01Codex · Fire & food
The Hearth
A fire-led opening with a generous dropdown for food, drinks, and the visit.
Sticky header + menu dropdown
Seven complete directions · One restaurant
Find your
South Main.
Explore the look, try the navigation, and browse the full Summer 2026 menu. Three Codex concepts and four Claude concepts, brought together under Lauren’s restaurant design brief.
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02Codex · Bright & relaxed
River House
A light, welcoming page with a spacious navigation panel and direct menu access.
Full-screen editorial navigation
03Codex · Bold & social
After the Adventure
Adventure energy with always-visible desktop destinations and thumb-friendly mobile actions.
Side rail + mobile bottom actions
04Claude · Bright baseline
Original / v1
Claude’s bright split hero and familiar, immediately visible navigation.
Classic sticky horizontal header
05Claude · Dark & atmospheric
Ember
Claude’s dramatic steakhouse direction with a restrained header and slide-out navigation.
Transparent header + side drawer
06Claude · Best fit for the brief
River Light
Claude’s airy editorial direction with balanced navigation and labeled section shortcuts.
Centered logo + section index
07Claude · Brewery energy
Basecamp
Claude’s playful outdoor direction with separate exploration and practical navigation.
Two-tier header + quick links
My recommendation after reading the brief
River Light’s atmosphere.
The Hearth’s menu navigation.
River Light best reflects “steakhouse vibes, but open and bright.” The Hearth’s visible dropdown makes a large menu easier to explore. The full-screen and side-rail concepts offer more distinctive alternatives to test against that practical baseline.
Start with River Light ↗More research. More ways to explore.
A good visit starts
with a clear way in.
Mountain Standard ↗
Distinct food, drinks, wine, and visit destinations. Inspired category shortcuts and mobile quick actions.
Sweet Basil ↗
Expandable groups make a broad site manageable. Inspired the menu dropdown and organized navigation panels.
The Still ↗
Food, drinks, gatherings, and hospitality are distinct guest interests. Inspired a dine-in focus with ordering secondary.
Guard and Grace ↗
A repeated primary action keeps the next step clear. Here it is “View the menu,” with no unconfirmed booking flow.
What changed, and what still needs confirmation
- All seven concepts use the restaurant blues and Montserrat. Yellowtail is the temporary script substitute; the supplied brief says Billion Dreams must be uploaded for Wix.
- Every concept includes the same complete supplied Summer 2026 menu: 66 item blocks, 21 beer/wine rows, and 68 modifier/side rows, plus featured steak frites, category introductions, and the original dietary legend.
- Claude’s layouts are preserved while navigation, menu accessibility, footer links, and visit information are expanded.
- Unconfirmed reservations, event capacity, event email, and street-parking claims have been removed. Hours and menu content follow the supplied brief and mockup source, not a new live-menu verification.
- All photos come from the supplied Claude files; the brief documents their professional-shoot origins. The sliced-steak photo is not treated as verified elk photography.
- These are local, working design concepts for a later Wix rebuild. Nothing has been published to the restaurant domain.