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PR & communications for food, restaurants & lifestyle

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Welcome

PR & communications for food, restaurants & lifestyle

Service at The Dining Room is all about the personal.

We offer a mirror reflection of the graft and pride that goes into your own carefully created concept and genuinely want to be considered part of the team. Personal, bespoke and original - executed with persistence and charm and the utmost commitment to ensure expectations are met, and then exceeded.

Restaurants, chefs, cookery books, food and drinks brands and everything that contributes to their success. Media relations, PR and communications, talent and profile management, brand development, social media, industry support and networks. A quick chat to strategy to full implementation. Passionate, experienced, knowledgeable, simple and honest consultancy.

Contact The Dining Room

“I only represent clients I truly believe in, who give me goosebumps and make me proud to work with them.”

— Hannah Blake, The Dining Room PR

About

Consultancy for food, restaurants, books and lifestyle.

Approach to PR

Good PR is not just about good coverage. It's about much more.

What we're good at

Personal and authentic, executed with persistence and charm.

"Working with Hannah is an absolute pleasure. Her enthusiasm and energy is a breath of fresh air and she has done a phenomenal job taking on the River Cottage PR strategy and generating fabulous coverage and networking us in with some really great press."

— Josie Curran, Marketing Director at River Cottage

About

“A PR who really stands out”

About

“A PR who really stands out”

About

The Dining Room is a PR and communications consultancy specialising in food, restaurants, books and lifestyle. Based in Tunbridge Wells, with clients across Kent, London and the South West, we work with some of the most interesting and imaginative chefs, passionate food producers and lifestyle brands. At the heart of The Dining Room is the excitement of close, working relationships and getting to know clients’ personalities and taking them beyond the obvious and formulaic. That’s one of the reasons we choose to only work with people and brands who are fun and fearless, who make us giddy with their passion; whose own businesses are built on integrity, graft and doing things properly.

A melting pot of greed, bossiness, curiosity and fastidiousness (can spot a typo a mile away), Hannah has over 18 years’ experience in the food, hospitality and publishing industries. She has represented and worked with some of the most influential and respected names in the industry including household name cooks, Michelin starred chefs, restaurants and food businesses and created campaigns with results to be proud of. Hannah has a true passion and knowledge of the industry and a solid commercial knowledge to best enhance and promote the profiles of the food writers, chefs and cooks who make eating a pleasure.

With a down-to-earth, knowledgeable and tenacious approach we like nothing more than talking to people from all walks of life about their passions. We’re lively, ambitious and set the bar high for clients, while loving what we do.

“I have dealt with scores of food PRs over the decade that I’ve worked as a food writer, but Hannah is a PR who really stands out from the crowd. Not only does she totally ‘get’ what a food journalist needs but, thanks to her great working relationships with the people she represents, and her efficiency, she delivers too. It is clear that Hannah is hugely respected by chefs and food editors alike, and her contacts and knowledge would be hard to rival.”

— Clare Hargreaves, Feast with a Chef

Approach to PR

“Love, passion & dedication”

Approach to PR

“Love, passion & dedication”

Approach to PR

Good PR is not just about good coverage. It is about engagement and loyalty to keep customers always wanting more. Brand affinity equals commercial success.

Beneath the passion and artistry, the seasonal menus and dedication, a restaurant or food producer is a business that needs to generate cash to pay the staff and feed the meter. The best return on investment for PR and marketing activity are reservations and repeat sales.

At The Dining Room, we have unrivalled contacts in the media, hospitality and publishing industries – from respected food writers and literary editors to travel journalists and national columnists, online editors to television and radio producers, leading chefs and restaurateurs, style and trend influencers and industry insiders to ensure your brand is only ever talking to the right people.

“Hannah is a joy to work with. She completely understands the love, passion and dedication that goes into running great restaurants.”

— Scott Goss, Head Chef at The Beacon

What we're good at

“Knowledgeable, tenacious & driven”

What we're good at

“Knowledgeable, tenacious & driven”

What we're good at

Whether you’re looking for strategy and support or full-scale implementation – we’ve got your back.

Annual and project media relations campaigns
Brand identity consultancy
Social Media management, campaigns and support
Copywriting, photography management and art direction
Strategic brand partnerships
Industry and trade liaison
Awards, associations, networking, shows and events
Expert profiling and thought-leadership
Events, press trips and product launches
Editorial and product placement

If you need content such as video and photography we can manage this process for you from the initial brief, through to story board, styling and art direction. We believe in using specialists when expertise is needed. Our own services are augmented by a trusted network of content creators from web designers, app developers, illustrators, printers, photographers and videographers.