Ramen Restaurant vs Cooking Star
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ramen Restaurant
Manage your own ramen restaurant by preparing noodles to order. Satisfy customers to earn points, which can be used to upgrade your food and increase your earnings. Aim to accumulate a large fortune.
- Prepare ramen noodles to order
- Satisfy customer orders
- Earn points for satisfied customers
- Upgrade food items
- Accumulate in-game currency
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It is a ramen restaurant Mr. management game. Ramen noodles are made as a visitor's order. If done, ramen noodles will be taken out to a visitor. The point will be saved if a visitor is satisfied. Please raise the level of foods on the collected point. If the level of foods goes up, money will accumulate. Please save money in large numbers. The language in a game is only Japanese.
Cooking Star
Embark on a culinary adventure across diverse locations, from beaches to mountains, as you manage multiple restaurants. Master various cuisines, upgrade your kitchen, and serve customers efficiently to become a top chef. Utilize fun boosters and complete hundreds of challenging levels.
- Explore diverse global cuisines and locations
- Manage multiple restaurants and cafes
- Upgrade kitchen appliances and recipes
- Hundreds of challenging levels
- Utilize fun game boosters
- Simple tap-based gameplay
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A whole new world of cooking to explore. With this restaurant cooking game, you will enter a whole new place, travel different locations and cook different cuisines. Time to be a chef loved by everyone. To make this cooking restaurant game more interesting and unique from others, we have created a world of cuisines that includes, beaches, in the middle of the sea on boat, mountains, city, desserts, and much much more. In this cooking carnival chef games, you will be on a diner adventure. Also you will not only explore different food dishes but a whole new way to cook recipes, managing the customers, time management and handling a chain of restaurants across different places. Isn’t this an interesting crazy cooking game yet? COOKING STAR - KITCHE DIARY: A CHEF GAME WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS AND RESTAURANTS There are lot of features to learn and explore with this food games. A whole new carnival of cooking games to explore. With each location you will see multiple restaurants and each with unique food and recipes. Locations & restaurants to explore: Manage multiple restaurants on island Cruise different restaurants and cafes on the boat Shack up your beach cafes and diners Open up restaurants on mountains Time to be a cooking star of the fever cooking city. When you want to be a chef, this cooking simulation game will be everything you want being a crazy chef. FUN BOOSTERS – TO MAKE YOUR GAME MORE INTERESTING We have given a lot of game boosters to make your challenging levels either easy or help in completing your task or goal. - Add more customer - Add extra time - 2nd Chance - Quick Cook - Burn Proof - Double Coin - Quick Serve - Magic Potion Each of these boosters have their own unique advantage and characteristics. WHAT’S MORE INTERESTING ABOUT COOKING STAR KITCHEN DIARY COOKING GAMES? This game packs interesting features: - Bake, grill, and serve food by using simple TAP. - Latest graphics, new theme and lots of pleasing animations. - Instructions for every task to help you understand the game easily. - 100s of kitchen and appliances upgrades. - 100s of food dishes and variations to cook and serve. - 500+ challenging levels uniquely crafted with specific goals. - Surprising daily limited period offers. Grab them before they are gone. - Mini games to get more diamonds. SO CHEFS! Assemble. Get ready for a new craze of kitchen star story with an ultimate kitchen cooking madness in food games.
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Verdict
Ramen Restaurant and Cooking Star both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 73% of Ramen Restaurant's written reviews are positive against 0% of Cooking Star's. Ramen Restaurant also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). Cooking Star's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 13 months) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Cooking Star sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Ramen Restaurant asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Ramen Restaurant against 5.0 for Cooking Star. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 73% of Ramen Restaurant's written reviews are positive against 0% of Cooking Star's.
Ramen Restaurant ships an update every 13 months, Cooking Star every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ramen Restaurant | Cooking Star |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 73.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Char Room | Rohit Makadia |
Customer experience
Ramen Restaurant
Cooking Star
In-app purchases
Ramen Restaurant
No in-app purchases
Cooking Star
- 350 Diamonds$0.99
- Limited Offer2 variants$0.99
- Limited Offer2 variants$1.99
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- Remove Banner-Interstitial Ads$2.99
- 2000 Diamonds$3.99
- Chef’s Special Pack$4.99
- Limited Offer$4.99
- Limited Offer$5.99
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