Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator – Review

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There’s a range of simulators revolving around making meals and while Yum Yum Cookstar keeps things simple, Cooking Simulator was a little too clumsy to enjoy, Chef Life looks far more advanced so let’s jump into the kitchen and have a look at what’s cooking.

When you start Chef Life, you’ll create your chef and step inside your new restaurant a few days before the grand opening, you’ll meet your helpful assistant, who runs you through the basics of making your first meal, Steak and Chips.

When creating a meal there’s basic stages which are cleanly outlined by allowing a recipe to be pinned, this give you a quick rundown of instructions at the top of the screen, taking you through each stage of preparing and cooking the ingredients. For our trusty Steak and chips with shallots, you’ll first need to grab a potato and the baby onions, and then carry the beef over to the cutting board.

Then it’s onto the very lite RTE mini games, as you push the stick in the desired direction to cut a fillet of steak, and then after moving to the next chopping board and selecting the potato and shallot, cutting those in a similar manner.

Now on to cooking, you’ll select the frying pan, pop it on the hob and after searing the meat, you add the shallots and turn it half way, before dropping the chips in the deep fry.

This is where you move on to the preparation stage, which initially automatically prepares the dish ready to serve, but at any time you can hit “Y” to rebuild the dish, which gives you the opportunity to select exactly what plate you wish to serve on, whether to include a sauce pot, and then add the ingredients. This is the first time you really get a feel for the depth of Chef Life, as rather than a handful of options,