Food photography for Japanese kitchens

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Menu photography

Every dish on the menu, lit the way the kitchen plates it and cropped for print, delivery apps and the website.

Food styling

A stylist on every shoot, working from the chef’s plating — nothing on the plate the kitchen cannot actually serve.

Social & video

Short clips and vertical crops from the same session, so a new dish can go live the day it launches.

Rooms & people

The counter, the room and the people who work it — the pictures that sell a table before the food does.

Seasonal reshoots

Menus change. We come back each season and reshoot only what is new, on the same lighting setup.

Licensing & delivery

Retouched files within 48 hours, licensed for every channel, with no per-use fees.

Selected work

Six recent shoots for sushi counters, izakayas and a matcha café.

Shot in the kitchen, not in a studio

We set up where the food is made — the chef’s light, the chef’s plates — so every picture looks like the restaurant your guests will walk into.
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Cropped for the phone

Every dish delivered in vertical and square crops for Instagram and delivery apps.

True to the plate

Colour matched to the room’s own light, so the salmon looks like salmon.

Fast turnaround

Selects the same evening, retouched finals within 48 hours.

Styled on set

Our stylist works from the chef’s plating, so the photo matches what is served.

Shot on location

We bring the lights to your kitchen: no studio hire, and the food never travels.

Yours to use

Licensed for print, web, social and delivery platforms, with no usage fees.

New menu coming? Let’s shoot it.

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Behind the counter

Chef Seijun Okano forming nigiri at Hiden, an eight-seat counter in Miami. Video: Bobak Ha'Eri, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; resized and re-encoded.

240+ Menus photographed
48h Retouched delivery
60 Restaurants
12 Cities

The studio

Daniel Reyes

Photographer

Emma Lindqvist

Food stylist

Arif Santoso

Producer

Mara Costa

Retoucher

From the kitchens

Delivery orders went up the week the new photos went live. People order what they can see.

Aiko Tanaka Owner, Hanami

They shot the whole tonkatsu menu in one morning and never once got in the way of service.

Leo Martin Head chef, Kuro

The pictures look like our room on a good night, which is exactly what we asked for.

Nadia Okoye Manager, Yuzu Café

Notes from the kitchen

One email a month: new shoots, the lighting behind them and what we learned on set.

Restaurants we shoot for

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Tell us about the menu, the room and when you open. We reply to every enquiry within two working days.

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