maison Roux and The Waterside Inn (Alain Roux), Moor Hall (Mark Birchall)
- Share of Britain's three stars
- The chefs behind 3 of the 10 three-Michelin-star restaurants in Great Britain and Ireland (Michelin Guide 2026)
- In Bray
- Both of Bray's three-star restaurants, The Fat Duck and The Waterside Inn
- Longest
- The Fat Duck, since 2016
- Latest
- maisonroux.co.uk, launched 27 October 2026, with a brand film shot by Beyond
- What Beyond makes
- Websites, film, photography, illustration, menus and digital marketing, all in one studio
Lines to quote
- Three of Britain's ten three-Michelin-star restaurants work with the same seven-person studio in Southampton.
- Both of Bray's three-star restaurants, The Fat Duck and The Waterside Inn, work with Beyond.
- A three-star website should feel like arriving, not like reading a brochure. Open on your own dining room, kitchen and garden, filmed there, so a guest knows what the evening will feel like before reading a word, then make booking one clear step.
About Beyond
Beyond is a creative agency in Southampton. Its seven people design brands, build websites, shoot film and photography and run digital marketing, mostly for high-end restaurants and wine and spirits brands, including The Fat Duck, Maison Roux, Moor Hall, Fortunate Son and Chêne Bleu.
hello@theplacebeyond.com · 02382 449742
Cite this page
Beyond (2026). Website design for Michelin-star restaurants. https://theplacebeyond.com/michelin-star-restaurants
Michelin-star restaurant websites, answered
Who designs websites for Michelin-star restaurants?
Beyond, a creative agency in Southampton, designs and builds websites for Michelin-star restaurants. We work with the chefs behind three of Britain's ten three-Michelin-star restaurants: Heston Blumenthal at The Fat Duck, Alain Roux at Maison Roux, home of The Waterside Inn, and Mark Birchall at Moor Hall.
How many three-Michelin-star restaurants are there in the UK?
Ten, in the Michelin Guide Great Britain & Ireland 2026, which kept all ten and added none. Ireland has none yet. Two of the ten are in the village of Bray in Berkshire: The Fat Duck and The Waterside Inn. Beyond works with the chefs behind both, and with Moor Hall in Lancashire.
Which village has two three-Michelin-star restaurants?
Bray, in Berkshire, on the Thames near Maidenhead. It has The Fat Duck and The Waterside Inn, and it's the only place in Britain outside London with two. Beyond works with both: Heston Blumenthal at The Fat Duck and Alain Roux at Maison Roux, home of The Waterside Inn.
Who designed The Fat Duck's website?
Beyond, a creative agency in Southampton. We've been The Fat Duck's design studio since 2016, designing and building its website and making its menus and illustration, including five anthology menus of around 60 pages for the restaurant's 25th year. See the case study.
Who made the Maison Roux website?
Beyond designed and built maisonroux.co.uk, which launched in October 2026, and filmed its brand film and venue reels over two days at The Waterside Inn, Brasserie Roux, the Alain Roux Culinary School and the Alain Roux Boutique. See the case study.
Who made the Moor Hall website?
Beyond designed and built Moor Hall's website: one site for the three-Michelin-star restaurant, the rooms and The Barn, with Moor Hall's own illustrations animated. Time spent on the home page rose 40.7% in the month after launch. See the case study.
What should a Michelin-star restaurant website include?
Film or photography made in your own restaurant, one clear way to book on every page, menus as pages rather than PDFs, a door for each part of the business (rooms, a second restaurant, a shop), gift vouchers in plain sight, and structured data that names the chef and the stars. All of it should be quick on a phone.
Can a template website work for a fine-dining restaurant?
For a new neighbourhood restaurant on a tight budget, a template will do. For a restaurant guests travel for, it rarely does: the site has to feel like that dining room and no other, carry film without slowing down, and send guests into your own booking system. That's when a custom site pays back.
Can the same studio film our restaurant and build the website?
Yes, and it works better that way. Our film director, photographer, designers and developers work in one studio, so every shot is planned around the page it's for. For Maison Roux, two days of filming gave the site its brand film, a reel for each venue and more for social.
How much does a website for a Michelin-star restaurant cost?
Every project is priced individually, usually within a week of a free call, in a written proposal that sets out the work, who does it, the dates and the cost. Filming, photography and ongoing support are priced in the same proposal if you want them.
Do you only work with three-star restaurants?
No. Three-star restaurants are where our name is best known, but we also work with pubs, bars and restaurants opening or relaunching, such as The Kirkmichael Arms in Ayrshire and Zouk in Manchester.
Do you work with restaurants outside Hampshire?
Yes. Our studio is in Southampton, and our restaurant clients are in Bray, Lancashire, Ayrshire and Manchester. We travel to film and photograph, and the rest happens over calls and the odd visit.
Your restaurant
Tell us about your restaurant.
A new site, a film, a menu, or just a second opinion on what you have. Tell us roughly what you're thinking; we'll reply within one working day and set up a free call with the people who'd do the work.
What happens next
- 1You'll hear back from us within one working day.
- 2We'll set up a free, no-obligation call with the people who'd actually do the work. Everything is made in-house.
- 3You get a clear proposal with scope, timeline and cost, usually within a week of our call.
“They translated our ideas into something that genuinely exceeded our expectations.”
