Do you ever go to your favorite restaurant and think “I really wish I could make this at home”? This cookbook is exactly what you need. In this delightful book are 101 homemade versions of some of the most popular and favorite recipes from your favorite restaurants. It has everything from the classic fast-food favs to those fine dining meals you love. It includes things from appetizers all the way to desert. Each recipe tells us where the original idea came from. The recipes are so easy to follow, with detailed ingredients and step by step directions. The photographs are absolutely mouthwatering. They will make you want to try every single recipe. I sure do. I have already found my favorites. I was so excited for the Homemade Butterbeen inspired by Harry Potter, Copycat Shamrock Shake inspired by McDonald’s and the SLiders inspired by White Castle. This is just the beginning. The perfect gift for the at-home foodie fan in your life. I can’t wait to share with my family. Possibilities are endless.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for the ebook ARC and a chance to discover these amazing recipes. I can’t wait to grab a copy for our home collection.

This is a beautiful cookbook. The pictures with each recipe look very appetizing and enticing. The recipes are simple and easy to follow. There are recipes from fast food takeout like Wendy’s, Café Rio, McDonald’s… Restaurants, as in Applebee’s, Olive Garden, and chili’s. There are even some from Starbucks and Disney theme parks, I was surprised they did not have the Dole Whip recipe. Many of the recipes you can find on the Internet, but it’s nice to have them all in one spot and it really looks good. I have had the opportunity to try some of the recipes and look forward to making more. I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

I enjoyed this book - extremely generous amount of recipes, which have obviously taken a long time to perfect. Also, stunning photography, which made the food look so appealing. While I had fun reading this (I was hooked in at the mention of Disney and Starbucks recipes!), it is definitely suited to North American readers, who'd regularly eat at the restaurants listed and have easy access to all ingredients. A perfect cookbook for those who want their fave restaurant food on a budget, in the comfort of their own home!

The cookbook leads with “Top Ten Tips for Creating your own Copycat Recipes.” which is a deep dive into solid advice to help you develop your own copycat recipes. I felt as if I was being accepted into a secret society of copycatters. There’s some fantastic stuff here; don’t skip it!

And there’s no skimping on recipes, either. There’s 101 of them and all are marvelously photographed. I found the “Lunchtime” section to be the most tempting. I’ll admit it, I love me some Arby’s, so I want to try the Arby’s beef and cheddar recipe, along with the Arby’s sauce – both with my own extra modifications to drive down the sodium and sugar.

Everyone has their own reasons for wanting to duplicate restaurant food at home. Some enjoy the challenge. Some don’t live within easy reach of a favorite restaurant. Some are trying to keep the cost down. And some, like me, need to eliminate as much sodium and processed sugar as possible. I’m always on the lookout for fun foods we can make without blowing up our diets. Cooking from scratch means I can easily leave out the salt, and I can swap out the sugar for one of the many excellent substitutes now available to us.

Subway’s “Homemade Footlong Bread” is definitely on my to-try list. Recently I’ve been attempting a copycat recipe for Jimmy John’s sub buns. We miss our Jimmy John’s fix. I haven’t yet found a recipe that works for us yet, though – maybe we should be looking at this Subway bread solution.

Now, confess. Let’s see a raise of hands from everyone who was hoping and praying for a copycat McDonald’s Shamrock Shake. You’re in luck – it’s here!

My thanks to Favorite Family Recipes, Shadow Mountain Publishing, and NetGalley for allowing me to read a digital advance review copy of this book. This review is my honest and unbiased opinion.

Pleasing layout, delicious looking food, and a great variety of restaurants represented. I definitely found some recipes that I've wanted to try! Not a great selection for special diets (GF or soy free or DF), but neither are most restaurants ;)

I received a complimentary copy of this book. All opinions expressed are completely my own.

5 stars for this book- and this is my first cookbook review. :)

This cookbook is colorful, well organized, attractive and easy to read. The photos were well done, and tempt your appetite with a single glance.

It features a wide variety of recipes inspired by your favorite restaurant foods, including some of my favorite Chick-fil-A eats!

Each of these recipes use real, wholesome ingredients rather than pre-packaged shortcut foods that lack both flavor and nutrition. I also appreciated the fact that the ingredients list was reasonable as well as affordable, and most ingredients were staples a typical home chef would already have in their pantry.

These recipes deliver on delicious gourmet flavors that you can easily cook for your family for a fraction of the cost of dining out.

Most Requested Copycat Dishes is filled with scrumptious, mouthwatering recipes that will have you reaching for this cookbook again and again.


I received a complimentary e-book copy from Shadow Mountain Publishing to review, and was not required to write a positive review. The thoughts above are my own.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Shadow Mountain Publishing for gifting me a digital ARC of this wonderful cookbook by Favorite Family Recipes. All opinions expressed in this review are my own - 5 stars!

I love cookbooks and can happily sit for hours looking at the pictures, drooling over descriptions, and deciding what recipes I want to make. If that sounds like you too, you need this cookbook! I love trying recipes that people have created to taste like those special restaurant treats. This one has so many that I want to try - from Nothing Bundt Cakes to Cheesecake Factory to treats from Disneyland. There are beautiful pictures and easily understood step-by-step directions. Wonderful!

It’s always fun to get recipes that mimic food from favorite restaurants. Many of the restaurants aren’t available in our area, so I’m not familiar with them, but there are also ones that we enjoy locally. I like the variety of the recipes and the lovely color photos. It’s always nice to have a visual of the finished product. I’m planning on trying some of the familiar dishes and some unfamiliar ones I think my family will enjoy.

I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy from Shadow Mountain through NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

I am always looking for new recipes to try on my family and I’ve found some good copycat recipes before so thought this cookbook was a good one to check out. While there are a wide range of copycat recipes in this cookbook, none of them are really for us. The ones that do interest me seem like they will be complicated and take longer than I’d like for a recipe. With that being said, I’m definitely going to be trying the Nothing Bundt Cake recipes in this cookbook, but most of the other recipes aren’t for me. The layout of this cookbook is nice and crisp, easy to follow, and the pictures accompanying the recipes are a nice touch. Overall, this is a good cookbook with some good recipe choices, but not many of them are for me or my family.

I am so excited to try all these recipes. This is a fun recipe book for those of us who love certain foods from all kinds of restaurants. I love the diversity. It has breakfast, lunch and dinner foods as well as sauces, desserts, salads and appetizers. Not only recipes from restaurants but also from movies like Harry Potter. I would definitely recommend this cookbook.

Um, run right now and add this to your wishlist. This book is exploding with scrumptious recipes that I didn't even know could be copied so well. I absolutely loved this cookbook!!!
I have already made dozens of the recipes and each one was quickly devoured by all who could smell the heavenly scents wafting from the kitchen. So yummy and fun! From drinks and desserts all the way to Disney copycats. All were fantastic. We couldn’t get enough of the Hula Pie, Mizithra Pasta, Chow Mein, Turkey Over Italy, Guacamole and sooo much more.

My absolute favorite thing about this cookbook, aside from the fun recipes, are the full color photos accompanying every single recipe. I am a very visual person, so this is a huge selling point for me in a cookbook.

The directions are detailed and easy to follow, the ingredients are fairly common and/or easy to find, and the nostalgia factor is high. My kids and I have had so much fun trying out the recipes in this book (many of which my kids could easily have made themselves).

*Thank you to NetGalley and Shadow Mountain Publishing for the ARC, all thoughts and opinions are my own.

This book has a ton of copycat recipes with beautiful photos to accompany each one, and very clear instructions. I'm also happy that the ingredients are pretty common. I cannot wait to purchase it for our secondary students!

What a nice book!

From the introduction to the last page, there is such good information, pictures and of course, our favorite food to copy from our favorite eateries!

This is one that you will keep and try over and over!

Excellent!


NetGalley/ Shadow Mountain Publishing October 01, 2024

I loved all the recipes I tried from this. I love that these recipes call for real, easy to obtain ingredients, and are all very manageable recipes. They don’t take a fortnight to actually recreate.
Very good cookbook! One I’ll be buying a copy of!

This has probably been my favorite cookbook I have gotten from netgalley. I loved so many of the copycat recipes and I can’t wait to try them. Some of the recipes included Starbucks’s Carmel apple spice cider, a homemade frosty from Wendy’s, & and a frosted lemonade Chick-fil-a style plus so many more. To name a few breakfast recipes that I hope to try. We had Starbucks Egg Bites, IHOP pumpkin spice pancakes, and McDonald's Egg McMuffin. They also had a section with appetizers/snacks, lunchtime, sauces/dressings, side dishes, main dishes, and desserts. There was a picture with almost every recipe which I liked and so many dishes I really want to try.

This is such a fun book to pick up! There is something for everyone to find and the recipes I was able to try were so yummy! I'm always excited to have inspiration of something to cook and not come up with it myself. The pictures are are great too.

Most Requested Copycat Dishes is a great cookbook filled with recipes for many favorite dishes found in restaurants and eateries like McDonald's, Cafe Rio, Applebee's, Taco Bell, Starbucks and more. Inside you will find drink recipes like Frosted Lemonade from Chick-Fil-A, snacks like Lettuce Wraps from P.F. Changs, soups like Zuppa Toscana from Olive Garden, sides like Chow Mein from Panda Express, main dishes like Alice Springs Chicken from Outback Steakhouse and desserts like Chocolate Bundt Cakes from Nothing Bundt Cakes. Every single recipe includes a color photo of the dish. All recipes are in imperial measurements and oven temperatures are Fahrenheit. Sadly, there are no metric measurement conversions.

The recipes are clearly described and the instructions are easy to understand. This book would be great in any library and would be fine for beginning cooks to well seasoned chefs.

Thank you to Net galley for this e- copy of Most Requested Copycat Dishes by Favorite Family Recipes. I love to cook and I love to try copycat recipes which I find are as good or better than the original . There are many eclectic recipes in this book from soups to salad dressings to main course to drinks to desserts. Lots of colorful pictures with the finished product and clear and concise directions.

Really nice cookbook! OMG so many recipes for things I love. I know I will make a lot of these. GREAT book. This book will make an excellent gift for your favorite foodie!