Fine dining restaurant website cost in St Helier, Jersey: local agencies vs Kolonell (2026)

The verdict in three sentences

In St Helier, a fine dining restaurant website from a Jersey agency costs, as a 2026 order of magnitude, between 5 000 and 20 000 GBP, and a French version for visitors from Brittany and Normandy is usually a translation added on top. Kolonell builds the site at a fixed price of 2 300, 3 900 or 6 900 GBP, and the Premium package includes a bilingual English and French site written natively in both languages. For a hotel restaurant or an independent table that sells lunches to the finance sector and dinners to visitors, the comparison that counts is the three-year cost of a two-language site.

What do island agencies, freelancers and Kolonell charge?

Jersey's web market is small: a handful of island agencies, a few freelancers and many businesses that hire studios on the UK mainland. The ranges below are cautious and come from public price pages of Jersey and Channel Islands agencies, minimum project sizes on Clutch.co, published hourly rates (often 80 to 130 GBP an hour on the island) and freelance rates visible on Upwork and PeoplePerHour.

An island agency wins if you want someone in the dining room for every meeting and a shoot organised for you. Kolonell fits when the brand exists and you want a two-language site, written well, at a known price, with a project manager who sends a written update every week. Jersey and Senegal share the same clock in winter, with one hour of difference in summer. Payment by bank transfer or Wise, 50 % at kickoff and 50 % at delivery. See our international website offer.

Who books a table in St Helier, and in which language?

St Helier's dining rooms serve three groups. Weekday lunches belong to the finance and trust companies around the Esplanade and the International Finance Centre, where a quiet table and a fast booking for a client matter. Evenings and weekends add visitors from the UK and, in season, French visitors arriving by ferry from Saint-Malo for a long weekend, who will read your menu more readily in French. Islanders book for celebrations and rely on gift vouchers. Island produce is your strongest story: Jersey Royals in spring, oysters and lobster from the bays, local dairy.

• A French menu and French booking path for visitors, not a machine translation.
• A business lunch offer with timing and a quick booking for finance professionals.
• Private dining for client dinners and year-end parties.
• Hotel guests and outside diners clearly served: if the restaurant sits in a hotel, the room booking engine and the table booking tool stay separate and both are linked.
• Seasonal produce named and dated on the menu.

What does a two-language site cost over three years?

Same assumptions on both sides for maintenance (quoted separately at Kolonell after support) and for the booking tool.

Which rules should a Jersey restaurant site respect?

Facts only. Jersey has its own data protection law, the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018, overseen by the Jersey Office of the Information Commissioner: booking data, newsletter sign-ups and cookies should be handled under it, and check where your booking tool stores guest data. Jersey also has its own food legislation; check with the Government of Jersey's environmental health team which allergen rules apply to you, and give guests a clear way to get information on the 14 major allergens recognised in UK and EU law. WCAG 2.1 AA is a sound accessibility benchmark. Only display guide listings or awards you currently hold. This is not legal advice.

Which red flags should you spot in a quote?

• French left out of the quote and added later at a day rate.
• Machine-translated menus that French guests notice immediately.
• Hotel and restaurant booking tangled in one confusing button.
• Menu changes billed per language, doubling every update.
• Photos without a web licence or taken from the hotel's old brochure.

Mini case study

Illustrative example. Thomas L., food and beverage director of a 40-room hotel in St Helier whose restaurant seats 60, receives a Jersey agency quote of 18 000 GBP plus 1 400 GBP of French translation. He chooses Kolonell Premium at 6 900 GBP for a bilingual site, business lunch and private dining pages, and books an island photographer for 2 000 GBP. Total: 8 900 GBP against 19 400 GBP, 10 500 GBP less, with French and English menus his team updates in-house.

FAQ

Is the French version really included? Yes, in Premium at 6 900 GBP, with native French and English copy. Starter and Growth are single-language sites.

Can we keep the hotel booking engine and the table booking tool? Yes. Both stay as they are and the site links to each clearly, from Starter at 2 300 GBP.

Who photographs the dishes? A Jersey photographer you book, often 1 200 to 2 500 GBP for a day. Kolonell prepares the shot list but does not shoot on site.

How long does Premium take? You get a written schedule at kickoff, usually 4 to 6 weeks. Starter and Growth launch in 3 to 4 weeks.

What support do we get? 6 months after launch with Premium, 3 months with Starter and Growth. Maintenance afterwards is quoted separately and the domain stays in your name.

Let's scope your project. Send us your menus, booking tools and the share of French-speaking guests, and we will reply with a fixed-price package, bilingual from Premium. Request your free quote or see the international offer.