Food and Restaurant Emojis
Emoji that help restaurants, cafés and food creators describe menus, service and offers.
Meals and menus
Use these for dishes, specials and menu items in captions, stories and printed or digital menus.
Drinks
Reach for these when featuring coffee, tea, wine or cocktail offerings on a menu or promo.
Service
Use these to talk about the people, order flow and front-of-house side of a meal.
Bookings and delivery
Pair these with reservation, pickup and delivery calls-to-action.
About this kit
Restaurants, cafés and food creators post constantly: daily specials, new menu items, reservation openings, delivery updates and behind-the-counter moments. This kit groups emoji by how a food business actually talks, from plates and drinks to service touches and booking or delivery calls-to-action, so a caption comes together faster than scrolling a full emoji picker. The sections start with dishes and drinks, then move to the service and ordering details that turn a good photo into a booking or an order. Keep allergen and dietary information in plain words next to any dish emoji, since a pepper or salad emoji alone can't tell a customer what's actually in a plate. Copy any single emoji, combination or full section straight into a post, menu update or email.
Ready-to-copy combinations
Today's special
Calling out today's featured dish on a specials board or story
Reserve a table
Prompting people to book a table for a specific date and location
Delivery is open
Letting followers know delivery or online ordering just opened
Takeout ready
Confirming a takeout or to-go order is ready for pickup
Happy hour
Announcing a drinks or happy hour window
Chef's pick
Highlighting a dish the kitchen recommends
New on the menu
Introducing a new dish or seasonal item
Thanks for dining with us
Closing a receipt or thank-you message to guests
Templates
Daily special
Today's special: [Dish] 🍕 Available until [time].
Reservation prompt
Tables are open for [date]. Reserve yours 📅 [link]
Delivery update
Delivery is live in [area] 🛵 Order through [link]
Dietary note
[Dish] is [dietary note] — ask your server about allergens 🍽️
Using these emoji well
- List allergen and dietary information in words — never signal a dietary restriction with only an emoji.
- Use food and drink emoji to make a menu update easier to scan, not to replace the dish name, price or ingredients.
- Screen readers announce each emoji by its name, so a caption should still make sense if the emoji were removed.