Appetite is an elegant, modern theme for restaurants, cafes, and food bloggers.
Use this gorgeous WordPress restaurant theme to create a website that’s just as exquisite as your dining establishment. Start with a striking homepage. Customize it to reflect your restaurant’s brand. Choose from five other custom templates to design additional pages for your new site. That including a menu template that features images alongside your dish descriptions and pricing.
The premium Appetite theme has many of the features and functions your restaurant website needs built-in. Publish and highlight reviews and testimonials from diners, and use the WordPress block editor to add maps and directions, business hours, and a contact form. The OpenTable block makes online reservations easy, and you can start taking online orders with the right WordPress plugin — choose a WordPress.com Business plan for that.
And like all premium themes on WordPress.com, Appetite is free when you sign up for a Premium plan or higher!
Fully Responsive
Appetite is responsive, adapting smoothly to different screen sizes so your content will always look beautiful on smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktop screens.
Custom Page Templates
Appetite includes five custom page templates:
- Front Page Template
- Full-Width Page Template
- Grid Page Template
- Full-Width Grid Page Template
- Menu Template
Front Page Template
The Front Page Template template is designed to introduce your business.
Full-Width Page Template
The Full-Width Page Template looks like a regular page but without a sidebar, so your content stretches across the full width of the page.
Grid Page Template
The Grid Page Template displays child pages in a grid format, making it ideal for showcasing services, products, team members, store locations, etc. This template has a sidebar and a two-column layout.
Full-Width Grid Page Template
The Full-Width Grid Page Template does not have a sidebar and features a three-column layout.
Menu Template
The Menu Template displays all your food items. If the sidebar is inactive then your Menu Template will have a two-column layout, otherwise it will have one-column layout.
Custom Header Image
Appetite supports a Custom Header, allowing you to upload a single image to the header area. If a custom header image is not set then the header area will have a black background.
Custom Backgrounds
Appetite supports Custom Backgrounds. By default, your site has a full-width layout, but if you set a Custom Background, the site will switch to a boxed layout.
Featured Images
Each post’s Featured Image will be displayed to the left of your post, as a thumbnail image in archive views, and as a full-width image in single-page views.
Testimonials
Appetite comes with a dedicated testimonial archive page that allows you easily display what customers or clients are saying about your business.
Food Menus
Appetite makes it simple to add and update all your dishes and beverages. Each menu item displays its title, content, price, and a featured image. You can add an unlimited number of categories and set their display order.
Custom Menus
Appetite comes with two Custom Menu locations:
- Primary menu – located next to your site title.
- Social menu – displayed in two locations: in the toggle sidebar and at the bottom of your site.
Widget Areas
Appetite offers two widget areas:
- Sidebar – displayed on the right or left side.
- Footer – displayed at the bottom of your site.
Other Features
Quick Specs (all measurements in pixels):
- The main column width is
750
except when using the Front Page Template, Grid Page Template or Full-Width Page Template, where it is1140
. - Featured Images in archive views are
250
wide by250
high. - Recommended featured image width is
1100
. - Recommended featured image height is at least
480
.
Using Appetite On Your Site
This theme is only available to sites running Jetpack Professional. Purchasing Jetpack Professional gives you access to this theme and 200 others, as well as advanced security and WordPress services.