Your kitchen.
Now showing.
Cinematic restaurant video and vertical reels for Instagram, TikTok, your website and delivery apps. Sizzle, pours and steam, captured the same day as your still photos so your kitchen only stops once.
Restaurant Video Production
Food videographer for restaurants: cinematic food video and vertical reels shot on the same day as your stills.
One visit.
Photos and video.
Shooting stills and video on the same day means one prep day, one setup and one interruption to your kitchen, not two. Same light, same styling, so your photos and reels look like they belong together.
Vertical first.
Made to be craved.
Reels are framed for phones from the start, with movement, steam and close-ups that make people stop and watch. Then we pull wider shots for your website, so nothing gets cropped awkwardly.
Edited and graded.
Ready to post.
Every clip is color-graded and cut to the beat, then delivered in the formats each platform needs, from quick reels to longer website clips. Download, post, done.
One shoot.
Every screen.
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shoot day
Photos and video captured in a single visit, so your kitchen only stops once.
~1
week to edit
Most video edits take about a week, depending on how much footage there is and how complex the edit is.
Visual marketing strategy
Photos whet their appetite.
Video makes them hungry.
The strongest food brands use both. Photography anchors your menu, website and delivery apps, where guests take a closer look and decide what to order. Cinematic video is what grabs attention first: a moving hero on your homepage and reels on Instagram and TikTok, where motion wins the scroll.
Shot on the same day with the same light and styling, your photos and video tell one consistent story on every screen, so the dish people see in a reel is the dish they find on your menu.
From the blog: Azabu and Cha Cha Cha restaurant video reels.
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We agree the shot list before the date, grouped by where the clips are going. On the day I work around service rather than shutting it down, and I shoot the hero sequences first while the kitchen is fresh.
Your kitchen team cooks and plates to camera with me directing, which costs you nothing extra. Ice cream, melting cheese, foam and any hero dish that has to hold up for hours under lights benefit from a food stylist, and I bring one in and quote it separately when a shoot needs one.
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Flat rates start at $495 and include unlimited footage from the session, with hourly options for shorter jobs. The number moves with how much needs cutting, whether it is a dedicated video day or reels added to a stills day, and whether the shoot needs motion control.
There is a full breakdown on the pricing page. No per-clip fees and no licensing tiers.
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Yes, and it is by far the cheapest way to buy video. The lighting is already up and the food is already on the table, so the extra cost is small. One visit gives you menu stills, website images, delivery-app photos and vertical reels.
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Vertical for Instagram, TikTok and Reels, plus wide versions for your website and YouTube, cut from the same footage. You get the sizes and aspect ratios each platform wants rather than one file you have to crop yourself.
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Decide which dishes and which parts of the room matter most, and make sure the space is clean and the kitchen knows I'm coming. I bring the lighting, the grip and the props.
If there is a dish that needs a hero sequence, tell me early so I build the day around it. A stylist comes in when a dish needs one, quoted separately.
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Yes, and often I would rather. Real service gives real energy, real steam and real faces. It is slower than filming a closed room, so I plan for that and stay out of the way of the pass.
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I do. You get finished, colour-graded clips with sound and captions, ready to post. You are not handed raw footage and left to work out what to do with it.
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Three business days for a standard reel set. Longer brand pieces with music licensing, voiceover or heavy motion work take longer, and I will tell you the date before we shoot rather than after.
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Yes. Clean two-light interview set-ups with proper audio, cut with kitchen and food footage from the same visit. It is the fastest way to make a restaurant feel like a place run by people.
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Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, Corona, San Bernardino and Palm Springs, and I travel beyond Southern California for brand campaigns.