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Case study 05

AMARaw Bar

a speakeasy, now online

  • The dimly lit AMA Raw Bar: grey stools around a dark bar, with glowing shelves of bottles set into warm orange walls
  • Chopsticks lifting from a plate of thinly sliced raw fish with shaved radish, herbs and edible flowers
  • A frothy pale green cocktail in a coupe glass on a ledge in warm amber light
AMA

in their words

Great product! Adrian was great and easy to communicate with - highly recommend!

Yianni KerasiotisOwner of Gaia House Group

Summary

AMA Raw Bar is a Japanese-inspired speakeasy cocktail bar at 3980 Fraser St, at Fraser and East King Edward. It serves handcrafted cocktails and fresh seafood in an intimate room, with raw dishes like hamachi crudo and salmon carpaccio, a long cocktail list and Japanese wines. It’s part of Gaia House, the team that also runs Les Faux Bourgeois.

Overview

Client name
AMA Raw Bar
Industry
Cocktail bar
Objective
Launch a website that captures the speakeasy feel, with reliable hosting and ongoing support.
Timeline
January 2025 - Ongoing
Services provided
  • Web design
  • Web hosting
  • Ongoing support

Challenges

where they started

AMA Raw Bar had the room, the cocktails and the raw bar, but no website to show them off. Guests looking them up online had nowhere to go. Here’s what stood in the way:

  1. Challenge 1

    No website to send guests to.

  2. Challenge 2

    Needed hosting they didn’t have to think about.

  3. Challenge 3

    Wanted someone on hand for updates and support.

Strategy

step by step

  1. Step 1: Got to know AMA and the speakeasy feel they wanted online.

  2. Step 2: Teamed up with our friends at Glasfurd & Walker, who came up with an amazing base for the design in Figma.

  3. Step 3: Brought that design to life with our own touch, building a website around their cocktails, raw bar and intimate room.

  4. Step 4: Set up reliable hosting so the site stays fast and online.

  5. Step 5: Stayed on for ongoing support, handling updates as the menu changes.

Results

the good part

A speakeasy with a home online

AMA Raw Bar now has a website that matches the mood of the room, hosted and looked after by HigherStack. When the menu or details change, they send us a message and it’s handled.

  • Website launched
  • Hosting handled
  • Ongoing support

Conclusion

in short

AMA needed a website, a place to host it and someone to look after it. With a Figma base from our friends at Glasfurd & Walker, we brought the design to life, hosted it and looked after it, and we continue to support the site as AMA keeps pouring on Fraser Street.

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