Reviews - Le restaurant des recettes oubliées

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Le restaurant des recettes oubliées

Hisashi Kashiwai

3.72 AVERAGE

mireia2's review against another edition

4.0

emotional lighthearted fast-paced

mebrown_123's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

eestellar's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

This book was so unique & fun, I dont think I've ever read something so original. I kept thinking about which meal I'd want recreated and the lovely gift a good meal brings

words_w_rae's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 18%

🤷🏽‍♀️

meliha's review against another edition

3.0

lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

andreapepsii's review against another edition

3.5

emotional lighthearted reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Somewhere on the 3-4 star range (let’s say 3.5 for now).

The things I enjoyed in this book; the detailed descriptions of food and meals, giving even a null cook like me a deep understanding of how unique and complex Japanese cuisine can be with its different flavors and ingredients by prefecture, the descriptions of Kyoto, making you feel you’re in the city when reading each chapter and of course some cozy and warm stories tied to food. Nostalgia is a powerful ingredient after all.

Now, it’s a tell-don’t-show book. Each time a case is presented to find a recipe, we never see how the detectives find the recipe or ingredients, we get told after when the meal is cooked and eaten, which doesn’t give the same impactful resolution than if you had been in the journey to find the lost recipes. It irked me at times, to be honest.

Also, as much I love Japan and this type of stories, this book is written by a man born in Kyoto in the 50’s; and you can tell, more often than not, and not in the best way.

Which is why this book doesn’t get a higher grading.
I will keep reading the series though. I mean there’s a cat in the cover, what else am I supposed to do?

smithk11's review against another edition

4.0

Cute little book. It's a bit too cozy/light (essentially no plot/tension) for my personal liking but since it's a short easy read it's still worth the few hours it takes to read it.