repetitive and nothing to really sink your teeth into (pardon the pun).

This book really felt more of a collection of short stories, with 6 dishes to uncover spending only about 30 pages each you don’t really get any character depth, development or discovery to keep it interesting for me.

Each short story fell into the exact same set up - character finds restaurant, eats set menu, gives little detail about the dish they are looking for, fast forwards to returning to eat and then is perfectly recreated first time - each time where the chef recounts how they worked it out.

I feel like if the book had cut back to perhaps 3 dishes rather than 6 it could have fleshed out the emotional stories more, perhaps took the reader along the journey of working out how to recreate the dish - or even having it fail on one occasion just for some variation would have made it more interesting - bonus points if the characters actually overlapped in some small way for depth! 

Overall, I liked the premise as a cosy read - but ultimately the lack of depth in plot or character development just made it a pretty ‘meh’ read for me.