The Restaurant of Lost Recipes
Hisashi Kashiwai
<b>We all hold lost recipes in our hearts. A very special restaurant in Kyoto helps find them . . .</b><br><br>Tucked away down a Kyoto backstreet lies the extraordinary Kamogawa Diner, run by Chef Nagare and his daughter, Koishi. The father-daughter duo have reinvented themselves as “food detectives,” offering a service that goes beyond cooking mouth-watering meals. Through their culinary sleuthing, they revive lost recipes and rekindle forgotten memories.<br><br>From the Olympic swimmer who misses his estranged father’s bento lunchbox to the one-hit-wonder pop star who remembers the tempura she ate to celebrate her only successful record, each customer leaves the diner forever changed—though not always in the ways they expect . . .<br><br>The Kamogawa Diner doesn’t just serve meals—it’s a door to the past through the miracle of delicious food. A beloved bestseller in Japan, <i>The Restaurant of Lost Recipes</i> is a tender and healing novel for fans of <i>Before the Coffee Gets Cold</i>.

