Games Like Cooking Fever: Fast Restaurant Games to Play
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Games like Cooking Fever are fast restaurant games: customers order, you cook and serve as quickly as you can, and you upgrade the kitchen as you go. Cooking Fever is a 2014 game by Nordcurrent. The games below are original titles by independent studios that ask for the same speed, from burger joints to a potion cafe.
How Cooking Fever plays
Cooking Fever is a cooking simulation from Nordcurrent, a studio in Vilnius, Lithuania, first released on iOS on 27 September 2014. The player must cook food as quickly as possible to fulfill incoming customers' orders (source).
Nordcurrent's own page adds that you upgrade your kitchen appliances and interior to produce a greater variety of dishes, and that decorating a restaurant can attract more clients. The game has many kinds of restaurant, such as fast food, a bakery and a sushi bar (source).
So the game is speed in the kitchen, plus the upgrades that keep you ahead of the orders. This table shows where the games below ask for the same.
| What you do in Cooking Fever | Games that ask the same |
|---|---|
| Cook food as quickly as possible | Cooking Challenge, Kitchen King Rush, Dream Kitchen |
| Fill the orders as customers arrive | Boo Brew, Restaurant Rush, Dream Chefs |
| Upgrade the kitchen appliances | Dream Kitchen, Cooking Challenge, Restaurant Rush |
| Move on to a new kind of restaurant | Dream Kitchen, Idle Restaurant Tale, Cooking Marina 2023 |
| Cook a wide menu of dishes | Halloween Cooking - Run A Restaurant, Cooking Marina 2023, Dream Kitchen |
Fast kitchens: cook, plate, serve
- Cooking Challenge is the nearest match to the pace. A hungry customer is an impatient customer, so you put cutlets on the pan, drop potato straws into the oil and start the drinks dispenser in advance, before the dishes are needed. Quick service earns a tip, there are fifty levels, and you buy equipment and upgrade it. You use the mouse or tap the screen.
- Kitchen King Rush is a fast restaurant game where hungry customers arrive and you cook, plate and deliver their dishes on time. Keep them happy to earn tips and upgrade your restaurant. The page boils the controls down to one line: serve food as soon as you can.
- Dream Kitchen has you take orders, cook the right food and serve every dish on time. Finished levels give three-star ratings and coins, which go into kitchen equipment and new recipes. Its chapters change the place: a pancake shop, a street stall, a fast food restaurant and a western restaurant. You click or tap.
- Restaurant Rush starts with a small burger joint. Take orders, cook burgers, collect the cash from finished orders and upgrade your kitchen, then hire workers and add stations as the place grows.
Customers who will not wait
- Boo Brew runs a potion cafe. Match ingredients, stir enchanted brews and serve monster customers before their patience runs out. It has 12 midnight shifts, combos and a witch kitchen to upgrade. You tap or drag ingredients into the cauldron, stir, then tap the matching customer. On a keyboard, keys 1 to 6 add ingredients and Space or Enter stirs.
- Dream Chefs says you must fulfill customer orders and create different dishes in a restaurant. Its page says little more.
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New restaurants, new menus
Cooking Fever moves you from one kind of place to another. These games do the same.
- Idle Restaurant Tale starts as a street food bar. Hire staff, upgrade the machines to earn more, then open a bigger restaurant. It has 11 cities and more than 100 levels, and you tap the machines and the food to play.
- Cooking Marina 2023 is a fast restaurant cooking game that travels around Singapore and some other countries in Asia, with tasty dishes and their own recipes at each stop. You tap to play.
- Halloween Cooking - Run A Restaurant has you prepare, cook and serve meals from all over the world. You dash from classic coffee to a Chinese restaurant, and bake sweet cakes, make desserts and grill burgers along the way. You tap or click.
- Santa Cooking is a Christmas-themed cooking game with time management and strategy. You tap ingredients to make burgers and toast.
If you like seating customers too, games like Diner Dash covers that. More kitchens are in the cooking games guide and the restaurant games guide, and every cooking game is on the cooking page.
Tips for fast kitchens
- Start dishes before you need them. Cooking Challenge says to have the dishes ready in advance so hungry customers do not wait.
- Serve the customer closest to leaving first. In Boo Brew every monster customer has a patience limit.
- Spend on speed. Dream Kitchen spends coins on kitchen equipment, Idle Restaurant Tale upgrades machines to earn more, and Cooking Challenge lets you buy equipment and upgrade it.
- Look for combos. Boo Brew says you can build combos as you serve.
- Aim for the stars. Dream Kitchen rates each level with up to three stars.
Games like Cooking Fever FAQ
Are there games like Cooking Fever online?
Yes. They play free in the browser, with no install and no registration. Cooking Challenge and Dream Kitchen play with a mouse or a tap, and Idle Restaurant Tale needs only taps on the machines and the food.
Are there games like Cooking Fever for PC?
Yes. The site works in the browser of a phone, a tablet and a computer, so the same games play with a mouse on a PC. Cooking Challenge and Dream Kitchen list mouse controls, and Boo Brew adds keys 1 to 6 for ingredients and Space or Enter to stir.
Are there games like Cooking Fever without gems?
Nothing here asks for money: the site has no in-game purchases, paid access or subscriptions. In Cooking Challenge, quick service earns a tip, and in Dream Kitchen finished levels earn coins for kitchen equipment.
Cook first, plate fast, and spend what you earn on the part of the kitchen that slows you down.
