Top 5 Light Novel Like Shokugeki no Souma: à la Carte [2025 List]

5. Konbini Ojou-sama

Midori is a young lady from a good family, and she should never be caught inside a convenience store. However, when she's really hungry, she craves convenience store food. She sneaks into the store with her face covered, to make sure she isn't spotted by classmates, and then brings the food home to remix in a meal of her own creation. She loves this convenience-store-gourmet style, but is afraid that she will one day be found out!

Convenience Store Lady has finished publishing and it has 36 Chapters. It is also Known as: コンビニお嬢さま, Convenience Store Ojousama, Conveni Ojousama

4. Hiyumi no Inaka Michi

Hiyumi is an ordinary teenage girl who, when her father told her they were going to move to Nagano prefecture, immediately pictured life in one of the biggest, liveliest centers of Japan.

She never expected for them to move to one of the least populated towns in the area. A town which takes a mile-long walk to get to a single convenience store. A town where you can count the different families on one hand. That type of town.

Anyway, let’s watch Hiyumi experience her new life in the boonies.

Hiyumi's Country Road has finished publishing and it has 13 Chapters. It is also Known as: ひゆみの田舎道, 日由美乡村路, Hiyumi no Inakamichi

3. Shokugeki no Souma: à la Carte

Shokugeki no Souma: à la Carte has finished publishing and it has 24 Chapters. It is also Known as: 食戟のソーマ ～à la carte～, Food Wars: à la Carte

2. Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku

This story takes place in a particular town with two infamous schools in constant dispute: Chidori High, a boys' school predominantly attended by low-class students with damning grades, and its neighbor Kikyo Girls' High, with most of its female students coming from wealthy and prestigious families. One day, high school second-year Rintaro Tsumugi, a fierce-looking but gentle-minded student at Chidori, is helping at his family's patisserie when he encounters a female customer by the name of Kaoruko Waguri. Rintaro enjoys his time with Kaoruko, as she doesn't judge him for his appearance, but this blissful peace is quickly disturbed when Rintaro makes the discovery that Kaoruko is actually a student at Kikyo. This revelation marks the beginning of the two's strenuous tale, as they fight against the limitations placed upon them by their schools and surroundings in an attempt to find their own path!

The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 薫る花は凛と咲く, Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku

1. Shokugeki no Souma

Soma Yukihira's old man runs a small family restaurant in the less savory end of town. Aiming to one day surpass his father's culinary prowess, Soma hones his skills day in and day out until one day, out of the blue, his father decides to enroll Soma in a classy culinary school!

Can Soma really cut it in a place that prides itself on a 10 percent graduation rate? And can he convince the beautiful, domineering heiress to the school that he belongs there at all?!



Note: The 3 chapter Le dessert epilogue is counted as chapters 316-318

Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma has finished publishing and it has 318 Chapters. It is also Known as: 食戟のソーマ, Shokugeki no Souma