TheVenue

Author: Colorlib

Updated: October 2026 · v3.0.0

Credits: Images from Unsplash

The Venue is a restaurant website template, built on Bootstrap 5, with a warm beige palette, script subtitles and full-width food photography. The layout is responsive and mobile-ready and works in all popular web browsers. It comes with 13 pages: home, about, menu, delivery, journal, six journal posts, contact and elements.

The home page has an introduction with two photos, a video section, a menu preview with starters, mains and desserts, and a signature dish, and every page ends with a table reservation form. The about page presents the kitchen team with short biographies and a guest testimonial slider, the menu page lists the full menu and the signature dishes, and the delivery page lets guests pick dishes and send an order request. You will also find a journal with six posts, a contact page with opening hours, a message form and a map that loads on click, and an elements page with buttons, accordions, tabs, loaders, counters and icon boxes. The Venue gives you a ready-made site for a restaurant, bistro or other dining business.

What’s new in 3.0

• Bootstrap 5.3.8 (the earlier release used Bootstrap 4.1.2 and jQuery), compiled from Sass with the original grid proportions, and plain JavaScript with no jQuery. Swiper 14 replaces Owl Carousel on the testimonial slider, Jarallax replaces the parallax plugin, a video dialog replaces Colorbox, native date and time inputs replace the jQuery UI pickers, and native counters and SVG rings replace GreenSock, ScrollMagic and progressbar.js. Lucide SVG icons replace Font Awesome 4.7 and the PNG icons. npm run build (Dart Sass and esbuild) compiles the minified stylesheets and script.
• Lighter pages: the home page went from 2.6 MB and 37 requests to 0.72 MB and 26 requests, the contact page from 3.0 MB and 107 requests to 0.51 MB and 21 requests, and the download from 6.2 MB to 5.9 MB. Every photo has an AVIF version with the JPEG as the fallback, real dimensions and lazy loading.
• No third-party requests: PT Sans Narrow and Great Vibes are self-hosted, social logos come from a small local subset (the Twitter bird is now the X logo), the contact page map is an OpenStreetMap map that loads only when a visitor clicks “Show map”, the home page video loads from YouTube’s privacy-enhanced player only after a click, and a Google Analytics 4 snippet stays commented out until you add your own ID. Before, every page loaded its web fonts from Google Fonts and the contact page loaded Google Maps.
• Working forms: the table reservation form, a new contact form and the delivery order request form send through php/send-email.php, with checks on dates, opening hours and party size, a spam trap and sending, success and error messages. Before, the reservation form had no action and no name, phone or email fields, so nothing could be sent, and the contact page had no form. The delivery form sends a request that the restaurant confirms by phone; no online payment is taken.
• One consistent menu: 16 dishes with the same names, photos and prices on the home, menu and delivery pages, and signature dishes that match their photos. Before, every dish listed the same ingredients and the signature dishes were named after the wrong photos. Every “Order Now” link opens the delivery page with that dish already in the order, and the Delivery link in the menu works.
• Accessibility: a skip link and landmarks on every page, one h1 per page, a menu that works from the keyboard and closes with Esc, accordions and tabs that open from the keyboard, labelled form fields, visible focus rings and WCAG AA text contrast, with darker shades of the beige for text and dark text on beige buttons.
• Fixed: the testimonial slider had a single slide and no controls; it now has three guest reviews and 48 px arrow buttons. More than 90 dead links now go to real pages, the journal has six distinct posts with their own pages (five had the same title), the footer contact lines have their proper labels, typos are fixed, and the address, phone, email and opening hours are fictional. The kitchen team photos are replaced with Unsplash photos of chefs at work.