YAKUZA 5 REMASTERED: TATSUYA, EVERY RESTAURANT RECOMMENDATION AND FOOD COMPLETION
Food completion is not just buying one of everything from the first menu you see. Tatsuya adds new dishes, substories change menus, some restaurants hide orders behind observations, and Pronto changes its menu with the time of day.
HOW TATSUYA WORKS
Each character meets him through story progression. Speak to him at his standing location to activate the request, then eat at the three qualifying places. Your character comments when a restaurant is suitable. Report it to Tatsuya and the visit with him happens automatically. After all three recommendations, attend his filming scene to complete that character's route and unlock the new dish or shop item.
Recommendation 1 grants Gourmet in Training: restaurants can fill a yellow overcharge health bar above ordinary health. Recovery items cannot refill that bar. Food can also add Strength, Focus or Spirit bonuses; drinks do not.
Recommendation 2 grants Master Gourmet, allowing a second level of the food bonuses. Recommendation 3 grants King/Queen of Gourmets, slowing the overcharge's natural drain. Once the yellow bar is gone, its associated bonuses are lost.
Strength boosts unarmed damage, or Haruka's dance points. Focus keeps Heat above a floor. Spirit improves Heat Action damage, or Haruka's Heat gain. After trying a dish, its bonus is recorded on the menu. Use the displayed effect rather than assuming every meat dish follows the same rule.
KIRYU / NAGASUGAI
Trigger: Tatsuya is a taxi fare during Part 1 Chapter 2. His text directs you to Ose Bridge. Talk there before collecting recommendations.
Eat at and recommend:
1. Hakataso.
2. Hango Zosui Yama.
3. Udon West.
For the concluding scene, go to the southwest food-stall row at sunset or night, near the ramen minigame location. This creates the Senbo stall and its new dish. Looking for a new item on an unrelated restaurant's daytime menu won't finish this route.
SAEJIMA / TSUKIMINO
Trigger: after leaving Polaris for the first time in Chapter 4, encounter him by the road.
Recommend:
1. Curry Shop S.
2. Matsuo Lamb Barbeque.
3. Miyoshino.
Then attend the filming at Tsukimino Café Alps. The local café gains its new dish. This is not the Kamurocho Café Alps.
HARUKA / SOTENBORI
Trigger: after the Chapter 2 game show. Find him on Bishamon Bridge.
Recommend:
1. Kushikatsu Daruma.
2. Tsuruhashi Fugetsu.
3. Magutako.
Then find the filming at Montblanc Coffee near Bunzaemon Mall, a little north of the save point. The reward is a baumkuchen sold as a takeout recovery item. Montblanc is not an ordinary sit-down restaurant with a whole menu to empty, so don't assume the route is stuck because no restaurant interface appears.
AKIYAMA / SOTENBORI, THEN KAMUROCHO
Trigger: after his story visit to Crest Bar. Find Tatsuya on Bishamon Bridge.
Recommend:
1. Komian.
2. Zuboraya.
3. Kani Douraku.
His filming is at KANRAI IN KAMUROCHO. You cannot finish that last step while confined to Part 3's Osaka chapter. Return during the finale, attend the scene and then buy the added menu item.
SHINADA / KINEICHO
Trigger: early in his story outside the apartment. Tatsuya subsequently stands at the nearby intersection.
Recommend:
1. Daruma.
2. Kaburaya.
3. Sekai no Yamachan.
Attend the filming at Café Alps at Kumano/Honjincho. This adds the local café's new dish. You can combine visits to these three recommended restaurants with Igarashi's later chicken-eating assignment, but make sure each task has actually been activated before relying on those meals for its progress.
Finishing Tatsuya's full training unlocks Frozen Banana at the Completion Office.
FOOD-COMPLETION CLEANUP ROUTE
1. Finish all five Tatsuya sequences, including filming. “I recommended all three” is not the endpoint.
2. Finish the food-related substories Dragon Seafood Rice Bowl, Treats from All Over and The Perfect Seasoning. These unlock additional menu entries, including changes at Kanrai, Café Alps and Kushikatsu Daruma.
3. In restaurants that offer observation or conversation, check the wall, other customers and staff before ordering. At Tamasa Ramen, inspect another customer and the bar: these expose two otherwise-hidden orders.
4. Clear Pronto in Kamurocho twice: Café menu during the day, Bar menu in evening/night. These are different menus, not a random rotation.
5. Include alcohol at the named bars, not only meals at restaurants.
6. Use the completion list to identify the precise remaining venue and item. A repeated brand can share credit across its locations; unrelated bars do not share credit simply because they sell the same whisky. Drinking Yamazaki 25-years-old in one named bar does not clear it in every other named bar.
APPETITE AND ALCOHOL MANAGEMENT
Buy AppStimRx and Legendary Drinker of Ryukyu from pharmacies or stocked convenience stores. AppStimRx lowers health so you can eat again. Legendary Drinker reduces intoxication, allowing further drinks. Keep enough stock for a whole district rather than making a pharmacy trip after every menu.
Before starting a dangerous fight, restore the health you deliberately lowered. Before an ordinary story boss, restaurant overcharge can make the food cleanup useful combat preparation. Before the Coliseum, it cannot: the arena removes Gourmet health and buffs, so don't buy a giant meal expecting to carry it into a tournament.
Check unlocked dishes again after their associated scenes. A restaurant you cleared earlier may become incomplete when a new menu item appears. Conversely, a missing filming scene, a hidden order or Pronto's second menu is a more plausible explanation for a tiny final percentage gap than needing to repeat every meal in every city.
YAKUZA 5 REMASTERED: TATSUYA, EVERY RESTAURANT RECOMMENDATION AND FOOD COMPLETION
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