Restaurant booking system
How table bookings should work once the website exists.
Websites · Restaurants
A restaurant website in Malta
that visitors can actually use.
Guests want today’s menu, allergen facts they can trust, and a way to book or find you, often in more than one language. This is how to build that site.
Short answer
A restaurant website in Malta should show today’s menu, the 14 allergen groups the EU requires you to tell customers about, how to book or order, and where you are, in more than one language if tourists eat with you. Malta Digital builds these as part of web design in Malta, from €990.
Key takeaways
- What should a restaurant website in Malta include? A home page with hours and locality, a menu with prices in euro, allergen information for the 14 groups in EU Regulation 1169/2011, a map or clear directions, and one main action: book, order or view the menu. Extra languages help if you serve visitors.
- Do I have to show allergens on the website? For food that is not prepacked, EU Regulation 1169/2011 requires allergen information to be available before someone orders. Putting it on the same menu page is the practical way to do that. This is not legal advice; update the page when a recipe or supplier changes.
- How many tourists visit Malta? The NSO December 2025 inbound tourism release (NR 020/2026, 12 February 2026) recorded 4,022,310 arrivals in 2025, 25.4 million nights and €3,904.4 million in expenditure. About 57.3% visited Gozo and Comino, including same-day trips.
First look
What a visitor checks in ten seconds.
A visitor landing on a restaurant website in Malta is usually hungry, on a phone, and deciding between you and two other places. They want today’s menu, whether they can book or order, where you are, and whether the food will be safe for someone who cannot eat certain ingredients.
A Facebook page can carry photos. It cannot replace an address you own when someone searches “restaurant Sliema menu” or when a hotel concierge pastes your link. If you are still weighing that, read whether a Facebook page is enough.
This page is about the website itself, as part of web design in Malta. Bookings are covered in our restaurant booking system guide. Ads are covered in Facebook ads for restaurants. Online ordering has its own guide too. What follows is the site those three things rest on.
Why it matters here
Malta’s visitors are a real audience, not a slogan.
Restaurants in Malta and Gozo serve residents all year and a large visitor audience on top. The National Statistics Office recorded more than four million inbound tourists in 2025. Its December 2025 release (NR 020/2026, published 12 February 2026) put the year at 4,022,310 arrivals, 25.4 million nights and €3,904.4 million in tourist expenditure, or €971 per person. About 57.3% of those tourists visited Gozo and Comino, including same-day trips.
A Central Bank of Malta study of the accommodation and food services sector, using NSO business-register figures, counted 4,297 active units in that sector in 2024, or 7.1% of all registered business units. Food and beverage services were 62% of those units in 2024. Many of those businesses are small cafes, bars and restaurants. A clear website is one of the cheaper ways to look finished next to a neighbour who only has a Facebook album.
In December 2025 the largest visitor groups were residents of the United Kingdom, Italy and Poland. That is why an English menu with Italian, and sometimes German or French, is not decoration. It is how a table in Valletta or Xlendi gets filled on a Tuesday in February.
| Fact | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Inbound tourists in 2025 | 4,022,310 | NSO inbound tourism, December 2025 (NR 020/2026) |
| Nights spent in 2025 | 25.4 million | Same NSO release |
| Tourist expenditure in 2025 | €3,904.4 million (€971 per person) | Same NSO release |
| Share who visited Gozo and Comino | 57.3% (2,305,968, including same-day visitors) | Same NSO release |
| Active accommodation and food-service units, 2024 | 4,297 (7.1% of business units); food and beverage 62% | Central Bank of Malta analytical article, citing NSO |
Structure
The pages a restaurant website needs.
You do not need a magazine. You need a short path that a tourist on mobile data can finish.
- Home. Where you are, what kind of food, opening hours and one button: book, order or view the menu.
- Menu. Today’s food and drink, with prices in euro, in the languages your guests actually speak.
- Allergens. The 14 allergen groups, easy to open before someone orders. More on that below.
- Visit. Map, locality, whether you are in Valletta, a village in Gozo or both, plus parking or bus notes if they matter.
- Book or order. A form, a booking tool or a clear next step, not three competing buttons.
- Private events. Only if you want that work: a short page with capacity and a form.
A QR code on the table should open the same menu, not a third-party page that hides your name. If you are choosing between a QR-only menu and a full site, the site still wins for Google and for anyone booking from a hotel room.
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The rule that matters
Menus and the 14 allergens.
Food sold in Malta has to follow the EU Food Information to Consumers rules (Regulation 1169/2011). For food that is not prepacked (the plate that leaves your kitchen), Article 44 says customers must be able to get allergen information. Annex II lists 14 substances or products that cause allergies or intolerances, including cereals containing gluten, crustaceans, eggs, fish, peanuts, soybeans, milk, nuts, celery, mustard, sesame, sulphur dioxide and sulphites, lupin and molluscs.
The information has to be accurate and it has to be available before someone orders. A line that says “ask staff” is weak if the staff member is busy and the guest is choosing from a QR menu on their own. Putting the allergens next to each dish, or behind a clear “allergens” control on the same page as the menu, is the practical way to do it.
This is not legal advice, and recipes change when a supplier changes. When a sauce changes, the menu has to change the same day. The European Commission’s page on mandatory food information is the official overview; your environmental health contact can confirm how it is applied on the ground.
| Item | Why it belongs on the website |
|---|---|
| Dish name and a short description | Guests decide before they walk in, especially visitors |
| Price in euro | Removes the surprise that sends people to the next listing |
| The 14 allergen groups that apply | Required information for non-prepacked food under EU 1169/2011 |
| A note that recipes can change | Honest, and it reminds you to update the page |
| Opening hours and last kitchen time | Stops a wasted journey from Mellieha or Mgarr, Gozo |
Free tool
Your restaurant page plan.
Pick the kind of place you run and what you want the site to do. The planner lists the pages and the allergen note to adapt. Nothing you pick is sent anywhere.
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Next step
Booking, ordering and ads sit on top of the site.
If you take reservations, the button should open a short form or a booking tool, not a blank email. Our booking guide explains the options. If you want people to order without a marketplace in the middle, read the online ordering guide and be honest about delivery areas, including Gozo. Once bookings arrive, a restaurant CRM turns them into a guest list you can invite back.
Marketplace apps have their place. They also take a commission you should know before you decide the website is “only for photos”. We will cover those published commission figures in a separate article so this one stays on the pages themselves.
When the menu page is clear, ads have somewhere useful to send people. That is the moment Facebook ads for restaurants start to make sense.
Prices
What a restaurant website costs with us.
Most neighbourhood restaurants start with a Professional Website, from €990, for up to five core pages. A fuller menu in more languages, event pages and a tighter booking journey usually sit on a Business Website from €2,490 or a Growth Website from €4,900. A custom booking or ordering system starts from €7,500.
If you need up to 15 pages live within 24 hours after payment is cleared, the separate 24-hour website is €2,990, with a 100% refund if we miss the deadline and you keep the site.
See web design in Malta for the full list. Tell us the locality, the number of dishes and the languages you need, and we will say which package fits.
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A few straight answers
What you might be wondering.
What should a restaurant website in Malta include?
A home page with hours and locality, a menu with prices in euro, allergen information for the 14 groups in EU Regulation 1169/2011, a map or clear directions, and one main action: book, order or view the menu. Extra languages help if you serve visitors.
Do I have to show allergens on the website?
For food that is not prepacked, EU Regulation 1169/2011 requires allergen information to be available before someone orders. Putting it on the same menu page is the practical way to do that. This is not legal advice; update the page when a recipe or supplier changes.
How many tourists visit Malta?
The NSO December 2025 inbound tourism release (NR 020/2026, 12 February 2026) recorded 4,022,310 arrivals in 2025, 25.4 million nights and €3,904.4 million in expenditure. About 57.3% visited Gozo and Comino, including same-day trips.
Is a Facebook page enough for a restaurant?
It is useful for photos and daily specials. It is not a substitute for a menu and allergen page on an address you own, especially when visitors or a hotel concierge need a link that will still work next season.
How much does a restaurant website cost?
At Malta Digital a Professional Website starts from €990, a Business Website from €2,490 and a Growth Website from €4,900. The 24-hour website is €2,990 for up to 15 pages. A custom booking or ordering system starts from €7,500.
Should the menu be in more than English?
If you serve visitors, yes. In the NSO December 2025 release the largest visitor groups were residents of the United Kingdom, Italy and Poland. English plus Italian is a common starting pair; add others your floor staff actually hear.
Do you also handle bookings and ads?
Yes, as separate pieces of work. Bookings are covered in our restaurant booking system guide and ads in our Facebook ads for restaurants guide. This page stays on the website itself so the three do not compete.
Sources
Where these facts come from.
- NSO Malta: tourism releases : Inbound Tourism: December 2025, NR 020/2026, 12 February 2026 (figures cited as published in that release)
- Central Bank of Malta analytical article on accommodation and food services (NACE I) (4,297 active units in 2024)
- EU Regulation 1169/2011 on food information to consumers
- European Commission: mandatory food information
If you need it fast
A restaurant website in 24 hours.
If your opening night or a busy weekend is close, the separate 24-Hour Premium Website can put up to 15 pages live within 24 hours of cleared payment and complete content, for €2,990. If we are late, we refund 100% and you keep the site. Online table booking is still a separate project; on day one the site can offer a call, WhatsApp and a form. Read same-day websites in Malta or urgent websites for a launch if the date is fixed.
Keep reading
Related guides.
Facebook ads for restaurants
How to send nearby guests to a menu they can actually use.
Hotel website in Malta
Another visitor-facing site: rooms, bookings and languages.
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