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Case Study

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Cobre Kitchen

Restaurant & BarDenver, CO7 weeks

A vibrant Denver restaurant needed a website that matched the energy of the room — and actually converted browsers into reservations.

The Result

40%

40% increase in reservation click-throughs

About the Client

Cobre Kitchen is a lively Denver restaurant and bar known for craft cocktails, elevated Southwestern cuisine, and a vibrant atmosphere that keeps tables full six nights a week. Their energy is magnetic in person — it just wasn't showing up anywhere online.

01 / The Challenge

Where they were
before us.

The old site had no personality, no functional reservation flow, and a menu PDF that was permanently three months out of date. The brand was energetic, photogenic, and packed most nights — but online it was invisible. Reservation click-throughs were negligible. The team couldn't update anything without calling a developer, which meant specials and events were never posted in time. They were losing the Saturday-night decision-makers who do their research on Thursday.

02 / Our Approach

What we
actually did.

1

Discovery session centered entirely on brand voice and atmosphere — we spent time at the restaurant during service to understand what guests actually feel

2

Bold, high-contrast visual design with custom display typography that captures the restaurant's personality without trying to be something it's not

3

Animated menu sections with category filtering and a real-time 'Tonight's Specials' module — designed to be updated by the front-of-house team in under two minutes

4

OpenTable reservation integration embedded prominently on every page, not buried in a nav link

5

WordPress CMS with a custom events and specials module — the GM now updates the site themselves every Thursday without any technical knowledge

03 / The Solution

What we
delivered.

Full visual redesign on Next.js with a WordPress CMS layer for the team's content needs. We built the site the way the restaurant feels — energetic, approachable, and never making you work hard to find the thing you came for. The reservation CTA is impossible to miss.

04 / The Results

The numbers.

40%

Increase in reservation clicks

35%

Reduction in bounce rate

2 min

Time to update menus and events

7 wks

Discovery to launch

The new site genuinely feels like our restaurant. It's the first time we've had a website we're actually proud to send people to. Reservations jumped immediately.
M

Marco V.

Owner, Cobre Kitchen

What We Delivered

DesignCustom UI/UX design — desktop and mobile
DevFull-stack development and deployment
CMSContent management system setup and training
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