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Le Furibard

A monthly menu, a 214-bottle wine list, in season.

A Philly wine bar that needed a real reservation system, a real monthly menu workflow, and a wine list the sommelier could update without calling me. Built in two weeks. Shipped at 58 kilobytes.

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Page weight
58kb
Seats
42
Wines by the bottle
214
Build time
2wk
The brief

Real reservations, real wine list, no templates.

The previous site was a Squarespace template with an OpenTable iframe glued on top. The menu was a PDF the chef updated monthly and the front-of-house remembered to upload. The wine list was a Google Doc shared by link. None of it loaded fast, and none of it survived contact with a busy Saturday.

The brief: a hand-built reservation flow that respects how the maître d' actually books a Friday service, a monthly menu workflow that doesn't require my involvement, and a wine list the sommelier can edit from a single file over morning coffee. Two weeks to ship. Under sixty kilobytes per page.

What we built

Highlights.

  • Custom reservation flow with party-size and seating-area logic
  • Monthly menu published from a single Markdown file
  • 214-wine list, by-the-bottle and by-the-glass, all on one page
  • Sommelier-editable Markdown workflow — no CMS, no logins
  • Press, hours, and address routes for local SEO
  • Sub-60KB page weight across the entire site
Location
Philadelphia, PA
URL
lefuribard.com
Shipped
2024
Stack
Static, hand-coded

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