ARA Nairobi
A Latin fusion restaurant told through its own legend: the full menu by course, the bar and the room in film, and one-tap reservations.
- Project
- Self-initiated concept
- Sector
- Latin fusion restaurant & bar · Red Hill Road, Nairobi
- Our role
- Design and development of the whole site, on our own initiative.
- Status
- Live concept site
The story. In thirty seconds.
A self-initiated concept: Ares designed and built this site on its own initiative for a real Nairobi business. It was not commissioned, and the business is not a client. Photos and video are the business’s own public material.
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The business
ARA is a Latin fusion restaurant and cocktail bar on the second floor of Astrol Square, Red Hill Road. Its story, menu and hours lived on Instagram highlights.
- 02
The challenge
A rich room and a long menu, and a story (the macaw that gives the place its name) that a standard restaurant template would leave out.
- 03
What we built
A single fast page that opens with the legend, moves from kitchen to bar to room, keeps the full menu in one data file, and makes reserving the obvious next step.
Take the tour. Click through the real screens.
Pick a screen, use the arrows, or swipe on a phone. Public screens only.
What’s inside. Feature by feature.
Everything below is built and working on the live site.
- Deep green and crimson identity drawn from the room itself, with the wordmark set in arches
- The legend of the macaw that gives the restaurant its name
- Full menu by course in tabs, generated from one data file, with dietary markers
- Charcoal-grill cuts and prices at a glance
- Short film loops of the bar and kitchen, loaded only when needed
- Open-now status from the opening hours, reservations and directions
- Scroll-driven galleries, off with reduced motion
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