An overhead spread of Asian dishes — pho, glazed wings, tacos, spring rolls and dipping sauces on a wooden table.
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Food & Restaurant

Food that still looks like food, and a room people want to sit in.

28 frames·Austin — dining rooms, bars & food trucks·Photos in three business days

Restaurant work is two jobs. The plate has to look like the plate — not a wax replica, not a filter — because the guest is going to order it and then compare. And the room has to look like somewhere worth booking on a Tuesday. We shoot both in one pass, in your light where we can, and hand back files sized for the menu, the delivery apps and the wall.

Booking

Send the menu and your slowest afternoon. That's when we shoot.

Start the conversation
A double cheeseburger held in two hands against a bright yellow background.
Held, because that's how it gets eaten.
A bowl of ceviche with avocado and pita chips on a white plate.

The plate has to survive being ordered.

A guest sees the photo, then sees the dish. When those two don't match, the picture cost you a review. We light food to look like the best version of itself — not like a different dish entirely.

Austin Pizzeria.
An overhead of a plated dish served with green chutney on dark marble.
A pizza on a dark wooden table in low light, copper mugs behind it.
Dark room, hot oven, no flash.
Steamed bao buns in a stacked bamboo steamer.
An overhead spread of Indian dishes — curries, noodles, samosas and chutneys on a dark table.
Burgers and fries served on wooden boards with pickles.
Midway Dogs.

The whole restaurant fits on a trailer. It still needs the menu shot properly.

Everything on the passFrames 11–13
Fish tacos with rice and a bowl of soup on a white plate.
A seafood boil of crawfish, shrimp, corn and potatoes in a metal pan on a red background.
A minimal plated sushi course with nori, pickled radish and rice on a white plate.
Two

Everything that comes in a glass.

Cocktails, cold pours and the coffee program — usually the highest-margin thing on the menu and the least photographed.

One bar, one afternoonFrames 14–16
A coupe cocktail with a citrus twist on a wooden bar.
A frozen cocktail in a textured glass topped with a dried orange wheel.
Four cocktails in different colors lined up along a wooden bar.
Zilker Brewing.
Stacked four-packs of colorful craft beer cans on a wooden table.
A bartender pouring a can of beer into a glass across the bar.
A bottle of 1876 straight bourbon on a pale background.
A barista pouring milk into a latte to finish the rosetta.
The coffee program deserves better than a phone.
A coral frozen drink with a lime wheel on a bright yellow table.
Three

And the room it all comes out of.

Bookings happen because somebody pictured themselves sitting there.

Red curved booths in a rooftop restaurant, downtown Austin towers visible through the windows.
The view is on the menu too.
Nate's — the kitchen doesn't stop for the band.
Red vinyl booths and windows in a retro diner dining room.
A bar team lined up behind a fully stocked back bar.
Before doors.
The Corner Pick shipping-container bar under a covered patio.
A dining room with blue chairs and Austin skyline murals painted on the walls.

A dining room photographs like architecture, because that's what it is — sightlines, booths, and where the light lands at seven.

Nobody orders the dish. They order the photograph of the dish.
Amigo Studio

Let's shoot the menu.

Send it over with your quietest afternoon. We'll work the room around service.

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