A tasting-menu restaurant whose menu is written at dawn from what the boat, the garden and the forest brought in — and a site where reading that menu serves it, course by course, onto one table.
Visual Direction
One table, photographed once from above, carries the whole evening: ten plates are served onto it in turn, each cut out of its own overhead photograph so the table never changes and only the food does. Everything is a concept render made in ComfyUI with Krea 2 — the plates, the room, the cellar and four producers at first light — kept to the same low, warm light from the upper left. The hero is a film of the kitchen pass at dawn, steam off the stock pot, made with MiniMax H3 from the dawn render and looped so it never cuts.
Bodoni Moda in italic names every course and headline — the thick-thin contrast of a printed menu card — while Instrument Sans keeps provenance, times, prices and every control plain and quiet, so the dish names are the only thing that performs.
Typography
Palette
The restaurant's hours: night (#110E0C) for the room and the table, linen (#F6F1E8) for the paper the menu is written on, and a single colour, first light (#EBA67E), kept for what is happening now — the sunrise time, the course on the table, the wine in the glass.
This morning — timed against today's sunrise
Layout Logic
The menu is still the designed object, but now it drives something: on wide screens the table holds still on the left while the ten courses scroll past on the right, and whichever course is at the reading line is the plate on the table; on a phone the table pins to the top of the screen. Below it, "This morning" lists the dawn deliveries in order, each linked to the courses it becomes, then the cellar, the two ways to sit, and a reservation that keeps a running summary of the evening beside the form.
Reading serves the food. Each plate arrives from the guest's right as a server would bring it and the last one is cleared away; the room darkens around the candle as the evening goes on, and "Pour the pairing" fills the glass with that course's wine — white, amber, red or sweet, each an inpainted render of the same glass. The dawn deliveries are timed against today's real sunrise in Saint-Malo, so the page tells the truth in June and in December, and a delivery's "becomes 03 Leek" serves that course on the table.
Interaction
Demonstrates
- Food art direction
- Scroll-driven storytelling
- Menu UX
- Reservation flow