Going to be honest, after watching Food Wars! I was burnt out (pun intended) on cooking anime. But I wanted to at least give this a chance, because you never know. And boy was I glad that I did.

The premise is a cafe that's food is so delicious it's garnered the attention from powerful beings from another world. That "other world" has a heavy fantasy theme. The main characters consist of a down-to-earth middle-aged chef, a hot dragon lady, and a persecuted demon (who looks like a human). The setting is interesting and the characters are compelling.

My main concern was the demon-horn maid girl's character, as often times anime make these types of characters annoying bubbly. In this case they've toned it down enough for me to take her seriously and actually care about the character as a whole.

There's a little bit of fan service with the elder dragon, but it's not over the top. It hasn't gotten in the way of the story thus far and I hope that trend continues.

Each episode is based on a character that visits this restaurant. Their character is based on a meal, and while that might seem lame at first generally speaking it alludes to their backstory. For instance, a man starving in the desert finds a doorway to this restaurant. All he asked for is a meal from his hometown port city (fish). You get the idea, it's a smart way to introduce a dish that I care about because a characters backstory is attached to it.

I wasn't very interested in this season of anime, because there was a lot of generic hs romance. This is a nice change of pace, and will most likely be my most-anticipated show of the season based on my personal interests. Well done, did not expect this kind of quality out of an anime like this.

Look, I'm not going to say it's a mind-blowing adventure full of great characters or whatever. People and monsters and whatnot go through a magic door, they eat normal earth food that's prepared very well, and that's it. Medieval fantasy food apparently sucks, because they're all amazed.

So why the good score? Because it's incredibly relaxing. Maybe it's because I also enjoy cooking, but sitting here and watching people talk about good food is just....it's nice. Not everything needs an amazing plot or a driving conflict. Won't blow your socks off, but it left me feeling quite fine, and that's all I needed from this show.

Food Wars! meets Maoyu. A quiet restaurant set firmly in Japan but serving non-Japanese food has a secret--it also takes customers from alien, magical realms! These beings arrive via the restaurant's front door, which has a habit of appearing in different places as a free-standing portal. We get to watch the interactions of these various beings, listening to their conversations and sharing reveries inspired by good food. I'm a sucker for food-based shows to begin with, but this one already hints at a genuine depth based upon the idea of food bringing people together. After all, few things invite or create companionship like a shared meal.

A unique premise fleshed-out with interesting, disparate characters and, yes, some gorgeous food. I'm already hungry for more!

If I had to describe this anime, it's like a laid back Food wars with a fantasy theme. It's fairly repetitive, which, in this case at least, I don't think turned out to be a bad thing, but holds true to what it's meant to be. It's not some action packed shonen (might have spelled that wrong) or some lovey dovey romance. It's a light-hearted watch with a few comedic moments

This show started off with little plot development, mostly just introduction of characters (Which it is still doing by episode 5) and introduction of their times finding the place. It didn't make me want to stay because of the characters though, it was the aura of the show and it's laid back theme. It made me have an honest smile as I watched and even made a man giggle a few times in just the first episode.

Now to talk about it's repetitiveness. This show didn't make me want to tear off my ears while watching it even though it has the roughly same thought process for each episode for the first couple at least. The new character is introduced with some story, they fin the door and come in, gets confused about the place, eats something and goes into crazy detail about how good it is then leaves with some sort of promise to come back. Seems a bit boring, right? Personally at least, I thought it was nice as they made each character different so it was less of a long run on story and more of a bunch of short stories that enrich the over all development of the show. Later on it changes some with how the rhyme and rhythm go for the repetitiveness but is still generally the same and is still more focused on telling the story of the character that gets introduced.

Here's where a lot of people who dislike this show will probably disagree but this show does add a lot of background about the worlds and the connection between everything like the door and menus but they don't make it super blatant all the time but that doesn't mean it's not blatant at times. Sometimes it's just side conversation as a dish is made, some sort of comment from a character or, like with the menu, a quick flashback that give us those details.

All in all, I feel this isn't meant for everyone as action lovers will fine this a bore and people who dislike repetitive themes will fine the short similar stories to be obnoxious. On the other hand, if you like the short stories or light-hearted theme of this anime, I'd say to try it out. (Note this was made as of ep 5 and may end up being different from then on in some form or fashion)

And, gets clients from all sorts of fantasy worlds, dragons, demons, lion and lizardfolk, and heroes and magicians. It reminds me somewhat of a novel I read years ago based on a bar with a similar clientele. The premise is compelling, and the anime nicely done with clients fighting over their food in the first scene. The anime is well done with good animation and with fascinating places that the entry door appears e.g. in a tree, in a dragon's nest, etc. I expect more goodness to follow! If you like this one you should also like Knight[']s and Magic- a story of mecha made with magic.

since episode 1 I fell in love with this show, it gives off a comfy feeling that warms the heart. Set in a fantasy world where a door magically appears once a week on a Saturday to our world in a restaurant where the beings from another world eat at. Its not as exciting as food wars but will make you hungry maybe more when you see the customers delighted in eating the food.

tl;dr if your looking for a comfy anime that's about food and not as crazy as food wars give this anime a shot

If food interests you in general, you may like this one. It starts interesting. Mystical client of the week shows up through a mysterious door and dines at a restaurant. We learn some of the client's backstory/hopes/dreams etc. Then the whole process repeats 9 more times and it's done. The whole show is more about the clients than the restaurant. But then those clients get replaced/put in the background after getting their brief moment so the plot never really takes off to become something grand.

Personally, I found it alright to kill some time at first but got frankly a little bored halfway through. By the end I was ready to move on.

Overall if you are a food connoisseur and like small and simple stories, this will most likely grab you. Otherwise it won't for long.

First of, if you enjoy more story driven series with actions and in the face story line this series is not for you, pass your way. But if you seek a nice anime to relax and enjoy simple yet realistic interactions feel free to stop by and stay for a while.

This anime (so far the 8 episode of it) was a treat for me. The show is really simple, yet quite intriguing. A cook that own a restaurant in japan own a western style restaurant that is open 5 days a week. On (seemingly) the Saturday the shop is closed for the people in japan, but is open for the resident of another world. Indeed, apparently the front door of this restaurant appear at random place simultaneously in a fantasy world causing denizens of other worlds to visit a modern western restaurant.

Most episode revolve about each clients and how they discover the restaurant and what their favorite meal are and their appreciation of it. Some have childhood memories of it when others are clients from the last owner (that was the current owner grandfather). In all there is not much of a storyline as it is mostly a daily life occurrence. The strength of the show is to see how a variety of characters coming from different races, areas and hierarchical cast come together to enjoy meals with a complete disregard for ranks or social standing as they simply enjoy a meal like every other people would when going to a small restaurant.

The visual are alright, the close up and use of the light give a really refined look to the anime but the zoomed out scene are not the studio specialty. Even thought the scenery is majestic and immerse yourself easily in the mystical world of the other dimension. The food is simply respected to a strong point and for once it is not mainly focused on oriental food. Indeed some meals are oriental and common in japan but the show also show fairly worldwide food and do not have a bias when it come to food superiority. It is a strong point to me as too much Japanese cooking anime tend to praise their food above all else, this one doesn't.

Overall I really appreciated my experience with the anime. It was relaxing and had emotional moments I didn't expected it to have. Like I said above thought if you seek a story that is driven by narrative or with any kind of action this is not an anime for you, this show is like a restaurant. It is based on social interaction, good food and the pleasure to relax in a warm establishment.

I write this review after watching the first four episodes - while things might still change a bit, the show already established a pretty strict formula: a Japanese restaurant, in which door connecting to a fantasy world opens once a week, is visited by unique and surprising guests. We learn about their stories, while also being presented with long sequences of them commenting on and eating masterfully cooked food that the chef of the restaurant prepares. The dishes always have unique connection to the episodic characters, ex. reminding them of their home village and childhood years.

The focus on food is pretty heavy (as even the episodes themselves are named after dishes), making the whole experience very much dependent on whether you care about this theme. I myself have a bit of mixed feelings, as while I enjoyed some of the stories told so far, the scenes oF eating sometimes left me bored and the lack of any overarching story-line starts being slightly bothersome. The owner of the restaurant/chef and Aletta, demon-girl working as a waitress seems like interesting characters, but so far we learn very little about them. This might change in future, but so far the focus was rather shifting even more towards the episodic guests, rather than exploring the story behind the restaurant itself.

In general, while I didn't hate my time with Restaurant to Another World, I can't say I was fully satisfied with it either. The series takes a very slow approach, doing it's own unique thing without any real twists or pandering to other audiences. If you might enjoy the main theme, you should have a very good time with it, as everything involving food seems to be done with much appreciation and care. If not, you'll need to be ready for very slow pacing and whole episodes that will tell you a lot about everything but the titular restaurant itself.