
Meshi wo Kurahite Hana to Tsugu
This food manga follows a middle-aged cook in a back alley restaurant trying to help his customers with their problems while cooking for them. However, he misunderstands their problems and gives confusing advice.
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This food manga follows a middle-aged cook in a back alley restaurant trying to help his customers with their problems while cooking for them. However, he misunderstands their problems and gives confusing advice.

After being disowned by her noble house for being unable to use her skill, Francheska finds out she's also going to be this generation's sacrifice to a dragon! At the eleventh hour, she regains her memories from a previous life and unlocks the secrets to her skill: a power that allows her to order gourmet food directly from Earth! Arriving on the dragon's island, she sets about gaining his trust with tasty treats. Whether she's serving up dry-aged beef or a roasted ham and cheese sandwich cooked over a salamander's flame, these delicacies are sure to delight the hungry dragon! (Source: J-Novel Club)



After being disowned by her noble house for being unable to use her skill, Francheska finds out she's also going to be this generation's sacrifice to a dragon! At the eleventh hour, she regains her memories from a previous life and unlocks the secrets to her skill: a power that allows her to order gourmet food directly from Earth! Arriving on the dragon's island, she sets about gaining his trust with tasty treats. Whether she's serving up dry-aged beef or a roasted ham and cheese sandwich cooked over a salamander's flame, these delicacies are sure to delight the hungry dragon! (Source: J-Novel Club)


Aliens have invaded Earth and they only accept home-cooking! A high school girl who can't cook has her beloved pet dog taken hostage by an alien. To free her dog, she learns to cook! (Source: Kadokawa, translated)

Takahiro Mikami is a hapless illustrator who lives with his two cats. He's feeling down because he's in a slump at work and eating alone is boring, when God suddenly gives him a surprise! His beloved cats became human! The food that he hastily made for them since they were hungry, to Takahiro was his first shared meal in a long time. Shaky words, small hands and feet, and cute cheeks from smiling when eating something tasty... A heart-warming story with two lovely half cats! (Source: Fusion Product, translated)


Due to circumstances, Takumi and Nyaachi, who are transferred to another world, are invited by the station master they meet at a station building to live and start working there. After some time passes, they decide to renovate the corner of the station building, and the coffee shop "Swallow" is newly opened for business. The Swallow operates on a two-part system in the morning and in the afternoon. In the mornings, it's the classic breakfast set, and in the afternoons, there are three kinds of lunch set on the recommended menu. Takumi, who is entrusted with the job of the "station master's representative/store owner" and Nyaachi, the "station's assistant/poster girl," will offer their special cinnamon coffee to the customers who drop by the station today. (Source: Shousetsuka ni Narou, translated)


Shokui Kantai is a world famous gourmet and he wants his grandson Kunro to surpass him in this strict discipline that is haute cuisine. After a long and grueling training, our young cook, barely a schoolboy in elementary school, will have to prove his worth against other talented and eccentric gourmets who will stand in his way! (Source: Mangadex)


He suddenly looks like a snack! Just dumped, Eva turns to the comfort of food to heal her broken heart. But little does she know that her childhood friend, James, may just be the comfort she needs! Can James help Eva cook up a cure for heartbreak? Or will it be a recipe for disaster? (Source: Manta)







After heroically sacrificing his life to save a child, twenty-five-year-old Koichi Suzuki is reincarnated as a young boy named Thor, born into a harsh, new world, thanks to a mysterious god dubbed "Indeed-Missy." His reward? A unique magical ability that lets him cook up monsters. Nothing comes easy in this cruel world, though. After nearly being sold off to slave traders by his scumbag parents, Thor finds himself orphaned and alone at the age of four, forced to scrape by using sheer grit and his newfound culinary skills. Just as survival feels within reach, he discovers two beastfolk girls on the verge of death. Helping them could spell his own ruin, but for a man who adored all things furry-eared in his past life, there's only one path forward. "There's no way I'm abandoning beast ears!" And so begins Thor's adventure of cooking his way through the dungeon! (Source: J-Novel Club)

Madang is an artist and new father who moves to a quiet home in the countryside with his wife and young baby, excited to build a new life full of hope and joy, complete with a garden and even snow. But soon reality sets in and his attention is divided between his growing happy family and his impoverished parents back in Seoul in a dingy basement apartment. With an ailing mother in and out of the hospital and an alcoholic father, Madang struggles to overcome the exhaustion and frustration of trying to be everything all at once: a good son, devoted father, and loving husband. To cope, he finds himself reminiscing about their family meals together, and particularly his mother's kimchi, a traditional dish that is prepared by the family and requires months of fermentation Memories of his mother's glorious cooking—so good it would prompt a young Madang and his brother into song—soothe the family. With her impending death, Madang races to learn her recipes and bring together the three generations at the family table while it's still possible. A beautiful and thoughtful meditation on how the kitchen and communal cooking—both past, present and future—bind a family together amidst the inevitable. (Source: Drawn and Quarterly)

After losing his wife and child, Kouichi runs a cafe by himself. One day, he meets a mysterious and beautiful boy who has run away from home. His true identity is Ennosuke Kitagawa, a leading male player of female roles, who has absconded from the world of popular theater. Ennosuke proposes that he live and work at Koichi's cafe for the time being... Kouichi, who missed his chance as a father, and Ennosuke, a star female impersonator who is hiding from the world, begin living together...? (Source: Akita Shoten, translated)

Norimichi is in his first year in high school, and his daily life is full of being bullied. However, there is one thing in his life that he enjoys—spending his evenings making elaborate lunch boxes. The only one in his family who needs a lunch box is his father, though. One day, his father finally refuses his decorative lunch; he says that it's embarrassing to have such a cute lunch made by his son, and he thinks Norimichi needs to learn to stop doing "girly" stuff like that. Norimichi is devastated that his one happiness has been taken away, but the events of the day lead to him giving his rejected lunchbox to an unsociable girl at school, Umemiya. She is delighted by his adorable lunch box, and he is thrilled to be able to make her smile. Now he has an exciting new target for his creative lunchboxes, and maybe this first step can lead to something more! (Source: MU)