Bistro City Blog
Guides, tips and stories from Bistro City, the independent restaurant game you play in your browser.
About Bistro City
Guides
- Bistro City Beginner's Guide: Your First 10 LevelsNew to Bistro City? Learn how customers, cooks and waiters work, how to pick your menu and what to focus on in your first 10 levels.
- Bistro City Ingredients: Rarity, Market, Garden and TradingAll the ways to get ingredients in Bistro City: the daily market, your garden, the food quiz and safe trades with friends, plus how rarity works.
- Bistro City Recipes: How to Learn and Level Up DishesHow recipes work in Bistro City: the four courses, learning a dish, levelling it to 10, the points you earn and which dishes to start with.
Remembering Restaurant City
- Bistro City vs Restaurant City: What's the Same, What's NewHow Bistro City compares with the original Restaurant City: familiar kitchen rules and recipes, level cap 100, bigger rooms, web play, and what's still missing.
- Can You Still Play Restaurant City in 2026?Restaurant City officially shut down in 2012. Here is what that means today, and an independent game that brings back classic restaurant play.
- Restaurant City: Remembering the Facebook Restaurant GameHiring friends as waiters, the Food King, the daily quiz and trading rare ingredients: a look back at Restaurant City, Playfish's Facebook hit.
Bistro City is an independent project inspired by the classic Restaurant City. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Playfish or Electronic Arts.