Restaurant content packages
Restaurant content packages that never ask you to close
Three packages for restaurants, cafes and bars, from the pair Women's Health featured and who hold a three year retainer with No Escape London and Purgatory Bar: a session between services, a full day that includes the kitchen, or a monthly rhythm. Both of us come to you, the venue covers meals, and the camera works around your covers rather than around an empty dining room.
Where the range starts
We are in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and work UK wide. Venues across Europe and further afield are as welcome as British ones, with travel quoted before booking. Prices are in pounds sterling and no VAT is added. If you are ordering from outside the UK your card issuer sets the exchange rate, and anything due in your own country is outside our invoice.
The three
A session, a day, or a rhythm
These are not the hotel packages with the nouns changed. A restaurant concentrates everything worth filming into one room and one kitchen, so a couple of hours produces what a hotel needs a night to gather. What changes across the three is how much of the kitchen you get, and what you are allowed to do with the footage afterwards.
- Entry
Menu Spotlight
£650
The plates, the drinks and the room, filmed between services. No film and organic use only, which is what keeps it the entry tier.
- Sessionup to 3 hours
- Reels4
- Stills8
- Delivery3 to 5 working days
- Core
Content Day
£1,450
The kitchen and the service as well as the room, plus a venue film. This is the tier where you get the material your competitors do not have.
- Sessionup to 8 hours
- Reels6
- Film5 to 8 minutes
- Captions10
- Delivery5 working days
- Ongoing
Monthly Retainer
£950
A rhythm rather than a shoot. For a venue whose menu actually moves, where a special filmed the week it lands beats a hero dish filmed in March.
- On sitetwo visits a month
- Reels6
- Stills10
- Captions10
- TermsRolling monthly, 2 months notice, no setup fees.
Which one, honestly. Menu Spotlight suits a venue with a settled menu that needs its dishes filmed once and posts organically. The Content Day is the right answer if the kitchen and the service are part of the story rather than a backdrop, and it is where paid media rights start. The retainer only earns its keep if your menu genuinely moves, and if it does not we will say so rather than sell it.
Compare
The three side by side
The row that decides most bookings is kitchen and service. It is the difference between content every competitor also has and content none of them do.
| Menu Spotlight | Content Day | Monthly Retainer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time on site | up to 3 hours | up to 8 hours | two visits a month |
| Venue film | Not included | 5 to 8 minutes | Not included |
| Reels | 4 | 6 | 6 a month |
| Social stills | 8 | 12 | 10 a month |
| Caption pack | Not included | 10 | 10 a month |
| Kitchen and service | Plates and room only | Included | Included |
| Advertising rights | Organic only | Paid media included | Paid media included |
| Performance review | Not included | Not included | Monthly |
| Meals | Covered by the venue on all three, because a session cannot be filmed by creators who are not eating there | ||
| Delivery | 3 to 5 working days | 5 working days | 5 working days per visit |
Note the delivery row. Menu Spotlight is the fastest turnaround on the whole site, because a short session makes a small edit. It is not a priority tier, it is a smaller one, and we would rather explain that than let it read as a perk.
What to film
Film the dishes that sell, not the ones you are proudest of
Almost every venue nominates its most technically difficult plate. It is rarely the one that fills tables, and a shoot that follows difficulty rather than margin produces beautiful video attached to a dish nobody orders.
What to put in front of the camera
- The margin dish, not the trophy dishIf a plate takes twenty minutes and sells four a night, filming it moves nothing. The one that sells thirty covers is worth the attention.
- At least one drinkA cocktail pour is the most watchable three seconds in a restaurant and most venues never film one.
- The room, as its own dishAtmosphere sells a booking as much as a plate does, particularly for occasions and particularly at weekends.
How to make a short session work
- Send them out in one runA short session works because the kitchen sends everything in sequence. It stops working if plates arrive across a whole service.
- Decide the list before the daySix dishes chosen in advance beats twenty discussed on the day, and it is the single biggest thing a venue controls.
- Tell us your policy on staffWhether the team appears on camera, and whether guests are avoided entirely. Most venues say staff yes, guests no.
The unfair advantage
The kitchen is the part nobody films
Your food is on every competitor feed. What is not is the pass at seven o'clock, the chef plating under pressure, and the ninety seconds before service starts. That material is the whole reason to book a day rather than a session.
- 01The chef at work, not posed
A kitchen in service looks nothing like a kitchen arranged for a camera, and viewers can tell within a second which one they are watching.
- 02Prep outperforms plating
The mise en place, the pre service briefing, the moment a full room lands. Consistently the strongest material and the content venues are most reluctant to allow.
- 03Service cannot be staged
A full room at eight cannot be recreated at three, which is why the Content Day spans prep and covers rather than a quiet afternoon.
- 04It is recruitment content too
Kitchens are hard to staff. Footage of a team that looks worth joining does a second job most venues never think to ask for.
Before you book a session
No, and you should not. The entry session runs between services, and the Content Day is built around your service rather than instead of it. The most valuable material on a full day is filmed while you are open.
The ones that sell, not the ones the kitchen is proudest of. A plate that takes twenty minutes and sells four covers a night is not worth six seconds of anybody's attention. Follow margin and volume, and include at least one drink.
Menu Spotlight is the plates, the drinks and the room in up to 3 hours, with organic use only. The Content Day adds the chef at work, the service, a venue film of 5 to 8 minutes and paid media rights, filmed across up to 8 hours.
We film around service rather than through it. In practice a kitchen notices us during prep and forgets we are there once covers start. Tell us your policy on staff appearing before the day and we work to it.
From the Content Day upward. Organic use on your own channels plus paid media rights for 12 months from delivery. Paid media covers Meta, TikTok and Google. Menu Spotlight is organic only, which is part of what keeps it the entry tier rather than a restriction we added.
Two Menu Spotlight sessions a month would cost more than the retainer and return organic rights only. The retainer includes 6 Reels, 10 stills, 10 captions, paid rights and a monthly review. Rolling monthly, 2 months notice, no setup fees.
Then the retainer is the right product and a one off shoot is the wrong one. A special filmed the week it goes on is worth more than a hero dish filmed in March and posted in July.
Yes. Payment is in pounds sterling and accepted from any country, so an international venue is as welcome as a British one. And if the restaurant sits inside a property you are also filming, the hotel packages cover both in one visit rather than two bookings.
Why restaurants are the strongest case for a rhythm
A menu, a special, a season and a supplier all move within a quarter, and content filmed against any of them has a short life. Two visits a month is not a volume decision, it is a freshness one, and it is why a restaurant retainer makes more sense than a hotel one for a venue of the same size.
The other half of it is that a plate on a delivery platform or a booking site is doing a job your own channels are not, and it is the one place a still frame still outperforms video. That is why social stills are on every package here rather than sold separately.
Where a venue should start
If the place has never been filmed properly, the Content Day gives you a foundation of evergreen material including the kitchen, and the retainer keeps it current. Doing it the other way round works but takes longer to look substantial. If you just want the new menu on camera this month, Menu Spotlight is a short session and you never close.
Filming a food or drink product rather than a venue? That sits on the food and drink UGC packages instead. Hotels are on the hospitality packages page, who turns up and how a booking runs is on the hospitality hub, and the case studies show the work at a named venue.
Client reviews
What clients say, word for word
“Fantastic service. Been a client for 3 years now and have seen fantastic results, increased viewers, followers and viral videos. Copywriting was on point and has been used in magazines like Conde Nast, Timeout and more.”
Darrell Johnston, Owner, No Escape London and Purgatory Bar. Google review, 5.0.“Velena Lifestyle have been a breath of fresh air for our social media accounts. Their professionalism and knowledge have supported us massively.”
Sean Thompson, Head of Marketing, Snaptrip Group. Google review, 5.0.“Velena was a pleasure to work with, she worked solely with the brief provided and was even ahead of her deadline. The content produced was clean, professional and on brand. We would love to work with Velena again in the very near future.”
Lauryn Middleton, Social Media Manager, Smirk. Client testimonial, October 2023.Every review is reproduced word for word. Read them all on the reviews page.
Both of us
Who arrives, on every hospitality shoot
Velena Nikolova
Co-Founder and Creative Director
Velena Nikolova films and edits every video. A lifestyle creator featured in Women's Health, she is on camera for the room, the dishes and the dining content. More on the about page.
Dragos Nistor
Co-Founder and Business Strategist
Dragos Nistor handles scheduling, the shot plan and delivery, and appears on camera for couple and dining content. Named a LinkedIn Top Entrepreneurship Voice in 2024. More on the case studies.
Our channels
If you would rather watch than read
Velena and Dragos
Travel, food and influencer content from the two of us, and the channel where the long form work lives.
Open the channelVelena Lifestyle
The agency channel. UGC examples, client work and finished campaign videos.
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Bespoke
A group, an opening, or something not on this list
Some briefs do not fit a package: a group with several venues, an opening with a fixed press date, an events season, or a venue outside the usual travel radius. When that is the shape of it we scope the work rather than pushing you into the nearest package.
How a bespoke quote works. Send the venue, the dates and what you need it for, and we come back with the scope and a fixed figure rather than a day rate that grows. Quotes are prepared individually and can be requested through the work page or at [email protected].
A session, a day, or every month
Scheduled around your covers, meals covered by the venue, and both of us on every visit. We have worked with 100+ brands since 2022 and reply within one business day.