Food has always been a popular subject on social media, and there are plenty of food-centric Instagram accounts with thousands of followers. So whether you’re a culinary connoisseur, a cooking enthusiast, or simply someone who appreciates good food, finding the perfect dinner captions for Instagram can make your mouthwatering food photos stand out.
In this blog post, you’ll find lots of ideas for dinner captions for Instagram. From elegant dining experiences to cozy home-cooked meals, we’ve curated a collection of captions that will add flavour and personality to your dinner posts.
How do you Caption a Meal?
Think about how your dinner would be described on a menu!
Use adjectives to describe the taste, texture, smell and cooking method. Create an image and awaken the senses of your followers! Instead of ‘pepperoni pizza’, say ‘handmade sourdough crust, dripping with fresh mozzarella and spicy pepperoni’.
Instagram Captions For Dinner Photos
If you’ve taken a drool-worthy photo of your food, here are some dinner captions for Instagram!
1. Cooking is an art form.
2. I express myself through food.
3. My creative outlet.
4. My happy place is in the kitchen.
5. Dinner is a winner.
6. Take your [meal] to the next level with [ingredient]!
7. ★★★★★ Would eat here again.
8. All you need is faith, dust and a little [dish].
9. Just called me Chef [name].
10. There’s nothing like a home-cooked meal.
11. Paying someone else to cook.
12. Who’s washing up?
Food Photography Tip: Use soft natural light when photographing your food. Light your dinner photos from the side rather than the front or back, and try to avoid harsh dark shadows.
Short Dinner Captions for Instagram
Short snappy captions that put your food in focus!
1. Bon Appétit
2. Time for dinner.
3. Dinner time.
4. I made this.
5. Feast.
6. Taste test.
7. Eat in.
8. Experiment.
9. Cooking is science.
10. Chow down.
11. Good food. Good mood.
12. Who’s hungry?
13. You are what you eat.
14. Eat your veggies.
15. Nom nom nom.
16. Grub.
17. Tasty.
18. Dream dinner.
Dinner with Friends Captions
These captions are perfect if you’ve snapped some photos while at dinner with friends!
1. Nothing brings people together like good food.
2. Be our guest.
3. Ma chère Mademoiselle, it is with deepest pride and greatest pleasure that we welcome you tonight. And now we invite you to relax, let us pull up a chair as the dining room proudly presents – your dinner! – Be Our Guest, Beauty and the Beast.
4. Eating dinner with the crew!
5. Good food. Good conversations. Good company.
6. My favourite people around the table.
7. Eat good food with good friends.
8. Table for [number of guests].
9. Dinner is the best time to dish.
10. A feast with friends.
11. Amazing food with even better company!
12. Feeding friendsy.
Dinner Caption Tip: These captions don’t have to be used just on photos – use them on Reels too!
Family Dinner Captions for Instagram
Share your family meals with your followers with these Instagram dinner captions.
1. Dinner is better when we eat together.
2. Dinner with the fam.
3. My favourite way to the end the day.
4. A strong family has well-worn seats at the dinner table.
5. After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations. – Oscar Wilde.
6. The tradition of the Sunday feast accomplishes more than just feeding us. It nurtures us. – Chef John Besh
7. Time together as a family is a gift. – Joanna Gaines
8. I love cooking for the people I love most.
9. Family time is the best time.
10. Feeding the family.
11. Feeding time at the zoo.
12. At the end of the day, there’s nothing I love more than dinner with my little family.
13. It’s the little moments that make life big.
14. Feed the animals.
15. Family time.
16. Dinner at the [suname].
Romantic Dinner Captions for Instagram
Going out for a meal for date night? Or maybe you’re having a cozy night in. These captions have got you covered!
1. Date night.
2. Dinner with my favourite person.
3. I love you. I love dinner. I love dinner with you.
4. Table for two.
5. Kiss by candlelight.
6. My heart and soul in every dish.
7. Eat, Pray, Love.
8. Spicy.
9. My happy place.
10. I knew it was gonna be a good day when you said, ‘Let’s go for dinner.’
11. Parents night out.
12. What a life it would be, if you could come to mine for tea. – Oasis
13. 🍽️💕
14. Found love in a hopeless plate.
15. My two loves.
16. Love (and food) is all you need.
17. No matter what dinner you pick for date night, I’ll always pick you.
18. Food, love & laughter.
19. Love at first bite.
20. I love you more than [dish your eating].
21. I don’t need anything fancy – just you and dinner.
22. Just the two of us.
Funny Dinner Captions for Instagram
Add a bit of humour to your dinner captions for Instagram!
1. Bone Apple Tea.
2. Live, love, dinner.
3. Wine + Dinner = Winner
4. Winner winner chicken dinner.
5. Dinner fixes everything.
6. Spice Girl.
7. A recipe for disaster.
8. If I wanted it to be a disaster, I would have cooked it myself.
9. You shall have a fishy on a little dishy. You shall have a fishy when the boat comes in. (Traditional English folk song)
10. Eating is my hobby.
11. My favourite thing to make for dinner is reservations.
12. I’m sorry. I’m in a relationship with food.
13. Chop it like it’s hot.
14. WTF: Where’s the food?
15. Alexa, do the dishes.
16. Dinner will be ready when you hear the smoke alarm.
17. You cook. I’ll drink wine.
18. I only have a kitchen because it came with the house.
Dinner Captions Tip: Add emojis! There are a ton of food emojis to choose from that can add some personality to your caption. 🍔🌮🥗🍣🍅
Fancy Dinner Captions
Fancy dinners require fancy captions!
1. On the menu tonight is [describe meal in detail].
2. Banquet fit for a Queen/King/Royalty.
3. When you make dinner, you make it three courses.
4. Posh.
5. Got out the fancy plates!
6. Fancy-schmancy.
7. Fancy dress. Fancy dinner.
8. Tonight we get fancy.
9. I’m so fancy. You already know. – Iggy Azalea
10. Fine dining.
11. Je ne sais quoi.
Dinner Quotes
If you can’t find the words to say it yourself, use these dinner quotes.
1. The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It’s got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot. – Michael J Fox
2. Food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection. – E.A. Bucchianeri
3. There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table. – E.A. Bucchianeri
4. People who love to eat are always the best people. – Julia Child
5. I have long maintained that each of us has three chances a day to be happy: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner. – Elin Hilderbrand.
6. There is a difference between dining and eating. Dining is an art. When you eat to get most out of your meal, to please the palate, just as well as to satiate the appetite, that, my friend, is dining. – Yuan Mei
7. I cook with wine. Sometimes, I even add it to the food. – W.C. Fields
Dinner Caption Questions
Encourage engagement by asking questions in your dinner captions.
1. What’s your favourite [ingredient] dish? (E.g. what is your favourite chicken dish?)
2. What’s the best side dish for [meal]?
3. Who wants to come for dinner?
4. My first go at making [dish]. What do you think?
5. Tonight’s dinner. What did you cook?
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Lindsey is the creator and writer behind The Caption Library. She’s worked in social media marketing since 2011 and has worked with a range of magazines, small businesses and bloggers. She enjoys being creative, whether it’s writing for her blogs or running her Etsy store!
