This would be a great pick for fans of the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series - a light read with several stories that follow the same format (the patron comes into the restaurant looking for a specific dish connected to a memory or time in their lives, the chef finds all the details of the dish and recreates it for the guest two weeks later and then they enjoy the dish immensely and get flooded with memories). 

The formulaic aspect of it wouldn’t typically be my cup of tea but I read it every night before going to sleep and the predictability of it meant that I wasn’t staying awake just to find out what happened next (something that’s happened to me a couple of times recently). Having struggled with sleep issues of late, I’m grateful that the book didn’t exacerbate them. 


The Kamogawa Food Detectives was a really rather wholesome read overall and several of the stories were quite touching. My only real gripe was that they saved an unlikeable character for the last story. I would have rather finished on a wholly wholesome one but maybe that’s just me. 

I would probably continue with the series if my thought was to continue reading it before sleep. I’m not sure I would have stuck with this book if I’d read it during the day though, to be honest 🤭