Haven't tried out Blender in quite a while.(2 years)
Decided to create food assets for archviz and re-visit Blender.
This is a small scene by me using only Blender.I handpainted all the textures (except for baked normal maps for the smaller cakes & meatpie) using Blender's excellent texturing tools. This is the raw render straight out of Blender using Cycles with no post process work done. No photo textures were used. No HDR image.
I would have to say a lot of improvements have been made to this software and Cycles is quite powerful. I still prefer 3dsmax but handpainting textures in Blender is way better and easier imo.
EDIT: Will be redoing the strawberries. Will repost images later. Thanks