The Kamogawa Food Detectives

The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series, for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.
What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time?
Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that's not the main reason customers stop by . . .
The father-daughter duo are 'food detectives'. Through ingenious investigations, they are able to recreate dishes from a person’s treasured memories – dishes that may well hold the keys to their forgotten past and future happiness. The restaurant of lost recipes provides a link to vanished moments, creating a present full of possibility.
A bestseller in Japan, The Kamogawa Food Detectives is a celebration of good company and the power of a delicious meal.
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Community Reviews
3.5
This book was so exhaustingly repetitive. I really could not handle the way that the exact same things happened in every single chapter. The food descriptions were clinical, the detecting was nonexistent, the characters never progressed. I'm mad I read this!
The idea was excellent but the execution was repetitive and lacked whimsy
This is one of those cozy reads that make you smile from page to page. I like the father-daughter duo and each story just warms my heart. Looking forward to the second translated novel!