Food Restro Theme Review

General design

The fluid layout makes Food Restro become so "open" and extensive. Along with this layout, you are given a container layout, which also looks good with the brick background.

Container style

In addition, the design is based on the straight lines, combined with the other solid elements to give a robust and polished appearance.

Other elements

Raleway and Oxygen when being used with bold style and large size can enhance the robustness and legibility of this WordPress business theme.

Do you know that colors like red and orange can make people hungry? That's the reason why the author chooses these colors for some highlights. Plus, they are well blended with the white background and black texts, making this theme not only readable but also extremely vivid.

In the first screen area, you will be definitely attracted by the full-screen stunning slider. But I want you to pay attention to the decoration. It's so delicate to use these minor elements.

Decoration in the first screen area

All the elements on the homepage are very outstanding and well-organized, yet I find the testimonial most interesting. It's inspiring with the carousel slider and the quotation mark. That design proves how meticulous the author is to embellish his theme.

Testimonial

Additionally, the gallery section displays images very outstanding in the form of a slider like this. That helps visitors scan and view the dishes so clearly and easily.

The header images on the other inner pages are also full-screen, as stunning as the slider. The body content is also legible and airy. The archive page has only one structure: listing. The featured images are shown with large size, very prominent.

Responsive

It's so good to see that this WordPress theme looks perfect in every device so you don't have to worry about the design on a laptop, PC, tablet or smartphone at all.

The responsive design checked by ami.responsivedesign.is

There are two ways to set up this WordPress restaurant theme. The first way is using the one-click demo import. It's rapid and not difficult to install the One-click demo import plugin in the recommended plugin and start importing the demo data. However, a mistake happens after I import the demo content. I don't have a static homepage and have to set up by hand.

The second way is the manual set up. This theme requires a static homepage, which can be chosen simply in Customizer. And then, you need to edit the homepage section. It may take time, but not so complicated as you think.

All the important features for business are available and ready to use without installing any plugin. However, it still lacks Menu section for your restaurant. The author doesn't recommend any plugin for this feature so you find a way to create a custom menu yourself.

The customization tools are so strong that you can edit many aspects, both advanced and basic, minor and vital ones. Moreover, you just need to work with Customizer, which is extremely simple to use.

The Theme Options allow you to customize easily many things like excerpt, meta, pagination and so on. Among them, the Layout options will dramatically bring changes to your website. Although the layout style and sidebar position are limited, it's still enough to use to me.

Layout options

Notably, when you choose the full-width layout, the background image is different from when you choose the container layout. You can see how the difference is here. Depending on your style and your background image, you can consider which style is the most suited to you.

Background image of the full-width layout

Background image of the container layout

As for the color, the header title and tagline color can be rendered properly. But the background color can be applied to the fluid layout only. The container layout doesn't accept the background color.

As for the Frontpage sections, it's super simple to edit them. You don't need to go to the Dashboard to create posts for Testimonial and Service. You just need to select a category for Gallery and Testimonial, then all the posts will appear rightly. As for the other parts, it lets you select page only, not posts but I don't think that will limit you so much. The Slider has a maximum of five items and that number of Service is three, which I consider adequate to use.

Customizing featured slider

Especially, there is a repository with a lot of icons that you can choose from in the Service section. It's so convenient to customize this section, right?

Choosing icons for Service

There are all the standard formats to use and they all look good as well as easy to use.

For example, a grid gallery helps your images well-organized and neat like this.

Gallery

Video

The video is shown with a large screen, easy to enjoy. In the Edit Post, I choose the full-width alignment for the video as well as gallery and image but they are still as big as the normal alignments.

The blockquote is made to more distinctive than the normal texts.

Blockquote

Moreover, you can edit the layout for your post directly here with two layout options and two sidebar position like in the Customizer. It shortens your time so much.

View post on imgur.com

The SEO configuration hasn't been totally optimized yet. If you want to optimize it, you have to install an SEO plugin yourself. However, it may be hard for users not knowing much about technology like me as the author doesn't recommend any plugin for SEO at all.

The speed isn't well optimal, either. The score taken from PageSpeed Insights is quite low.

Website speed checked by PageSpeed Insights

The theme instructions are extremely helpful. They give you all the detailed and step-by-step guides you need to install, set up and customize this WordPress restaurant WordPress theme.

As other themes from Themes Palace, the author supports you via a free support forum. Notably, a search bar will help you quickly search for the forum and find the related-topic.