Shoreditch, London

"Dishoom’s website looks exactly like its restaurants: incredibly aesthetic, heavily branded, and slightly overwhelming. You've absolutely nailed the vintage Irani café vibe with gorgeous typography and elegant framing. However, you've also nailed the feeling of being handed a thick novel when all you really want is a menu and a reservation link. The homepage is a sheer test of endurance. Right out of the gate, mobile users are hit with an aggressive promo modal that blocks the view. Once they swat that away, they're faced with an endless scroll of historical anecdotes, FAQs, and massive image blocks. By the time they actually find the 'Food Menu' button—because heaven forbid you actually show a dish and a price on the homepage—they might have starved to death. Credit where it's due: your 'Planning your visit' section is a masterclass in providing comprehensive information, detailing everything from nearby transport links to wheelchair accessibility. It's just a shame you decided to hide half of it behind mobile accordions. It's a gorgeous site, but it desperately needs a ruthless editor. Trim the fat, let the food take center stage, and save the history lessons for the back of the physical menu."

"Bengal Tiger might have an award-winning kitchen and a pristine 5-star Food Hygiene rating, but their website is suffering from a severe case of digital food poisoning. The layout is dominated by massive, inexplicable blocks of solid grey and black that force users to scroll through screens of literal nothingness. It feels less like a restaurant homepage and more like a modern art exhibition exploring the concept of the void. Then there's the typography. Someone clearly fell in love with a yellow cursive font, but they forgot to check if anyone could actually read it. Worse, the copywriter seems to have been abducted mid-sentence. You are greeted with sections grandly titled 'RESERVATION' followed by a delicate, illegible script whispering 'Make a'. Make a what? A run for it? The suspense continues down the page with 'ENJOY' followed by 'Come and'. Come and what?! The mystery is as thick as a good vindaloo. To top it all off, the navigation bar is a hoarder's dream, cramming 13 different links into the header, including three separate ways to look at food. Throw in a Mother's Day graphic that looks like it was made on Microsoft Word 2003, and you have a site that completely undermines the 'authentic, award-winning' vibe they are going for. Fix the broken spacing, finish your sentences, and ditch the cursive—your food clearly deserves a better digital storefront."