Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar Cooking and Meals Guide

Cooking in Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar is a great source of buffs and stamina. This guide will go over how to unlock new recipes and kitchen tools.

Cooking Basics

You have the ability to cook right from the start in Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar, thanks to the kitchen in your house. Cooking doesn't use up any time, with the meal list showing what effects will be granted by the finished dish.

However, the list of available recipes is very small to start with. Some recipes are given during natural progression (generally ahead of certain events), but you'll otherwise have to go out of your way to unlock the rest. You can find recipes in people's houses by interacting with bookcases, requests, and by eating the meal itself. 

Main dishes recover a lot of stamina, while the other categories exist to give you different buff effects. You can only have one buff active at a time, so try not to eat more non-main dishes until after the previous effect has run out.

Dishes can also be adapted with additional ingredients to improve their quality even further. You can add to extra ingredients to a meal, though they're usually different from the main ingredients — you can see which ingredients you'll need for adaptions by pressing X (Xbox controller) / Y (Switch).

Improving Your Kitchen

While many meals can be cooked simply by having the recipe and correct ingredients, some require extra utensils. These utensils can be bought from Garon at the bazaar. Garon's stall request becomes available once the bazaar reaches Town Rank. 

Meals that require specific utensils will have an icon next to its name, with a blue tick added if you already own the right ones.

Meal Unlock List

Default Recipes

• Turnip Salad
• Herb Salad
• Herb Soup
• Egg Drop Soup
• Boiled Egg
• Sashimi
• Bread
• Cooked Rice
• Onigiri
• Egg Over Rice
• Grilled Fish
• Walnut Juice

Bookcases

• Herb Pasta - Jules and Derek's House
• Ice Cream - June's House
• Café au Lait - Freya's House
• Omelet Rice - Gabriel's House
• Focaccia Bread - Lloyd's House
• Toast - June's House
• Egg Tart - Maple's Room

Requests and Other Unlocks

• Mint Tea - Freya: Bringing the Café Home
• Mushroom Rice - Madeleine: Sharpen Those Skills
• Herb Sandwich - Mina: Secret Ingredient
• Herb Rice Porridge - Sophie: Some Herbs, Please?
• Oolong Tea - Derek: Chill-Out Juice
• Shumai Dumplings - Sonia: Reeling in a Meal
• Fish Cake - Nadine: Bottled Nuts Wanted
• Pumpkin Soup - Clara: Clara's Calamity
• Buttered Potato - Freya: Count on Coach
• Vegetable Curry - Diana: First-Class Curry
• Stuffed Cabbage - Madeleine: Famed Foodie
• Chestnut Paste - Nadine: Tempura Temptations
• Radish Soup - Mina: Pantry Patron
• Trifle - Samir: The Gift of Gratitude
• Honey Cake - Given before the Honey Festival.
• Whole Chocolate Cake - Win the Bake Off Competition