A menu worth the close-up
Photography and video for Chardon, a Houston restaurant: the dishes, the drinks, the dining room and the people behind them, shot in-house for the menu, the website and the feed.
(02) — The challenge
What wasn’t working
A restaurant is judged on its photos before anyone tastes the food. Chardon needed images that match what arrives at the table: the gloss of a sauce, the steam of a pour, and a room people want to book.
(03) — Our approach
What we did
We shot during service, between orders: plated dishes close and low, table spreads from above, pours caught mid-motion, and the dining room and kitchen team in the restaurant’s own light. Every set was graded in-house to one warm look, then cropped for the menu, the website and each feed, and short vertical video carries the same look into Reels and TikTok.
What we delivered
(04) Deliverables- 01Menu & dish photography
- 02Drinks & pours
- 03Table spreads from above
- 04Dining room & bar
- 05Chef & team portraits
- 06Crops for web, menu & social
- 07Short-form video
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