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French food brand · Bangalore, India

The French Treaty

A French food brand that had to look as good as it tastes.

  • Brand identity
  • Web design
  • Web development
Visit thefrenchtreaty.in

What they expected

The French Treaty had earned a loyal following in Bangalore for authentic French baking. Their website did the brand no justice — bland, slow, and nothing like the warmth and craft you feel in person. They wanted a site that looked as elegant and as appetising as the patisserie itself.

The challenges we hit

This one made us earn it.

  1. Mouth-watering — and still fast

    Food sells on photography. But big, beautiful images are heavy, and a slow site loses a hungry visitor in seconds. We had to make every pastry look irresistible without the site crawling on a phone.

  2. Capturing a brand, not just a layout

    'French' done lazily becomes a cliché of berets and tricolour stripes. The site had to feel genuinely French — refined typography, warmth, restraint — and unmistakably this brand, not a template with a flag on it.

  3. Built for the phone, where people get hungry

    Almost everyone browses food on a phone, often deciding to order or visit right then. The whole experience — the menu, the brand story, the locations — had to be effortless and tempting one-handed.

How we cracked it

  1. An image pipeline tuned for speed

    Every photograph is automatically optimised and served at the right size for each device — the site looks lavish and still loads fast.

  2. A brand-led design system

    We crafted type, colour and spacing to feel authentically French and quietly premium, then applied it consistently across every page.

  3. A mobile-first menu and brand experience

    We designed the menu and brand story for the phone first — easy to scroll, easy to crave, easy to act on.

The outcome

  • The website finally matches the patisserie — elegant, warm, unmistakably French.
  • Rich food photography loads fast, even on mobile data.
  • A brand system the team can carry across menus, packaging and social.

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