Smokelands BBQ, Cafe & Bar

The project

A complete site for a Texas-style BBQ restaurant on the Tweed Coast: a browsable menu, online bookings that land straight in an admin dashboard, and a local SEO layer built for both Google and AI answer engines.

The challenge

The venue was opening with a new menu and no site of its own: every booking came through phone calls and Instagram DMs, and they were invisible for searches like "BBQ Pottsville". They needed something a hospitality team could run without touching code.

The solution

Astro in static mode renders every page at build time, so the full menu — each dish, price and allergen — is crawlable text rather than a PDF. On top sit two React islands: the booking form, which writes to Firestore, and a private dashboard where staff confirm or cancel each table. The hero runs a three.js smoke animation that degrades gracefully on weaker devices.

What it includes

• Online bookings stored in Firestore with a protected admin dashboard
• Restaurant + FAQPage structured data for rich results in Google
• Full menu as static HTML: readable by search engines and AI assistants
• Real photography optimised to WebP at two sizes (800 / 1600 px)
• Automatic deploy to Firebase Hosting on every push to main