Heard! Studio — the test kitchen

Four restaurants that don't exist. Every service that does.

We invented four fictional Golden Isles restaurants — a counter-service joint, a mom & pop, a full-service dinner spot, and a fine-dining room — and built each one the complete Heard! treatment: brand, menus, panels, photography, campaigns, the works. So you can see exactly what every plate on the menu looks like, served.

The fine print, up front: none of these restaurants are real. They're house concepts, cooked in-house to demonstrate our services — which means no client's proprietary work is on display, and the food photography and lifestyle imagery are AI-assisted concept renders, clearly made for fiction. Your project gets the same craft, pointed at your very real kitchen.

Castnet.

Concept 01 · QSR / Counter service

A coastal bowl counter built on wild Georgia shrimp — poke-shop speed, Lowcountry ingredients, a brand loud enough for a beach strip.

Brand · digital menu panel · takeout menu · food + space photography · LTO campaign · video plating soon

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Della Mae's

Concept 02 · Mom & pop

A Gullah-Geechee-inflected meat-and-three lunch house — forty years of perfect cooking, given the brand refresh it deserves.

Brand refresh · menu system + weekly specials · photography · to-go packaging · email + GBP rescue

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SHELLRAKE

Concept 03 · Casual full-service

An oyster hall with a marble raw bar, a chalked daily board, and a live wood fire — the campaign engine, lit by embers.

Brand · dinner menu + oyster board system · photography · lifestyle + UGC · video plating soon

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SPARTINA

Concept 04 · Fine dining

A marsh-to-table tasting room with twelve tables and one seating — the luxury concept, where restraint is the loudest move.

Identity · letterpress tasting menu · editorial photography · reservation page · menu-turn email

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