8 Best Anime About Cooking Food (2024)

Cooking anime can be some of the most aesthetically pleasing shows to watch. The way the animators draw food getting cooked can be eye-catching as the ingredients get dropped into the pot, fried on the pan, or heated up in the oven.

Cooking anime are the perfect shows to watch when you’re getting ready for a hot meal and might even make you want to explore dishes you have never tried before. So, which shows have the best meals, and which ones manage to cook up a story so good you won’t be able to get enough of it? These are the eight best anime about cooking foods to sink your teeth into.

8 Dungeon Meshi

Monsters Are Delicious

If you love Dungeons and Dragons or ever wondered what the ecosystem of a dungeon might look like, then Dungeon Meshi is the anime for you. The story follows Laios and his party as he ventures deep into a dungeon to rescue his sister Fallin. They only have a limited time before the dragon fully digests her, so they need to travel fast.

This leads to the party cooking up monsters to sustain themselves throughout the journey. The meals in the anime look great and the attention to detail on how to cook them almost makes you wish you were sitting with them by the campfire.

7 Food Wars

A School For Chefs

If you love seeing a hot meal get prepared, then Food Wars has that and more. It follows Sora Yukihama as he attends a school specifically made for aspiring chefs. There he is forced to compete for the top spot, as other students get routinely expelled from the academy if they cannot keep up.

The food looks delicious and seeing it get prepared can make your mouth water over 2D meals. If you don’t mind a bit of fanservice every time someone puts food in their mouths, then Food Wars is a pretty creative show that can get you pumped up for your next meal.

6 Cinderella Chef

Cooking In The Past

One cooking anime doesn’t focus on Japan but on China. Ye Jiayao is a celebrity chef who lives in the modern day. She loves experimenting with foods until she makes a mistake while handling some pretty dangerous ingredients. This pufferfish poison kills off Jiayao, but she doesn’t quite stay dead.

Instead, she is transported into the past where she is almost immediately kidnapped by bandits and held captive. However, one of her kidnappers, Xia Chun Yu, is secretly an agent of the King of the land. Together, they form a fake marriage to maintain their image. However, Jiayao’s cooking might just cause romance to bloom.

5 Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits

Cooking To Pay Off Debt

If you’re looking for another anime that transports its main character to another world then Kakuriyo: Bed and Breakfast for Spirits might just be your cup of tea. When Aoi Tsubaki is kidnapped and forced to marry an Ogre to clear her Grandfather’s debt, she comes up with a rather clever solution to her dilemma.

Instead of marriage, she decides to open up a bed and breakfast for the other spirits that inhabit this world. With her cooking skills, she will work to clear her grandfather's debt and be free from her fate. However, not everything will turn out exactly as she envisioned it, as her heart softens to the secretly kind ogre.

4 Restaurant To Another World

The Secret Reason They Close On Saturdays

Finding a new place to eat is always a treat. There's always a whole menu of selections to choose from, and the aesthetic can be nice once you go inside. What if your favorite restaurant was secretly a doorway to a completely different world? This is the premise of Restaurant to Another World.

On Saturdays, a gateway opens up, allowing fantasy creatures such as fairies, elves, mages, and even dragons to come through and enjoy a hot meal. It wouldn’t be a cooking anime though without the animation doing the food justice. Luckily, the food looks delicious as it is prepared in front of you.

3 Delicious Party Pretty Cure

Cooking And Magical Girls

The Pretty Cure or Precure franchise is known for taking a variety of themes and creating a magical girl squad out of them. These themes can include makeup, tropical island reefs, and even astronomy. In Delicious Party Pretty Cure, everything revolves around cooking in the CooKingdom.

When the power of cooking is stolen, three girls are chosen to become the next Pretty Cure. Together they must retrieve the precious Recipe-Bon from a group of thieves known as the Bundoru Gang. It’s a pretty lighthearted show that blends the deliciousness of a cooking anime with the wonderment of the magical girl genre.

2 Sugar Apple Fairy Tale

Delicious Sweets And Not So Sweet World Problems

Just like there are different types of food, there are different types of cooking anime. If you love bakeries then Sugar Apple Fairy Tale has all the pastries you could want as well as a compelling story to keep you chewing. In this world, Fairies are enslaved by removing one of their wings.

Anne Halford travels with one of these fairies, Challe, who acts as her bodyguard for the journey ahead. However, as she bakes delicious candies and travels the world she also becomes exposed to the relationship between Humans and Faries and they work together to create a world where both species can live in harmony.

1 Campfire Cooking In Another World With My Absurd Skill

Using Cooking Skills To Become Powerful

Tsuyoshi Mukouda is a regular salaryman who is summoned to the Kingdom of Reijseger along with three other humans from Earth. While everyone else gets strong power ups, Mukouda’s ability is called Online Supermarket. Seemingly useless, he is able to wiggle out of fighting a war.

However, he can secretly instantly order food products from Japan, giving him access to ingredients that would otherwise be unobtainable in Reijseger. This makes his cooking so good, that a legendary beast known as Fenrir is immediately captivated by it and decides to form a contract with Mukouda. Soon, his cooking impresses even the divines themselves as he becomes overpowered using his hidden abilities.