Question
What was the hard part?
A small food-discovery site for the Kathmandu restaurants I actually love.
I just wanted a list of the food I'd vouch for
Every time a friend visits Kathmandu I get the same text: where should I eat? And every time I'd thumb out the same handful of places. So I made a page I could point them to instead.
Foodie Praks is a small food-discovery site for the restaurants I actually love around the city: Chicken Station, TAMA, PEPE Pizza, BOTA Momo, The Burger House. Not a directory of everything, and not reviews pulled from somewhere else. Just the places I'd send someone to without thinking twice.
Visual Evidence
Image
What's on it
A carousel of food photography on the home page, then a card for each restaurant with a short note on why it's worth your time and a link straight to the map. There's a gallery, an about page, a recipes section, and a few links out to the local food YouTubers I trust. The search box hands off to Google, which is honest about its own scope. I'm not trying to index the internet, just to get you moving.
I built it on Bootstrap. This was early, and Bootstrap was what I knew. It got me a responsive grid and a carousel without fighting the basics. Now I'd reach for less, but it shipped, and it works on a phone, which was the whole point.
I redesigned it more times than I'll admit
The part I'm actually a little proud of isn't the first version. It's that I kept coming back. There are around nine versions of this sitting in the repo's branches: a glass-morphism pass, a couple of full revamps, a dashboard experiment, a lot of small UI refinements. Whenever I learned something new about design or CSS, this was the project I'd come back and re-skin.
Design Decision
It was never really finished, because it was the thing I practiced on.
That's the honest story of this one. It started as a list of restaurants and quietly turned into my sandbox for taste.
What I'd do differently
I'd drop Bootstrap and build the layout myself, now that I can. I'd make the restaurants a real data structure instead of hand-written HTML I copy-paste every time I add a place. And I'd write the food notes like someone who'd actually eaten there, because that voice is the only thing a recommendation site really has.
