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Saffron
A free restaurant website template for WordPress: menus with prices, private dining, gallery, opening hours and a table reservation form with party size.
Free
GPL license - Free for personal & commercial use
- No account or email required
- Downloaded from the official source
- Type
- Open source
- License
- GPL
- Updated
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About Saffron
Saffron is a free restaurant website template for WordPress. It includes a 16-section home page, a full menu with prices, signature dishes, private dining, a chef profile, gallery, reviews, opening hours and a built-in table reservation form with party size — designed to fill tables for restaurants, cafés and bistros.
Pages included
- Home — The full home page: hero, highlights, story, signature dishes, menu preview, chef, numbers, offer, gallery, drinks, private dining, reviews, hours, FAQ, journal and reservation form.
- Menu — Full dinner and brunch menus with prices, drinks and dietary notes.
- Private dining — Private dining and events, spaces, packages and enquiry form.
- About — Restaurant story, values, numbers, reviews and a call to action.
- Reservations — Reserve a table: reservation form, address, opening hours and FAQ.
- Journal — a styled blog with three demo posts, archive and search templates.
A 17-section home page
Hero · Highlights · Our story · Signature dishes · Menu preview · Meet the chef · Numbers · Tasting menu · Gallery · Drinks · Private dining · Reviews · Opening hours · FAQ · Journal · Call to action · Reservation form.
Custom plugins included
Booking Requests — our own free plugin, bundled in the ZIP and installed in one click. It adds a booking and quote-request form block with a request inbox, email notifications, status tracking and CSV export.
Fast, accessible and SEO-friendly
Saffron is a block theme: every section is a pattern you can edit in the WordPress page editor with no code. It uses self-hosted fonts, no theme JavaScript, AA color contrast and responsive layouts, and works with Yoast, Rank Math and other SEO plugins. Three color styles are included. Looking for a restaurant website template, cafe website template and bistro WordPress theme? Install Saffron, import the demo and start editing in minutes.
Features
- Block editor
- Booking form
- Pricing tables
- Style variations
- One-click demo
- Accessibility-ready
- Responsive
- SEO-ready
Live demos
Runs a real WordPress site with this theme installed, right in your browser. Nothing to install — it resets when you close it.
Custom plugins included
Built by us, free to use and bundled inside the theme ZIP. They install in one click from the theme’s setup screen.
Booking Requests
Our own free plugin, bundled in the theme ZIP and installed in one click. It adds a booking and quote-request form block: requests are saved in your dashboard, emailed to you and exportable.
- Appointment, quote and consultation form block
- Choose the questions: phone, address / ZIP, service, date, time, message and your own extra question
- Request inbox with New / Contacted / Booked / Closed tracking
- Email notifications and optional customer confirmation
- CSV export for Excel and Google Sheets
- Spam protection without CAPTCHAs (honeypot, timing check, rate limit)
- Works with WordPress personal data export and erase tools
How to install
1. Install the theme
- Download saffron.zip. Don’t unzip it.
- In WordPress, go to Appearance → Themes → Add New Theme → Upload Theme.
- Choose saffron.zip, click Install Now, then Activate.
2. Import the demo
- Go to Appearance → Saffron setup and click Import demo content.
- This creates the Home, Menu, Private dining, About, Reservations and Journal pages, sample posts with photos, the menu and the front page. It also installs Booking Requests, our free plugin (booking form) that comes inside the theme.
3. Set up your forms
- In Bookings → Settings, add your services, preferred times and the email address that should receive requests.
- Requests appear under Bookings. Mark each one as Contacted, Booked or Closed, and export them to CSV any time.
- If notification emails don’t arrive, install an SMTP plugin such as WP Mail SMTP. Requests are always saved in the dashboard either way.
4. Make it yours
- Edit text and photos right on each page — just click and type.
- Update your phone, email, address and hours in Appearance → Editor → Patterns → Header / Footer.
- Change colors and fonts in Appearance → Editor → Styles. Try the Olive and Midnight styles.
- Add more sections from + → Patterns → Saffron: Sections.
The ZIP includes INSTALL.txt with these steps.
Prefer not to do it yourself? We’ll set it up for you.
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Full Site Editingtheme.jsonBlock patternsBundled plugin
