The Restaurant of Lost Recipes
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · October 8, 2024
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- Who it’s for
- A gentle Kyoto food mystery finds the memories tucked inside familiar dishes.
- Themes
- Food and forgotten memories, Estrangement between parent and child
- Genres
- Japanese Fiction, Culinary Cozies, Literary Fiction
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We all hold lost recipes in our hearts. A very special restaurant in Kyoto helps find them . . . Tucked away down a Kyoto backstreet lies the extraordinary Kamogawa Diner, run by Chef Nagare and his daughter, Koishi. The father-daughter duo have reinvented themselves as “food detectives,” offering a service that goes beyond cooking mouth-watering meals. Through their culinary sleuthing, they revive lost recipes and rekindle forgotten memories.
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From the Olympic swimmer who misses his estranged father’s bento lunchbox to the one-hit-wonder pop star who remembers the tempura she ate to celebrate her only successful record, each customer leaves the diner forever changed—though not always in the ways they expect . . . The Kamogawa Diner doesn’t just serve meals—it’s a door to the past through the miracle of delicious food. A beloved bestseller in Japan, The Restaurant of Lost Recipes is a tender and healing novel for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.
Recipes Remember
A gentle Kyoto food mystery finds the memories tucked inside familiar dishes.
Come here for
- Culinary sleuthing with a tender, nostalgic pull
- Meals that open doors to forgotten memories
Expect
- A warm father-daughter diner at the heart of the story
- Customers whose lost recipes carry personal meaning
Where it sits
| Culinary Cozies | 64% |
|---|---|
| Japanese Fiction | 57% |
| Literary Fiction | 26% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Literary Fiction
- Cozy Mysteries with Pets
- Family Life
- Authors
- Hisashi Kashiwai
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- October 8, 2024
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Food and forgotten memories · Estrangement between parent and child
- Reading lane
- Literary Fiction