Menu photography for Indian restaurants
Your real curries, biryanis and tandoori dishes relit into rich, glossy menu photos in about 30 seconds.
Indian food is gorgeous in the pan and difficult on a phone. A rich curry photographs as a flat orange or brown puddle, the oil sheen that signals depth turns to greasy glare, and the glistening surface of a butter chicken or a dal loses all its dimension under kitchen light. Tandoori char reads as burnt, biryani rice goes pale and uniform, and the vivid spice colour that took hours to build flattens to mud. PlateRefresh relights the actual dish you cooked, deepening the colour of the gravy, controlling the oil sheen, and restoring the char and warmth, without adding a single piece of coriander, a swirl of cream, or a garnish you did not serve.
Depth and gloss in every curry
A good curry is all about a glossy, layered surface, and that is precisely what a phone flattens into a puddle. The relight restores the sheen and deepens the colour of the gravy, brings out the texture of the sauce, and adds the shadow that gives the bowl shape. The dish you cooked keeps its exact garnish and portion; it just looks as rich on screen as it does in the pan.
Tandoori char and biryani that read fresh
Tandoori and grilled dishes need char that looks deliberate, not burnt, and biryani needs separated, colourful grains. PlateRefresh warms the char on tikka and seekh, lifts the saffron and spice tones in the rice, and adds definition so each element reads clearly. On Just Eat and Deliveroo your tandoori platters look freshly fired rather than dim and flat.
An honest picture of a generous plate
Indian customers expect generous, recognisable portions, and a faked photo backfires fast. Because PlateRefresh only relights your real dish, the curry on the menu is the curry in the container, same garnish, same portion. That keeps your listings within delivery-platform imagery rules and protects the trust that brings regulars back.
Phone in, menu shot out.
Snap it
Take a phone photo of the real dish — straight off the pass.
Relight & refine
We relight and lightly enhance the food you actually cooked — sharper texture, fresher look. Nothing added, nothing faked.
Ship it
Download in ~30 seconds and upload it to your menu.
Good to know.
Can it stop my curry looking like a flat puddle?
Yes. Rich gravies flatten on a phone. The relight restores the gloss and deepens the colour of the sauce you cooked, adds shadow for dimension, and controls the oily glare, so a butter chicken or dal looks rich rather than flat.
Does it add coriander, cream or extra garnish?
No. It only relights the real dish in your photo. No added coriander, no cream swirl, no extra garnish. The menu image stays a true picture of the plate a customer receives, which keeps it compliant with delivery apps.
Are the photos suited to Just Eat and Deliveroo?
Yes. Each output is a rich, well-lit menu image sized for Just Eat, Deliveroo, Uber Eats and your own site. Photos help orders: Deliveroo reports roughly 25 percent more orders on items with photography.
How affordable is it to try?
Test Mode is $9.99 one-time, no subscription. That covers several curries, biryanis and tandoori dishes, enough to see how a rich, glossy set looks on your real Indian menu.
Your next menu photo is one shot away.
No subscription to start. Test Mode is a one-time $9.99 — relight your real dishes and see them on your menu today.
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