Galea's Kitchen, hospitalityReservations that run without a phone call
The problem
Galea's Kitchen is a family-run Maltese and Mediterranean restaurant on Merchant Street in Valletta, open from breakfast to late. Diners could not browse the menu or book a table outside opening hours, so after-hours bookings meant a phone call the next day, or a table booked somewhere else.
Project summary
- Dishes on the online menu
- 57
- Drinks across five lists
- 245
- Live table reservations
- 24/7
- Pages built for search
- 13
- Services
- Website, SEO / AEO / GEO
- Delivered
- July 2026
What we did
A fast, atmosphere-first website in Next.js with the full food menu, five drinks lists (cocktails, wines, beers, spirits and non-alcoholic), a gallery, offers and events. The reservations form books straight into the restaurant's own booking system: breakfast, lunch or dinner, 30-minute slots, inside or outdoors, with larger groups asked to call. Contact and newsletter forms send by email, and analytics only load once a visitor agrees.
Search, answers and AI assistants
Every page has its own title, description and canonical address, checked by a script before each build. The structured data describes the restaurant with its address, opening hours and a reserve action; the menus are marked up dish by dish, the reservations page carries its seven questions as FAQ markup, and offers and events have their own. The robots file names the AI crawlers it lets in, AI crawlers that cannot run JavaScript still get the full page metadata, and an llms.txt summary sits at the root. New pages reach Bing and the other IndexNow engines after every push, and thousands of old WordPress-style addresses Search Console had flagged now redirect to clean URLs. This is the SEO, AEO and GEO work we run for every client.
What changed
The menus read on a phone without pinching, opening hours resolve correctly in search, and a table can be booked at 11pm without anyone picking up a phone.
Questions restaurant owners ask usAnswered from what we built for Galea's Kitchen.
Do you build restaurant websites with online table booking?
Yes. For Galea's Kitchen the reservations form books straight into the restaurant's own booking system, by meal, 30-minute slot and inside or outdoors, so a table can be booked at 11pm without anyone picking up a phone.
Can my restaurant menu be on the website instead of a PDF?
Yes, and it should be. Galea's Kitchen has 57 dishes and five drinks lists built as real web pages, so they read on a phone without pinching and search engines can read every dish.
How do I get my restaurant to show up on Google with the right opening hours?
The website describes the restaurant in structured data: name, address, opening hours and a reserve action, with the menus marked up dish by dish. Your Google Business Profile should match it exactly, so search shows one consistent set of details.
Can ChatGPT and other AI assistants recommend my restaurant?
No one can make an assistant recommend a business, but a site can be easy to quote. Galea's Kitchen lets named AI crawlers in, keeps an llms.txt summary at the root, and gives crawlers that cannot run JavaScript the full page details.
I moved my restaurant website off WordPress. Why does Search Console show errors?
Usually because the old addresses no longer exist. On Galea's Kitchen thousands of old WordPress-style addresses that Search Console had flagged now redirect to clean URLs, so old links land on the right page.