A Website for Your Restaurant or Café in Bistrița, Showing Your Real Plates
Bistrița has its own place in a novel read all over the world: this is where Jonathan Harker, Bram Stoker's character, spends a night before setting off for the Borgo Pass. In the book the town is called Bistritz, and thanks to it foreigners also walk through the old centre, between the Evangelical church and the Sugălete arcades, to see the town from the story. The road that climbs to that same pass, at Tihuța, and then down towards Bucovina also runs through here, and people crossing the mountains often stop in town for lunch. And, of course, the locals have their own favourite places and a habit of judging them closely.
Each of them opens a restaurant's website with a different question, but all of them look at the plate first. The MPO Web Studio team builds websites for venues in Bistrița, whether restaurants, cafés or bistros, that show the food exactly as it leaves your kitchen and bring the booking or the order straight to you.
Professional website from €290 · delivered in 3–7 days
How it works
- 1We build you a free demo of your site
- 2You tell us what to change
- 3You pay only if you love it
The foreigner who read about Bistrița before seeing it
The visitor who comes following the novel usually has a single evening here and a precise curiosity: he wants to eat something Romanian, not what he can find at home. But the names mean nothing to him. Sarmale, tochitură, papanași are words to him, not food. He decides from his hotel room, based on what he sees on the plate and on two lines telling him what's in it. A menu that explains the dishes simply, in English, and shows the real portion makes the choice easy for him. And someone who ate well in a town he saw only once talks about the dinner back home, not just about the church tower.
The lunch stop for those crossing the mountains
The road to Vatra Dornei passes through Bistrița and only then climbs towards Tihuța, so many people heading to Bucovina, or coming back from there towards Cluj, make their last stop before the mountains here, or their first after them. For them the town is an hour's break, not a destination, and their worry is that the break doesn't stretch to three hours. A place that says from the start that it serves lunch without a wait, has somewhere to leave the car and also packs food for the road shortens their search before they even reach the centre. A stop made on the way out, if it went well, then becomes a habit: on the way back, and the following summer, the same family no longer searches, they just let you know when they're arriving.
The plates in the photos come out of your kitchen
For the foreigner who chooses by the picture and for the local who knows your cook, a catalogue photo does the same harm: it promises a plate you don't serve. The first feels cheated at the table; the second notices at once and stops believing the rest of the page. That's why the mockup we prepare for free shows your portions, photographed in your venue, on your tableware and in your light. The example at /demo/horeca uses illustration images, good for seeing the structure; in your mockup they are gone. You or someone on your team takes the photos; we pick the frames and adjust the light, without adding anything that isn't on the plate. If you don't have good photos yet, we tell you which dishes are worth shooting first. The price starts from 290 €, the site goes live in a few days, one round of revisions is included, and the guarantee lasts 7 days from handover.
Frequently asked questions
Foreign tourists don't know what tochitură is. How do I explain the menu without weighing it down?+
With one short sentence under each dish, in English: what meat it is, how it's cooked and what it comes with. There's no need to translate the whole site; for a visitor staying one evening, the explained menu is the part that matters. We build the English version on request and tell you from the start how much it adds to the price. The Romanian name stays visible, because it's exactly the reason the visitor came.
A customer complained that the portion in the photo looked bigger than the one on the table. How do I avoid that?+
By photographing the portion exactly as it leaves the kitchen, on the plate you actually serve, with no garnish added just for the picture and no angles that inflate it. We choose the frame and correct the light, but we add nothing. For the local who comes back, a portion that matches the image is a reason to trust you; for the foreigner, it's the difference between a warm review and a sour one.
Many people stop at my place on the way to Vatra Dornei. Can they order lunch from the road so it's on the table when they arrive?+
Yes. We add a short pre-order on the site: the customer picks the dishes and the rough time they'll arrive, and the request reaches you on WhatsApp, where you confirm it. You decide what can be ordered this way, for example only dishes that don't suffer if they wait a few minutes. Someone who was served right away after hours at the wheel remembers the place for the drive back too.
Foreigners come who have read Bram Stoker's novel. Is it worth mentioning the story on the site?+
Yes, in moderation. One sentence in the English version, recalling that in the novel Jonathan Harker spends the night in Bistrița before the Borgo Pass, tells the visitor they've reached the place they were looking for. The rest of the page stays about your cooking: we don't rename the dishes, we don't put bats on the menu and we don't invent links your venue doesn't have. If there's a dish foreigners often ask for after reading the book, we flag it, but only if you really cook it.
Want to see what your business's website could look like?
Message us on WhatsApp and we'll build you a free demo website with your business name on it. See it first, then decide — no strings attached.