One Piece Grand Gourmet is a cosy restaurant sim with the Straw Hat Pirates.
At the Bandai Namco Entertainment booth at Tokyo Game Show 2026, I was also able to get my hands on the upcoming cosy restaurant management simulator One Piece Gourmet. This game had already piqued my interest in earlier showings, given its retro-style pixel art, colourful visuals, and low-stakes gameplay loop.
Here are our early impressions of the game, which we played almost half an hour of at TGS 2026.
One Piece Grand Gourmet
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PC, Mobile
Publisher: Bandai Namco Entertainment
Release date: 23 October, 2026
One Piece Grand Gourmet Tokyo Game Show 2026 impressions
It goes without saying that One Piece fans will thoroughly enjoy One Piece Grand Gourmet, and especially so if they happen to be a fan of slower-paced games like Stardew Valley. The gameplay loop in this demo reminded me of those old Facebook games where you manage bakeries or restaurants, and simply restock items for your customers until the day runs out.
While One Piece Gourmet roughly follows the same gameplay loop, it is a much more involved video game. Players can learn new recipes not just as the crew cook Sanji, but a variety of other characters as well. New characters can be found to join the ship as workers or crew, and the player can also decorate and shape their restaurant in any way they choose.
While I really enjoyed my time with this demo, I can’t help but feel that it was a little too hand-holdy in this early phase of restaurant management, with an almost never-ending tutorial that involved a bird telling me each and every button to click on in order to advance the story.
Besides that, however, the game is amusingly cosy; the characters of One Piece coming together to build a restaurant seems like an arc straight out of the manga, anyway. It's fun to stuff Luffy full of food, or give Sanji new dishes to learn. If the restaurant customisation holds up, this will likely be a game I'll return to whenever the next season of Netflix's live-action adaptation drops.
