Zeilkitchen – Vegan — Restaurant and food photography
Modern food photography for Zeilkitchen Frankfurt. Restaurant and food photography: Frankfurt am Main. “Zeil Kitchen” is a fashionable vegan restaurant on…
“Zeil Kitchen” is a fashionable vegan restaurant on the busy shopping street Zeil in Frankfurt am Main. This modern place has made a name for itself with a creative and varied vegan menu that appeals to vegans and non-vegans alike. “Zeil Kitchen” puts great emphasis on fresh, regional ingredients and offers a range of healthy, flavourful dishes inspired by international cuisines. With its stylish setting and comfortable atmosphere it is a popular meeting point for health-conscious and environmentally minded guests. “Zeil Kitchen”'s commitment to sustainability and its innovative culinary offer make it a must-visit for anyone in Frankfurt am Main looking for a distinctive vegan dining experience.
The task with this kitchen is exactly the one the text describes: it should also appeal to guests who do not eat vegan. Photographically that means emphasizing nothing that signals going without. So the pictures show what any good menu shows — breaded escalopes with lemon on a red tray, a platter with cauliflower, spring rolls, falafel, hummus and couscous, and bread in a basket.
The large platter on blue timber is the most important frame, because it makes the menu's argument in a single image. Seven components lie side by side, each in a different color and texture — yellow cauliflower, dark falafel, pale hummus, colored couscous. Variety cannot be asserted; it has to lie in the frame in countable form.
The blue timber underneath is why the colors hold. Almost everything on that platter is warm: yellow, gold, brown, beige. A warm surface would have merged it all into one tone. Blue is the counter-color, and the worn paint gives the surface texture without needing a prop.
The escalope frame brings in another rule. Breadcrumb looks either crisp or soggy in a photograph, and that is decided by the raking light: it has to fall flat enough for the crumb texture to throw shadows. The wedge of lemon at the top is not decoration but the only bright yellow point in a picture made of browns.
And the out-of-focus foreground with salad and red onion rings sets the depth. Without it the dish would lie flat on the tray.
- Cuisine
- Vegan
- Place
- Frankfurt am Main
