SOL Nairobi
A restaurant by day and a lounge by night, with a website that always shows tonight.
The story.
The brief
Show people what’s on tonight, let them book without phoning, and give the team one place to run the night. And it had to feel like SOL: elegant, full of their own photos, never like a template.
What we built
- A home page that follows the week. The full-screen photo, the night’s name and who’s playing change by themselves every day.
- A weekly lineup read from Instagram. SOL posts “This week at SOL” as usual, and the site puts each act and poster on the right night.
- Two kinds of booking. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are free to book; night tables are held with an M-Pesa deposit that goes toward food and drinks.
- The real menu, 63 dishes and cocktails from SOL’s own kitchen and SOL Hour menus.
- A staff app. Tonight’s room table by table, bookings and payments popping up with a sound, a calendar, M-Pesa month by month, and one screen to send offers by email.
Where it is now
Live at solsocial.co.ke on SOL’s own domain, with search details for every night so Google can show them. We keep shipping to it week by week. Read the full case study →
Tonight, always.
A lounge sells a feeling, so the site opens on a full-screen photo of tonight and lets it breathe. Words sit on soft dark glass over the picture; everything else is SOL’s own black and pale oak, straight from their brand book.
Palette
Type
Signature · Tonight’s photo, full screen
The top photo is never framed or cropped into a card: it fills the phone edge to edge, and the night’s name writes itself in, letter by letter.
