Home: The New Hot Restaurant
(With a Secret Ingredient)
When the world shut down, home didn’t just become where we lived — it became the hottest restaurant in town. During the pandemic, Sir Kensington’s leaned into that cultural shift with a playful out-of-home campaign that invited people to see their kitchens in a new light. The message was bold and celebratory: welcome to your critically acclaimed home restaurant.
The first wave of the campaign launched across high-impact food and lifestyle sites, including Bon Appétit, Epicurious, Food & Wine, and Allrecipes, meeting passionate home cooks where they were already looking for inspiration and driving strong brand awareness.
Next, the campaign moved into the streets with carefully selected digital OOH placements surrounding Whole Foods Market locations across New York City. These hyper-local placements allowed the work to feel timely, relevant, and rooted in the everyday routines of our audience.
Using dayparting, we tailored messaging to specific moments throughout the day — serving dinner-focused creative in the evening, limiting exposure to daylight hours to reduce waste, and customizing copy to reflect neighborhood context. The result was a smarter, more efficient media strategy that felt personal rather than broadcast.
Throughout the campaign, mouthwatering photography and clever, confident copy brought the brand promise to life: unexpectedly superior taste, driven by exceptional ingredients, grounded in uncompromising values, and delivered with just the right balance of wit and whimsy.
Client
Sir Kensington’s
Year
2020
Role
Art Direction
Photography
Marcus Nielsen
Team
Vanessa Kutchukov, Rhea Park