Top 15 best cooking games for iPhone and iPad (iOS)

Campfire Cooking makes for a seriously tasty amuse-bouche on this five-course tasting menu. It's also quite different from your average casual cook 'em up, taking a form more in line with a grid-based block-sliding puzzler, but with tasty foodstuffs taking the place of abstract blocks.

Campfire Cooking uses the whole concept to apply a welcome spin to a vaguely familiar format. Mmm, delicious. If you're not sold yet, read our Campfire Cooking review. We're surely impressed with both the concept and the gameplay.

Diner Dash was arguably the original mobile cooking game - or at least, the one that spawned a thousand management clones. Its brand of time-sensitive restaurant management really captured the popular mood, and so it's a title that we cannot simply overlook.

Cooking Dash is the purest take on that original format currently on the App Store, with a frenetic pace and chirpy presentation. It asks you to juggle multiple cooking and serving tasks simultaneously without trying your customers' patience.

In food terms, it's a good solid meal that is cooked well by using a tried and tested recipe.

Hungry Hearts Diner is one of the iOS cooking games with a touching story. You play as an elderly woman, who has to look after her family's restaurant on her own. Her life has changed so much over the last few years - and through cooking, you can learn her story and why she loves her diner. Serving customers different foods will allow you to make money and learn about them as well.

The story is adorable, and heartwarming, and adds a lot of depth to the whole experience..

Cooking Mama had been a huge hit on Nintendo DS before it made its way over to iOS in Cooking Mama: Let's Cook! Second restaurant openings are always tricky, but this one retains just enough of the original's magic.

The idea is to cook several recipes to order, using touchscreen gestures to fulfil each stage of the process. In a series of tasty minigames, you'll chop onions, ice cupcakes, mince beef, and more. All in all, it is one of the most delicious cooking games for iOS - not to mention the cutest.

Mucho Taco is the iOS cooking game reimagined as an idle tapper. Or rather, swiper. It's up to you, a budding restaurateur, to roll up countless tacos in a bid to earn more money.

The more money you make, the more taco stands you can buy across the city. The more taco stands you have, the more money you make. It's a familiar yet compulsive reward loop, made all the more appealing by the tasty central premise. Mucho Taco is a pretty impressive game, and if you want to know whether or not it is up to your taste standards, you should read our Mucho Taco review.

The Toca series is easy to overlook for its overt kiddie focus. But these little gaming morsels are extremely popular for their accessible, bite-sized nature. Toca Kitchen 2 is the perfect case in point.

You can combine ingredients to form tasty recipes, which can then be served up in full 3D. While it's not going to blow your tastebuds away, Toca Kitchen 2 is a pleasantly light palate cleanser of a game - and an educational one at that.

If you are a fan of SpongeBob - there is a cooking game for you! Surprisingly, you will start off making pancakes - as if that is something that you'd have in Bikini Bottom - but over time it can work up to Krabby Patties and other foods that are actually from the TV series.

SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off works like a lot of other cooking games for iPhone, with you behind a counter quickly cooking to serve customers. There are a lot of in-game events, however, that keep things interesting! Definitely worth a shot if you're a fan of the series.

If you want to play one of the cooking games with your friends, Too Many Cooks is your best bet! This game is fast-paced, with timed levels where everyone needs to communicate and work together to fulfil as many orders as possible.

Each player has a different screen with limited placements - allowing you to hold stations and items. There are thought bubbles that can be used to request items from other team members, but it is best played all in the same room where you can shout at each other!

Good Pizza, Great Pizza is an adorable pizza-making game! You are looking to have the best pizza shop in town - with your own rival right across the street. You will need to manage your pizzeria - ensuring that you make money and satisfy customers.

Sometimes customers seem to speak in codes, so you will need to decipher what they are saying to make the pizza correctly. The graphic style of Good Pizza, Great Pizza is pastel and fun too - making for a really pleasing experience.

Cook To The Beat combines culinary prowess with a rhythm-action game. That means it's fairly simple to pick up and play since we're all quite familiar with this genre by now. Throughout Cook To The Beat, you'll be able to customize your own animal chef with a variety of zany aprons and hats, to ensure they also look the part.

If you are vaguely familiar with the genre, you might already expect the stages to become increasingly more difficult the more you play. That's one of the game's aspects that makes Cook to the Beat not everybody's cup of tea, but it's still a terrific one to include on our list of finest cooking games for iPhone and iPad.

Cooking City: Restaurant Games has fast gameplay that introduces culinary cultures from around the world. In the game, you need to build your food empire by serving customers and special guests in different cities. Work in multiple restaurants around the world and find different cuisines that will affect the industry.

Indeed, you can cook different dishes, starting with some simple and classic burgers and finishing with Peking Ducks. Discover the secrets behind the best dishes. There are also hidden recipes that can be unlocked. Cooking City has over 2000 levels. In addition, you can also participate in daily and weekly challenges to get some great rewards.

My Cafe - Restaurant Game is an iOS simulation game. It simulates working in a cafe. You'll create and develop the interior, buy equipment, hire staff, fulfil orders and earn money. Even when you are not playing, the staff will carry out orders for you and generate income.

Moreover, as you progress through it and open new levels, you learn new recipes. The most remarkable thing about those recipes is that they are not invented but actually exist. Therefore, while playing, you can master a real recipe and repeat it yourself at home.

Food Truck Chef Cooking Games is another great title. Work in a street van, become the best chef and work your way to glory. Prepare delicious restaurant meals in your van, travel around the world to make your van recognized everywhere, and use additional ingredients to prepare many dishes and desserts with different recipes. Also, upgrade kitchen equipment to cook faster. Upgrade your van and decorate its surroundings to make more people interested in it. Food Truck Chef Cooking Games is an entertaining title that will test your prioritization skills as well.

The next on the list is an exciting management title with varied gameplay and many interesting features. In Star Chef, you will have to build and manage your own restaurant or cafe.

To run the business successfully, find unique dishes and add them to your menu. On top of that, make sure to hire the best workers with excellent cooking skills. To make your food even tastier, build a garden where you can grow your own vegetables. Expand your restaurant or cafe and decorate it with various items to make it look nice and accommodate more visitors.

If you are looking for a title where you can relax and test your cooking skills, Cooking Fever is the best pick for you! You will have to make food for hungry customers, obviously. There are 1000+ fantastic levels, hundreds of different dishes and ingredients, and endless opportunities to upgrade the kitchen.

You can spend plenty of hours because Cooking Fever is extremely addictive. If you cook the wrong dish for a guest, they will be dissatisfied and might pay you less. Therefore, be careful and make sure to use the right ingredients, or you might be left without a beloved cha-ching.