Restaurant Food Photography in Dubai

Toby Davies is a Dubai-based commercial food and restaurant photographer working with restaurant groups, hotels, chefs, agencies, food-delivery platforms and hospitality brands across the UAE and wider GCC. He creates food photography for menus, restaurant launches, advertising campaigns, PR, websites, delivery apps and digital content, with each shoot tailored to the brand and intended use of the images.

His restaurant photography includes work for three-MICHELIN-starred FZN by Björn Frantzén, Il Ristorante Niko Romito at Bulgari, Nobu, Netsu at Mandarin Oriental, alongside many other restaurants and hospitality groups across the UAE.

Projects range from premium restaurant launches and seasonal menu shoots to high-volume food photography for cloud kitchens, delivery platforms and multi-brand restaurant operators. For larger menus, Toby develops a consistent and efficient shooting approach that allows a high number of dishes to be captured while maintaining accurate presentation, lighting and framing across the complete image library.

Working closely with chefs, marketing teams, art directors and food stylists, Toby combines precise lighting with an appetising and considered approach to composition. Assignments can cover individual dishes, sharing spreads, chef and kitchen action, restaurant atmosphere and complete menu libraries for single venues or multiple outlets.

Projects can also include cocktail and beverage photography and restaurant and hotel interior photographycreating a complete image library across the food, drinks and interiors.

Based in Dubai and available for restaurant, hotel, cloud-kitchen and food-delivery photography commissions in Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia and across the wider region.