One of downtown’s best kept secrets is the Patio restaurant inside the Hilton Garden Inn. This is no ordinary hotel fare; this is some seriously delicious and beautiful food created by executive chef Jason Jette and staff that should be on everyone’s list to try. In the summer, the outdoor dining overlooking the Fisher Cats...
After a long, gray winter, it is a sight for sore eyes when the colorful, fruity, pastel beauties from the spring and Easter menus start emerging from the Black Forest Cafe. This time around my assignment was to create beautiful marketing photos to showcase the new goodies, but also a new challenge: to create a...
You’ll never hear me claim to be a food critic…. I am way too agreeable. Ask any mom who prepares bleak meals for her family for days on end…. I am overly enthusiastic about anything I didn’t have to drown in Pinterest for a recipe for, shop for (usually in multiple trips), destroy my kitchen...
I confess that I’m in my 34th year on this planet and I’ve never tried sushi. But lately for some reason I’ve felt the overwhelming compulsion to give it a whirl, especially when I consider that so many people I know do enjoy it. What am I missing? I’m definitely a heavily sauced and cheesy...
I have to admit I started out compiling my favorite portrait images of 2011, but I got distracted by the food photos and so I decided to give them their own post. They are my favorite, after all. There were so many highlights for 2011, and I have so many of these images that I...
The Pavilion is located in the Hilton Garden Inn, in downtown Manchester’s beautiful millyard area. Executive Chef Jason Jette, Sous Chef Vlad, and the team create such impressively stylish dishes that are so beyond anything you typically think of “hotel food.” When they started bringing out the dishes to photograph, I was kind of in jaw-dropping...
Today was a good day. Today was proof to me that if you stick to what you truly love, be yourself, and follow your passion, great opportunities can come along. Today that wacky chick who always takes pictures of food in restaurants shot the menu for The Pavilion at Manchester’s Hilton Garden Inn. On location,...
