Prepared for Mount Lebanon, Sheffield
A better website for people looking for dinner, and a clearer one for Google and AI.
I’ve put this page together to show you what I’d change, why it matters, and four different directions the new website could take.
The aim is simple: make it easier for someone to see the restaurant, understand the food, and book a table, particularly on a phone.
Why I’d change the current site
The current site does the basic job of getting Mount Lebanon online. The useful detail is harder to find than it needs to be.
The homepage leads with a short line and a review form. The address, the hours, the chef and the menus sit further away. Someone on a phone should not have to hunt for 169-171 West Street, or for the fact that you are open every day from noon until midnight.
A person looking for Lebanese food in Sheffield also wants a straight answer. Who is cooking? Can I book? Is there a daytime menu as well as the main one?
Those answers should be easy to find.
Making them clear helps a customer. It also gives Google, and newer AI search tools, a much better understanding of the restaurant.
So rather than simply giving the existing site a new look, I’d use the chance to put the real restaurant on the first screen.
SEO and AI visibility, in plain English
SEO is search engine optimisation.
Put simply, SEO is about making it as easy as possible for Google to understand what your business does and where you do it.
For a local business, that starts with the basics: a fast website that works properly on a phone, consistent contact details and opening hours, sensible page titles, useful descriptions and clear answers to the questions customers actually ask.
It doesn’t guarantee a particular position on Google. Nobody can honestly promise that.
What it does is give Google clearer, more useful information about Mount Lebanon, the food, and where you are on West Street.
AIO is AI optimisation.
People are also starting to search differently.
Instead of always scrolling through a list of websites, someone might ask ChatGPT, Google’s AI features or another assistant something like, “Where can I get Lebanese food in Sheffield?” or “Is there a restaurant on West Street that takes a booking tonight?”
These systems gather information from websites and other online sources to build an answer.
The clearer and more consistent the information about your business is, the easier it is for those systems to understand what you do and describe it accurately.
In practice, that means clearly stating things such as your business name, location, services, opening hours and contact details, then structuring that information properly behind the scenes.
The plan
Whichever design you prefer, the important work underneath it stays the same.
The four examples below are different visual directions for the same business. They’re there to help you choose the look and feel you like before I finish the site around it.
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Choose the design you likeOpen each of the four options below and have a look at them properly.
Try them on your phone as well as a computer if you can. You don’t need to think about the technical side. Just tell me which one feels most like the direction you want to go in.
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Build it around the real restaurantOnce you’ve chosen a design, I’ll build it around the actual details of Mount Lebanon.
That includes Chef Sizar Al-Andari, 0114 327 5663, contact@mountlebanon.co.uk, and 169-171 West Street, Sheffield S1 4EW. Open every day from noon until midnight. No made-up prices or claims.
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Build the SEO in from the startRather than finishing the website and thinking about Google afterwards, I’ll put the important SEO basics into it as it’s built.
That includes the address, the hours, the chef, links to the food menu, the daytime menu and the wine list, and descriptions on the photographs.
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Make the same information clear to AI toolsAt the same time, I’ll structure the important facts so that search engines and AI tools can identify the restaurant more easily.
The idea is simply to make the website clear and consistent, for a customer reading it, for Google indexing it, and for an AI system trying to understand what Mount Lebanon does.
Once that’s done, the finished version will be ready to replace the current mountlebanon.co.uk site.
Have a look through the four designs
These are four different visual directions rather than four different versions of the business.
Select Open on any design to see it on its own page at full size. Have a look through all four, ideally on your phone as well.
Once you know which direction you prefer, just send me the number: 01, 02, 03 or 04.