Last updated on November 27th, 2025 at 09:46 am
Cooking Craze: Restaurant Game – Strategy Game Review
Cooking Craze: Restaurant Game is a Strategy/Entertainment/Casual game from Big Fish Games, Inc, first launched in 26th June 2017.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 257,534+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Cooking Craze: Restaurant Game Stand Out
Cook up a storm serving food from around the world playing our free restaurant game Cooking Craze. Prepare, cook & serve tasty dishes like a professional chef and master the kitchen as you tap to grill, bake and cook your way to the top.
Bake wood-fired pizza in Rome, grill juicy burgers in New York and prepare fine French cuisine in Paris — but be careful, playing fast isn’t enough! You need to keep your customers happy in order to grow your empire. Can you take the heat, Chef?
Cook classic restaurant dishes from across the globe;
• Make hundreds of delicious dishes including burgers, pizza, sushi, ramen, dumplings and more
• Grill fresh fish, tasty steak, succulent shrimp, and veggie kabobs
• Love desserts? Why not deep fry sweet donuts, bake baklava, serve ice cream, cheesecake or cakes?
Create a Restaurant Empire!
• Choose from over 100 ingredients cooking up tasty cuisine
• Create premium dishes with delicious new ingredients
• Launch new restaurants while learning new cooking techniques
• Add a new recipe from each city you visit
• Cook in a variety of settings
Level up with Cooking Quests, Powerful Boosts and features!
• Serve food fast while managing your time to earn kitchen upgrades
• Beat over 4000 levels across six continents
• Master all 3 difficulty levels to get golden comment cards to earn free coins and spoons
• Dash through service to earn BIG TIPS or work extra shifts to earn money for upgrades
• Equip your chef with treats for customers, non-stick pans and MORE!
• Upgrade your kitchen & increase your speed
• Use a variety of special boosts to cook your way to victory
• Cook GREEN with an Eco Boost & go organic for more tips
• Win achievements by completing combos, cooking perfect meals & earning big tips
The best restaurant gaming experience:
• New levels and cities around the world added regularly
• Hours of free fun, whenever, wherever you want!
• Play online or OFFLINE WITHOUT WIFI or internet after initial download!
Download Cooking Craze and create your own kitchen empire!
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For more top games from Big Fish Games, visit www.bigfishgames.com
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Cooking Craze: Restaurant Game is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 9th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
NEW TASTY TOUR! It's no myth! Time to embark on a new adventure through Greece!
For trouble in the kitchen, please check out: Contact us at cookingcraze.zendesk.com
Download & Availability
Cooking Craze: Restaurant Game is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Cooking Craze: Restaurant Game on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Id give this 4 stars but the adds are way to long and often. We understand the need for adds but its a little much after every level and most of them being a minute or so long. This guarantees we will never purchase any in game lives or power ups its way to much.
Havent added new levels in almost a year.
We enjoy the game can u please take out the Ads is Annoying please every time we end the game its a Ada comes up.
We still love the game, but please make the upgrades optional. We currently have over an hour of auto serve upgrade and this upgrade is completely useless to us. We dont like being forced to use it, we just close the app and come back when its gone.
Super fun and addictive with cute graphics and exciting cooking challenges. The only downside is it pushes you to spend money for faster progress. Still worth playing if you have patience (or a little extra cash.
Ive only just started playing this game. One of the things that bothers us right away is that somebody walks up and ask for something specific and youre making it. And then somebody walks up and ask for something similar. It sends what you made for the first customer to the second customer first and then while youre making the order for the first Customer, theyre getting mad and walking away. This is a serious issue that you need to correct in your game, it should not be given to the second customer over the first. So far, we dont mind watching ads in order to get boost and advances. Its one of the things that we like most about gummy drop. But Im reading a lot of of issues that other people are having about the ads getting worse and us not getting an option to watch ads for spoons in the future. This does not cement us wanting to continue playing this game.
We have updated our iPad and yet the game keeps crashing after each match.
More levels please? Can you add a Filipino Restaurant? Thank you.
This game would be better if the tasks in the food trucks were more clear. Instead, we keep failing them because its not clear what the customer is even ordering.
This game is so fun. Its just hard enough to where levels can be challenging at times but passable. Customers service is great too. Ive reached out a couple times for different things and theyve been quick, polite and helpful. We finished the game once already (took years because there are so many levels) and restarted it again because its so much fun.
10/10 game we have been playing for years.
We love this game. Its honestly our favorite game on our ipad as currently, and Ive been playing for years. However, one thing that always have bugged us is once you serve the customers, THEY STAY THERE & dance which is annoying when im doing a level that has a timer on it!!! It MAKES you lose when theyre taking up more time than they need to. Since you serve them, they should just walk away so the next person can come in! Geesh, we dont know if this is some kind of bug or something but please fix it.
The game itself is challenging and fun. Unfortunately, unless you're willing to invest lots of real cash on boosters, you will spend most of your playing time watching ads in order to get ahead. As the game progresses, it becomes more and more difficult, and pretty soon it becomes pretty hard (and stressful) to pass the levels without help. There are cards and boosters you can buy to ease the difficulty, but they are only temporary and before long you're getting hit up for even for more money. We know game developers running a business, and it is necessary for them to earn money, so we have no solution to this problem. However, there are other games out there that can be played for long periods of time without breaking your budget, and we guess we will just have to stick to them and delete this one.
Fun game but it seems like new levels arent being added, which is disappointing. For the past year, we keep checking back to see new countries or something new, but alas no dice.
We understand you need to have ads but this apps ads are excessive and long. Making longer ads does not persuade us to get what is being advertised.
We like the game but That pig game ad that comes up is hard to get out of. We click the arrow after Ive waited for the ad to play and each time we do, it takes us to download the app and we cant get back to the game.
We had this game since 2017. We beat all the levels and was too impatient to wait for new cities, so we reset the entire game. Unfortunately in doing so came some changes. We had paid to remove ads before, so now having ads is upsetting. Id even be willing to pay again to remove ads as this is a game we constantly come back to play. We also dont like the way they set up their map. We want to max out each city/country and the way its laid out now is confusing and doesnt give instant stats to see if youve beaten the city entirely. Besides that, we clearly love the game. It would be 5 stars with those minor tweaks.
We bought the premium to get rid of the ads because we were playing it so much. However a lot of levels became near impossible to beat unless you use boosts, which we dont do. If youre looking for something fun, pass on this game. If you reach an impossible level, you run through your 5 lives and end up waiting foreeeverrr for another life. Its STRESS INDUCING.
Love cooking games! Had to quit though after a certain level because Im not built different . But we like the music and the food looks yummy.
Add more cities! Austin, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Miami, Africa cities, even fast food type restaurants.
We redownloaded this game then after playing again we remember why we deleted. After getting through the first city you end up constantly using your boosts. Basically paying to get by a level. Really takes the fun out.
This is by far one of the best cooking games Ive ever played. The graphics, the cities, and really everything is high-quality! However, the waiter boost is extremely annoying. For instance, if you are on an only combo level or money level, this boost could possibly make you lose. It serves the food and drinks to the customers instantly which could ruin combos. We wont bring our rating down a star, as this is easily avoidable.
We love this game. Ive been playing it for years. Its challenging at times and always entertaining.
So fun to play! BUT its been a loonnngggg time since a new city has been added.
We rlly enjoy this game, its probably one of the best cooking games Ive ever played ! But theres just one thing. Its so glitchy! Plus theres WAY too many ads which get annoying, especially if they r the same ads over and over again. Our game always pauses randomly and freezes which also gets annoying. But overall we rlly enjoy this game.
We love the game but why does it just cuts off in the middle of the game.
We like this game but it doesnt run well on iPad. We can play about 3 in a row and then it glitches out and we have to reload it. Its too frustrating. We come back every few months to see if its been fixed and runs better but nope. Disappointing.
This game cheats way too much. Like its HIGHKEY frustrating playing this game because of HOW MUCH THEY CHEAT AND RIP YOU OFF.
We love this came so much but it is constantly crashing. Like every level or every other level at least, the app just closes and we have to reopen it. If it werent for that, we would be absolutely obsessed. We think there is just too much happening in this app and we just want to do the levels. Maybe there is a simpler version out there.
Keep trying to change our username. Every single time we hit submit, the app crashes :/.
We enjoy this game a lot. We have repeatedly downloaded it when we traded in phones. We love: the mini games that were special levels, the chance to play the same level as many times as desired -with bonus levels thrown in there, and the dishes served being as close to authentic as we can figure. Love this game and inspired us also to start cooking again. We just copy dishes that we cook virtually and write our grocery list in real life.
The only game that we keep coming back to year in and year out. But you need to add more cities.
Personally we do agree with the people who say that there are to many promotion pop ups. And thats the problem.Every time we get a lot of promotion pop ups it kicks us out so we have to go back and load In again, and boy does that take a while. But after all this not so positive information we would personally say that we recommend this game.
Love this game, how ever Ive been waiting for a new city/ country for the last 2yrs!!!! Please update this game soon.
The design is nice been playing for years without ads pop ups now here they are. Levels feel like youre playing with bots that make the game feel scammy because you get stuck on a really easy level for no reason for days at a time. We play invest less time with this game because of this reason . We do not appreciate it. You want to make money, we want to relax from stress, not play to have stress. Get real.
We love this game and we have played through two or three cities (NY several times because Ive had to delete and redownload). It is super fun but we hate that we cant use our cash from other cities in a new one. Like we think there needs to be a way to transfer money from New York and Paris where we work shifts for daily challenges to the city Im currently working through. Our time is wasted otherwise because Ive completed all the levels and restaurants in these cities. It wouldnt have to be coin per coin but we would like a way to convert it to different currencies so we could use it!!!! Thanks, also bugs are horrible and too many adds(we have downloaded this game multiple times because the loading screen will freeze and never open again, please fix this).
We love this game but after a while they make it impossible for you to win without upgrades on almost every level.
We had downloaded this game a few years ago on a different phone. The phone was old so we thought it was originally the problem with the crashing a lot. We have a more updated phone and decided to re-download the game as we enjoyed playing it. We still enjoy it but the problem turns out that if isnt our phone but the game itself. Im not sure what is causing the crash but it is often enough that it takes away stars from the review. Our only guess is that theyve made the game too busy and it overwhelms the app and causes the crash. If this could be resolved, easily a 5 star game.
We ADORE this game (like an embarrassing amount of adoration for a grown woman), but one of the features Ive loved are the seasonal side games. There were the usual ones for back to school, fall, and Halloween, but then there was nothing for Thanksgiving and so far nothing for Christmas! We noticed there was a pretty significant update in the last couple of weeks; we hope this doesnt mean the seasonal/holiday side games havent gone away. Please keep them, especially the Christmas ones.
Booooooo idk why it is so slow. Every time we close the app the music is still playing for like 10 seconds and the game keeps pausing for so long when it loads to 100%. Idk if its our device, maybe, but its happening all the time and we dont like it. sashays away.
We love playing this game but the ads are horrendous. Theres an ad after every single game.
We completed offers to get spoons and dont get the rewards! Whats the point of having the offers then.
We enjoy playing. And we used to watch ads all the time to double our coins. Now we are forced to watch ads and we dont even get rewarded for being forced to watch them. Put it back to only promoting ads when we press the double coin button.
Been our favorite game since it came out. Its fun, challenging, and not cheap looking. There is always something new to cook, and the food matches the city. But now there are ads, long ones, after every level! Why? You could watch them for extra coins and spoons, what was wrong with that? Half the time they freeze. Should be 5 stars but ads should make it 0. Also suggestion? The best chefs bonus round the chefs levels are only available once a week. This should be more often its the best one. Also coins should carry over into cities or at least a few to start.
The graphics are great. Thats the best compliment we can give. But there are SO many issues all the time. And updates and new cities are rare. They keep recycling old city boards for everything.
The game is really fun but you get to certain levels where you MUST use boosts to beat it otherwise theres no way to pass. Definitely a pay to win type game.
Pretty much every level or two you get an ad.
We are completely and utterly annoyed at the difficulty level rising in each city, making it impossible to beat levels with purchasing spoons. This algorithm is unfair to those who are consistent users of this app. We love this game but we are sick of having to purchase spoons just to win every level.
This was our favorite game. But because we have a newer model we cant play it due to ongoing updates. Really hope that get fixed soon. Then Ill update our rating to a 5 star.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.9.1
- Size: 495.52 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Big Fish Games, Inc
Last updated: 9th October 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Entertainment | Developer: Big Fish Games, Inc