🍽️ Restaurant · Carlton, Melbourne
Since 1987 — Carlton's Beloved Italian Trattoria
Research Phase
Before writing a single line of code, our research agent studied Tiamo Restaurant — their current website, social presence, reviews, team, and services. Here's what stood out.
Open since 1987 on Lygon Street — nearly 40 years as a Melbourne institution, open 7am-11pm, 7 days a week
Three signature dishes define the place: Penne Arrabbiata ('the dish that made us famous'), Veal Parmigiana ('enormous'), and house-made Tiramisu
A reviewer has been 'coming here for 20 years' and another calls it 'my favourite restaurant in Melbourne, full stop' — multi-generational loyalty
Design Phase
Every design decision was intentional — informed by the research, not pulled from a template library.
Visual Direction
Full-screen hero with star motifs, warm Italian trattoria palette, and a storytelling page titled 'la nostra storia' (our story) honouring the Italian heritage.
Design Rationale
Tiamo is defined by what it ISN'T — no pretension, no bookings, no fuss. The design is similarly unfussy: big, warm photography, simple layouts, and letting 40 years of reputation speak. The Italian-titled 'la nostra storia' page is the one deliberate touch of heritage pride.
Build Phase
Site Architecture
// Next.js App Router
Methodology
Spark (research agent) scraped Tiamo Restaurant's current website, Google reviews, social media, and business listings. Every piece of real data — team names, service pricing, business hours, unique details — was extracted into a structured profile.
Based on the research, a bespoke design direction was created specifically for Tiamo Restaurant. No templates — the typography, color palette, layout patterns, and visual effects were all chosen to match this business's personality and industry.
Pixel (design agent) built the entire 5-page Next.js application from scratch — 2 custom components, real content from the research phase, App Router with proper routing, and production-grade code.
Sentinel (QA agent) verified the build compiles cleanly, checked for placeholder content, validated all routes render correctly, and confirmed the design is unique (not recycled from another demo).
Additional Notes
Research sourced from tiamo.com.au, Google reviews, and social media profiles. All business data — services, team, pricing, hours — extracted and verified from public sources.
More from the experiment
This case study is part of the AI Web Lab — a 30-day experiment where AI agents build bespoke websites for real Melbourne businesses. Every site is researched, designed, and built from scratch by a team of five specialist AI agents. The full methodology, code, and results are documented transparently.
This study is being prepared for publication as part of a research paper on AI-assisted web development at scale.
We built Tiamo Restaurant's site in 4 minutes. Same process, same quality — a custom website built for you, not a template.