The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen

Your table awaits at the Chibineko Kitchen,where a soul-nourishing meal in the company of the resident kitten will transport you back in time to reunite with departed loved onesΓÇöfor fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and The Midnight Library. In a remote seaside town outside of TokyoKotoko makes her way along a seashell pathlured by whispers of an enigmatic restaurant whose kagezenor traditional meals offered in remembrance of loved onespromise a reunion with the departed. When a gust of wind lifts off her hatshe sees running after it a young man who looks like her recently deceased brother. But itΓÇÖs not her brother; itΓÇÖs Kaithe restaurantΓÇÖs young chefwho returns her hat and brings her to the tiny establishmentwhere he introduces her to Chibithe resident kittenand serves her steaming bowls of simmered fishriceand miso soupΓÇöthe exact meal her brother used to cook for her. As she takes her first delicious bitethe gulls outside fall silentthe air grows hazyand Kotoko begins a magical journey of last chances and new beginnings.