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This restaurant exists solely to make your Instagram food photos look good

I don't want to live on this planet anymore

Christopher Hooton
Wednesday 06 May 2015 12:55 BST
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There's nothing inherently wrong with Instagramming photos of your dinner. It's no worse than pictures of your goddamn legs on the beach, or your goddamn kid hanging upside down from a swing. But an entire restaurant set up around the photography of its food rather than the taste is pushing it.

Catit, a restaurant in Tel Aviv, has started a series of 'Foodography' dinners, where the food is presented on social media-optimised plates and diners are taught how to take the best food photographs. They're proving pretty popular.

There's even a 360 plate so you can spin your food whilst filming it. The dream!

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Admittedly, the resultant Instagrams do look pretty good.

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A photo posted by Talmi Fridman (@talmifridman) on

But what price Instagram Likes? Maybe in the future science can eliminate the need for sustenance entirely, and we can all get our nutrition from how delicate a radish looks placed on top of some pea foam.

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