Hire a Restaurant Content Creator in the UK: Menu Spotlight From £650
A single session, six Reels and 15+ stills focused on your menu. Fixed price. No agency markup. The restaurant covers meals. We come to you.
The Menu Spotlight package is the easiest way for a restaurant to get professional content without a monthly agency retainer or the cost of an in-house team. One session on-site at your restaurant. Six short-form Reels edited and ready to post. Fifteen or more high-resolution stills. Focused entirely on your menu: the dishes, the plating, the service, the room. £650 one-off. The restaurant covers our meals during the shoot. We come to you, anywhere in the UK or Europe.
We are Dragos Nistor and Velena Nikolova, co-founders of Velena Lifestyle, a UK-based content creation and social media management agency. We have created restaurant and bar content across Europe. Our clients have appeared in Condé Nast, TimeOut and Vogue. Our agency was featured in Women's Health. Here is what the Menu Spotlight package actually delivers and how to know if it is the right fit.
One-off payment. Meals covered by restaurant.
A single on-site shoot, typically 3-4 hours.
Use on social, website, email, menus.
All files delivered via Google Drive within 7 working days of the shoot.
Restaurant covers meals during the shoot. Payment in GBP, accepted from any country.
One Shoot, Six Places Your Content Works
How the deliverables get used across your marketing
One thing restaurant owners ask us before booking: "What do I actually do with this content?" The Menu Spotlight package is designed so the same six Reels and 15+ stills work across every channel a restaurant uses. Here is where each asset gets the most return.
Reels and grid posts
The 6 vertical Reels are formatted for Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts. Post 2 per week and you have content for 3 weeks. Stills become grid posts and Stories.
2-3 weeks of content
Menu page hero shots
Replace your menu page placeholder photos with the high-res stills. Add one Reel as the hero video on your homepage. Reservation conversion improves immediately.
Higher booking rate
Newsletter and reservations
Use the stills in your monthly newsletter, reservation confirmation emails, special event invites and OpenTable / SevenRooms listing photos.
Open rates up 20-40%
Google Business and review sites
Upload to your Google Business Profile, TripAdvisor, OpenTable and SevenRooms. Listings with professional photography rank higher and convert better than listings with phone shots.
Listings rank higher
What is a Booking Uplift Worth to Your Restaurant?
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From Booking to Delivery in Four Steps
The Menu Spotlight process, start to finish
Book and brief
Purchase the package and send your brief to [email protected]. Tell us your 3-4 signature dishes, your visual brand and the angle you want (cosy, fine dining, casual, brunch). We agree the date and time.
On-site shoot
We arrive at your restaurant for one shoot session (typically 3-4 hours). We coordinate with the kitchen for dish timing, shoot front-of-house atmosphere, and capture stills and Reels simultaneously. We work around service.
Edit and deliver
6 Reels and 15+ stills, edited and delivered via Google Drive within 7 working days. Reels are in vertical format ready to post on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts. Stills are high resolution for web, menus and ads.
Post and grow
Use across Instagram, TikTok, your website menu pages, Google Business Profile, TripAdvisor, OpenTable, email marketing. The same content works in 6+ places, so a single £650 shoot gives you 2-3 weeks of social content plus year-long static assets.
A 5% increase in bookings from better content typically pays back the £650 shoot in the first weekend. Dragos Nistor, Velena Lifestyle
Menu Spotlight vs the Other Restaurant Packages
Side by side, what you get at each tier
| Package | Price | Duration | Reels | Stills | YouTube Short | Rights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Menu Spotlight | £650 | 1 session | 6 | 15+ | No | Organic + web |
| Content Day | £1,100 | Full day | 12 | 25+ | Yes | Full ad rights |
| Monthly Retainer | £950/mo | 2 visits/mo | 10/mo | ongoing | Optional | Full buyout |
Menu Spotlight is the right tier for restaurants that want professional content without a monthly commitment. If you need ad-ready content with paid usage rights, choose Content Day (£1,100). For ongoing monthly content with two visits a month, Monthly Retainer (£950/mo) is the choice. All packages cover both UK and European restaurants.
From Our Hospitality Portfolio
Reels created at hotels, bars and restaurants across Europe
Below are examples from our hospitality UGC portfolio, including food and drink Reels from properties we have shot. See the full hotel and restaurant UGC portfolio for more.
Choose the Right Package for Your Restaurant
From a one-off menu shoot to monthly content
Ready to book Menu Spotlight?
£650 one-off. Restaurant covers meals. 6 Reels and 15+ stills, delivered in 7 working days. UK and Europe.For ongoing social media management after the shoot:
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