Manga like Bambino!

What is Bambino! about?

Status: Finished

Shogo Ban, a college student from Fukuoka, likes to cook. Thanks to the owner of the restaurant where he works part-time, he finds himself working at the line of Roppongi's best Italian restaurant, Trattoria Baccanale, and discovers that the real deal isn't quite as easy as he'd thought. The manga follows Ban as he struggles to keep up with the hectic workload and his co-workers, along with issues outside the kitchen like his relationship with his girlfriend Eri, who he left behind in Fukuoka.

Note: Received the 2008 Shogakukan Manga Award for seinen/general manga.

Tags: Food , Seinen , Work , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Nudity , Restaurant
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Here is a list of Manga similar to Bambino!

Bartender

Bartender

Also known as Bartender.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

The story of the Sasakura Ryu and Eden Hall, a small cocktail bar in the Chiba area of Tokyo, where troubled customers come for the "glass of the gods," which with Ryu's assistance helps them to resolve their often highly emotional problems.

Tags: Bar , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Episodic , Iyashikei , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Historical
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Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma

Shokugeki no Souma

Also known as Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Ecchi

Yukihira Souma's dream is to become a full-time chef in his father's restaurant and surpass his father's culinary skill. But just as Yukihira graduates from middle schools his father, Yukihira Jouichirou, closes down the restaurant to cook in Europe. Although downtrodden, Souma's fighting spirit is rekindled by a challenge from Jouichirou which is to survive in an elite culinary school where only 10% of the students graduate. Can Souma survive?



Included side stories:
Volume 1: Shokugeki no Souma (pilot).
Volume 3: Kimi to Watashi no Renai Soudan.
Volume 8: Natsuyasumi no Erina.
Volume 13: Shokugeki no Soma X Isobe Isobee Monogatari.
Volume 13: Betsubara! #1 & #2 (counts as one chapter).
Volume 15: Betsubara! #3 & #4 (counts as one chapter).
Volume 20: Betsubara! #5.
Volume 21: Betsubara! #6 & #7 (counts as one chapter).
Volume 31: Kareinaru Bansankai.

Tags: Food , School , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Nudity , Educational , Time Skip , Tsundere , Incest , Desert
Curry naru Shokutaku

Curry naru Shokutaku

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Addicted to Curry begins with a young schoolgirl named Sonezaki Yui. One day she encounters what looks like a half dead man in the middle of the road. Not knowing what to do she throws some food at him (so he can at least survive) and runs away. She then returns to her home, which is also her father's Ganesha Curry restaurant. The man who Yui encountered was Koenji Makito, who knew Yui's father Souichiro and was actually looking for him. Following Yui's scent Koenji finds her and the restaurant. Yui initially thinks Koenji is going to kill her for throwing food at him, but after they talk she finds out that he knew her father. Koenji then finds out that the restaurant is going out of business and that Yui's father go on journey to improve his curry cooking techniques. To repay Yui's father for helping him out Koenji decides to team up with Yui to save the curry restaurant.



Tags: Food , Male Protagonist , Seinen
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Shinya Shokudou

Shinya Shokudou

Status: Releasing
Genres: Slice of Life

A manga that revolves around an old-fashioned all-night food stall, the various dishes that the stall owner prepares to suit the tastes of different customers, and the joys, griefs, trials and tribulations of his faithful patrons.

Notes:
Nominated for the 2nd Manga Taisho Award (2009)
Winner of the 39th Japan Cartoonist Awards Grand Prize (2010).

Tags: Food , Seinen , Episodic , Restaurant
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Chuuka Ichiban!

Chuuka Ichiban!

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy

The story takes place in 19th century China during the Qing Dynasty, where the Emperor was weakened and the country was close to chaos. It is also during a fictitious era called "The Era of the Cooking Wars". It was an era in which top chefs with different cooking styles tried their best to improve their skills and to become the best chef in China. It is a country where insulting a high-grade chef or fooling around with cooking could land a person in a jail, and impersonating a top-chef is as good as usurpation of authority. Chefs compete with each other in order to gain respect and even power, but also with the risks of losing everything.

After the death of Mao's mother, Pai, who was called the 'Fairy of Cuisine', Mao becomes a Super Chef in order to take the title as Master Chef of his mother's restaurant. However, before he takes his mother's place as Master Chef, he continues to travel China in order to learn more of the many ways of cooking, in the hopes of becoming a legendary chef, just like his mother. During his journey, he meets great friends and fierce rivals who wish to challenge him in the field of cooking.

Tags: Foreign , Shounen , Food , Historical
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Mingo Italia-jin ga Minna Moteru to Omou na yo

Mingo Italia-jin ga Minna Moteru to Omou na yo

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

A serialization by the Italian mangaka Peppe, delivering a love comedy featuring a foreign culture! Mingo is an Italian otaku who has finally made it to Japan! However, he unexpectedly gets scouted as a model... though his heart is that of an otaku. So begins Mingo's "amore" cultural exchange.


Tags: Seinen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Foreign , Nudity , Biographical , Otaku Culture
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Fantasista

Fantasista

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Teppei Sakamoto is a boy at the country-side. He was a soccer lover and all his soccer skills are taught by his sister. Finally his sister wants him to join in Mizumoto High School Soccer team. Teppei's life turn has come!! How will this soccer newbie fare in the new environment?

Tags: Football , Shounen
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Curry no Uta.

Curry no Uta.

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

The heartwarming drama Curry no Uta depicts the bonds between people through the theme of curry. A complete manga adaptation of the television drama!

Tags: Male Protagonist , Food , Iyashikei
Sushi Empire

Kotobuki Empire

Also known as Sushi Empire .

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Slice of Life

A boy from Hawaii who learned sushi making from internet videos is about to succeed one of Japan's most famous sushi chefs.

Tags: Food
Ato 365-nichi no Bansan

Ato 365-nichi no Bansan

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama



Tags: Seinen , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Food , Restaurant , Work

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