A website for your café in Bordeaux
Search your café and Clay builds a real website, your photos, hours, reviews and a map, ready in minutes.
A real Clay site, built from a Google listing
Bordeaux pairs its world-famous wine culture with a stylish, walkable centre, where canelé shops, wine bars and independent bistrots cluster along the Garonne.
Café-terrasse life fills the pedestrianised Saint-Pierre and the Chartrons quays, and the city's signature sweet is the canelé, a caramelised, rum-and-vanilla little cake best from Baillardran or a neighbourhood pâtissier. A specialty-coffee and brunch scene has grown around the Chartrons and Darwin, adding flat whites to the classic espresso ritual. Whatever your café is known for, Clay turns your Google listing into a real website, photos, hours, reviews and a map, so people in Bordeaux find you and know what to expect before they visit.
Wine money, and a river that split the city
Bordeaux has more disposable income than its size suggests and a customer used to being sold something carefully. That raises the floor on how a café is expected to look and lowers the tolerance for anything that reads as generic.
The Chartrons and Saint-Michel are the two ends of that, and the tram made both of them reachable in a way they were not fifteen years ago, so a café here genuinely does get customers from across the city, which is not true in most places this size.
Why Clay
It pulls your info from Google
No blank page. Clay reads your Google business listing and fills in your name, photos, hours, map and reviews automatically.
A real website, not just links
Menus, bookings, a shop, a gallery, contact, Clay is a full site that also works as a link-in-bio, not a list of buttons.
Live in minutes, free to start
Search, pick a style, publish. No signup to see it, no credit card, and a free live address at name.clay.site.
Yours to grow
Bring a custom domain, add pro widgets, run multiple sites. It scales from a bio link to a full business site.
Your photographs, already sorted
Clay reads the pictures on your Google listing, grades them, crops them for the shape each band needs and puts the best one at the top. Nothing to upload, nothing to resize.
What you can switch on
Every one of these is part of your site, not a plugin to install. Turn on what you use and leave the rest off.
What it looks like when it is live
Drawn rather than described, the page, the address, and what it can switch on.
How it works
Search your business
Type your name, Clay pulls your photos, hours, reviews and contact details straight from your Google listing.
Pick a style
Choose a look and Clay builds a full site around your content. Change anything with a tap, no code, no templates to wrestle.
You're online
Publish to your own name.clay.site in minutes. Add a custom domain and connect your own tools whenever you're ready.
What you get
Questions
How long does it really take?
Most people are live in two to three minutes, search your business, pick a style, publish. There is nothing to install and no signup needed to see your site first, because it is built from your Google listing rather than from a blank page.
Is it free?
Yes. You get a live site on your own name.clay.site address with a small badge in the footer, and nothing expires. The paid plan is your own domain, the badge removed and the pro features.
Do I need any tech skills?
None. If you can type your business name, you can build a Clay site: the live page is the editor, so you tap the thing you want to change. There is no code anywhere, and nothing to install or keep updated, see the WordPress comparison for what that saves.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes, buy it wherever you like and point it at Clay on a paid plan; the certificate is issued for you. Until then the free name.clay.site address is a real one you can print, and it keeps working afterwards.
Our regulars are local but we get visitors too. Who is the page for?
The visitor, because your regulars already know. Everything a regular needs is one tap in, hours, phone, map, while the first two screens answer what a stranger asks: what you are, whether you are open, where, and what it costs. A regular never notices; a stranger stays.
Can I list the wines by the glass and change them weekly?
Yes, the list is part of the page, so a wine that comes off on Tuesday comes off from your phone on Tuesday. Prices are text rather than an image, which means they can be searched, read aloud, and translated by a visitor's phone.
Can I show my menu?
Yes, Clay has a menu widget with sections, prices and photos. A café that generates from Google gets a menu block pre-filled, ready for you to tweak.
Try it with your business
Search your business and see your site in seconds, free, no signup.