The Nameless Restaurant
A Cozy Cooking Fantasy

Name: The Nameless Restaurant
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Tao Wong
ISBN: 9781666638608

Author: Tao Wong

Series: Hidden Dishes #1

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller

Unabridged: 3 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 06/01/2023

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Urban

Synopsis

There is a restaurant in Toronto. Its entrance is announced only by a simple unadorned wooden door, varnished to a beautiful shine but without paint, hidden beside dumpsters and a fire escape. There is no sign, no indication of what lies behind the door. If you do manage to find the restaurant, the décor is dated and worn—homey, if one were to be generous. The service is atrocious; the proprietor, a grouch. The regulars are worse: silent, brooding, and unfriendly to newcomers. There is no set menu, alternating with the whim and whimsy of the owner. The selection of wine and beer is sparse or nonexistent at times, and the prices are outrageous. There is a restaurant in Toronto that is magically hidden, whose service is horrible and whose food is divine. This is the story of the Nameless Restaurant.

About Tao Wong

Tao Wong is a Canadian author based in Toronto who is best known for his System Apocalypse post-apocalyptic LitRPG series and A Thousand Li, a Chinese xianxia fantasy series. He was shortlisted for the UK Kindle Storyteller award in 2021 for A Thousand Li: The Second Sect. When he's not writing and working, he's practicing martial arts, reading, and dreaming up new worlds.

About Emily Woo Zeller

Emily Woo Zeller is an Earphones award-winning audiobook narrator. After beginning her voiceover career with Asian animation, she returned to the United States and began narrating a broad spectrum of audiobook genres. Her multilingual, multicultural framework brings a particularly unique, clear-eyed, and intimate perspective to the Asian American narratives she specializes in.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany)

This was fun, but I wanted to like it more than I did. As a fan of cozy fantasy, The Nameless Restaurant sounded great. It takes place at a secret magical restaurant on a single night, with magical and human patrons. The talented and long-lived chef has decided on a menu of Malaysian cuisine for the......more

Goodreads review by TS

Full disclosure on the extent of my biasness for this novella - I'm a foodie, who loves to cook, for myself and others, and I'm also Malaysian. The dishes (and especially the desserts - OMG!) mentioned in this story are some of the must-haves when in Malaysia. And I resonate completely with Mo Meng'......more

Goodreads review by Alexandra

Cute. Nothing special. The food porn was nice. I will happily watch an anime entitled Restaurant to Another World on a lazy evening: silly characters, silly back stories, everyone is having a food orgasm every five minutes. This is probably the reason I found The Nameless Restaurant on my kindle (whe......more

Quotes

"Listeners will be hungry for more of this charming series, which caters to fantasy fans and food lovers alike. Great for those who enjoyed Travis Baldree’s Legends & Lattes or Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” series [...] Emily Woo Zeller’s narration is a treat. - Library Journal"