Three seared sea scallops with a green pea puree swoosh and brown butter sauce plated on a matte black stoneware plate
Whole roast chicken with burnished golden skin, lemon halves and thyme in a shallow ceramic roasting dish on an oak table
Single clear glass meal prep container holding a salmon fillet, herbed quinoa and roasted vegetables on a dark surface
Single canape of smoked salmon and creme fraiche on a small blini topped with dill and lemon zest on a wooden serving board
Individual beef Wellington halved to show pink fillet on white linen — private chef food photography
Sliced seared duck breast fanned in a pool of dark cherry sauce with a crisp fat cap on a cream stoneware plate
For Private & Personal Chefs

Clients book the menu they can see.

One quick overhead per course, taken in the ninety seconds before it goes out, and your personal chef business finally has a portfolio that matches the cooking — no photographer in a client's home, no second service.

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Private Chef Portfolio

Every course you send out, shot like a studio plate

Four different plated tasting menu courses shot from directly above on a dark textured plaster surface

Plated Tasting-Menu Courses

Sauce work that survives a domestic ceiling light

Family style dinner spread with a carved roast joint, roast potatoes, greens, parsnips and gravy on a pale wooden dining table

Family-Style Dinners at a Client's Table

The Sunday roast, lit like the room it is served in

Six clear glass meal prep containers filled with different balanced meals shot from directly above on a clean white surface

Weekly Meal-Prep Drops and Container Sets

Glass containers that look designed, not stacked

Overhead tray of assorted canapes including salmon blinis, tartlets, pea crostini, prawn bites and melon squares in neat rows on dark slate

Canapés and House-Party Grazing

Forty bites on a tray, every one of them legible

Bright breakfast spread with pastries, fresh fruit, yogurt bowls, poached eggs and juice on a white marble counter

Villa, Chalet and Yacht Breakfast Spreads

Morning service on deck, shot before the sun turns

Three plated courses in sequence with paired wine glasses of white, rose and red on a jet black surface

Wine-Paired and Multi-Course Sequences

A pairing menu that reads as one coherent set

Nine small tasting portions in miniature dishes arranged in a neat grid on pale blonde wood shot from above

Proposal and Sample-Menu Collateral

Tasting portions styled for the enquiry PDF

Features

Built for private chefs cooking in other people's homes

Chef Styles

Light that survives someone else's dining room

Dark artisan surfaces give a tasting-menu sauce the hard directional light that holds its gloss, warm oak and linen make roasts read generous, and bright marble keeps a salmon fillet from turning orange. Shoot in whatever light the house gives you — a downlight over the plate, a dining room at night — and FoodShot replaces it entirely: the yellow cast comes out, the crust comes back, the sauce regains its edge. The same discipline that carries a fine dining menu works on a domestic worktop.

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Builder Mode

Surface plus vessel plus plate equals a proposal

Pick a surface — dark slate, weathered oak, white marble. Choose a vessel — matte stoneware, clear glass. Builder Mode composites them with your plate photo into one image, so the client's laminate worktop, the dish rack and the fridge magnets never make the frame. That is what makes a private chef menu proposal land: nine tasting portions styled as one clean set, instead of a dark, orange snapshot a household cannot judge. A weekly drop gets the same treatment via our meal prep service page.

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My Styles

One house look across every dinner you cook

Upload your best-looking plate as a style reference and every new course — a Tuesday retainer dinner, a villa breakfast, a canapé run — matches that exact lighting, angle and mood. An enquiry landing on your private chef website sees one chef with a recognisable hand, not forty dinners shot in forty kitchens under forty bulbs — a gallery that reads like two hundred covers a year, which is what lets you quote higher. The same reference keeps wedding and event catering images in step with the private work.

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More to explore

One tool, endless possibilities

Before → After

From phone snap to studio shot

See the transformation from a casual phone snap to a styled studio shot.

Raw phone food photo before AI enhancement
Studio quality food photo after FoodShot processing

Multi-variation

One photo, endless options

Generate multiple styles from a single upload. Pick the best.

Food photo variation - delivery app style
Food photo variation - restaurant menu style
Food photo variation - social media style
Food photo variation - fine dining style

Poster Mode

Marketing-ready designs

Pick a template, drop your food.

Smash burger restaurant poster design
Cocktail bar promotional poster
Waffle social media advertisement
Croissant bakery marketing poster

Prompt Editing

Describe it, get it

Add sauce, swap plates, change lighting — just type what you want.

Prompt-based food photo editing

200+ Styles

Styles for every vibe

From clean white to moody fine dining. One tap.

FoodShot 200+ food photography style presets grid

2K Resolution

High-resolution output

2K output (2048 × 2048 px for a square photo), sharp for delivery apps, websites and social. Need more for print? Use the 2× upscale in the studio.

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Perfect For

Every kind of chef who cooks in someone else's home

From a personal chef doing two weekly retainers and a Saturday dinner to a villa chef running a full season on a coastline, if the pass is a domestic worktop and the dining room belongs to the client, this is for you.

🍽️

Personal Chefs on Weekly Retainers

You cook the same household five times a month and your best work never leaves their table. One overhead per course, taken as it goes out, quietly builds the portfolio you need for the next three enquiries without ever slowing service or interrupting the meal.

🛥️

Villa, Chalet and Yacht Chefs

Breakfast on a deck at seven, a plated dinner at nine, and light that swings from blinding to almost none. A saved style pulls a whole season into one coherent set you can send with a rate card.

🕯️

Pop-Up Dinner and Supper-Club Hosts

A pop up dinner sells out on the strength of last month's photos, and you have about four seconds on a phone screen to earn the ticket. One clean course per sitting keeps the next announcement as good as the night was.

🥡

Weekly Meal-Prep and Drop Clients

Containers are the hardest thing to photograph well: glass reflects, lids fog and a balanced meal reads as beige from above. Clean overhead styling turns a delivery of six containers into a set that looks designed rather than merely portioned.

🥂

House-Party and Canapé Chefs

Thirty bites go out in nine minutes and none of them survive long enough to photograph properly. Style one full tray before service and you have a hero image for the enquiry page, the proposal and the grid, from a single ten-second snap.

📖

Chefs Building a First Portfolio

How to start a personal chef business stalls at the same place: nobody books a chef with no pictures, and you cannot get pictures without bookings. Restyle the dinners you already cook for friends and you break that loop in a weekend.

Reviews

Loved by food businesses

“Being a Pastry Chef Restaurant consultant and having to design recipes and menus and plating design is a difficult task. Foodshot AI managed to change my life. … Foodshot does it all.”
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Happy Girl Pastry Chef

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“Great for small business! The app is easy to use. Smooth and professional results. Multiple background/settings/styles to choose. Highly recommend!”
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Trangbi89

App Store

“This app helped me enhance my food photoshoot. Thanks to this app, I can now create pro-quality photos for my Menu.”
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Lalalisaoh

App Store

“Excellent”

Fabio Lima

Google Play

“Great”

Iván Fabricio Amador Pavón

Google Play

“Cool”

Darut Thollab

Google Play

“For marketing and advertising we can use it as an enhancement. Really solid tool.”

Reddit User

r/restaurantowners

“Oohhh woowwww... Seriously amazing. The quality blew me away.”

Remarkable-92

r/restaurantowners

“Being a Pastry Chef Restaurant consultant and having to design recipes and menus and plating design is a difficult task. Foodshot AI managed to change my life. … Foodshot does it all.”
App Store

Happy Girl Pastry Chef

App Store

“Great for small business! The app is easy to use. Smooth and professional results. Multiple background/settings/styles to choose. Highly recommend!”
App Store

Trangbi89

App Store

“This app helped me enhance my food photoshoot. Thanks to this app, I can now create pro-quality photos for my Menu.”
App Store

Lalalisaoh

App Store

“Excellent”

Fabio Lima

Google Play

“Great”

Iván Fabricio Amador Pavón

Google Play

“Cool”

Darut Thollab

Google Play

“For marketing and advertising we can use it as an enhancement. Really solid tool.”

Reddit User

r/restaurantowners

“Oohhh woowwww... Seriously amazing. The quality blew me away.”

Remarkable-92

r/restaurantowners

FAQ

Private Chef Photography FAQ

Common questions about photographing courses in a client's home, staying discreet, and building a portfolio without slowing service.

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FoodShot AI is a web and mobile app for restaurants, cafés, bakeries and other food businesses. You upload a photo of a dish you already have, choose a style, and FoodShot AI turns it into a professional food photo that you can download and use on your menu, delivery apps, website and social media.

It's simple! Upload a photo of your food, choose your desired style (menu photography or social media format), and click generate. Each photo takes about 2 minutes. For poster creation, select from our professional templates, add your text, and create marketing-ready content.

Yes! Download our mobile app from the App Store to create stunning dish photos on the go. Access all features directly from your iOS device.

Yes! FoodShot AI is now available on Android. You can download it from Google Play and start creating professional food photos directly from your Android device.

With a paid plan, you can use the images you create for any lawful commercial purpose, including your restaurant, menus, delivery apps, marketing campaigns and social media. FoodShot does not claim ownership of them. See our Terms of Service for details.

Yes! For bulk processing needs, please email us at hello@foodshot.ai for our Enterprise plan options.

Yes, subscriptions renew month-to-month. To cancel, open Settings and click Manage subscription — it opens your Stripe billing portal, where you can cancel in one click. Fully self-serve, no questions asked, takes under a minute. Your plan stays active until the end of the billing period.

Yes, plan changes take effect immediately. You can upgrade or downgrade directly from your account dashboard. The new pricing will be adjusted for your current billing cycle.

We offer a full refund if you haven't used any credits in your current billing period. Refund requests must be made within 7 days of payment. Previous billing periods are non-refundable. Simply contact us at hello@foodshot.ai if you're not satisfied.

No, unused credits do not roll over to the next month. This applies to both monthly and yearly plans. Credits refresh every month regardless of your billing plan.

Yes! With our custom photography feature, you can upload your own reference images to create consistent branded content. Upload your restaurant's signature background, plating style, or any reference photo, and FoodShot AI will generate new images matching that exact style.

Absolutely! Once you upload a custom background or reference template, you can use it for all your future generations. This is perfect for maintaining consistent branding across all your food photography. Save your favorite backgrounds and create a cohesive visual identity for your restaurant.

FoodShot AI supports all major image formats including JPG, PNG, WEBP, and HEIC. For best results, we recommend using high-quality images with good lighting. The AI will analyze your reference and apply the same style, lighting, and composition to your food photos.

Yes! You can upload your own poster designs and templates. Whether it's your restaurant's branded template or a custom design, simply upload it and FoodShot AI will intelligently place your food photos while preserving your design elements, logos, and text.

All paid plans include unlimited custom template uploads. You can build an entire library of your brand's templates, backgrounds, and reference styles.

No. FoodShot never sends a photographer, never runs an on-site or studio shoot, never prints menus and never cooks or fabricates a dish for you. It restyles photos you take yourself. You cook the real course, plate it the way you always plate it, take a phone photo of it on the client's own worktop, upload that photo, and FoodShot re-lights and re-stages that exact image — the same plate, the same sauce, the same garnish, the same portion. Nothing is invented, which matters enormously in this trade: the household comparing your portfolio to what lands in front of them at eight o'clock has to see the same dish. What changes is the lighting, the surface underneath and the clutter behind, not the food. If a course is not on your menu, it will not appear in your photos.

One quick overhead per course, taken in the ninety seconds after you plate and before it goes out. That is the whole shoot. Hold the phone directly over the plate, take three frames, and carry on — it costs you less time than wiping the rim. Shooting at the pass moment matters because that is the only instant the dish is correct: the sauce still holds its edge, the herbs are not wilting from the plate heat, the crust has not gone soft under a sauce, and nothing has slid. A course photographed four minutes later is a different dish. If you are cooking a six-course tasting menu, six overheads over three hours gives you a full sequence for the proposal deck and a month of posts, and no guest will notice you doing it.

Yes, and it is the single most common thing private chefs bring to us. A domestic ceiling downlight sits directly over the plate and flattens everything, warm bulbs push the whole frame orange so a rosy duck breast reads brown, and a dining room at nine at night gives you a dark, noisy image with a hard shadow of your own head across the plate. FoodShot replaces the lighting rather than correcting it: your dish is re-lit as though it were on a studio table with controlled directional light, so the sear, the gloss on a jus, the flake structure in a fillet and the ridges on a quenelle all come back. The limit is information — if the frame is so dark or so blown out that the garnish is not visible at all, no tool recovers what the sensor never recorded. Shoot near a window when you can, and you will never hit that limit.

By keeping the frame on the plate, which is what these styles do anyway. Every FoodShot scene replaces the background behind and beneath your dish, so the client's dining room, their art, their island, their children's drawings on the fridge and anything else that would identify a household simply is not in the finished image. That is a real commercial advantage rather than just a courtesy: discretion is part of what a private client is paying for, and a portfolio full of anonymous, beautifully lit plates signals that you understand the job. Shoot the plate, not the room. If you want environmental context, use a neutral styled surface rather than the actual table, and describe the setting in your caption instead of showing it.

That is what most chefs use them for. A private chef menu proposal is normally a document full of course titles and no pictures, sent to a household that has never tasted your food and is choosing between you and two other chefs on price. Attaching a styled image to each course changes the conversation completely — the client is now comparing menus they can see rather than a list of ingredients. The most useful set is one image per course in the same style, plus one wider spread showing the full sequence, plus a tasting flight of small portions for the cover. Those images then do second duty on your website, your directory listing and your grid, so a single dinner you were cooking anyway pays for itself three times over.

A restaurant shoots the same dishes in the same room under lighting it controls and a pass it designed, so it can hire a photographer once and use those images for two years. You cook a different menu in a different house every week, on a worktop you have never seen, under whatever bulbs the owner installed. That is why a saved house style matters far more to you than to a fixed venue — it is the only thing that makes forty different kitchens look like one chef. The scale is different too: a catering operation photographs volume and set-up, and a fine dining room photographs a signature dish it will serve four hundred times, while your portfolio is built one bespoke dinner at a time and every image has to carry more weight.

Your cooking deserves better photos.

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