Ember is a premium, ready-to-launch website template for a modern wood-fire restaurant, seasonal bistro or grill room — the kind of place that wins the table before the guest arrives. Warm cream, espresso ink and a single terracotta accent give it a candle-lit, food-magazine feel that makes your dishes the loudest thing on the page.

It's built on static HTML + Tailwind CSS. No React, no build step — the compiled CSS ships in the box, so you open index.html and you're live on any static host.

WHAT'S INSIDE (11 sections)

• Sticky nav + accessible mobile menu

• Hero with a circular "plated" cover shot and a handwritten chef's note

• Our-story / fire-kitchen philosophy band

• Signature dishes (photo cards with the dotted-leader price)

• Full menu — categories with the printed-menu dotted leaders (name ……… price)

• Editorial gallery (asymmetric mosaic, not a uniform grid)

• Meet-the-chef with animated count-up stats

• Reviews & press with star ratings

• A reservations form (honest — no dark patterns)

• Hours & location (hours rendered as the same leader motif) + a CSS map placeholder

• Footer with newsletter signup

WHY IT'S DIFFERENT

• A real signature, not a stock kit — the printed-menu dotted leader recurs across dishes, menu and hours; a circular plated hero frames the food like a cover; Caveat handwriting carries the chef's voice.

• Re-skin from one place — every colour and font is a token; change the terracotta and the whole site follows.

• Self-hosted fonts (Cormorant Garamond · Manrope · Caveat, woff2) — no Google CDN, no layout shift.

• Image-resilient — every photo has a warm CSS fallback, so the page never looks broken.

• WCAG AA contrast, semantic HTML, keyboard-friendly, prefers-reduced-motion aware.

• Lighthouse: Performance 95 · Accessibility 100 · Best-Practices 100 · SEO 100.

• No dark patterns — no fake countdowns, no fake scarcity.

WHAT YOU GET

index.html · compiled + source Tailwind CSS · a few KB of vanilla JS · self-hosted fonts · favicon + OG image · 12 demo photos · documentation · changelog · license notes.

Live demo (free Lite version): https://mcmxcixx.github.io/ember/