Hearth
A website template for a new restaurant / wine bar / café opening and building a list for opening night
Hearth is for a new hospitality venue opening soon and building a list for the first tables — a restaurant, a wine bar, a café, a supper club. Every other Sitelas waitlist sells software, a product, property, or a course; hearth sells a night out that hasn't opened yet. The register is warm-atmospheric: charcoal near-black, cream, a single ember accent, an elegant DM Serif Display against Inter, and appetising photography. It reads like a room you want a table in, not a landing page.
Who Hearth is for
Built for these, and tested against them.
- New restaurant / wine bar / café opening and building a list for opening night
- Supper club or pop-up capturing interest before the doors open
- Hospitality venue collecting a priority list ahead of reservations
- Chef-led opening building anticipation around a menu and a room
- Café or bar launching with an 'opening soon' page
What’s included
Everything below ships with the template, already filled in.
- Pages
- 1 page, written and laid out
- Enquiries
- A working form — messages land in your Sitelas inbox
- Type
- DM Serif Display and Inter · dark theme
- Everywhere
- Built and checked at phone, tablet and desktop widths
- Yours to change
- Every colour, word and photograph — in the editor or by asking an AI agent
About This Template
The first venue-opening waitlist
Venue-native signatures
An opening-date and address eyebrow set the anticipation. A menu preview shows the signature dishes without a full menu. A 'the place' block answers where, when, and how many seats. An atmosphere photograph carries the mood, and a chef credit gives it a name. None of these belong on a software waitlist.
Newsletter-signup / opening-list conversion
The page funnels to one join-the-list form. Submissions land in the Sitelas inbox; add a webhook to forward them to your booking tool so the list gets first tables when you open. Swap the join button for a reservation link once the doors are open.
When to pick something else
Hearth is the wrong template for these. Where there is a better one, it is linked.
- Open, operating restaurant with live reservations + full menu — try Beacon, Juniper, Latte or Amber
- Fine-dining tasting-menu SITE for an open room — try Juniper or Midnight-creative
- Software / SaaS / app or physical-product pre-launch
- Real-estate development register-interest — try Atrium
- Food-truck or delivery-only brand with online ordering
Free to use · No credit card required
- 1Opens in the editor with the starter content in place
- 2Change the words and pictures to yours
- 3Publish to a sitelas.com address, or your own domain
Key Highlights
Questions about Hearth
Can I change how Hearth looks?
All of it. Colours, type, spacing, photographs and every word are yours to edit — in the visual editor, or by asking an AI agent to do it for you. Nothing is locked.
Do I need to know how to code to use Hearth?
No. You edit the page by clicking the thing you want to change. There is no code to write and nothing to install.
What does Hearth cost?
Nothing to start, and there is no trial clock. A free site runs on a sitelas.com address; Pro is $9 a month per site when you want your own domain, analytics and more room.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes, on Pro. Point your domain at the site and SSL is issued automatically — there is no certificate to buy or renew.
Make Hearth yours
It opens in the editor with every page already written. Change what you want, publish when it reads like you.
Free to use · No credit card required
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