Isekai Shokudou (Restaurant to Another World)

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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Adaptation:	Isekai Shokudou
Sequel:	Isekai Shokudou 2

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Suwabe, Junichi
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Aletta

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Uesaka, Sumire
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Kuro

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Oonishi, Saori
Japanese

Aka no Joou

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Itou, Shizuka
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Adelheid

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Ueda, Reina
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Samanark, Victoria

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Tamura, Yukari
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Gold, Sarah

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Yasuno, Kiyono
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Fardania

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Hikasa, Youko
Japanese

Roukei

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Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu
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Gaganpo

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Yasumura, Makoto
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Cook, Justin

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Kurosu, Nobuhiko

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Tabeya, Masahiro

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Yamauchi, Mirai

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"One In A Billion" by Wake Up, May'n! (May'n x Wake Up, Girls!)

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"Chiisana Hitotsubu (ちいさなひとつぶ)" by Kiyono Yasuno

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Feb 16, 2024

josephsl

Recommended

This is isekai narrowed down to its pure essence—people losing their minds over food every few minutes. I thought it would get repetitive but somehow it was funny every time. I loved seeing what foods would come up, and in what over the top ways it would be impactful to the characters.

The focus here isn’t on deep plots or characters. Instead, it’s a great chill vibe that gets you to think about everyday life from different perspectives. Despite it meandering a bit, the different storylines intersect in some interesting ways. It pulled me in and was easy to binge my way through.

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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.

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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 ...

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