Jabu Bar & Rooftop Lounge
Eleven floors up in Kilimani: the bar, cocktails and kitchen, the rooftop by time of day, and a table request in a few taps.
- Project
- Self-initiated concept
- Sector
- Bar & rooftop lounge · Kilimani, 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
Jabu is a bar and rooftop lounge on the eleventh floor of Somerset Westview in Kilimani. It had no site of its own; guests found it through the hotel and Instagram.
- 02
The challenge
Make a hotel bar feel like a destination in its own right, and tell guests who aren’t staying at the hotel how to get up there and book.
- 03
What we built
A homepage that moves from the bar to the cocktails, kitchen and rooftop, a separate full menu page generated from one data file, and a table request that reaches the hotel’s front desk.
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.
- Warm, editorial identity in the lounge’s orange and cream
- Signature cocktails and a full food and wine menu page
- Rooftop gallery from afternoon light to after dark
- Table request form that writes the booking into an email for the guest to send
- Directions for walk-in guests, with the outdoor lift explained
- Smooth scroll and split-text motion, off with reduced motion
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