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There are countless isekai or food-themed shows, but few are all that similar to Restaurant to Another World. The anime’s calming style, wholesome humor, and personable characters make for a healing experience, even if the series is not totally averse to touching upon serious themes.
For those looking to fill the void left by the conclusion of Isekai Shokudou 2, here are some anime like Restaurant to Another World.
Updated February 19, 2022 by Mark Sammut: Restaurant to Another World 2 ended in December 2021, and anime revolving around food are in short supply. The Winter 2022 season has a couple of fantasy shows that fans of Isekai Shokudou should check out, mainly World of Leadale and Princess Connect! Re:Dive; however, for other recommendations, people will need to look to the past to discover something to watch. This article has been expanded to include a few more anime like Restaurant to Another World, ones that are likely to inspire viewers to pick up a cookbook.
11 Wagnaria!!
Japanese Title: Working!!
One of the more famous anime about a restaurant, Working!! doesn’t care all that much about the actual jobs of its characters or their customers. Similar to Restaurant to Another World, the focus is mainly on the lives of the workers and the ways their time at the establishment helps them grow.
Restaurant to Another World goes out of its way to show how food can enhance someone’s existence, and the anime doesn’t treat cooking as an afterthought. Working!! doesn’t go down this route, however, its likable cast and humor should strike a chord with fans of the isekai anime.
10 Today’s Menu For The Emiya Family
Japanese Title: Emiya-san Chi no Kyou no Gohan
A Fate/stay night spin-off, Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family slows things down so that Shirou, Saber, and other Masters and Servants can enjoy the finer (and simpler) things in life. Each episode revolves around Shirou introducing his companions to the endless wonders of food, with the anime typically showing the process of putting together the meals in quite a bit of detail.
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Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family is a charming and wholesome slice of life soaked in Japanese culture. The anime’s pacing set it apart from Fate’s typical releases, and while Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family is hardly a must-watch entry in the franchise, the show is an amusing companion piece to the main seasons.
9 Yotsuiro Biyori
Japanese Title: Rokuhoudou Yotsuiro Biyori
Four guys run a cute Japanese tea shop called Rokuhoudou; while quite a homely café, the quality of the service and food gradually attracts more visitors. While not completely devoid of an overarching storyline, Yotsuiro Biyori is predominantly a slice of life anime that maintains a gentleness for the majority of its run.
Similar to Restaurant from Another World, Yotsuiro Biyori presents its café as a location for people to soothe their minds and hopefully leave their worries behind. This anime focuses more on the servers than clients, but it does not ignore the latter either.
8 The Devil Is A Part-Timer!
Japanese Title: Hataraku Maou-sama!
The definitive reverse isekai series, The Devil is a Part-Timer! hilariously chronicles the trials and tribulations of a demon lord stranded on Earth without much of his powers. Consequently, Sadao Maou takes up a job at MgRonald’s, a fast-food chain inspired by, well, a pretty obvious real-life establishment.
The Devil is a Part-Timer! is first and foremost a comedy, with the anime mining plenty of laughs from its protagonist’s struggles to accumulate to humanity’s conventions. The series’ portrayal of fast-food work is grounded in reality, and this presentation juxtapositions well with the anime’s extraordinary characters. The Devil is a Part-Timer! is not especially similar in tone to Restaurant to Another World, but they both straddle the line between fantasy and reality quite well.
7 Wakakozake
Japanese Title: Wakako-zake
Feel like watching an anime that doesn’t require more than a 30-minute commitment? Then Wakako-zake is the show to pick. Consisting of two-minute episodes, the anime follows Murasaki Wakako as she unwinds after work by visiting different restaurants. She loves nothing more than to try out unique food and drink combos.
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Restaurant to Another World shows the beauty of food and its talent for bringing people from all walks of life together. On the other hand, Wakako-zake depicts food’s ability to calm the mind following a stressful day.
6 Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits
Japanese Title: Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi
Through a series of unfortunate events and bad decisions not made by herself, Aoi Tsubaki winds up working at an inn for spirits in the Hidden Realm. She has to do this to avoid marrying the inn’s owner, Oodanna, an ogre who is owed a lot of money by Aoi’s recently deceased grandfather. Aoi uses her talent for cooking to feed spirits and regain her freedom.
Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits’ premise suggests a romance, and while that is part of the equation, the anime is more preoccupied with its cuisine and rotating cast of customers. A fun series about food’s power to bring humans and mythological creatures together, this anime is charming.
5 Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid
Japanese Title: Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon
After work, Kobayashi likes to go out for a few drinks to relax. One day, this excursion leads a drunk Kobayashi into the path of an injured dragon, who the human decides to help. Long story short, Kobayashi now lives with multiple dragons. Sometimes life is just full of surprises.
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Mostly free of tension, Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid is a pleasant comedy about the unique friendships that form between Kobayashi and her new companions. The reverse isekai anime strikes a similar balance of humor, sincerity, and flashes of maturity as Restaurant to Another World.
4 Food Wars!
Japanese Title: Shokugeki no Souma
Without a shadow of a doubt, Shokugeki no Souma is the definitive anime centering around food. Largely set in Tootsuki Culinary Academy, the series revolves around the students’ attempts to discover their personal (cooking) voices, with the earliest seasons focusing quite heavily on the actual food preparation.
A shonen anime, Food Wars! has tournaments, villains, wacky humor, and a confident protagonist striving to be the best. So, this series and Restaurant to Another World are not cut from the same cloth; however, the thing they do have in common is that they make their dishes seem like the greatest meals ever.
3 Bartender
This anime’s title says it all. Bartender is about Eden Hall, a bar that just has a way of finding those who are in need of a good cocktail and perhaps someone to talk to. That person comes in the form of Ryuu Sasakura, a bartender who knows his way around a drink better than anyone.
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Restaurant to Another World shines the spotlight on the titular establishment’s customers regularly, and Bartender does the same thing but to even more of a degree. Through these cocktails and conversations, the anime explores the many challenges faced by people. At times, this show is powerful.
2 Sweetness & Lightning
Japanese Title: Amaama to Inazuma
Food tends to be a pretty good equalizer. After all, everyone has to eat, so grub provides a common ground for people to latch onto. This is exactly the point of Sweetness & Lightning, an anime about a widowed teacher taking his young daughter to his student’s restaurant for nightly meals.
These excursions serve as fuel to strengthen Kouhei and Tsumugi’s bond, while also providing the student, Kotori, with companionship to fill the void left by her busy family. Sweetness & Lightning tells a heartwarming story about family, compromise, and love. In this anime, cooking helps bring together people who otherwise have trouble opening a line of communication.
1 Isekai Izakaya: Japanese Food From Another World
Japanese Title: Isekai Izakaya: Koto Aitheria no Izakaya Nobu
Isekai Izakaya: Japanese Food From Another World’s premise is strikingly similar to Restaurant to Another World; Nobu is a bar that serves food and drinks to people from a whole other realm. Similarities aside, these two shows do enough to stand on their own. Isekai Shokudou constantly shuffles through different characters, with each episode bringing someone new to the plate. This allows the anime to explore various backgrounds and fantasy races.
Isekai Izakaya is more preoccupied with its recurring characters, mainly those who work at Nobu, than Restaurant to Another World. As such, this anime is less episodic than Isekai Shokudou; that said, the shows do have somewhat similar tones and move at the same pace, so a fan of one is likely to enjoy the other. They are just not cut from the exact same cloth as their premises might suggest.
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