I will be listing the achievements in a loose chronological order of when you can get them. You don't have to follow it completely, but I chose to progress the side quests and tournaments fully before progressing the main story to reduce confusion when side quests start to link with each other.

Some people end up having to catch up on 3 simultaneous side quests at a time which can get confusing and will also ultimately delay your main quest progression. All side quests are essential to continue with the bulk of the end game.

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Cliffhanger
Spend the night in your new house (story)


My Cherie Armour
Defeat the Mysterious Knight (story)


Recipe: Carrot, Tomato, Potato

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Although "Veg Fund Baby" and "Ground Provisions" are both cooking-related achievements, they are automatically unlocked by the mandatory recipe above.

Veg Fund Baby
Cook a dish using 3 different ingredients that have the Vegetable property


Ground Provisions
Cook a dish using 3 different ingredients that have the Land property

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Son of a Birch
Obtain Birch


After your battle with the Mysterious Knight, you'll see an egg along the dirt path heading to town. Take this egg to an elderly couple (side quest), and progress that questline to hatch Birch. Birch will serve as your mount and mobile storage for the rest of the game.

Bureaucracy
Obtain the Cooking License (story)


Rookie Cutter
Win the Amateur Tournament


Make sure you enter and complete this mini-tournament booth (located beside the elderly couple) right after getting the license. I have not yet confirmed if this is a mandatory tournament for the story or if it is a missable achievement, but the booth disappears once you progress the story a little bit more.

Pump Up the Gem
Place the Blue gem in the Statue


As soon as you have access to the magic shop, buy the items on the counter. These items will be unavailable for a good chunk of the game until you progress the Witch's storyline. Once you've bought the gem, go up the stairs beside your villa and insert the blue gem in the statue. It will create a fountain that lets you charge your multiplier stats when you are wearing a swimsuit.

Groundskeeper
Buy some land for the first time


At certain points after moving along the main story, 3 expansion slots will open up for purchase around your villa. They show up as large wooden signs that you can interact with (hard to miss).

I Tame, I Saw, I Conquered
Use the Ancient Tamer for the first time (story)


You Say Potato...
Defeat Chef Torapio in Culinary Battle (story)


Recipe
R1: Ghostato, Rice, Ghostato, Cheeso (Go 1st >0 aroma)
R2: Mushroom sauce, Special Dough, Rice, Ghostato (Go 1st >5 aroma)
R1: Mushroom sauce, Special Dough, Rice, Ghostato (Go 1st >5 aroma)

Food of a Took!
Interact with the Mage in Deep Forest for the first time


If you are following my advice of progressing the side quests as they are made available, one of the places you can now explore is the Deep Forest near your villa. The Mage is east of the entrance. See the "Deep Forest Map" category for a map to use as a reference.

A Prize, Mother Cooker!
Buy a tournament reward


Defeating tournament league opponents will give you tokens to purchase rewards usually found near the tournament steward. You can identify them by the spatula icons on their heads. Items will glow/rotate around them to signify that they are available for purchase.

NOTE: Prioritize buying sauce unlock rewards from each league before you buy any cosmetics. Some of the sauces (Fungus sauce) are key to making your tournament life a lot easier.

You will have the chance to compete in various tournaments (Old Port, Culinarum, Nyarian, and Tiral of Fire) at certain points in the main story. You can't go to the higher tier of tournaments because they are story-locked (access to the area is locked). Once you have access to each tournament, you can complete them fully all the way to the Gold tier with the exception of the Culinarum league. You'll have to beat Anzashi before you can complete the Culinarum Gold tier.

Cryptonite
Solve the Crypt puzzle


One of the other side quests around the Restaurant/Bolton part of the story is the ancestral crypt just across from the Deep Forest entrance. Before you can access this, you have to progress the Witch/Infinigon questline to the point where the [/spoiler]shop is repaired[/spoiler]. Simply cook the dish types required at the appropriate point level (+50) and slot them in to unlock the achievement and a costume.

Run 'n' Gun
Hunt the Pangun


I suggest you progress the side quests to gain access to Panguns before you face Bolton since Pangun meat will help immensely.

Cull the Narim
Defeat Chef Bolton in Culinary Battle (story)


Recipe - This recipe wasn't ideal since I was still learning, but it got the job done.

R1: Sand Blowfish, Pangun meat, Mud Eel, Mushroom sauce (go 1st >0 aroma)
R2: Cucumber Squid, Pangun meat, Mud Eel, Special Cream sauce (go 1st >0 aroma)
R3: Cucumber Squid, Pangun meat, Mud Eel, Special Cream sauce (go 1st >0 aroma)

I repurposed 小牧's map with English labels. All the credit goes to him for mapping out the forest.


M = Mage
R = Witches/Riddle (answer: Evil Mandragora, Tomato, Spider Silk)
E = Erwin (Tree) Seeds
FP = Fossilized Poo (unlocks Unicorns)
HP = Hidden path
S = Shrine (to purify a gem)
FE = Fossilized Egg (unlocks Gomera)
I = Insurgent/Spy

Sing A Song of Silkspence
Defeat the Tenor Spider (story)


You will need 30 restaurant prestige stars before the questline for this achievement becomes available. This is typically achieved by having strong reviews through your dishes AND through winning tournament battles (going up in tier). You don't have to go too crazy with modifying your restaurant menu. Just focus your efforts on clearing the tournaments to earn your stars because it's wasteful to constantly change your menu just to get a small bump in prestige. I prefer modifying menu items after major changes to available ingredients. Aim for 30 stars for now.

Unlocking Spiders is another major turning point in the story. Spiders provide one of the strongest ingredient resources with good stats both refined and unrefined. Just like with Bolton and the Panguns, I strongly suggest unlocking Spiders before you fight the next boss -- Anzashi.

Feline Hungry
Defeat Chef Anzhashi in Culinary Battle


Recipe
R1: Spider Flesh, Apple, Rat, Pastor sauce (go first every round >0 aroma)
R2: Egg x3, Pastor sauce (no need to stir just complete after adding sauce)
R3: Egg x3, Pastor sauce (no need to stir just complete after adding sauce)


Natural Venomena
Cook a dish that contains Venom Glaze


By following my advice regarding spiders, you should get this naturally when you use Spider Flesh in a recipe against Anzashi.

Baby, Drag Do Do Do Do Do Do
Obtain the Dragon Egg (story)


Feast from the East
Defeat the Festumancers in Culinary Battle


Recipe
R1: Sand Blowfish, 2x Spider Silk, Fungus Sauce (Don't stir for 0 points and go 1st >70 aroma)
R2: 3x Epic Blowfish (any ingredient with enough points for aroma), Caribara sauce (Don't stir for 0 points and go 1st >70 aroma)
R3: Dragon Egg, King Squid, Breaded Spider Leg, Caribara sauce (Go 1st >70 aroma)

(sorry I don't have audio on this one for some reason)

Your Egg Is On Fire
Cook a dish that contains Fiery Omelette


Obtained naturally while using the Dragon Egg in a recipe against the Festumancers.

Bossed It
Defeat the Final Boss in Culinary Battle (story)


This battle is scripted and you cannot lose.

Self-explanatory; easily acquired with higher tier ingredients.

Spirited Filet
Craft a dish with 50+ Spirit points


Vigor Happy
Craft a dish with 50+ Vigor points


Culture Vulture
Craft a dish with 50+ Sophistication points


According to the wiki, the slot in which you place the specific ingredient will determine the name of the dish (Braised Uni Steak/Venom Glaze/Fiery Omelette). To be on the safe side, I suggest always using the Dragon Egg(s) on the first slot until you get the achievement. It should be fine for the other ingredients since they're easier to restock. I personally got the Venom Glaze and Fiery Omelette achievement during story battles with the recipes I used and listed for the guide.

Meat Sweats
Cook a dish that contains Meat Feast


Meat Feast = Cow Meat

Braise the Lord
Cook a dish that contains Braised Uni Steak


Braised Uni Steak = Unicorn Bacon

Mentioned above:

• Venom Glaze = Spider Flesh
  
• Fiery Omelette = Dragon Egg

It's a Syn
Cook a dish that triggers a synergy


Property Mogul
Cook a dish that contains all 6 Ingredient Properties


Example: Carrot, Crab, Ghostato

Nice to Meat You
Cook a dish using 3 different ingredients that have the Animal property


Example: Cow Meat, Milk, Crab

Magic Seasoning
Cook a dish using 3 different ingredients that have the Magic property


Example: Evil Mandragora, Ghostato, Fire Goldfish

I Seafood, I Eat It
Cook a dish using 3 different ingredients that have the Sea property


Example: Crab, Seaweed, Boltuna

Fast Food
Cook a dish using 3 different ingredients that have the Processed property


Example: Ghostato, Special Dough, Ground Beef

Mentioned above:

• Ground Provisions - Land
  
• Veg Fund Baby - Plant

The Way Momma Cooked It
Create the dish: Chunky Curds and Meaty Strips in Bread Sauce


Recipe: Milk, Ground Beef, Special Dough

Secret Recipe
Create the dish: Unicorn Eggs and Mashed Scales with Snow White Coulis


Recipe: Unicorn Delight, Hypnofish, Apple

Chef's Special
Create the dish: Sunshine Jelly Steak and Fruit Splinters in Phantom Relish


Recipe: Golden Jellyfish, Erwin, Ethereal Katsuobushi

Light Bite
Cook a dish with more than 50 points


Hearty Meal
Cook a dish with more than 300 points


Calorific
Cook a dish with more than 700 points

Add a Little Zest
Wear 10 different outfits or hats


New outfits are unlocked for completing quests/tournaments. Cycle and wear them all at changing rooms (your bathroom, blue tent near your fountain, and the blue tent on the beach).

Have Some Decorum
Increase the Restaurant Decor Score to 500 or more


Additional restaurant decor crafting recipes can be unlocked by:

• Buying them from Jesus
  
• Beating the Gold tier of each tournament

Craft and place these in your restaurant and the achievement unlocks somewhat early.

I Squid You Not
Catch a King Squid


King Squid can be caught only once you've unlocked Divine Bait.

Stat's The Way to Do It
Have the MAX modifier active for all Zest's Skills at the same time


On the top left of your screen are 3 bars related to Vigor, Spirit, and Sophistication. Simply let them charge all the way to x5 to get the achievement. Here are some of the various activities that charge your bars:

• Chat w/ elderly couple: Spirit
  
• Sit near magic shop: Spirit
  
• Chat w/ Witch: all 3
  
• Plant seeds/Fish: Spirit
  
• Chop Trees: Vigor (Apple is +6/ea and Erwin is +9/ea)
  
• Refine materials (seeds/sauce/wood/bait): Sophistication +3/ea
  
• Talk to Golem: all 3
  
• Study: Spirit
  
• Chill in the fountain (requires blue gem inserted): all 3
  
• Assist church: all 3

These aren't all of them, but if you have any to add please leave it down the comments section.

Winergy
Unlock every synergy


Synergies are unlocked by increasing your Chef level. The max level is 60. Below is a video of how I use powerleveling recipes at max modifiers to jump from 45 to 60 in 2 meals.


Check this thread for recipe ideas to increase your chef level prior to 45.

Fully Booked
Unlock all customers in the Restaurant


If you have been faithfully completing all side quests/tournaments as they are made available to you, the absolute earliest you can get this achievement is right after beating the Festumancers. The next closest side quest before that is to deliver 5 balanced (+50 all stats) dishes to Vulperis in a box beside your restaurant. He is also considered a customer so don't forget to complete this! Beating the Festumancers unlocks the Trial of Fire as a customer/entry in your Reviewlution page. You don't need max prestige for this achievement.

Completing the side quests unlocks most of the customers except for:

• Jesus - buy all Villa interior upgrades from him (see "House Salad")
  
• Infinigon Mages - you need to unlock all Animals by bringing them all the fossils + the dragon from the main story
  
• Old Port/Culinarim/Nyarian League/Trials of Fire unless you count them as side quests

If you feel like you missed something, refer to the Restaurant wiki page[epic-chef.fandom.com].

House Salad
Fully upgrade the villa


All the upgrades can be bought from Jesus for around 50k. They show up as $ icons in his shop.

Chef Bezos
Obtain 100,000 Gold


This is NOT cumulative. This is for the gold you currently have on hand.

The largest expenditures in the game are:

• Livestock summoning bottles (1-10k each)
  
• Villa expansion ~50k
  
• Villa interior upgrades ~50k

I don't list all of the sources. Just the ones I know of and regularly used.
Feel free to comment if you have any other additional income suggestions.

Ingredient Buyers

• Flamekeeper/Priest = 5 erwin wood ~3k weekly
  
• L'Orcosa Nostra - 5 pangun eggs ~4k weekly
  
• Skrabba = 10 erwin fruit ~4k weekly

Hungry NPCs

• Private Speck - any dish ~1.5k weekly
  
• Hadriv - vigor dish (higher vigor = worth more) weekly
  
• Captain Perpendicular to Orc Mafia (forgot his name) - spirit dish (higher = better) weekly

There're also shipments[epic-chef.fandom.com] for $ but half were for ingredients I badly needed.

Your restaurant also earns money for you daily depending on how many Prestige stars you have. I don't suggest updating your menu frequently since it'll be costly. I personally only updated my menu twice: once around the 30-star mark to reach spiders (from 0 to 28 or so) and after I got Spiders and Divine Bait (to jump all the way to 80++ stars). See resources for a link to the 5-star menu suggested on Reddit.

G.O.A.T. Cheese
Win every tournament


This achievement is for clearing the Old Port, Culinarim, Nyarian League, and Trials of Fire.

Below I have listed all the recipes for all of the tournament cooking battles.

Iron
Amianda: Carrot, Tomato, Potato, Mushroom sauce
Rogue: Ghostato, Egg, Seaweed
Bargus: Carrot, Rat x2, Mushroom sauce

Bronze
Gargajo: Seaweed, Ground Beef, Erwin Fruit
Snilfer: Erwin Fruit, Boltuna, Fire Goldfish, Pastor Sauce (go 1st >5 aroma)
Choppie: Carrot, Tomato, Potato


Silver
Private Patris
R1: Special Dough, Apple, Ground beef, Pastor sauce (go 1st >5 aroma)
R2: Erwin Wood, Apple Wood, Caribara sauce (go 1st >5 aroma)

Napioleon
R1: Mud eel, Surimi, Erwin fruit, Caribara sauce (go 1st >20 aroma)
R2: Seaweed, Hypnofish, Hypnofish

Osiria
R1: Mud Eel, Surimi, Evil Mandragora (go 1st >15 aroma)
R2: Erwin Wood, Apple Wood, Cow Meat


Gold
Meownika:
R1: Depths Crab, Tomato, Hypnofish, Pastor sauce (go 1st >30 aroma)
R2: Fire Goldfish x3 (go 2nd <30 aroma)
R3: Depths Crab, Tomato, Hypnofish, Basic Tomato (go 2nd, <30 aroma)


Iron
Mira: Sand Blowfish, Mud Eel, Surimi, Pastor sauce (go 1st >10 aroma)
Helvera: sand blowfish, spectral chutney, ghost pangun, special dough (go 1st >5 aroma)
Nolf: Ghostato, Egg, Egg, Pastor sauce (go 1st >5 aroma)


Bronze
Liandra: Ghostato, Egg, Egg, Basic Tomato
Crunchetti: Ground Beef, Unicorn Delight, Boltuna, Caribara Sauce (go 1st >5 aroma)

Elno:
R1: Tomato, Erwin fruit, Evil mandragora, Special Cream sauce (go 2nd <45 aroma)
R2: Tomato, Unicorn Bacon x2, Caribara sauce (go 1st >45 aroma)


Silver
Tomatello
R1: Cucumber Squid, Mud Eel, Spectral Chutney sauce, Surimi (go 1st >50 aroma)
R2: Cucumber Squid, Mud Eel, Spectral Chutney sauce, Surimi (go 1st >50 aroma)

Cliffowa: Ghostato, Boltuna, Special Dough, Caribara sauce (go 1st >0 aroma)

Romanesco
R1: Rice Pasta, Ground Beef, Unicorn Delight, Rice Bechamel sauce (go 1st >50 aroma)
R2: Pangun meat, Apple, Unicorn bacon, Fungus sauce (go 1st >50 aroma)


Gold
Bosco
R1: Mugle Carp, Legendary Crab, Spider Flesh, Cheeso sauce (go 1st >40 aroma)
R2: Sand Blowfish, Pangun Ghost, Mugle Carp, Mushroom sauce (go 1st >40 aroma)
R3: Erwin Wood, Rice Bechamel sauce, Hypnofish, Pangun Ghost (go 1st >40 aroma)

Iron
Meowmotaro: Carrot, Rat, Unicorn Bacon, Pastor sauce (go 1st >10 aroma)
Ameownophis: Ghostato, Egg x2, Pastor/Fungus sauce (go 1st >10 aroma)
Mewnamoto: Sand Blowfish, Boltuna, Surimi, Pastor sauce (go 1st >10 aroma)


Bronze
Pei Pei
R1: Ghostato, Ground Beef, Pink Dough, Caribara sauce (go 1st >2 aroma)
R2: Ground Beef, Basic Tomato, Erwin Fruit x2, (go 2nd <50 aroma)

Cook Fu
R1: Seaweed, Hypnofish, Evil Mandragora, Caribara sauce (go 1st >10 aroma)
R2: Mugle carp, Legendary Crab x2, Fungus sauce (go 1st >10 aroma)

Fu ka nya (censored name): 3x Potato (don't stir; 0 score)


Silver
Meowrice
R1: Rice Pasta, Boltuna, Fire Goldfish, Caribara sauce (go 1st >40 aroma)
R2: Wood, Cucumber Squid, Erwin Fruit, Pastor sauce (go 1st >40 aroma; don't stir for 0 points)

Ipothek
R1: Rice Pasta, Depths Crab, Breaded Erwin, Special Cream sauce (go 2nd <20 aroma)
R2: Spider Flesh, Strawberry Jellyfish x2, Caribara sauce (go 1st >20 aroma)

Kateeshi: Mugle Carp, Evil Mandragora, Legendary Crab, Fungus sauce (go 1st >0 aroma)


Gold
Nyanzo
R1: Sand Blowfish, Surimi, Pink Dough, Fungus sauce (go 1st >0 aroma)
R2: Crab x3, Fungus sauce (go 1st >0 aroma)
R3: Crab x3, Caribara sauce (go 1st >0 aroma)

Iron
Necromuncher Blue (Mandragora+Crab Bonus)
Mugle Carp, Evil Mandragora, Legendary Crab, Pastor sauce (go 1st >0 aroma)

Necromuncher Blue (No Judge Modifiers)
Unicorn bacon, Gomera Shell, Strawberry Jellyfish, Pastor sauce (go 1st >0 aroma)

Necromuncher Yellow (4 Type Ban)
Ghostato, Ethereal Katsuboshi, Breaded Spider Leg, Pastor sauce (go 1st >0 aroma)


Bronze
Necromuncher Yellow (Negative Spirit & Sophistication)
R1: Erwin Fruit x3, Fungus sauce (>5 aroma)
R2: Erwin Fruit x3, Fungus sauce (>5 aroma)

Necromuncher Yellow (3 Type Ban)
R1: Spider Feat, Spider Silk x2, Pastor sauce (go 1st >0 aroma)
R2: Erwin Fruit x3, Fungus sauce (go 1st >15 aroma; don't stir for 0 points)

Necromuncher Blue (No Judge Modifiers)
Rice Pasta, King Squid, Spider Meat, Pastor sauce (go 1st >10 aroma)


Silver
Necromuncher Blue (No Judge Modifiers)
Spider Flesh, Legendary Crab, Evil Mandragora, Caribara sauce (go 1st >15 aroma)

Necromuncher Blue (Negative Vig/Spi/Sop)
R1: Erwin Fruit x3, Pastor sauce (0 pts don't stir <15 GO 2ND)
R2: Erwin Fruit x3, Caribara sauce (0 pts don't stir >15 GO 1ST)

Necromuncher Blue (3 Type Ban + Vigor Bonus)
R1: Fire Goldfish x3, Fungus sauce (0 pts don't stir >30 go 1st)
R2: Fire Goldfish x3, Caribara sauce (0 pts don't stir >30 go 1st)


Gold
Necromuncher Yellow (GO FIRST EVERY TIME >50 aroma)
R1: Triclopus, Spirit Potato sauce, Breaded Spider Leg x2
R2: Thunander, Unicorn Bacon x2, Caribara sauce (don't stir for 0 pts)
R3: Depths crab x3, Pastor sauce (don't stir for 0 pts)

I don't have all of them but these should help.

Padepopopilos: Erwin Wood, Apple Wood, Wood


Tomatello
R1: Rice Pasta, Boltuna, Gold Firefish, Cheeso sauce (go 2nd, <20 aroma)
R2: Sand Blowfish, Spectral Chutney sauce, Surimi, Erwin fruit (go 1st >20 aroma)


Choppie (L'Orcosa Nostra Side Quest): Carrot, Tomato, Potato, Pastor sauce (go 1st >20 aroma)

Wiki

Battles[epic-chef.fandom.com] - if you want to see stat breakdowns to make your own recipes for battle
Restaurant Patrons for Fully Booked Achievement[epic-chef.fandom.com]

Threads

Witch's Riddles
Hidden Recipes (for the achievements) - Credit to Stella Bella
Recipes to open the crypt - Credit to Windy Reed
5-star Dish Menu (to boost daily restaurant income through higher prestige) - Credit to u/Melayney

Walkthrough Assistance

Partial Early Game Playthrough (no commentary) with great timestamps. Goes up to vine clearing w/ Rod. - Credit to Indie James on YouTube

Complete Playthrough of the game w/ good recipes in each battle. It's easy to find what you need since everything is titled appropriately. Good commentary. - Credit to Myth_ninja on YouTube