Le Black Pearl

The problem was the old site. It ran on a dark, dated themed template that leaned so hard into the pirate motif that it read as murky rather than atmospheric — a site you squinted at instead of one you wanted to sit inside. The menu, which is the actual reason to look the place up, was hard to find and harder to read.

This rebuild deliberately keeps the brand and drops the datedness. Same gold-on-black soul, but composed like a real bar with real lighting: a full carte on the page — cocktails, the 44 arranged rums, tapas — and clear, honest actions to reserve a table or get directions.

Both ways, every page.

Original on the left, rebuild on the right — the same page, the same viewport. A redesign is judged past the homepage, so every page we hold both sides of is here, desktop and mobile. Where the rebuild folded several pages into one, every original is shown against it rather than one being picked to flatter the comparison.

Area by area.

The working notes from the rebuild, unedited — what the original site did, and what replaced it. Written while the work was happening, in the language the site is in.