Last updated on December 16th, 2025 at 11:22 pm
Cooking Live: Restaurant diary – Casual Game Review
Cooking Live: Restaurant diary is a Casual/Entertainment/Simulation game from MATRYOSHKA GAMES CY LTD, first launched in 3rd May 2022.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 8,270+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Cooking Live: Restaurant diary Stand Out
Hello everyone! My name is Jane and I need your help! I travel around the world and create a blog about local restaurants and cuisine. And I see that big corporations press talented local cooks and their restaurants! Let's take matters into our own hands and give them back their zest for life!
Are you into cooking games and designing games? Then welcome to Cooking Live! Feel like a star Chef in the world of crazy cooking!
Be careful! This game is total cooking madness! Tasty fried eggs, juicy burgers, great pizza… You'll never be bored with this recipe selection. Make food to feel your cooking fever! But making food isn't everything. You also have to handle a serious cooking craze when an influx of customers arrives! Complete an order for a customer in time before they leave the restaurant!
Every restaurant and diner dash around the world could use the help of an interior designer! Hone your skills in the world of design and make bold choices from your options for furniture and style. You can change your selection at any time.
As you develop your business, you'll face an increased number of customers. Modernize your kitchen equipment, complete orders in time, and amaze customers with even more tasty dishes!
Features of Cooking Live:
- Classic restaurant games and time management games gameplay.
- Hundreds of fun levels for all tastes: you need to cook great pizza, juicy burgers, and lots more!
- Travel around the world looking for new interesting cafes and blog content.
- Interior design. A wide range of furniture and decor means you can make every restaurant one of a kind.
- Interesting, lively characters with their own personalities and stories.
- A unique plot. Create a blog, challenge opponents to a cook-off, immerse yourself in thrilling cooking stories, and help your friends and subscribers all over the world bring taste back to their lives!
Cooking Live combines elements of business games about restoring and developing the restaurant and food games. Progress through the plot step by step and unlock new themed cafe shops and beautiful locations. Whether it's a pizzeria, bakery, or diner dash, every chef has their own unique taste and their own recipes and stories. Learn them all — join the game right now! Show off your cooking fever and help save every cozy diner dash from the hands of soulless corporations!
Do you have any problems or suggestions?
E-mail us at [email protected]
We make sure to carefully read all our e-mails!
Sincerely, Matryoshka Games Team
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Cooking Live: Restaurant diary is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 18th March 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Fixed numerous bugs and optimized game performance for smoother and more responsive gameplay.
Download & Availability
Cooking Live: Restaurant diary is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Cooking Live: Restaurant diary 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:
We love it but now its making us redo the same levels completely ridiculous.
Im literally OBSESSED with this game! Its so easy to play and so much much to pass our time.
Love playing there a lot of different things that come up its just a lot of fun gets your energy pumping. Lol.
We finally decided to pay to go ad free. But once we did, the option to earn extra income by voluntarily watching ads has been grayed out after one instance. Even the option to speed up development of our upgrades is rubies/gems only, with not even an option to watch an add like before.
We just started playing and the upgrades are ridiculous high and include rubies. We will see how far we get before its a requirement to spend money to upgrade before we uninstall. 1500 coins and 5 rubies to upgrade tomatoes is crazy when you only earn prolly 100 coins and 1 or 2 rubies per level. Other than that its great.
After an ad it doesnt go back to the game. We have to close out the game and not receive any points because it wont return to the game. Other then that we like it.
After every round they play an ad. For you to get enough points accumulated to upgrade items there are ads. Ive played plenty of games similar to this and they were no where near like this.
The game is fun, but they make it impossible to complete levels without watching ads or spending money to upgrade your kitchen supplies. We wish games could go back to just being a way to have fun and kill time rather than being a giant cash grab.
Really easy and chill and we low key loveeeee ittttt like we would litterally play this game for hours and hours.
So out of all the cooking games this has to be our favorite one we do notice there is times you do need to spend money to update the kitchen appliances so you can have faster dishes to be made which we dont mind, but we wish there was a way to go back to the completed places to play more games to earn coins that way rather than spending money. Is there a way to play your completed places again? Or also if you beat the game are you just finished or can you play the places you beat already? We would love to know.
We absolutely love the game and am on day 12 of playing in a row (everyday since we got it). Nothing to stressful like all the other cooking games similar to this. Only problem ive had with the game is sometimes itll randomly turn the volume off and ill have to go into the setting to turn it back on. Only reason this is a problem to us is because we use the volume when we play to hear whenever something is finished cooking so we dont burn it.
Love this game fun and easy just why no music or sound.
An ad after every level. Super annoying.
This game is pretty fun it is nice to play for some reason it helps us relax' we are nationally waiting for the Drive thru levels L y'all we typed out this with our Apple Pencil please cut us some slack:).
This game is easily the most fun serving food game. You dont have to spend money and its very rewarding to move from restaurant to restaurant.
This game is so much fun!!! There are quite a few ads but if you are enjoying the game we highly suggest paying the .99 to go as free. It increases the game experience immensely. We personally paid to go as free and dont regret it one bit.
Super fun game. We love to play it so much we paid for no ads and we hardly ever spend $$ on a game. This is worth it though. We love that money and diamonds go to new restaurants with you and youre not forced to start from $0. The game is challenging but very satisfying. Highly recommend. Our absolute favorite game.
We have to manually turn on the music and sound effects every time or restart the app to turn them on. It often takes us to ads that are links, not time limited game ad, so once again we have to close the app and re-open to get it moving. Its more of a pain than other time management cooking apps.
Wish it didnt keep showing how play.
Tried to make a purchase and the button to complete the transaction is malfunctioned. Hope they fix it cause we cant stand the ads.
we recommend playing with wifi off and on airplane mode. If you need wifi on, its much faster to close and reopen the game then it is to sit through and attempt to close the ads The gameplay itself is fun and the decorating is decent if basic. Ive never lost a level, or even had an food burn. Our gripe is that it is literally impossible to upgrade your restaurant resources unless you watch an absurd amount of ads to earn coins, at least in the first two chapters so far. The developers have made it literally impossible to complete the upgrades and unlock the puzzles at the end. We could maybe understand this as an incentive to watch ads voluntarily, if they didnt play an ad after every single level. They also stunt your ability to earn coins in the levels, you can combo up to 5 but then it resets to 1?? Its literally easier to rack up gems, Ive never run out, but we're constantly out of regular coins. It baffles us that theres just not the very basic ability to continue playing levels within the same restaurant even after you have all the stars for the level. It cant be that difficult to program in more levels that generate orders within reasonable parameters without human input. We know you dont like ads but thats what enables us to keep the game free! There are plenty of other similar games that have a quarter of the ads in this game, and they dont deliberately handicap their users.
We love the game, but we gave it a rate of w, why do you have to watch a show when not interest,just let the people play the game because they will get tired of it, delete it and download another cooking game or another game which is more Interesting whereby they do not have to keep watching these shows,.
The game is fun and entertaining but the amount of ads in this game are astronomical. You get an ad every single time you finish a round. They do offer to pay .99 cents to have no ads but ive seen people here that paid 99 cents and still get ads. Also, we dont want to pay until im 100% sure we like the game. Some games, as soon as you pay for no ads they immediately get impossible to win and im not making that mistake again.
Certain levels are impossible to do without spending loads of gems. Like in the salmon restaurant super hard level 10, we have to spend about 240 gems just to complete it. If we want to get that much we have to watch loads of ads or pay money, please make it possible to be able to complete that level without doing all that, thanks.
This game is great. Unlike any other cooking game ive played , the mix of decorating and cooking is perfect and this. Game is overall very very calming to play.
Its an amazing and fun game. Only wish is that you could revisit your previous restaurants to show them off to others playing the game or finish decorating since we missed putting down a decoration before going to the next area. Only thing we wanna see fixed.
We ACCIDENTALLY SIGNED OUT HOW DO we SIGN BACK IN TO GET IT MY PROGRESS BACK pleaseanyone know??? We really love this game and dont wanna start over is there advice u can give us.
Fun game too many advertisements and too many different options within the game. We would like if the game continued to allow you to upgrade appliances.
Loved the game but at some point the ads wouldnt let us skip so we would have to close the app and then reopen it.
We have spent a lot of time and some $ too. But the last update caused the little bonus needle to go so fast that you can never land on any specific number. Before the update you could actually play the game. Im glad we didnt post a review before. But if we had we wouldve given it 5 stars. Sad.
This is our favorite game to play & relax. Why would u guys make the speed of the 2x 3x 5x thing so fast :(((.
We think its fun but we would like pick the beginning of it we dont like green thing its ugly but other than that fun game.
You have to cook eggs, just right make sure you serve the customers on time well having fun challenging yet easy.
This game is very fun, with an additional fact that there are almost no adds! We love the way it adds a little challenge to our life. Overall, this game is awesome! Surprising that a game that came from a silly advertisement is so good!:).
Love this game to the point we lose track of time. Unfortunately we played all of the levels. Waiting for an update of more levels.
Last year (2023) we had to watch an HOUR of Daniel tiger With our kid Mileena (we hated it!) but now we found this (we love it!).
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Its fun because we love the cooking part of the game its cool.
We reallyyyy love this game but having to watch an ad after every time you complete a level is very annoying over all the whole concept of the game is really fun and cool and knowing the story line makes it even more interesting.
This game is super fun 2 play! We love designing restaurants and serving food. Just only one complaint we hate the ads. We see this one romance ad over and over, its really annoying. But besides that, its an awesome game.
We do not suggest purchasing this bundle. You have to watch ad anyway, or you have to spend money. If you watch the ads, everything is free. Other than that, the game is pretty cool. We did buy the we had removal however you still have to watch ads to get the Rubys and just now have to spend money when you run out of groceries or Or the skillets or the chef hat, you have to spend more money these days people dont have money, but we digress its a fun game.
Updated: 3/9/24 So we decided to pay for the ad removal (no biggie) but now, the game has just stopped. Only 10 cities?! Wow! Ive been waiting for 2wks to see if theyll add more levels, but nth. So after all of that, Im forced to play the same levels over and over with the daily contest that are essentially pointless! This game is really a joy to play. We like how you get a chance to double your winning after a level. We like the renovation feature and the story line. The only con, despite all the ads are when you play a city and complete that level, when you have to travelthey take all but $2000 of your coin earnings. Dont get us wrong, we understand that the objective is for the developers to make money but thats crazy! Games we like, we spend money on them anyway, especially to get rid of ads but, this feature we dont like.
Can't open the game for two days. It's stuck on the start pageFix it quickly.
We really like this game, have been playing nonstop since we downloaded it. This issue literally started today we couldnt play one of the side mission and we finished the first city and when It was sending us to the next city our screen went white and it never loaded. We reset our device and know when we click the play button at the beginning its not loading at all. Maybe its our addiction thats gotten us so mad lol but we were really excited to start the next city and now its not working. What do we do plz help.
Bravo! This is a fun well made game. Ive played so many cooking games and they are pretty much all the same.
Love the game, we find it very fun to play. Our only problem is that it lets players purchase upgrades after the level is complete that they dont get to use. Thats a waste of the gems and we cant complete the puzzle for that level because the only way to bring up that screen is by playing the levels. We would recommend that you initiate a separate screen to purchase the upgrades or add infinite level after the level is complete. Sometimes we struggle with the newer levels and would love to play the old levels for fun, especially after upgrading everything. Seems like a waste of gems and oof to anyone who actually purchases gems.
Like many games of this sort we get ads all the time, we even get ads after watching an ad and it can pretty frustrating to the point that they push us to buy the ad removers but that doesnt count for the fact that we have to watch advertisements in order to duplicate our earnings regardless the game is super fun, not so repetitive, hold a storyline along renovating and is pretty entertaining as well.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 0.42.0
- Size: 322.80 MB
- iOS: 12.4 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, HI, PT, RU, ZH, ES
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Contests
- Developer: MATRYOSHKA GAMES CY LTD
Last updated: 18th March 2025 | Genre: Casual, Entertainment | Developer: MATRYOSHKA GAMES CY LTD