Web Development

China Tea Club — Restaurant website with custom gallery

China Tea Club

China Tea Club, a 40-year-old Chinese restaurant in Canberra, wanted a website that did justice to its history and its food. Connect Your Way built a clean, gallery-led site the team maintains itself, and is now scoping the next iteration with new categories and a refreshed design.

China Tea Club is a Chinese restaurant that has been serving Canberra for 40 years. They approached Connect Your Way looking for a website that showcased that history and the restaurant itself properly, with a prominent gallery as the centrepiece.

Sean worked closely with the owner to understand how the team would actually use the site day-to-day before any code was written — which pages they would touch, how often, and who would be doing it.

The China Tea Club home page, with a full-width photograph of the dining room above the restaurant's name, a short line about its 40 years in Canberra, and buttons to view the menu and book a table.

The result was a clean, gallery-led design with a lightweight content workflow the team could maintain themselves without ongoing developer support.

The China Tea Club menu page, showing dishes grouped by course with photographs, descriptions and prices in a single scrolling column.

The site has been live for over a year and the client has re-engaged Connect Your Way to plan an upgrade — adding new product categories and refreshing the visual design as the business grows.

The first piece of that upgrade is already delivered: an owner-editable admin console that lets the restaurant change its own menus, prices, photos and hours from a phone.

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