Andy's Ale House & Grill
A menu and specials site for a bar
Andy's has run a Peach Street kitchen to midnight since '85, under forty-plus TVs and a twenty-one-foot laser screen. It is built for the phone somebody opens at nine at night, so the day's specials and the hours each one runs are the first thing on the screen.
andyspub.com
Today
The specials change every day, and a drink price is useless without the hours it runs. The panel carries the day and the window.
Specials panel
A drink special and a lunch special, each with its price, the window the drink runs in, the month as a PDF and seven day tabs.
Seven day tabs
All seven days are there to browse, and the one you are standing in is already open.
Serving window
The drink special prints its own serving window, so nobody drives over an hour before the price starts.
Today's specials
Seven days, today selected
Tonight, with a time
Menu
Twelve categories, a row per dish, and the questions people phone in about answered at the bottom. The kitchen edits all of it without calling me.
Twelve category links
Each one is a tap that drops you into that part of the list.
Menu row
The name, what comes in the basket and the price, on the row itself, so nothing has to be opened to find out what it costs.
Questions list
Address, closing time, pickup, specials, kids' menu, parking, parties. Answered under the menu instead of over the phone.
Twelve categories
Name, description, price
The questions people call about
Dish
Fifty-three dishes have a page of their own. Each carries the photograph, the price and the way to order it, so a plate can turn up in a search on its own name.
Dish name as the heading
The plate's name is the heading, so it can turn up in search without the rest of the menu.
Pickup card
A pickup card with the address, the kitchen hours, a live phone number and the way back to the full menu.
Back-to-menu link
The link out reads BACK TO FULL MENU, so a dish page is never a dead end.
The dish name is the heading
Address, hours, phone, menu
One tap back
Photographs
The photography is all Andy's own — the room, the tables, the plates. Stock would have shown a bar nobody in Erie has ever been inside.
Room card
Twenty-six tables broken into regulation, bar and billiard, counted out over a photograph of the actual room, with the way in.
One tile per photograph
Each photograph gets a tile of its own, rather than a thumbnail in a strip that hides the rest.
Photo upload
Customers send photos in from the page itself. Location data is stripped before anything is stored.
One room, counted on the photo
One photo, one tile
Anyone can add one
Impact
The specials panel, the menu and the gallery are all edited by the bar. Nothing on this site needs me to change a line of copy.
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Dishes that open a page of their own
1,586
Arrivals from search, July and August
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Bars running on this one build
Arrivals read from Search Console across full months, July–August 2026. Dish count read off the live menu page.
Learnings
Open on today
A tab that opens on the current day removed the most common piece of work the page was asking for.
One page per dish
One document is one search result. Fifty-three pages are fifty-three ways for a craving to find the kitchen.
Build for the sister bar
Every decision had to survive being restyled for another bar, so nothing could lean on Andy's red.
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