Amie Beamish Catering

Yes, this is my mum’s business. Yes, she got a hefty discount. She pays me in food, which honestly might be the better deal.

Amie Beamish Catering is a bespoke catering business based in Devon, covering weddings, corporate events, and private dining across the Southwest. She needed a website that matched the quality of her food and the experience she gives her clients.

What the client needed

Amie had a growing reputation through word of mouth and social media, but no proper web presence to back it up. When couples or event planners searched for catering in Devon, there was nothing to find. She needed a site that would do three things: show off the food, establish trust, and make it easy for people to get in touch about an event.

The brief was clear. It had to feel premium without being pretentious. Warm and inviting, not cold and corporate. The kind of site that makes you hungry scrolling through it.

What I built

A static site in Astro, styled with Tailwind CSS. The design leans into a cream and warm-tone colour palette with serif typography throughout. It feels intentionally different from the typical small business website. The aesthetic is closer to a luxury brand than a local caterer, which is exactly where Amie’s work sits.

The hero section uses a Ken Burns animation on full-bleed food photography. The slow zoom and pan draws you into the images without being distracting. It sets the tone immediately. Below that, the site moves through the key services, a gallery of past events, and client testimonials. Every section has a clear call to action pushing visitors toward making an enquiry.

Scroll animations are kept subtle. Elements fade and slide in as you move down the page, giving it a sense of polish without getting in the way of the content. The whole thing is fully responsive, and the mobile experience holds up well. Food photography at that quality needs to look right on a phone screen, because that’s where most of the traffic ends up.

How it works

Astro was the obvious choice here. A catering site doesn’t need a JavaScript-heavy framework. It needs to load fast, rank well, and look sharp. Astro ships zero client-side JavaScript by default, which means the site is quick even on slower connections. That matters when someone’s browsing caterers on their phone at a wedding fair.

Contact forms run through SendGrid. When someone fills in an enquiry, it goes straight to Amie’s inbox with all the details she needs to respond. No middleman, no notifications getting lost in a spam folder. The form captures the event type, date, and guest count upfront, so Amie can come back with something useful rather than starting from scratch.

The site also includes structured data markup for local business and catering services, which helps with search visibility across Devon and the wider Southwest.

There’s no CMS. Content updates go through me directly. For a site like this where the content changes infrequently, it’s the simplest and most reliable approach. When Amie has new event photos or wants to update her services, I handle it.

Built solo, working directly with the client. Family or not, the process was the same — brief, build, review, launch. If you run a food or hospitality business and need a site that does your work justice, get in touch.