RestaurantHospitality content, restaurants
Four Reels of the dishes that actually sell, filmed between services
One session of up to 3 hours, booked into the gap you already have. You get 4 Reels, 8 social stills and the raw footage, back in 3 to 5 working days.
★★★★★ Three years of bar and restaurant content for No Escape London and Purgatory Bar
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Nothing is filmed until the shot list is agreed. If your menu changes every week, say so before you book, because the monthly retainer further down this page is the cheaper answer and we will tell you so.
Prices are in pounds sterling and no VAT is added. International venues are quoted individually rather than bought here, so ask first.
What you get
Everything in the package, and the two things that are not
This is the whole list. If something is not on it, it is not in the package, which is a sentence better read now than after the plates have gone cold.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Session | One visit, up to 3 hours, booked into your own quiet window |
| Reels | 4, each one a different subject |
| Social stills | 8, cut for feed and for Stories |
| Raw footage | The full B-roll pack from the session, yours to keep and re-cut |
| Formats | Every Reel is cut in all three ratios, being 9:16, 4:5 and 1:1 |
| Delivery | 3 to 5 working days from the session |
| Creators on site | Both of us. The people who plan the shot list are the people holding the camera |
| The venue provides | The dishes and drinks being filmed, and a meal for each of us during the session |
| Usage | Organic use on your own channels, your website and your booking pages |
| Paid advertising | Not licensed on this package. The Content Day carries a 12 month paid media licence |
| The kitchen and service | Not covered here. A brigade in service needs a full day, which is the Content Day |
Included
What the price actually covers
- 4 Reels on four different subjectsNot one dish cut four ways. Plates, a pour, the room, and whatever your staff say sells itself.
- 8 social stillsShot on the same visit and framed for a feed rather than for a menu printer.
- The raw footage, handed overEverything usable from the session, not a selects reel. Your own team can keep cutting new posts out of it long after we have gone.
- Every ratio you post toEach Reel is delivered in all three shapes, being 9:16, 4:5 and 1:1, so one session covers every placement.
- A session that fits between servicesWe are on site for up to 3 hours, planned around your covers. Nobody closes and nobody loses a booking.
- Delivery in 3 to 5 working daysFast enough that a dish filmed on Tuesday is posted while it is on the menu.
Choosing the four
Film the dishes that pay, not the ones the kitchen is proudest of
Almost every venue nominates its hardest plate, which usually takes twenty minutes and sells four a night. Four Reels is a small number deliberately, because it forces the choice that matters.
- 01The margin dish
Whatever your kitchen sends thirty of on a Saturday. High volume, healthy margin, and the one a first time guest is deciding on.
- 02A drink being made
The most watchable three seconds in any venue and the most underfilmed. A pour, a torch, a garnish going on. One of the four should be behind the bar.
- 03The room at its best
Atmosphere books occasions in a way a plate never does. Anniversaries, birthdays and first dates are chosen on how the room looks at eight.
- 04The thing only you have
The wood oven, the terrace, the pasta being rolled. The one subject a competitor cannot copy by buying the same ingredients.
Real people, real room
Nobody in your content is generated
Meta, TikTok and the FTC now require AI generated people to be labelled, and a labelled ad measurably underperforms an unlabelled one. Two creators standing in your dining room is not a moral position, it is the version that does not carry the label.
- Your food, your room, your staffFilmed where it is, as it is. There is nothing to disclose because there is nothing generated.
- We are not against the toolsVelena edited inside Picsart's own product for eleven months. The point is what a viewer trusts in a hospitality feed, and a real room is the thing they trust.
- Faces are yours to controlTell us your policy on staff and guests and we work to it. Most venues are happy for staff and want guests kept out entirely.
The two things worth reading twice
What you keep, and where you are allowed to run it
Hospitality content gets commissioned once and used for a year, so both of these matter more here than on a product shoot.
The raw footage
The usable material from the session, handed over with the edits rather than kept on our drive.
- Yours to re-cut whenever you like
- Delivered alongside the finished Reels
- Useful for Stories, the website and the booking engine
- Yours to keep with no time limit
Where you can run it
Your own channels, your website and your booking pages. This package does not license paid media, and that is the one line worth checking before you buy.
- Instagram, TikTok and Facebook, on your own accounts
- Your website, booking engine and email
- Screens inside the venue
- No Meta, TikTok or Google advertising
How it works
From booking to files in four steps
- BookAdd the package above. One payment, taken at checkout.
- Agree the slot and the fourSend your order number and your quiet window through the contact page. We agree the four subjects before anyone books a date.
- We arriveBoth of us, for up to 3 hours. You send the plates in one run and cover a meal for each of us.
- You receiveEverything within 3 to 5 working days: the Reels, the stills, the raw footage and every format.
Terms in plain English
What you are agreeing to, without the legal register
Two people will be working inside your building for an afternoon. These are the parts of the terms and conditions that govern that, written the way we would say them across a table.
- The date is yours once we both hold itA date is agreed in writing after purchase. Buying does not book a specific day on its own, because a kitchen's calendar and ours have to meet.
- Access and permission are yours to giveYou confirm you can allow filming in the spaces we agree, including any landlord or centre management permission. We film only where you point us.
- Staff and guests appear on your policyAnyone who does not want to be on camera does not go on camera.
- You own the use, we own the craftYou get the usage set out above with no time limit on organic. We keep the right to show the finished work in our own portfolio and on this website.
- We will turn work downIf a brief is not something we can do well we say so before taking money, including when a cheaper package is the right one.
- The rest is on the terms pagePayment, licensing and liability are set out in full on the terms and conditions. Read those rather than a summary of them.
Compare
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Both of us on every shoot, filmed on your property. What changes is how long we stay and how much comes back.
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All seven together on the hospitality packages page, and finished work on the hotels and restaurants portfolio.
Bespoke
A group, a launch, or a venue outside the usual radius?
Some hospitality briefs do not fit a package. A group with several properties, an opening with a fixed press date, a wedding or 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.
Quotes are prepared individually. Send us the shape of the problem and we come back with scope, timings and a fixed figure, usually within one business day.
- Multi property groups
- Openings with a fixed press date
- Weddings and events seasons
- Several venues filmed in one week
- Venues outside the United Kingdom
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.
Who arrives
Both of us, on every hospitality shoot

Velena Nikolova
Co-Founder and Creative Director
Velena leads the filming and the edit, so the idea and the execution never pass between strangers. A lifestyle creator with 13,000 Instagram followers, featured in Women's Health. More on the about page.

Dragos Nistor
Co-Founder and Business Strategist
Dragos runs the brief, the schedule and the delivery, and is on camera for couple and male led work. Named a LinkedIn Top Entrepreneurship Voice in 2024. More on the case studies.
Questions
Before you book
No, and we would rather you did not. The session is up to 3 hours and it goes in the gap you already have between services. Tell us your quiet window and we work to it.
The dishes and drinks being filmed, and a meal for each of us during the session. Nothing else. No lighting, no space cleared, no staff pulled off a section.
Four Reels is four subjects, which in practice is three or four plates plus a drink, or three plates plus the room. Send them out in one run and all four are comfortable inside the session.
Not on this package. Menu Spotlight is organic use on your own channels. The Content Day carries a 12 month paid media licence on Meta, TikTok and Google.
Not here. A kitchen in service is the strongest material a restaurant owns and it cannot be caught in an afternoon, so it sits on the Content Day where there is a full shift to film across.
Within 3 to 5 working days, which is the fastest turnaround on the site and deliberately so. A special filmed on Tuesday should not land the week after it comes off.
Across the United Kingdom from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. International venues and anything beyond the usual radius are quoted individually, so ask through the contact page before you buy and we will tell you plainly whether it works.
For a launch, a new menu or a first attempt at proper content, yes. For a feed that has to be fed every week it is a starting point, and the monthly retainer is the version that keeps up.
Why it works
Menu Spotlight in practice
Why an afternoon is enough for a restaurant and not for a hotel
A restaurant concentrates almost everything worth filming into one room and one pass. A hotel spreads it across a building and a whole day of light. That single difference is why this costs a fraction of a hotel visit and still returns four finished pieces and the footage behind them.
The mistake almost every venue makes
Filming the hardest dish. The kitchen is proud of it, the chef wants it on camera, and it sells four covers a night. Content should follow volume and margin rather than difficulty. Ignore that and you get beautiful video attached to a plate nobody orders, and an owner who concludes content does not work when what did not work was the shot list.
Four is a constraint, not a shortfall
Given twelve Reels a venue films twelve plates. Given four, it films the two dishes that pay the rent, the drink that photographs best and the room at its most bookable. The second set outperforms the first almost every time.
Where this leads next
If posting weekly is the real ambition, the monthly retainer is the same work on a rhythm and adds the paid media licence, the captions and a monthly review. If the kitchen is the story, that is the Content Day. Tell us about the venue and we will name the one that fits, including when it is the cheaper one.
An afternoon between services, four Reels, the footage yours
One session, one payment, and a shot list agreed before anyone books a date.









