Prime Food Photography For Portland Prime

One of my favorite things to do is to go on location and shoot the best of what comes from a particular chef or restaurant. My crew and I had a great chance to to this for Portland Prime's new website.

This newly reopened venue serves the best in local wines, meats and has a beautiful charcuterie & fromage station at their bar where the chef comes out and freshly prepares each plate. It’s lovely. Their Happy Hour is one of the few in town that goes until 7 PM and features a delightful live piano bar that has a quintessentially Northwest feel.

Portland Prime tasked the Polara crew with capturing lifestyle mixed with environment, local wines and many of the tasty food varieties. We began with featuring the restaurant in a new and unique fashion. Gone were the empty rooms that have been a part of so much restaurant photography. Model releases in hand, our producer, Kasey Huber got many of Portland Prime patrons to let themselves be featured with Portland Prime's great food, service and comfortable surroundings.

On our second day at Portland Prime, Michael and Lucy (food stylist) developed a clean simple approach to many mouth-watering dishes, which made the great work of Executive Chef Russell Kool shine in a direct, honest and unadorned fashion. Chef Kool takes advantage of the best of the Pacific Northwest’s bountiful ingredients drawing on his strong relationships with local growers and purveyors.

The hospitality we encountered from Paul and Frank and their crew at Portland Prime Restaurant made us realize why so many are patrons are coming back time and time again.

There is nothing better than after a fun shoot to then enjoy the ambiance, drinks and food we had been eyeballing the entire time we were on set. We had so much fun enjoying the piano bar and many of us tried a lovely Pinot Noir on tap from the local winery, Sokol Blosser. It was fabulous!! Of coarse we had to try the delicious charcuterie & fromage sampler as well as sliders and the stuffed chicken crepes.

So if you get a chance please check out their new website http://www.portlandprime.net/ or better yet stop on in and try something off their enticing menu and you'll have almost as much fun as the whole Polara crew did.