Bistro City: build, cook and run your own restaurant
Bistro City is a restaurant-management game you play in your web browser, on your phone or your computer. You open a small restaurant, hire staff, learn recipes, level up your dishes, decorate every tile and visit your friends' restaurants. It is an independent game made by the Bistro City Team, inspired by the classic Restaurant City.
How Bistro City works
You run a restaurant: hire staff, choose a menu, serve customers for coins and gourmet points, and use them to grow. The loop takes about thirty seconds to learn:
- Open your restaurant. Place tables, chairs and a stove.
- Hire staff. Give each one a job: cook, waiter or cleaner.
- Choose your menu. Pick dishes for each course: starters, mains, desserts and drinks.
- Serve customers. Every meal pays coins and gourmet points, which raise your level.
- Learn and level up dishes. Collect ingredients to learn new recipes and take them up to level 10.
- Decorate and grow. Each level can bring a bigger room, more staff and more dishes on the menu.
- Visit friends. Help their restaurants, trade ingredients and see how they decorated.
Your staff get tired as they work, so part of the fun is managing who works and who rests. Your restaurant stays open as long as at least one cook and one waiter have work time left.
What you can do in Bistro City
In Bistro City you cook, collect ingredients, grow a garden, trade, help friends and decorate, all inside one restaurant that keeps growing with your level.
- Cook from a big menu. 75 recipes are available now across four courses. The game data also includes 28 seasonal event recipes that have not reopened yet.
- Collect 62 ingredients. Each has a rarity from one to five stars, from everyday tomatoes to rare lobster and saffron.
- Grow a garden. Garden plots open from level 6. Plant seeds, water them and harvest ingredients.
- Trade with friends. Swap ingredients to get the one you are missing.
- Answer the daily food quiz. You get 10 seconds per question, and a right answer wins an ingredient.
- Help friends' restaurants. Put out fires, fix leaks and chase off unexpected visitors for coins and points.
- Meet the Food King. He sometimes visits with prizes to choose from.
- Decorate everything. Furniture, floors, walls, windows, the outside of your restaurant, and even an arcade machine with a mini game you can play.
Where can I play Bistro City?
Bistro City runs in your web browser, and it is optimised for both phones and computers. There is nothing to download. Dedicated Android and iOS apps are in development.
Built for long-time players
If you have played restaurant games like this before, Bistro City gives you more room to grow:
| Bistro City | |
|---|---|
| Max level | 100 |
| Max restaurant size | 29×29 tiles |
| Languages | 12 |
| Premium currency | Sprouts |
Bistro City and Restaurant City
Bistro City is inspired by Restaurant City, the Facebook game Playfish ran from 2009 to 2012. Much of the core play will feel familiar to its players: tired staff, four courses, dishes that level up to 10, rare ingredients and helping friends. Bistro City is a separate, independent game. See how Bistro City compares with Restaurant City for the full side-by-side.
About Bistro City
Bistro City is made by the Bistro City Team and played at bistrocitygame.com, in a web browser on phone or desktop.
| Game | Bistro City (Vietnamese name: Nhà Hàng Vui Nhộn) |
|---|---|
| Developer | Bistro City Team |
| Official website | bistrocitygame.com |
| Platforms | Web browser on phone and desktop; Android and iOS apps in development |
| Status | Beta |
| Languages | 12 |
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.
Game data as of 10 October 2026.
Start playing
Open the game, hire your first staff and serve your first customers. If you want a head start, read the Bistro City beginner's guide first.
More guides: learning and levelling up dishes · ingredients and trading
FAQ
Do I need to download anything to play Bistro City?
No. Bistro City runs in your web browser on phone or desktop. Android and iOS apps are in development.
Is Bistro City the same as Restaurant City?
No. Bistro City is an independent game made by the Bistro City Team and inspired by Restaurant City. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Playfish or Electronic Arts.
Is Bistro City free to play?
Yes. Bistro City is free to play. Sprouts, the premium currency, are sold in optional packs; you never have to buy them to run your restaurant.
Where is my progress saved?
On your Bistro City account, on the game's servers. Sign in with your email and password on any phone or computer and your restaurant is there.