Corazon y Botella is a Bar and Mezcaleria in Augsburg, Germany and it imports and sells “El Rey Zapoteco” mezcal in their online store. The restaurant is still to open as soon as conditions allow but their food menu is just teasing the locals for Antojitos Mexicanos or small bites.
Overview
Corazón y Botella is a Mexican bar, mezcalería and specialty shop in Augsburg, Germany. The business combines a physical bar inspired by Mexican cantinas with an online shop focused on traditionally produced mezcal and Mexican crafts.
The existing website had been built several years earlier and needed attention before the bar reopened. The goal was not to start over unnecessarily, but to stabilize what was already there, clean up the presentation and make sure visitors could once again understand the bar, the shop and what Corazón y Botella is about.
The Work
I worked with the existing WordPress and WooCommerce installation, reviewing the older theme setup, plugins and content rather than immediately replacing everything. The project focused on restoring a usable site, improving the navigation and presentation, and getting the important bar and shop content working again.
The site continues to serve two sides of the business: the Augsburg bar and the mezcal-focused shop, while also preserving articles and background content around mezcal and Mexican culture.
Result
The result is a functioning website the business can continue using while the next phase is planned. Instead of treating the older site as disposable, the project preserved the useful content and commerce setup while getting the site back into a presentable, workable condition for the reopening.
Since the site and its market are in Europe the regulation for having an ecommerce site are big and more so when it has to to with the sales of alcohol so the challenge was to learn and comply with all the EU regulations that apply and the translation of the website into 3 languages, English, Spanish and German with the WMPL plugin.
