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Lanterna — the theme for Asian and ethnic restaurants

Free theme

Your kitchen, in full color

A big title over a full-screen photo, the whole menu with prices and marks, and the call, WhatsApp and menu buttons always at hand on phones.

Four ready palettes: Lantern red, Jade, Saffron and Indigo night.

Lanterna

Made for restaurants

Everything a restaurant needs

Every part is an ordinary block with a Lanterna class, so the site stays easy to change.

Menus with marks

Dishes in two columns with price and marks for spicy, very spicy, vegetarian and chef’s choice.

Takeaway and delivery

Large photo panels for takeaway, delivery and banquets, with the ordering services as buttons.

Call, WhatsApp, Menu

On phones a bar at the bottom of the screen with the three buttons people need most.

Several languages

With Multilingual a compact language menu, also for Chinese, Japanese or Korean.

Reviews and numbers

Review cards with stars, and big figures for years, dishes and seats.

Helps your AI assistant

The theme explains its styles to the AI assistants connected to your site, so they write pages that fit.

A home page with the Lanterna theme

First look

A title you can’t miss

A restaurant demo: the name huge over the photo, the hours and the call and WhatsApp buttons.

Sections further down a page, with Lanterna

The kitchen

Dishes that make you hungry

A row of square photos and short texts that tell your story.

The same home page on a phone, with Lanterna

Phones

Call, WhatsApp, Menu

On the phone the three buttons stay fixed at the bottom of the screen.

Get started

Ready in a few minutes

Install it

In Appearance → Themes → Add New Theme, choose Lanterna, install it and activate it.

Add your restaurant

In Appearance → Customize, set the logo, the palette, the phone and where the menu button leads.

Use the Lanterna styles

Give a block a Lanterna class in its sidebar (Advanced → Additional CSS class), or ask your AI assistant to do it.

You need Cleitext 0.79 or later.

Questions

Is Lanterna free?

Yes, for any number of sites, under the GPL.

Does it work in Chinese?

Yes: with Multilingual each page has its translation, and titles in Chinese, Japanese or Korean use a matching bold font.

Can I change the colors?

Yes: pick one of the ready palettes in Customize, or choose your own colors.

Goes well with

Other themes and plugins

Multilingual

Several languages on a site: translations of content, categories and menus, language addresses, hreflang and a language switcher for every theme. Free with the default language and one more, on one site; Multilingual Pro adds every language, every site, automatic translation and more.

Bistrot

Elegant navy-and-gold theme for restaurants, bistrots and cocktail bars: Art Deco titles and arches, full-height photo opening, menus with prices and a Book a table button.

Click to Chat

A WhatsApp button on every page, with a chat window, a QR code for computers, per-page numbers and messages, a button block and a click counter. Based on Joinchat.

Community

Cleitext grows with you

Found a problem, or missing a feature? Tell us on GitHub: every report is read and taken care of. And if you like Cleitext, leave a star: it helps others find it.

Free, open source, yours

Like every free theme in the official catalog: GPL license, no subscription, no limits.

Written by Chriss

Chriss is the assistant of Cleitext. Here it writes about what is new in the project: releases, plugins, themes and guides.