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Case study·March 14, 2026

Apoy Coffee — a heritage-home café that started ranking on Google Maps

Client
Apoy Coffee, Marikina
9 days
Time to launch
1
Pages
Apoy Coffee — a heritage-home café that started ranking on Google Maps

Apoy Coffee came to us with a strong brand already — a beautifully restored heritage home, a tight menu, and a loyal neighbourhood following. What they didn't have was a website that matched the room.

The brief

Show the space before people walk in. Make the menu and hours impossible to miss on mobile, since that's how almost everyone finds a café. And do it without turning a warm, handmade brand into a generic restaurant template.

What we built

A warm, story-led one-page site inspired by the physical space — the same materials, the same light. Location and hours live above the fold on mobile, since that's what most visitors actually came for. A simple photo-led menu section replaces a PDF nobody wants to download on data.

What changed

Within a month of launch, Apoy Coffee's owner told us bookings and walk-ins referencing "I saw it online" had visibly picked up. We don't have a formal analytics install on their site by their choice — but the anecdotal signal was clear enough that they came back to have us build their second location's page.

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A warm, story-led restaurant template inspired by heritage homes — built for menus, reservations, and Instagram-worthy galleries.

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