Tasting menu design

Tasting menus use their own two layouts — Menu design 1 and Menu design 2 — instead of the five item layouts. A tasting menu is one document, read top to bottom, and the item layouts render grids of separate dishes, which is the wrong shape entirely.

What the designs render

Both take the same content and lay it out as a menu:

• the menu title and subtitle;
• the introduction from the description;
• each course block in order, with its title and its content;
• the footer note;
• the menu price and, where filled, the pairing price.

Blocks with an empty title are not rendered, so a menu with four courses uses four blocks and leaves the rest alone.

Choosing between the two

The choice is made when the menu type is enabled, under Content settings → Content types, and it applies to every tasting menu on the site.

There is no per-menu design. If you offer a short and a long tasting menu, both use the same design — which is correct: they are the same restaurant's menus.

Preview both with real content before deciding. A design that reads well with three courses can feel sparse with twelve, and the reverse is also true.

Writing for these designs

The design lays out what you write, so the writing carries the result:

• Block titles should be pronounceable and short — Snacks, From the sea, The grill, Sweet.
• Block contents should be dish names and the essential detail, not recipes.
• Consistency across blocks matters more than any single block: if one course has three lines and the next has one word, the design cannot rescue it.
• The description is the introduction, not a second copy of the menu.

Do not paste the whole menu into the description. The blocks are the structure the design was built for.

The footer note

Nota al pie prints under the menu and is where the conditions belong: whether VAT is included, whether the menu is served for the whole table, the minimum number of diners, and where allergen information can be requested.

It is rich text, so it can carry more than one line, but keep it short. A footer that is longer than a course reads as small print.

Prices

Two values are rendered: the menu price, and the pairing price where one is filled. There are no per-item prices anywhere in these designs, because nothing on a tasting menu is sold individually.

Several tasting menus

Each menu is its own record. When there are several, categories group them — All year, Seasonal — and the archive lists them.

Order them deliberately on All items: the menu you most want ordered goes first.

Check it on a phone

• [ ] The whole menu can be read in one scroll without pinching.
• [ ] Block titles are distinguishable from block contents.
• [ ] Empty blocks are genuinely absent, not rendering as gaps.
• [ ] The price and the pairing price are both visible and clearly distinct.
• [ ] The footer note is legible.
• [ ] The menu reads correctly in every published language — this is the record with the most translatable text on the site.