Cozy Bakery
Cozy Bakery is a free kitchen game that runs in your browser, on a computer or a phone. You run a tiny pastelaria in Lisbon, built as a miniature: blue and white tiles, marble counters, a wood-fired oven and a serving window onto the street.
What you do
- Castelo de São Jorge: knead dough and bake warm bread inside the castle walls; pull a bica on the espresso machine.
- Torre de Belém: roll pastry, fill it with egg custard, and bake pastéis de nata on the quay by the tower.
- Costa da Caparica: bolas de Berlim on the beach. The dough, the eggs, the milk and the beer are on one side of the worktops, the custard and the neighbours on the other, and the tide comes in over the low sand.
- Palácio da Pena, Sintra: travesseiros. The pastry is rolled and baked on one side and filled and served on the other, so every one crosses the worktops three times.
- Setúbal: choco frito the proper way: sliced, turned in cornflour, fried, and plated with a wedge of lemon.
- Ericeira: polvo à lagareiro on a whitewashed terrace over the fishermen's beach. A seagull on the wall takes whatever is left lying about.
- Cristo Rei: bitoque on the terrace under the statue, with the red bridge far below.
- Baía de Cascais: sardinhas assadas on a charcoal grill by the bay and its striped lighthouse. Fan the coals or nothing cooks.
- Terreiro do Paço: caldo verde and croquetes in the middle of the great square, with tram 28 running straight through the kitchen.
- Rua Cor-de-Rosa, Cais do Sodré: petiscos at night on two pavements. The pork is fried and the plates washed on one, the croquetes fried and everything served on the other, and a tuk-tuk carries plates across on its roof.
- Elevador de Santa Justa: bitoque com arroz on two iron platforms over the roofs: everything hot on one, the rice, the plates and the pass on the other, and a lift between them that comes and goes.
- LX Factory: bacalhau à Brás on the roofs of two shipping containers, with a belt running each way between them: food and clean plates one way, dirty plates back.
- Ribeira, Porto: francesinha put together on one quay and baked, sauced and served on the other, across two planks over the water. The hard one.
How to play
Take off over a toy Lisbon. A yellow arrow hangs over the next kitchen to cook in; the others open one by one as you earn a pastel in the one before. Each kitchen opens with a card that shows how its dishes are made. Walk with WASD or the arrow keys. Space takes things and puts them down. Hold E to chop, knead, roll out or wash. With something in your hands, hold F to aim and let go to throw: onto a worktop, into the oven or the pan, to another baker, or straight to a waiting neighbour. Shift dashes. Cooking alone you run two bakers, and Tab swaps between them. Controllers work too. On a phone, drag to walk, use the buttons, and pinch to see more or less of the kitchen.
Every kitchen has a clock. Serve the neighbours before they lose patience, keep the tips, and earn up to three pastéis de nata before closing time. The next kitchen opens when you earn one.
Orders come with variations: a bitoque sem ovo, a bitoque com arroz, a francesinha sem linguiça. Kitchens have their own machines: a mincer for the croquetes, a deep fryer for the batatas fritas, a rice pot. Step off an edge and you fall, drop what you were carrying, and start again where you began. Plates come back dirty and have to be washed, pans and pots can be carried off the stove, and what is left to burn catches fire, a finished pot left on the heat included. Pans, pots and the fryer's basket can all be lifted off the heat and carried. Dirty plates stack, go into the sink in a pile and come out onto the rack. Anything that belongs on a plate can be put on any plate, so a plate can be got wrong; the bin empties it. A baker who falls is back after five seconds.
Play together
Up to four bakers can share one machine (two on the keyboard, the rest on controllers), or play online from different places: one starts a room and sends the five-letter code or the invite link, the others join. There are no accounts and nothing to install. A bigger crew gets more neighbours to feed, and the pastéis cost more.
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