Restaurant City is a restaurant management game made by Playfish, a studio now part of Electronic Arts, and it started on Facebook in 2009. The original stopped being playable on Facebook in June 2012, but FB Games runs an independent browser edition that you can play today for free, with no Flash, nothing to install and no Facebook account. It is a beta with accounts of its own, so some parts of the original game are not complete yet. This page explains what the game is, where it comes from, what happened to it and what this edition is and is not.
Here is the game: open it in your browser, create a free account of your own and start with the tutorial.
Customize your chef, hire a cook and a waiter, pick the menu, serve your customers and decorate your place in this classic Facebook restaurant game.
In beta: some parts of the original game are not complete yet and you may run into bugs.
Restaurant City is a restaurant management game. You customize your chef, hire a cook and a waiter, choose the menu and serve customers who arrive, sit down, order, eat and pay. With the coins you earn you decorate your place, and you can also visit the restaurants of your neighbors.
The game has 107 recipes: 25 starters, 35 mains, 27 desserts and 20 drinks. You choose which of them go on your menu, so part of the fun is building a menu that suits your restaurant as it grows.
Restaurant City was made by Playfish, a studio based in London that is part of Electronic Arts. It was released on Facebook in 2009, and Electronic Arts announced on November 9, 2009 that it was buying Playfish.
The same studio also made Pet Society, a Facebook game from August 2008. Pet Society is on FB Games too, as a separate game, so if you like one of them you may want to look at the other.
The original Restaurant City closed on Facebook in June 2012, so it can no longer be played there officially. We do not state a reason for the closing, because we have no reliable source for one.
The game also had an iOS edition, Restaurant City: Gourmet Edition, released in 2011. That was a separate app and it is not what you find on this page. We give no date for when it ended, because the sources we checked disagree.
It is an independent edition made for the browser by FB Games, presented as a preservation project with no commercial purpose. It is in beta: some parts of the original game are not complete yet and you may run into bugs. It is not the official site.
Creating an account and playing are free. You sign up with a username, a password and a character, and your restaurant is stored on a FB Games server of its own, with accounts that are independent from those of the other games. Donating is optional.
You do not need Facebook. Progress from the Facebook game is not imported, so everyone starts a new restaurant.
You run a restaurant. You hire staff, pick the menu, serve customers and collect coins, then spend those coins in the decoration editor on tables, chairs, stoves and ornaments that you place on the floor. A bigger, better equipped place can seat more customers at once.
You are not alone on the street: Friends Street lists the restaurants of other players, and you can open any of them to look around or pay a visit. Our how to play guide has the step-by-step version, with levels, recipes and controls.
It is not on Facebook and it is not official: FB Games is not affiliated with Playfish, Electronic Arts, Facebook or Meta. It is not an app either. There is no installer, no app and no APK, and the game opens in a browser tab at restaurantcity.fbgamesweb.com.
It is not translated. The game itself is in English only, with the original names for menus, recipes and ingredients. The FB Games website, with the home page, the guide, support and your account, comes in Spanish and English.
Yes. The basics work: employees, menu, service, decoration and visits. The garden, mail, gifts, ingredient trading and market, challenges, camera and random street are in the game but have not been checked in depth, so they may fail or be incomplete.
If you want to go deeper, our guides cover how to play Restaurant City step by step, what a private server means here, playing without Flash, playing on Android and iPhone, why there is nothing to download, and games like Restaurant City. If something breaks, open a ticket from Support.
Three steps and you're in.
From this home page. Each game opens at its own address, with its own start screen.
A quick sign-up inside the game. Your progress is saved on the server, not in your browser.
You play in your browser, with no Flash and no downloads, on a computer and, depending on the game, on your phone too.
Restaurant City is a restaurant management game by Playfish that first came out on Facebook in 2009. You hire a cook and a waiter, pick a menu from 107 recipes, serve your customers, earn coins and decorate your restaurant. This edition runs in the browser and is free to play.
Restaurant City was made by Playfish, a London studio that is part of Electronic Arts. The same studio made Pet Society. This browser edition of Restaurant City is not made by them: it is an independent FB Games project with no affiliation to Playfish, Electronic Arts, Facebook or Meta.
The original Restaurant City closed on Facebook in June 2012, so it is not playable there. You can play it today in an independent browser edition on FB Games, which is free and in beta. It has accounts of its own and needs neither Flash nor Facebook.
No. Restaurant City is an original game by Playfish (Electronic Arts). This is an independent edition for the browser, presented as a preservation project with no commercial purpose, and the site is not official.
Yes. Creating an account and playing Restaurant City on FB Games costs nothing. Donating is optional and voluntary, and it is arranged by opening a donation ticket from Support.
You do not need Facebook or any other social network to play Restaurant City here, only an account of your own. Progress from the Facebook game is not imported, so you start a new restaurant from the tutorial.
Restaurant City has 107 recipes (25 starters, 35 mains, 27 desserts and 20 drinks), 62 ingredients with a rarity from 1 to 5, and 65 levels. Our how to play guide lists what each level opens.
The game is in English only, with the original names for menus, recipes and ingredients. The FB Games website, with the home page, guide, support and your account, comes in Spanish and English. There is no game interface in other languages.
No. They are two different games from the same studio, Playfish. In Restaurant City you run a restaurant, while in Pet Society you create a pet, decorate its house and walk around the town. Both are on FB Games as separate beta games.
Restaurant City is in beta. The core game works: hiring staff, the menu, service, decoration and visits. Other parts of the original, such as the garden, mail, gifts, ingredient trading and challenges, exist but have not been checked in depth and may not work properly.
Brand notice: Restaurant City is an original game by Playfish (Electronic Arts). Facebook is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc. Pet Society and any other game named on this page belong to their respective owners. FB Games is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Playfish, Electronic Arts, Facebook or Meta. This is a browser edition.
Creating an account takes a minute, and you play straight from your browser.