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Every time I drop in casual conversation that Michelin Stars were invented to encourage motorists to drive more (and therefore burn more Michelin rubber), *somebody* insists that must be an internet myth. But it's not! The Michelin Man didn't get so big on rubber alone.

Critter Kitchen is what you get when you take Matty Matheson from The Bear, Jon Favreau from Chef, and Daniel Brühl from Burnt, and then change almost nothing, because those are the actors who most closely resemble anthropomorphic animals in the first place. Designed by Alex Cutler and Peter C. Hayward, this is a feel-good board game about earning as many not-quite Michelin Stars for your restaurant as possible, marred only by a bit of clutter and the sneaking suspicion that the meat tokens must have been sourced from factory-farmed humans.

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