CRTE Studio shoots food and hospitality photography in Los Angeles that fills tables and books rooms.
Request a quote. Westlake Village studio, by appointment.
Food & Hospitality days are run by the same photographer start to finish — the person who lights the set is the person who delivers the retouch.
Menu photography, hero dishes, cocktail sets, interiors, and brand story frames — styled with a food stylist on-set and shot with the crop needs of DoorDash, Yelp, Google Business, and your own site in mind.
Deposits and fixed-price sessions, paid by card. Once it clears, the date is yours.
See studio packagesFill the brief for this shoot — then pick a time on the calendar.
Food photography is a race against the plate, so the whole day is built around how long a dish looks like itself. We shoot in service order, hot food first, and a stylist works the pass beside the chef.
We load in before prep is finished, when the kitchen is quiet. Camera and lights go up in the corner of the pass we agreed on the site visit.
The chef sends one throwaway plate. We light it, agree the angle and the crop, and lock the look before a single real dish is fired.
Dishes come out in the order the kitchen can fire them: cold and composed first, fried and melted last, roughly eight to twelve plates an hour.
Gear is struck and the pass is handed back clean at least ninety minutes before lunch service, which is a condition we hold ourselves to.
Menu-ready files land inside seven business days, with the print proof sheet issued first so your designer is never the bottleneck.
Give us the kitchen for a morning rather than an afternoon. Cold walk-ins are full, the team is unhurried, and the ninety minutes we hand back before service is what keeps the room calm and the plates honest.
Twenty-eight dishes over one morning, three frames each: 84 finals, twelve interior frames and eight vertical cutdowns delivered in six business days.
Fourteen cocktails plus six bar snacks in a half day: 46 stills, four pour-shot MP4 files and a printed drinks-list proof at 5 by 9 inch trim.
Nine jars shot as product and as prepared dishes: eighteen pack shots, 27 lifestyle plates and three recipe reels, all from a single studio day.
Hospitality galleries deliver in five to seven business days, and the print proof sheet is issued first because menu deadlines move faster than web ones. If a printer's file is due sooner, tell us at booking and we will cut and colour-correct the menu selects inside 72 hours for a rush fee. Reel cutdowns follow the stills by two to three business days, since sound and pacing are edited after the frames are locked.
Every delivered image is yours in perpetuity for menus, in-room print, delivery-platform listings, out-of-home and paid social, with no renewal fee. Where a dish was created by a named chef we credit them in the delivery note, and that credit travels with the file if you licence it onward to a publication. If a third-party publication asks for a frame, forward the request and we will release a press-resolution version at no charge.
Menu and hospitality imagery priced by styling depth, dish count and preparation needs.
From $950
Mini Menu Session
A limited shot list where your team plates each dish on set.
Fixed-price and paid online. Everything else is quoted after a scoping call.
$950
Mini Menu Session
Food and hospitality coverage across a short menu set.
Need a custom day, or not ready to pay? .
Yes — every food shoot includes a stylist unless you bring your own. Restaurant menu shoots typically do not need one; editorial and cookbook shoots do.