Chefs upgrade guide

A guide to upgrading your sous-chefs: Kassim, Adele, and Jiro.

✨Intro✨

• The following content contains spoilers for the game Chef Life: A restaurant simulator.
  
• In this guide I will separate original and enhanced recipes by upgrades:
  
  • Upgrade 0 = original recipe
    
  • Upgrade 1 = recipe upgraded once
• For challenges containing more than 1 recommended recipe, you can choose whichever recipe.
  
• Happy cooking!

Kassim

Kassim is the first sous chef you get in the game. He specializes in fish and seafood dishes.

✦ Back to basic

No.	Challenge	Recipe	Level required	Recipe upgrade
1	Unlock the recipe: Sole meunière cooked in a lemon butter and green beans	Sole meunière	1	1
2	Make Sole meunière with Kassim's help	Sole meunière	1	0
3	5 Fillet of sole	Sole meunière	1	0
4	3 Fennel slivers	Sole roulade	7	0
5	5 Red bell pepper slivers	Sole roulade	7	0

✦ Testing the waters

No.	Challenge	Recipe	Level required	Recipe upgrade
1	With Kassim's help, make 1 Mussel casserole or 1 Seafood pasta	Mussel casserole	9	0
		Seafood pasta	9	0
2	2 Clam sauce	Seafood pasta	9	0
3	2 Langoustine bouillon	Langoustine with vegetables	10	0
4	1 Cooked industrial spaghetti	Pasta with Italian cheese	4	0

✦ Modern tastes

No.	Challenge	Recipe	Level required	Recipe upgrade
1	Unlock the recipe Oven-roasted sea bream and vegetables	Baked sea bream	13	0
2	Upgrade the recipe Sea bream with fennel and citrus fruit, glazed white asparagus	Baked sea bream	13	1
3	Make the recipe Sea bream with fennel and citrus fruit, glazed white asparagus with Kassim's help	Baked sea bream	13	1

✦ A to Z

Challenges:

1. Make 10 recipes labeled as "Seafood" or "Fish" with Kassim helping with the prep
   
   • For this challenge, you can make 1 recipe 10 times in a service without serving them and the challenge will still be marked completed
2. Get Kassim to make by himself and serve
   
   • 1 Tuna steak (Level 19)
     
   • 1 Salmon with sorrel (Level 20)
     
   • 1 Sea bream fillet (Level 23 - Fish Dishes)
     
   • 1 Red mullet fillets (Level 23 - Fish Dishes)
     
   • 1 Langoustine with vegetables (Level 10)

Fish recipes have the fish 🐟 icon and seafood recipes have the crab 🦀 icon. Below are the list of all fish & seafood recipes:

Fish

• Baked sea bream
  
• Langoustine with vegetables
  
• Potatoes and salmon
  
• Red mullet fillets
  
• Salmon with sorrel
  
• Scallops and apples
  
• Sea bass cordon bleu
  
• Sea bass en croûte
  
• Sea bream fillet
  
• Sea bream tartare, lemon and chives
  
• Sea bream with apples
  
• Sole meunière
  
• Sole roulade
  
• Squid and fish sauce
  
• Tuna steak
  
• Vitello tonnato

Seafood

• Carpaccio of scallops
  
• Mussel casserole
  
• Scallops in sauce
  
• Seafood lasagna
  
• Seafood pasta
  
• Seafood risotto
  
• Squid and spicy sauce
  
• Velouté of cauliflower

Adele

Adele is the second sous chef you get in the game. She loves working with meat. 😏🥩

✦ Learning on the job

No.	Challenge	Recipe	Level required	Recipe upgrade
1	5 Beef steak	Beef and potatoes	1	0
2	5 Cubes of beef	Boeuf bourguignon	8	0
3	5 Lean beef	Beef carpaccio	7	0
4	5 Beef for grinding	Beef tartare	9	0
		Meatballs in sauce	5	0
5	1 Boeuf bourguignon	Boeuf bourguignon	8	0
6	1 Beef and potatoes	Beef and potatoes	1	0
7	1 Beef carpaccio	Beef carpaccio	7	0
8	1 Beef tartare	Beef tartare	9	0

✦ Steeper learning curve

No.	Challenge	Recipe	Level required	Recipe upgrade
1	3 Marinated cubes of beef	Boef bourguignon	8	1
2	3 Pork and veal meatballs	Meatballs in sauce	5	1
3	3 Sliced pancetta	Pasta with Italian cheese	4	1

✦ All rounder

No.	Challenge	Recipe	Level required	Recipe upgrade
1	1 rare Cooked steak 1 medium rare Cooked steak 1 well done Cooked steak	Beef and potatoes	1	1
2	1 rare Cooked crown roast of lamb in rosemary crust	Lamb with potatoes	16	1
3	1 rare Veal with olives	Corsican veal with olives	7	1

Jiro

Jiro is the third sous chef you get in the game. He excels at working with vegetables.

✦ Vegetarian gourmet

No.	Challenge	Recipe	Level required	Recipe upgrade
1	1 Carpaccio of pickled winter vegetables, walnut bread	Carpaccio of vegetables	17	1
2	1 Grilled eggplant, potato puree, sautéed porcini mushrooms with red wine	Vegetable steak	24	1
3	1 Ballotine of zucchini with aged Comté cheese, mushroom and truffle stuffing	Stuffed zucchini and cheese [from the level 25 Stuffed Zucchini bundle]	25	1

✦ High standards and high quality

Challenges:

1. Have at least 3 "Vegetarian recipes of level Gastronomic cuisine on the menu and complete 5 services that earn a minimum grade of "Great services!" with Jiro cooking.
   
2. Serve 7 "Vegetarian" dishes that earn a minimum grade of A with ingredients of "Excellent" quality and Jiro helping with the prep

Vegetarian dishes are dishes which have the leaf 🍃 icon in the recipe book. Be sure not to confuse Vegetarian recipes (1 leaf 🍃 icon ) and Vegan recipes (2 leaves 🍃🍃 icon).




Below are all the vegetarian recipes you can choose for each challenge:

All vegetarian recipes

• Arancini
  
• Asparagus risotto
  
• Autumn soup
  
• Caprese
  
• Carpaccio of vegetables
  
• Crispy tofu
  
• Egg parfait
  
• Mushroom risotto
  
• Onion soup
  
• Parmigiana
  
• Pasta with pesto
  
• Pasta with spicy tomato sauce
  
• Potatoes and salad
  
• Potatoes au gratin
  
• Stuffed zucchini and cheese
  
• Stuffed zucchini flowers
  
• Summer soup
  
• Vegetable lasagna
  
• Vegetable quiche
  
• Vegetable steak
  
• Vegetable tartare

Tips and tricks

1. If you are having trouble getting "Good service" or "Great service", try the following:
   
   • Change the diner room layout to 10 seats (Fewer customer = lower chance of messing up orders)
     
   • Change menu price to $ instead of $$ or $$$. (This gives people less expectation thus higher ratings)
     
   • Turn on "Fewer customer" and "Calm service" options in Preferences
2. When making a recipe for the first time, the quality doesn't matter. You can skip seasoning, stirring, and put all ingredients in at once. Using this, you can rush making new dishes at prep time everyday.
   
3. How to quickly upgrade a recipe:
   
   • Order your sous chefs to prepare a dish up to step 3 so that the main dish and side dishes are ready for plating.
     
   • Plate the dishes without serving them.
     
     • You receive recipe XP by plating them.
       
     • You don't receive recipe XP if your sous chefs prepare a dish from start to finish.
   • Dishes made before service starts also grants recipe XP.

Got more tips? Comment down below and I'll add them here :)

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Thank you for checking out this guide 🥰
My other guides:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2947046645 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2948145562

[maelxp]

Pretty sure, the upgraded versons work as well.

[Aratea]

What happens if you have already leveled up the recipes that Jiro requires in Vegetarian gourmet?

[Deusemperor]

Kassim can fillet a sole but he can't add flour to it? Games really need to have a little common sense sometimes

[maelxp]

the theme is only determined by the menu. each recipe has (usually several) themes. to have a menu with a specific them, you need multiple recipes with that theme, but not necessarily all of the recipes on the menu.

[ReneeMary]

How do I change the THEME to comfort food?? I have to served the boned duck recipe with the theme cofirt food is this changing the decor or JUST THE MENU to comfort food with the duck meal incl??

[annelewis]

is 30 the highest level that the head chef can achieve?

[BloomyJaffa]

I'm on steeper learning curve with Adele and for some reason, when i asked her to make every meatball in sauce dish ordered during a service it didn't tick the box... like she made like more than 9 full dishes ready for me to serve idk what I'm doing wrong

[maelxp]

Pretty sure the last item on "Steeper Learning Curve" got changed to "Diced pancetta", though it really doesn't matter, as a higher item contains the creation of the lower item. So if you order her to make diced pancetta, she still does the slicing and it would count towards the mission. Also, the "marinated cubes of beef" for "Boef bourguignon" can not actually be given as a task, but you can give "cooked beef marinated in wine", which requires the "marinated cubes of beef" and therefore satisfy the mission.

[:3]

@_LMUBA.96_
iirc go to the locker room where you spawn in the first time. Interact with the lockers

[_LMUBA.96_]

i bought new outfits on the office computer but when and how can i change into them?