Spice up Bistro Bay and invite more chefs to the ultimate culinary competition. The Critter Kitchen: À La Cart Expansion brings a fresh menu of strategic twists, new flavor profiles, and expanded table seating to the hit restaurant-management board game. It is Restaurant Week in Bistro Bay, and the pressure is mounting as a meticulous food critic approaches. This modular expansion seamlessly integrates with your base game, shaking up your strategy with dynamic new components, tricky rumors, and hidden objectives. Whether you are running a tight kitchen or racing through local markets to secure premium ingredients, this box delivers everything you need to serve up an unforgettable seven-course masterpiece.
Expand Your Table and Adapt to Changing Locations
The most significant addition to this expansion is a dedicated six to seven-player mode, allowing you to bring even larger groups together for a simultaneous, fast-paced game night. Navigating the crowded streets of the city becomes an entirely new tactical puzzle as the expansion introduces unique cart mechanics and clever twists to familiar market locations. With more competition scouting out ingredient piles, managing your small, medium, and large chefs requires perfect timing and careful deduction to maximize your carrying capacity without being blocked by rival restaurateurs.
All-New Kitchen Crew, Rumors, and Critics
Elevate your recipe engine with a massive injection of custom variety. Discover a brand-new roster of Zous Chefs, each offering unique, asymmetric special abilities that completely alter your turn velocity and action capabilities. Sift through a freshly shuffled deck of secretive rumors to deduce what the visiting critic secretly craves before your final plates are revealed. Packed with gorgeous, whimsical artwork and a wealth of premium physical components—including pie dials, custom wooden meeples, and extra player shields—this expansion turns every session into a fresh, highly replayable strategic feast.
Key Features
- Six and Seven-Player Support: Includes all the extra boards, folding player shields, and screen-printed wooden tokens needed to expand your game night to larger groups.
- Dynamic Location Carts: Introduces modular cart tokens and tiles that add unpredictable mechanical twists and bonus opportunities to standard board locations.
- Expanded Asymmetric Options: Injects a large collection of fresh expansion cards, including new food critics, unique restaurants, and highly capable Zous Chefs.
- Deepened Engine Building: Utilize custom dials and specialized resource components—including coffee, dumplings, tofu, and organic sauces—to customize your scoring paths.
- Maintains Snappy Pacing: Despite expanding the player count, simultaneous action selection keeps player downtime exceptionally low and competitive tension high.
Specifications
- Brand / Publisher: Lucky Duck Games / Cardboard Alchemy
- Illustrator: Sandara Tang
- Game Type: Strategy Board Game Expansion / Economic Resource Management
- Player Count: Expands the game to 1 to 7 players
- Play Time: Approximately 60 minutes
- Recommended Age: 12+
- UPC / Barcode: 5905965251175
- Required for Play: Requires a copy of the Critter Kitchen base game to play.
