OakEmber

OakEmber (Oak and Ember on the demo) is a Squarespace 7.1 template by Byler Media, sold through the SquareKicker template store, built for restaurants, bistros and chef-led concepts with more than one location. The demo is a wood-fired farm-to-table restaurant in Austin: a fire-flavour-fresh-from-the-farm hero, a scrolling banner, an about section, a menu teaser with daily specials, reviews, a catering section and an events section, with a Menu page, an Order Online page, a Reservations page, About, Contact with hours and two locations, and Terms and Conditions. The old listing had the audience right but listed a five-page site with an Events page and built-in reservation tools, which is not quite it: there are seven layouts, no events page, and reservations and ordering are pages waiting for your provider's widget.

What you get

• Seven page layouts: Home, Menu, Order Online, Reservations, About, Contact and Terms and Conditions, on Squarespace 7.1 with Fluid Engine
• A menu page with a specials block and a weekly farm highlight, plus catering, events and quote sections
• Order Online and Reservations pages laid out for an embedded provider, and a footer with hours and two locations
• A cream, wood brown, blue-grey and deep green palette that changes in the Squarespace style editor
• SquareKicker scroll effects, magnetic motion, a sticky section and a sticky split, editable while the extension is active
• A one-off purchase with a free 30-day SquareKicker extension trial

Who it suits

Independent restaurants, bistros, gastropubs, smokehouses and cafes that take reservations and online orders, especially those with two sites. A single-location cafe can delete the second location block. It is not built for a bar with no food or a food truck without a menu page.

Honest limits

Reservations and online ordering are pages, not systems: you embed OpenTable, Resy, Tock, Toast, Square or a similar provider. The menu is edited by hand in Squarespace blocks, not fed from a POS. There is no events calendar page despite the old listing; events are a section on the home page. No gift-card sales without commerce. The motion effects are SquareKicker features that stay in place after the 30-day trial but need a subscription to keep editing.

How it is delivered

SquareKicker templates install through the SquareKicker Template Engine onto a new or existing Squarespace 7.1 site: connect the free SquareKicker extension, pick the template and it installs in a few clicks, with the choice of keeping your existing site styles or replacing them with the template's. There is no duplicate site to copy from. The purchase is one-off and includes a 30-day SquareKicker extension trial; you need a Squarespace Core plan or higher to publish, and SquareKicker template buyers get 10 per cent off a Squarespace plan.

Related guide: compare it with the other restaurant designs in our Squarespace templates for restaurants collection, or browse the Squarespace templates hub.