If nothing else, you’ve got to blog about food.  Instagram not enough?  Getting started with a food blog is easiest with a Tumblr blog.  Here a list we put together of some tumblr theme designs that’s great for showcasing food, whether if you’re just a foodie or a chef.

*List compiled by staff writer April

Looking good ain’t always easy!  Do you need help setting up your customized Tumblr site and theme?  We can help you with that!

If none of these Tumblr themes fit your taste, how about setting up a design contest and let designers compete to create the best design for you!

 

 

1) Exotica -Responsive Tumblr Theme

Exotica is a responsive retina ready tumblr theme with clean and sleek design.

 

 

2) FRESCO – Responsive Multipurpose Tumblr Theme

FRESCO is a clean multipurpose, minimal theme for blogging system – Tumblr. You can easily change the overall view of the theme (for best start, we’ve prepared a well documented user guide file). Variety of custom options makes it a flexible theme – use it as your personal blog, corporate website or as a portfolio! You can customize it for your needs: change logo image, place your own photo in header, change background (image or color). FRESCO supports following post types: text, photo, photoset, audio, video, quote, AMA, chat and link.

FRESCO is fully responsive web design for all devices and screen resolutions.

 

3) Breakfast – A Responsive Tumblr Portfolio Theme

Breakfast is a clean, minimal and responsive Tumblr theme for portfolio’s. It has lots of customizing possibilities, optional text widgets and supports Tumblr’s photo and photoset post types.

 

 

4) Baroness – Clean Tumblr Theme

A Clean and Minimal Tumblr theme for bloggers

 

 

5) Rapture Tumblr Theme

Rapture Tumblr theme is perfect for anything from a portfolio, personal blog, or group blog.  It features an image slider to showcase your best pictures, which can optionally be switched off if you would prefer not to have one.

The Rapture Tumblr theme comes with an extensive amount of options allowing you the freedom to customize your blog with little code exposure. All the widgets in the sidebar can be turned off or on through the Appearance menu when customizing your Tumblog.

 

 

6) Desire Tumblr Theme

The Desire Tumblr Theme uses all the latest features from Tumblr. It is perfect for any type of blog be it for a professional business, creative portfolio or a personal blog. The Desire Tumblr Theme features a wide array of jQuery interactive effects to make yours and your viewers experience that little bit nicer.

All the graphics and javascript files are hosted on Tumblr’s own servers so no need to edit the code adding in links to your graphics. The HTML has been laid out clearly and is easy to navigate. I have also included comments throughout the CSS so you can quickly find certain elements.

 

 

7) PULIRE – Responsive Multipurpose Tumblr Theme

PULIRE is a clean multipurpose, minimal theme for blogging system – Tumblr. You can easily change the overall view of the theme (for best start, we’ve prepared a well documented user guide file). Variety of custom options makes it a flexible theme – use it as your personal blog, corporate website or as a portfolio! You can customize it for your needs: change logo image, place your own photos in main slider, change background (image or color). PULIRE supports following post types: text, photo, photoset, audio, video, quote, AMA, chat and link.

 

 

8) Monocromo

Monocromo is a Tumblr Theme designed to be lightweight and minimal but also high impact ad customizable.

This theme is coded in html5 + css3 and every functionality of Tumblr is supported.

Monocromo use Chunk from The League of Movable Type as custom font, and fancybox as jquery script to show high resolution images from Photo Post.

This theme is fully customizable, you can pick the color you want as dominant color. Monocromo supports Twitter integration, Flickr stream, Disqus comment system, Google Analytics, Streampad player, Fancybox and every native Tumblr features!

 

 

9) Pixelated theme (tumblr)

Pixelated theme is a premium tumblr theme designed by Oscar Barber to display the best way all you want to share on Tumblr. This theme focus on details and supports every single post type Tumblr allows: text, photo, quote, link, chat, audio, video and finally Ask Me (a very new feature wich allows users to ask you questions you can reply to). Each post type is displayed with it own unique formatting style. All you need to do is select the type you want to publish and Pixelated theme will do the rest.

This awesome Pixelated theme features a highly customizable sidebar space where you can display a description or bio about the author, your twitter messages, basic metadata (rss, mobile version link and random), the stuff you like and all the people you follow. Likes, Follows and Twitter can be managed from the Dashboard: you can choose wich ones you want to display on Tumblr.

 

 

10) SlimBlolio Tumblr Theme

A slim hybrid between a Portfolio and a Tumblog.

11) Notebook 

Notebook is designed for the foodie, the wayward traveller and the endless notetaker. Complete with leather binding, hand drawn fonts, and support for social media, Notebook is a perfect fit for any blog type.

 

 

12) Minimal 

Minimal is a simple but interesting theme for all the food bloggers out there.

 

 

13) Flour & Water 

Flour & Water was specifically designed with the foodie, chef, and connoisseur in mind. With customizable colors and full social media support, Flour & Water is a flexible theme for all matters culinary.

 

 

14) Cookbook

Cookbook is a Tumblr theme built for food lovers. With heaps of special features and over 50 customization options, Cookbook will be sure to get your tastebuds flowing.

 

 

15) Write

This is a theme made for writing. It features a relaxed, minimalistic design to allow the content to shine and keep distractions to a minimum.

If you have a passion for the written word- your own or maybe other people’s – you can use this theme to share it with the world.

 

 

16) Vintage Scrapbook

Pixel Union’s Vintage Scrapbook is a whimsical, highly detailed theme inspired by the colours, styles, and textures found in old documents.

 

 

17)  Coco

Digital shop, Style Hatch and designer Regina Casaleggio, are pleased to welcome the latest arrival to the scene, Coco, a sweet, charming, sophisticated, theme with lots of heart and soul. This beauty is “out of the box” ready to enjoy and be shown to the world. To keep this one-of-a-kind masterpiece from being altered from its original state of beauty the customization features are limited.

 

18) Bagua

Bagua is a theme for bloggers that provides a very customizable and functional design for their Tumblr. A blonde wood or geometric background is accented with default seafoam, salmon, or blue icons and text highlights. A custom scroll bar makes viewing posts simple and graphic. And if you want more customization, Bagua allows you to use custom background imagery or color, as well as any custom accent color, or any combination of colors and defaults.

 

19) Sticks & Stones

Sticks & Stones is a completely handmade theme. With custom fonts, custom icons and all your favourite social media, it’s perfect for any illustrator, designer or blogger looking for a theme with unique personality.

 

 

20) Candor

A perfect fit for hi-res images and videos, Candor also provides you with the ability to highlight specific content with a featured posts section and the sticky post.