The document outlines eight modern food plating trends and presentation styles, including techniques such as the landscape technique, free-form plating, and the use of organic materials. It also highlights approaches like the futuristic technique, Nordic look, hide and seek, bathing, and superbowl plating styles that enhance the visual appeal of dishes. Each method emphasizes creativity and aesthetics in food presentation.

1. 8 Modern Food Plating Trends &
Presentation Styles

2. 1. Landscape
Technique
Taking inspiration
from landscape
gardens, this linear
arrangement of food
is usually kept low and
long.

3. 2. FREE – FORM
TECHNIQUE
Like many modern
paintings, free form plating
may seem carelessly
strewn across a plate, but
each stroke and food
placement is carefully
thought out to create an
abstract yet intriguing
“painting” on a plate.

4. 3. Food on Organic
materials Technique
Using organic materials
such as wood, slate and
stone as a plating device
lends a more rustic and
back-to-nature feel to
dishes.

5. 4. Futuristic
Technique
Making use of sleek
materials like metal, glass
and steel, futuristic
plating creates a cutting
edge and futuristic
plating like the example
below.

6. 5. The Nordic
Look Technique
Make ribbons or chunks of
vegetables and scatter herbs
on a dish to garnish for
seemingly effortless style.
‘Gone Fishing’ by the Danish
chef and food stylist Mikkel
Karstadt is a good place to
look for inspiration; follow
him on Instagram

7. 6. Hide and
Seek
Technique
Layering adds an element
of playfulness and
surprise to the dish. Think
a puffed rice cracker
covering crab meat, thinly
sliced radishes hiding a
yummy sea bass tartare...

8. 7. Bathing
Technique
Bathe fish in broth or
sauce. For example, these
tortellini with a shellfish
sauce or coquilles with
chicory, truffle foam, goat
cheese and shrimps.

9. 8. Superbowl
Technique
Bowl food is a massive
trend, with cookbooks
and restaurants to match.
Try a more elegant styled
bowl; used for smaller
dishes, like starter or
entremets.