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Rio Alto

A warmer, more distinctive restaurant website experience built around the company's history and Mexican identity.

Case file 06

Live buildRecorded at rioalto.ca
Rio Alto homepage

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Case file 06 / 06

Status
  • Launched website
Services
  • Website design
  • Brand storytelling
  • UX and UI design
Industries
  • Hospitality
Technology
  • Eleventy
  • Nunjucks
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

Reasoning

Three moves, in order.

Every project here starts as somebody’s stuck process. This is the path from that to the build above.

  1. Challenge

    What needed to change

    Create a restaurant website direction with more warmth, character, and connection to the company's history and Mexican identity.

  2. Approach

    How the problem was framed

    Use brand storytelling and a distinctive visual direction to shape a more memorable digital experience.

  3. Solution

    What took shape

    A hospitality website concept centred on history, identity, and a warmer customer experience.

Field evidence

The kitchen sets the pace.

Cinematic service footage, a searchable menu, and warm editorial pacing bring the restaurant's energy forward before a guest arrives.

Five colourful house-made tortillas plated with salsa and guacamole at Rio Alto
Plate 01Real dish photography gives the visual system a colour language that belongs to the restaurant.
Rio Alto desktop menu with dish photography, category navigation, and menu item cards
Plate 02The menu turns a long restaurant catalogue into an inviting, searchable browsing experience.
Rio Alto story section with a hacienda-shaped illustration and restaurant history
Plate 03The visual language connects High River with the restaurant's Mexico City roots.

Source photography

  • Trays of sliced pink and green festive sweet bread from the Rio Alto bakery
    01

    The bakery's own colour language, used to set the palette instead of a stock swatch.

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