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While Nintendo’s Pokémon Company subsidiary has enjoyed most of the company’s good-news headlines in the past two weeks, the company at large has more changes in the horizon, and another “real-world” initiative—teased back in May—is now coming to fruition: an official Nintendo restaurant.
Say hello to the Kirby Café. The Japan-only (for now) restaurant chain was teased last month, but its existence received a full, formal unveiling Wednesday morning in its home country, all revolving around the company’s 26-year-old puffball character. The café’s first location will open in Osaka on August 5, with another location to follow in Tokyo “soon.”
Fans will be able to purchase pastries, drinks, and a mix of noodle and teriyaki menu items. Some of those merely have a character from the game stuck onto the plate as a sticker, while others are shaped to resemble characters and other game content, including Kirby-shaped custard cakes, a cup of soup that looks just like the Maxim Tomato item, and the Whispy Woods tree’s face apparently being made out of bread, meat, and beans.
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Source: Ars Technica – Nintendo takes on real world again, will open Kirby restaurant in August