Isekai Shokudou

Western Restaurant Nekoya is a popular eatery located on a street corner in a Tokyo shopping district. Serving both traditional Japanese fare as well as Western dishes, this eating establishment is popular among Tokyo's residents. But this seemingly ordinary restaurant is also popular with another type of clientele...

While the restaurant is thought to be closed on Saturdays, the truth is that on this special day each week, its doors are instead opened to the inhabitants of other worlds. From dragons and elves to fairies and mages, this restaurant has no shortage of strange customers. Nevertheless, the enigmatic chef known only as "Master" will be waiting to serve up their favorite dishes with a kind smile and keep them coming back for many more Saturdays to come.

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Owner Main

Suwabe, Junichi Japanese

Aletta Main

Uesaka, Sumire Japanese

Kuro Main

Oonishi, Saori Japanese

Aka no Joou Supporting

Itou, Shizuka Japanese

Adelheid Supporting

Ueda, Reina Japanese

Samanark, Victoria Supporting

Tamura, Yukari Japanese

Fardania Supporting

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Gold, Sarah Supporting

Yasuno, Kiyono Japanese

Gaganpo Supporting

Yasumura, Makoto Japanese

Roukei Supporting

Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Kurosu, Nobuhiko Producer

Tanaka, Hiroyuki Producer

Yamauchi, Mirai Producer

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Aug 3, 2024

Snaiy

Recommended

I could not say this anime is bady but it was like watching an identity crisis unfold on a plate. The anime clearly tries to be more than it is (and it could have been), but lacks the effort to do so. I much preferred the slight mystery, or more like lack of explanation of the earlier episodes, rather than the later episodes where the overnarration made me want to hang myself and the supposed explanations just made everything weird and less understandable.
The charavters are mostly bland, but therenare a lot of them and most of the time they are fun to watch, but there ... is a lot of wasted potential there. One aspect I both liked and disliked was the world building, for a chill anime about a periodically appearing restaurant from another world it actually showed a fair glimpse of the other world in the characters backstories and trough the charavters eyes, but they left a lot.of questions, especially fundamental ones unansweres and there is not enough info to pierce together anything meaningful about the worls, other than basic geography, not even the character dynamics helps this (which mostly go unused sadly).
The art and music are pretty decent, especially the music, op is good and the ed is okay I guess, the bgm during scenes were well placed.
So my biggest frustrations about this show is that they did not know what they wantes to make, did they want a chill out restaurant story, a chill out fantasy story or a normal fantasy story?
No one knows and it shows, as the various plot points just beat each other to death with their stupidity most of the time, instead of complimenting each other (I can not write more about this without spoilers, but if you decide to watch it, this will be painfully obvious in the last 2-3 episodes).
So TLDR: All in all its a pretty chill out anime about a restaurant appearing sporadically in a fantasy world and having a lot of fantasy guests, but it wants to be an adventure fantasy or a full SOL at times and it they made these themes in such a bad way, that they cancel each others good points out.
It is still relaxing to watch tough if you turn your logical brain off.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Mar 19, 2024

AeroGunz

Mixed Feelings

“Restaurant to Another World” is what happens when You have a lack of food porn in Your life.

One day a young, hungry demon girl, named Aletta, stumbles into a place that she has never seen before. Thinking it’s a dream she helps herself to the food she finds there. The next day she is found by the owner of the establishment. Terrified, she explains the situation and hearing her story the Owner offers her a job in his restaurant. A restaurant that has connections to different places in another world.

Let’s get this out of the way. If You want a show with an overarching ... plot, character arcs and goals… this is not it. You will find none of these things here. The show is episodic in nature and shows 2 short stories that go mostly nowhere, but I’ll get to that. First let’s meet the cast.

The main cast consist of two characters:
The Owner - the owner (I know, shocking) of the restaurant. He doesn’t seem to fully understand the magic that is responsible for creating doors to his establishment. When asked about it all he could do was to apologise for the inconvenience. He hired Aletta, and later Kuro, as help and doesn’t seem to ask too many questions. Given the type of place he runs I guess that comes with the territory and is probably the smartest way go about it. He’s calm, collected and, judging by the guests' reactions, extremely skilled in the kitchen.

Aletta - A young demon girl with small black horns on her head. You could say she’s the main character but that’s not entirely correct. We do however see most of the plot through her eyes and learn the world with her. She’s cheerful, kind and mostly competent at her job.

Kuro - A late hire to the restaurant. She’s a black dragon that uses an elf disguise that is probably addicted to chicken curry. She’s cold, collected and a little distant at first. With time she does seem to catch some warm feelings towards the Owner and Aletta.

Yeah… sorry but that’s about it. There are some regular customers that show up often but they also are just one trick ponies with little to no character arcs. All the characters have one trait that it’s used as their core.

Now… Like I said before, this show has little to no overarching plot. There are some crossovers but not many and they still lead nowhere. That said, it's not all bad. Most of the short stories presented are enjoyable. They are, as one might put it, short and sweet. All of them have some kind of feel good conclusion so if You’re into that You’re in luck. That said, some of the stories are pretty solid and could work as a prologue to something greater. Of course this being the type of show it is, I doubt that will ever happen. Oh well, c'est la vie.

The core of the show is a very relaxed (apart when the customers are arguing about the best dish) atmosphere and the feel good short stories. Just don’t expect anything deep, dramatic or thought provoking and You’ll be golden.

All in all I really enjoyed the show. The relaxing atmosphere and the trivial challenges that the main duo, later trio, encounter was a pretty entertaining mix.

I can’t really recommend this show for everyone but if you like iyashikei You should like this show. That said it’s not 100% iyashikei but it often gives off similar vibes.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Feb 28, 2022

Ogrei

Not Recommended

I went into the anime expecting a good anime which it is in a way just it left a lot to be desired whether it be in my opinion lack of story besides the fact that hey it's a magic restaurant from another world and people love the food which is ok but if you have 12 episodes of pretty much the exact same thing it's not good
In the words of vaas from far cry 3 the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results
Then oh boy the Big ol Inconsistency it's like a man threw a puppy ... into a lit furnace in front of his family and everyone was ok with it
Then the fact that most of the time it will tell you things with zero explanation and your meant to be oh yeah I get but ultimately you dont get it

Most of the characters were good and I like the character dynamics but there is a fair share that just have zero depth to them in terms of character it's like you drew a stick figure with a sword and all you know about them is how they got a sword and that he likes to solitaire

TLDR: good characters and starts good but then vaas from far cry 3 starts telling you the definition of insanity and suddenly it's not so good but overall if you want a calm relaxing anime to watch I'd recommend this as long as you dont value story

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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