A premium restaurant website with multilingual navigation, reservation flows, and a MySQL-backed interactive menu.
Executive Summary
Pimlico is a full-stack restaurant website built to combine premium visual presentation with a maintainable content system, using a MySQL-backed menu so operational updates do not turn into code edits.
Role
Product direction, UI implementation, Next.js architecture, database-backed menu system
Impact
Turns a visually refined restaurant site into an operational product the team can update without rebuilding the frontend each time.
Experience
Restaurant web app
Brand-led marketing surface, reservation path, and menu exploration in one experience.
Content engine
MySQL menu data
The interactive menu is managed through a database instead of hardcoded frontend content.
Localization
TR-first, multilingual
Language switching and content structure support an international-facing hospitality brand.
Ops stack
Prisma workflows
Generation, migrations, seeding, and runtime bootstrap scripts keep the content layer maintainable.
Context & Problem Space
Restaurant websites often look polished on the surface but become fragile underneath when menus, pricing, and multilingual content are baked straight into templates. Pimlico was built to solve both sides of the problem: the hospitality-facing brand experience and the structured system needed to keep the menu interactive and easy to manage over time.
Reporting Workflow
Article & Visual Analysis
Pimlico was not just a visual restaurant homepage. The real logic of the project was making the site feel premium on the surface while keeping the menu interactive and maintainable underneath through a MySQL-backed data layer.
The public-facing experience is hospitality-first: strong brand presentation, quick access to menus, clear reservation intent, and multilingual navigation. Under that surface, the important decision was to keep menu content structured in the database so updates could happen operationally instead of through repeated hardcoded page changes.
The package points to a modern full-stack Next.js build: Next.js 15, React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Prisma, MySQL, next-intl, Zod, Radix UI, and NextAuth in the application stack. The migration, seed, bootstrap, image audit, optimization, and font scripts also show that the project was set up as a maintainable system rather than a one-off frontend deliverable.
This case study matters because it connects interface polish with operational thinking. The site sells the restaurant experience visually, but the stronger engineering decision is that the interactive menu is backed by a real data model, which makes the product more useful long after launch.
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