'' The Anime Cafe: 50 Iconic Treats, Snacks, and Drinks from Your Favorite Anime '' is a colorful, utterly cute cookbook.

This book truly checked all my boxes: simple instructions, easy (ish) to find ingredients, colorful pages, nice intros that help me connect with the recipe, and photos ("") for each dish. Also, if you love A) food, B) anime, and C) pictures of anime food, this one is for you!

The Anime Cafe
Cookbook with 50 recipes from different animes
This cookbook is well organized into Classic, Comfort, Cute, Modern, Outdoor, and Bar Cafe with an index marking each page of the recipe. Each recipe has a drawing of the food,the anime it is from with a description, identified the tools and ingredients each component needs, and descriptive step by step instructions. I’m super excited for these recipes as most take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour to make (this includes prep,cook, and sometimes freeze/cooling time). My favorites are the creme puff, honey milk, dango, cream pan, yaki udon, and karaage. Some seemed like they would be hard to make before I read the instructions then was thinking I can do this!

Made the Valentine Chocolate Cake and it is delicious 💕 I did add 1/8 cup sugar to make it a bit sweeter since the mix tasted a little bitter. Glaze and cream turned out great. Super excited to make the rest!

If I had to come up with a downside of this, maybe that the step by step directions are kinda smooshed onto some of the pages since it is two columns- kinda have to zoom in to read them easily when making the recipes.

This book was ultra cute and perfect for someone like me who both enjoys anime and baking. I really loved the information added about the recipes, such as the episode of the show and the context of the recipe coming up in the show and bonus info about the recipe. Helps you jog your memory about the scene and also lets to learn a few tidbits about the recipe. Even the quotes from characters were cute.

As for the ingredients lists, I like that some ingriendents were given an alternative form of measurement. For example, cup measurements were also given in grams or litres. That i find were helpful from my experience in looking at recipes and usually needing to go convert some measurements.

i appreciate that the recipes range from simple to more complex. So its good for any skill level

I really liked the illustrations. They were simple and cute but also make your mouth water. I really like the art style of the book in general.

Perfect book for anime lovers/cooking and baking enthusiasts!


Thank you so much to Rock Point and Netgalley for this ARC!

I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange of an honest review. Thank you!
It isn't easy to 'read' this book... Haha, yeah, because it's full with our favourite anime recipes :D There are a lot from them that I want to try, but first I need to sort out how to get the ingredients in my hometown :')
The descriptions are plain and simple, so I assume (again, I haven't tried them yet) they aren't hard to prepare.
At each recipe there is a little story as a recap where we could have seen the food in the anime. I found it really nice! Nadine also lets us know how many servings we will get and how many time it takes to prep and cook the dish. The pictures are in good quality and at some recipes we can find notes or a quote from the anime.
Every part of the book shows Nadine's creativity, hard work and her love to the genre! <3 It is always a pleasure to move out from my comfort zone (yeah, cook books are VERY out of my comfort zone :'D), so thank you again for the opportunity!

I will DEFINITELY be giving some of these recipes a shot. Especially some of the drinks! The artwork is stunning, I love that the foods and drinks are all illustrated. It's so pretty! Will my creations look as beautiful? Probably not, but that's alright! I love that the author includes some background on what anime the recipe is from as well as which episode. I bookmarked that carrot elixir page because I WILL be going back to it!

I wish this cookbook had photos of the food (though the illustrations are cute!), but the recipes are really fun and most of them are pretty easy to make (and I'm no cooking expert) A perfect gift for the anime-loving cook!

What a cute way to make manga loving fan happy with ways to help them make their favorite characters dishes. I’m excited to make one of these.

This book had many fun recipes for food and drink. I liked that I recognized almost all of the anime titles. I think it might have been better if the pictures were photos instead of drawings.

This is the cutest recipe book I've ever seen! My siblings and I are huge anime fans, so we were thrilled to discover this book of treats inspired by some of our favorite anime shows. We were excited to see all the different recipes featured, and we can't wait to try them out and bring a taste of our beloved anime world into our kitchen!

I always love seeing the food in anime, so I was excited to have a look at this cookbook. It's very cute, colourful and nicely laid out. I was disappointed that there are illustrations of the dishes, rather than photos. I loved the illustrations, but I would have liked to see real life images of how the food should look.

Each recipe tells you which anime the food can be found in, and a little background of the dish in that anime.

Instructions and methods are comprehensive and easy to follow. Timings are clearly stated, which is always nice. Some of the recipes require ingredients or equipment it might be tricky to get hold of depending on where you live - I'd certainly have to go online and order some of the ingredients.

Some recipes are as simple as honey milk (which fans may recognise from Ponyo), others are more complex. I feel like most would make fun projects for weekends or when you have a bit more time on your hands.

There's a good mix of desserts, drinks and savoury treats. In particular, I was drawn to the coffee float, potato mochi, and strawberry brick toast.

This would be a lovely gift for an anime fan who enjoys cooking.

My thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for sending me a digital ARC in order for me to provide my honest opinion.

This book was so cute! Not only were most of the anime in it popular enough that the average anime fan would recognize nearly all of them, but the selection of anime across different genres is broad and includes slice-of-life, romance, isekai, and action, so there's a little something for everyone. The pictures included are so cute, and I'm excited to try out the different recipes. Definitely a 5 star read for any anime foodies.

This was an adorable cookbook for anime lovers. I, especially, loved the Dugtrio sandwich with creamy roasted tomato soup. I will definitely be trying that one out!

Thank you to NetGalley, Quarto Publishing Group - Rock Point, and Nadine Estero for the opportunity to read an Advanced Reader's Copy (ARC) in exchange for my honest opinion/review.

I’ve never felt hungrier reading through a cookbook! The different recipes and ideas are reasonable and doable at home, and designed to recreate the beautiful and delicious looking meals from your favourite anime. I love that each meal has the show, season, and episode noted down so you can refer back to where you’ve seen the recipe. The artwork is also in the art style of an anime which is a really nice touch! Can’t wait to actually have a physical copy of this so I can work through the recipes to make at home. A must buy for any anime fan.

How many times have I thought Usagi's snacks looked delicious in Sailor Moon, or Naruto's ramen, or literally any meal featured in Fruits Basket? It's enough to make me want to travel overseas and try them for myself. But not everyone can afford a trip like that, and now, thanks to Nadine Estero, we don't have to - we can just check out her book.

Estero has done what every anime fan has dreamed would one day be a reality. She's taken all those stunning desserts, drinks, and otherwise delicious looking meals every anime fan is familiar with, and created a cookbook so every fan can recreate them on our own turf. The illustrations are divine, the quotes are fun, the layout is adorable, and the instructions are clear. Each recipe is cited for the movie or the show and episode in which it is featured, and the notes are very helpful.

Beautiful art work, great recipes! The recipes say which anime the food is from and they all look delicious! I was wishing there were photos of the irl dishes made so I knew what to aim for but that's my only little nitpick. Definitely pick it up if you want to make anime dishes!

Thank you to Netgalley, the author, and their publishers for this free book in exchange for an honest opinion!

I loved seeing all the food, desserts and drinks I have been wanting to try from my favourite animes!

The design of the book both efficient and beautiful. I love that any special tools that may be needed are mentioned at the beginning, so you don't have to read through the whole recipe to see if you need a special pan.

I also really appreciated that prep, marinate, cook and cool times were given separately where applicable.

The instructions were also written in a way that would enable you to use your time efficiently, especially for recipes that required doing multiple things at the same time.

I could not stop myself from drooling while looking at the recipes. Will definitely be adding this to my cookbook collection and trying some recipes soon!

I love the range of complexity in the dishes. I am just learning how to cook and have just started to tackle longer recipes. Recipes like the three-layer latte and potato mochi are perfect for home chefs like me. Every anime cookery's dream is the references, quotes, and short blurbs. I wish that the instructions gave a difficulty rating!

What a cute cookbook! I really enjoyed the variety of snack and drink recipes from a number of different anime. The pictures for the recipes are illustrations rather than photographs, which is unusual but fits perfectly with the anime theme, and the illustrations are adorable and drool-worthy. A perfect cookbook for anime-lovers!

I have to wipe the drool from my chin before I write this review…

This book is YUMMY! Yummy illustrations, yummy backstory, and YUMMY recipes inspired by your favorite anime foods & beverages that always left your mouth watering and wishing for a taste!

Now, with a little preparation, the right ingredients, and the help of this magically whimsical Anime Café recipe book, you can actually bring those flavors and dreams to life within your own home.

This is a book you can eat with your eyes, that brings joy just from reading alone—I absolutely cannot wait to plan and shop for my first recipe. I am going to make the Brown Sugar Milk Tea from My Teen Romantic Comedy Snafu and the Naruto Onigiri, as I have been on an onigiri kick this summer! (The boba tea was an obvious yes. It’s boba.)

Such a fun and beautiful book, sure to make your mouth water before you even set foot in the kitchen to make your first recipe. As a Cooking Mama fan, this also fills a nostalgic anime-food-shaped spot in my heart.

This cookbook is super cute and perfect for anime lovers! The author picked out dishes featured in various anime and created recipes for them! I love that each recipe has a blurb describing how the foo was featured in each show, as well as the episode number. Each has a cute drawing of the food to accompany it.

My favorite section was the "Cute Cafe" that featured various foods shaped like animals or characters from the show. The recipes also vary in difficulty from super easy (bunny apples) to difficult/labor intensive(anya and bond dumplings), so there's something for all skill levels.

There was only one thing I think could make it better, though. I'd like to see real photos of the food. I love the drawings, but I'd like to see how the recipe turns out IRL.