Restaurant and food photography
Menu, website and delivery-app photographs shot in your kitchen between services.
What’s included
- 30 retouched photographs
- Three hours on site, between services
- Dishes, drinks, room and detail frames
- Crops sized for delivery platforms, menus and social
- Private gallery within 5 business days
- Commercial licence for your own marketing
Portfolio
Restaurant and food photography portfolio
A selection of restaurant and food photography shots to inspire your shoot.
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Available in 20 US cities and destinations. Choose yours.
About this session
The limit is how fast a dish stops looking like itself
- $650
- 3 hours
- 30
- 20
Ten to fifteen dishes fit into three hours if the kitchen plates them in sequence and somebody senior is present to make decisions quickly. The constraint is never the camera. Ice cream gives you about ninety seconds. A dressed salad has roughly five minutes before it collapses. A braise will hold for most of an hour. Sequencing the shoot around those timings, rather than around the menu order, is the difference between fifteen dishes and nine.
There is no need to close. These sessions are shot between services, typically mid-afternoon, using a corner table or a section of the pass — the room photographs better empty anyway, and the kitchen can plate to camera rather than to a ticket. Thirty retouched photographs are delivered within five business days, cropped for the delivery platforms, the menu and social, which have three different aspect ratios and three different amounts of room for a logo.
Plate to camera rather than to the guest. A dish built for a diner is centred and symmetrical; a dish built for a photograph is pushed off-centre with height on one side and a clean edge on the other, and it uses about twenty per cent less on the plate. A chef who understands that distinction gets a better gallery from the same three hours, and it is worth five minutes of conversation before the first dish leaves the pass.
The room matters as much as the plates, and it is the half most restaurants forget to ask for. A delivery-platform listing needs dishes; a website and a reservation page need the room, the bar at dusk, hands working, a table being laid. The brief covers both by default. From $650, with a commercial licence for your own marketing.
Frequently asked questions about Restaurant and food photography
How many dishes can be photographed in one session?
Ten to fifteen in three hours, if the kitchen plates them in sequence and someone senior decides quickly. The limit is never the camera — it is how fast a dish stops looking like itself. Ice cream gives you ninety seconds, a salad about five minutes, a braise most of an hour.
Do we need to close the restaurant?
No. These sessions are shot between services, typically mid-afternoon, using a corner table or a section of the pass. The room itself photographs better empty anyway, and the kitchen can plate to camera rather than to a ticket.
Should the dishes be plated differently for a photograph?
Yes, and it is worth five minutes with the chef before the first one leaves the pass. A dish built for a diner is centred and symmetrical; a dish built for a photograph is pushed off-centre with height on one side and a clean edge on the other, and it uses about twenty per cent less on the plate. A kitchen that understands the distinction gets a visibly better gallery from the same three hours.
Do you photograph the room as well as the food?
Yes, and it is the half most restaurants forget to ask for. A delivery-platform listing needs dishes; a website and a reservation page need the room — the bar at dusk, hands working, a table being laid. Both are covered by default within the three hours, and saying which matters more decides how the time is split.