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Critter Kitchen

Simultaneous planning game has restaurant chefs gather ingredients, complete challenges, and prepare an epic meal for a critic. Fast chefs arrive early but carry less, so secret assignments must balance access against capacity.

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Players

1-5

Play time

Not listed

Age

10+

Complexity

?/5

Rating

8.15

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How does it play?

It’s Restaurant Week in Bistro Bay! Restaurants are competing in food challenges while also planning an epic meal to impress a celebrity critic.

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It’s Restaurant Week in Bistro Bay! Restaurants are competing in food challenges while also planning an epic meal to impress a celebrity critic. As one of 1-5 players, you’ll be sending your Chefs out into the city to gather ingredients to create amazing meals and demonstrate that your restaurant is the best in town. Each round new random ingredients are placed in various locations throughout the city. Players simultaneously and secretly plan which locations to send their three chefs to, hoping to collect the best ingredients. Some chefs are fast, but can only gather one item, while others can carry three items, but arrive late. Rumors are also available at locations and provide guidance on what the critic desires. Challenges, revealed in rounds 1 through 6, offer the players opportunities to earn stars for crafting dishes with specific ingredient requirements. After round 7 the players must create an epic meal to impress the celebrity critic and cater to their appetites. A multitude of different critics, rumors and restaurateurs mean every game is fresh! —description from the publisher

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Play and group

Players
1–5
Best with
1
Play time
60 min
Age
10+
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Credits

Designers

2
Alex Cutler Peter C. Hayward

Artists

1
Sandara Tang

Publishers

1
Cardboard Alchemy

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