The Anime Café (an excerpt)

About The Anime Café: 50 Iconic Treats, Snacks, and Drinks from Your Favorite Anime (Quarto Publishing, 2024), the author writes: “Anime cafés are establishments that immerse fans in their favorite anime, serving dishes straight from episodes or inspired to look like characters and items from the anime. I created this book with recipes worthy of being in an anime café, so anime fans can enjoy the anime café experience anywhere.”

An illustration of colored cubes in a drinking glass. Text on the opposite reads: The Anime Cafe - 50 Iconic Treats, Drinks, and Snacks from Your Favorite Anime

A recipe for Rainbow Jelly Seltzer

 

illustrations by Jana Paynor


Photo by Pear Tree Photography

Nadine Estero has always loved cooking and art, and she combines her interests by re-creating food from anime, video games, and shows and sharing her creations on social media (@IssaGrill) with over one million followers. Her work has been featured on Refinery29 and in the New York Times and Philippine Star. Her first cookbook, The Anime Chef Cookbook: 75 Iconic Dishes from Your Favorite Anime, made the Globe & Mail’s best-seller list.