AR menus for Soho restaurants and bars
For a neighbourhood of small rooms, fast turns and late nights: let guests see the dish or drink before they order.
Quick answer
Soho is dense with small restaurants, small-plates kitchens and cocktail bars competing for the same evening crowd. An AR menu from VR Express lets guests scan a QR code and see your dishes and drinks at real size on their table, with no app, which helps sharing-plate tables order quickly and gives signature items something to be filmed. We scan in your kitchen in quiet hours and go live in about two weeks.
Built for how Soho eats
Many Soho menus are small plates for sharing, where the hardest question is how much to order. Seeing each plate at its real size on the table answers it, and helps a group order in one go rather than in rounds.
Pre-theatre tables are short on time. An AR menu on the booking confirmation lets guests choose before they sit down.
Bars and late-night
Soho's cocktail bars can put their signature serves in AR, so a guest sees the glass and garnish before ordering. See our guide to AR cocktail menus for bars.
Scanning in a small kitchen
We scan in quiet hours with a compact kit: a matte mat, a turntable and a phone. It fits on a pass or a prep bench, so there is no need to clear the kitchen. Your team can also scan new dishes themselves.
How it works
- Onboarding call and capture kit: guide, matte mat, turntable and your own upload code.
- Dishes are scanned freshly plated in quiet hours, by your team with the kit or by us on site in London.
- Every model gets a quality pass by our 3D team (holes, glare, scale, file size), with a retake note within a day if a capture can't be saved.
- Your menu page goes live with sections, prices and allergens, plus a print-ready QR code per dish. A typical menu takes about two weeks.
See it and read the case study
Try it on your phone: open the demo menu and tap “See it on your table”. VR Express has built AR, VR and WebXR since 2015, including the AR Menu platform for restaurants and bars. Start with the overview of AR menus for London restaurants, see what an AR menu costs in the UK or compare AR and QR menus.
Frequently asked questions
Do you scan on site in Soho?
Yes. London is where we do in-person captures, and Soho kitchens are a short trip. Your team can also scan with the kit.
Does it work for small-plates menus?
Yes, that is where it helps most: guests see the size of each plate and order the right amount for the table.
Does it need an app?
No. It opens from a QR code in Apple's AR Quick Look on iPhone and Google's Scene Viewer on Android.