Summary
- Enjoy the fun of cooking games on mobile devices with eye-catching art styles and unique gameplay mechanics.
- Delve into management sims like Diner Dash, idle games like Cats & Soup, and so much more.
Everyone loves a good cooking game, whether it's cozy, casual, or chaotic. From food prep to restaurant management, these games have a lot of fun minigames and mechanics to offer. You might even learn how to prepare a meal or two. For some cooking on the go, mobile cooking games are the perfect option.
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PostsDiner Dash launched a wave of restaurant management tycoon games onto mobile app stores, and if you are looking to get your hands even messier, there are tons of cooking games that get into the nitty-gritty. Here are some of the best for Android and iPhone.
Updated on March 30, 2025, by PJ Molloy: Cooking games are a great way to relax, and we've updated the list with some of the coziest ones available on smartphones.
21 Good Coffee, Great Coffee
Run Your Own Cozy Cafe
- Available on: iOS and Android
Good Coffee, Great Coffee is a silly, cozy cafe simulator from the developers of Good Pizza, Great Pizza. The story is set in Coffee City, where daily life revolves around the titular hot beverage. There's even a TV channel dedicated to coffee-related news. You're a barista working at a brand-new cafe. Take your customer's orders and serve them a beverage based on their specifications.
The strategy comes from managing your time and resources. You have a limited amount of ingredients, and your guests will run out of patience if you take too long. The goal is to get the drinks out quickly and manage your scarce supplies wisely. Everything is enhanced by a charming art style and a delightfully silly sense of humor.
Highlights
Cozy gameplay
Funny dialogue
20 Cooking Quest: Food Wagon
Bake Bread In A Fantasy World
- Available on: iOS and Android
In Cooking Quest, you run a food truck in a fantasy world where a wicked sorcerer has made humanity forget how to cook. Alongside your trusty chef, you must discover new recipes, make food, and serve them to the hungry townsfolk. The more money you make, the more chefs you can hire.
You must also recruit heroes to venture out into the wild, battle enemies, and collect the necessary ingredients. It's an engaging, strategy-based experience requiring you to manage time, resources, and party members. Bonus points for the quirky humor.
Highlights
Strategic gameplay
Charming pixel graphics
19 Animal Restaurant
Serve Meals To Adorable Critters
- Available on: iOS and Android
Why are animals the absolute best? There are a lot of reasons, but the most prominent is that they're innocent. They're creatures that are so closely connected to the world and each other that you can't help but like them, and that's why Animal Restaurant gives you the chance to cook for them.
This little eatery has a lot of heart and sincerity in it, and it's your job to give all of your little animal friends a chance to feel that. Of course, you're also trying to make a successful business where you have to decide on the right decor and provide quality service to get maximum customer satisfaction.
Highlights
Cute and cozy graphics
Casual
18 Eatventure
Climb The Ladder Of The Culinary World
- Available on: iOS and Android
Food is a necessity for survival, but it's also a business. There are many food-related industries that focus on quantity over quality and, as a result, are able to provide low prices that appeal to many people. You can watch and help such a business grow in Eatventure.
This is a take on the idea of a grassroots origin story by having you start as a little food stand on the sidewalk. You get a few customers here and there, which nets you money that can be spent on equipment that produces food and drinks even faster. From the streets to the city, you climb the ladder of success, where each rung is one of your food products.
Highlights
Very simple UI
Satisfying progression
Idle
17 Gunman Taco Truck
Make Food While Shooting Enemies
- Available on: iOS
In post-apocalyptic scenarios, certain businesses are guaranteed to thrive, such as those that provide food or water. In this environment, fast food could be considered a luxury, and that's why it's both dangerous and exciting to be the cook and driver of the Gunman Taco Truck.
While driving along the road from location to location, obstacles and mutated creatures get in your way, and you need to shoot them down to protect your truck and gather more ingredients. After you park, customers line up to request tacos, and even at the end of the world, you're expected to provide quality service. Hey, truck and gun parts don't pay for themselves!
Highlights
Action-based
Unique gameplay
Rogue-like
16 Hunt Cook
Time To Hunt For Ingredients
- Available on: iOS and Android
With all the cooking shows floating around, you'd hope the restaurants you go to keep things clean and use the freshest ingredients. While this isn't always the case, you can get a feel for it in Hunt Cook, which shows just how fresh ingredients can be before cooking.
You're a chef who has opened a little restaurant close to nature, away from the cities and towns. While this may not be the most convenient for customers and businesses, it's prime for cooking and quality. Since you're on your own, you've got to do everything, which includes heading out into nature to gather fruits and vegetables and hunting game like birds and fish.
Highlights
Experience hunting your own food
Cute graphics
Idle
15 Diner Dash
The One That Started It All
- Available on: iOS and Android
Diner Dash's popularity essentially created a wave of restaurant games. If you have yet to play it, you should consider giving it a try. The series has several games, and Diner Dash Adventures is available on mobile.
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Posts 1Diner Dash Adventures has a refreshed art style from the original 2003 game, allowing you to cook over 300 different recipes. Overall, if you are a fan of cooking games, then this one is definitely great to have.
Highlights
Absolute classic
Strategy and management
14 Good Pizza, Great Pizza
Get Immersed In A Charming World
- Available on: iOS and Android
How hard could it be to make a pizza? Good Pizza, Great Pizza is a dreamy pastel-colored pizza tycoon game that pits you against a rival pizzeria just across the street. In a world that values pizza over almost everything, can you grow Good Pizza, Great Pizza into a pizza empire?
In an interesting twist, the toughest part of this game is not making the pizzas themselves but interpreting the orders of your fickle customers. It's surprisingly quite realistic to what it is actually like working in food service.
Highlights
Cute art style
Good storyline
Unique riddles
13 Cooking Mama: Let's Cook
The Legendary Chef Is Back
- Available on: iOS and Android
Let's face it: Cooking Mama is the quintessential cooking game. If you have always wanted to try the series but have never owned a Nintendo system, now is your time to shine. Cooking Mama: Let's Cook is free to play on both Android and iPhone.
The game has all the classic cooking minigames to prepare brand-new recipes. However, in a fun new twist, this mobile game introduces Happy Village, bringing with it fishing and farming mechanics on top of a classic Diner Dash minigame.
Highlights
Cooking Mama nostalgia
Hands-on with real dishes
12 Cook, Serve, Delicious!
Race Against The Clock
- Available on: iOS and Android
Toting itself to be one of the hardest restaurant simulators on the market, Cook, Serve, Delicious takes the simple premise of the Diner Dash formula while stepping it up a notch. In this game, you need to learn to assemble all your meals yourself and on the double.
In Cook, Serve, Delicious, you are battling not just against the clock but essentially to achieve total perfection. The game will keep you on your toes in its evolving mechanics and the surprising sense of humor it evokes.
Highlights
Fast-paced
Challenging
