Top 10 Best Cooking Games for iPhone and iPad (iOS)

Campfire cooking makes for a truly tasty appetizer on this five-course tasting menu. It’s also quite different from your average casual kitchen, taking a shape more like a grid-based sliding block puzzle, but with tasty foods replacing the abstract blocks.

Campfire Cooking uses the whole concept to apply a welcome twist to a vaguely familiar format. Yum, delicious. If you’re not sold yet, read our campfire cooking review. We are surely impressed with both the concept and the gameplay.

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Diner Dash was undoubtedly the original mobile cooking game – or at least, the one that spawned a thousand management clones. His time-sensitive restaurant management brand has really captured the popular vibe, so it’s a title we can’t just ignore.

Cooking Dash is the purest version of this original format currently on the App Store, with a breakneck pace and a catchy presentation. The game asks you to juggle multiple cooking and serving tasks simultaneously without straining the patience of your customers.

Food wise, this is a good, solid meal that is cooked well using a proven recipe.

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Hungry Hearts Diner is one of the iOS cooking games with a touching story. You play as an elderly woman, who has to take care of her family’s restaurant on her own. Her life has changed so much over the past few years – and through cooking you can learn her story and why she loves her dinner. Serving customers a number of different foods will save you money and learn more about them.

The story is adorable, heartwarming, and adds a lot of depth to this iPhone cooking game.

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Cooking Mama had been a huge success on Nintendo DS before it came to iOS in Cooking Mama: Let’s Cook! Openings for a second restaurant are always tricky, but this one retains just enough of the magic of the original.

The idea is to cook a number of recipes to order, using touch gestures to accomplish each step of the process. In a series of tasty mini-games, you’ll cut onions, frozen cupcakes, ground beef, and more. Overall, Cooking Mama: Let’s Cook! is one of the best cooking games for iOS – not to mention the cutest.

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Mucho Taco is the iOS cooking game reinvented as an idle sapper. Or rather, swipe. It’s up to you, the budding restaurateur, to whip up countless tacos to earn more money.

The more money you earn, the more taco stalls you can buy all over town. The more taco stands you have, the more money you make. It’s a familiar but compulsive reward loop, made all the more enticing by the tasty central premise. Mucho Taco is a pretty awesome game, and if you want to know if it is or not up to your tastes, you should read our Mucho Taco review.

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The Toca series is easy to ignore for its overt childish orientation. But these little game pieces are extremely popular for their accessible and bite-sized nature. Toca Kitchen 2 is the perfect example.

In this game, you can combine ingredients to form tasty recipes, which can then be served in 3D. While it won’t wow your taste buds, Toca Kitchen 2 is a pleasantly light palate cleanser of a game – and educational, too.

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If you are a SpongeBob fan, there is a cooking game for you! Surprisingly, you’ll start by making pancakes – like it’s something you get in Bikini Bottom – but over time you’ll be able to work your way up to Krabby Patties and other foods that are actually from the TV series.

SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off works like many other iPhone cooking games, with you behind a counter cooking quickly to serve customers. However, there are a lot of in-game events that make things interesting! Definitely worth it if you are a fan of the show.

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If you want to play any of the cooking games for iPhone with your friends, Too Many Cooks is your best bet! This game is fast paced, with timed levels where everyone has to communicate and work together to fill as many orders as possible.

Each player has a different screen with limited locations – allowing you to keep stations and items. There are thought bubbles that can be used to request items from other team members, but it’s best to all play in the same room where you can yell at each other!

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Good Pizza, Great Pizza is an adorable pizza making game! Looking to have the best pizza place in town – with your own rival right across the street. You will need to run your pizzeria – making sure you earn money and keep customers happy.

Sometimes customers seem to speak by codes, so you’ll have to decipher what they’re saying to make the pizza properly. The graphic style of Good Pizza, Great Pizza is pastel and fun too – which makes for a really enjoyable game.

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Cook To The Beat combines culinary prowess with rhythm-action play. This means that it’s pretty straightforward to pick up and play since we’re all quite familiar with this genre by now. Throughout the game, you’ll be able to customize your own animal boss with a variety of wacky aprons and hats, to make sure they look the part too.

If you are vaguely familiar with the genre, you might already expect the stages to get harder and harder as you play. This is one aspect of the game that makes Cook to the Beat not everyone’s. Cup of tea, but it’s still a great game to wrap up our list of the best cooking games for iPhone and iPad.

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