Zelda Tears of the Kingdom - Gourmets Gone Missing Walkthrough

Gourmets Gone Missing is a Side Quest in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (TotK). This walkthrough will guide you through all objectives of the Gourmets Gone Missing side mission.

Location: Central Hyrule > Hyrule Field > Riverside Stable
Quest Giver: Penn
Requirement: Having started Side Adventure: Potential Princess Sightings from Lucky Clover Gazette in Hebra
Reward: 100 Rupees
Quest Info: The cook Gotter is worried about some regular guests who are overdue to arrive at the stable. He apparently had an appointment with them where they were going to share a recipe they had learned from Princess Zelda herself.

Objectives:

Talk to Gotter the Cook behind Riverside Stable
Find the Gourmets in the Woods East of Owlan Bridge
Cook ‘Meat and Rice Bowl’
Give ‘Meat and Rice Bowl’ to Argus sitting at the Tents

Starting Location: Gourmets Gone Missing

This quest starts by talking to Penn at Riverside Stable. It’s only available after accepting Side Adventure: Potential Princess Sightings, and having talked to Penn outside the Lucky Clover Gazette in Hebra. He then spawns at the stables throughout the game to give you new side adventures, and this is one of them.

Talk to Gotter the Cook behind Riverside Stable

First, talk to Gotter the cook behind the stable. He will stand in a pen by the river.

Find the Gourmets at the Tents East of Owlan Bridge

The missing Gourmets are in the woods directly east of Riverside Stable, across the river. They will be in tents at the road. Their exact map location is shown below, interact with the Cookbook between their tents:

Cook ‘Meat and Rice Bowl’

Picking up the Cookbook reveals the Recipe for the Meat Rice Bowl: 1 Raw Meat, 1 Hylian Rice, 1 Rock Salt. You can hit a flint near the cooking pot to make a fire. You must put all 3 ingredients in the pot (open inventory > click on each ingredient > press “Hold” > select all 3 ingredients at once > press B to return to game > A to drop in pot).

You will most likely have some Rock Salt and Raw Meat already. Hylian Rice needs to be bought from merchants. Here’s how to get all 3 ingredients:

Raw Meat: From hunting boars, deer, some types of common foxes and wolves. Simply shoot them with arrows (hold ZR) or fight them with melee attacks. There should be some nearby in the woods.
Rock Salt: From ore deposits inside caves and wells, can be destroyed with a rock-fused weapon. You should have some already.
Hylian Rice: Bought from the wandering merchant at Riverside Stable where the quest started, if you don’t have some travel back there to buy it.

Important: do not use “Raw Prime Meat”, it would result in a different meal. It has to be regular “Raw Meat” which is from Boars, Deer, and common types of foxes and wolves.

This is what the ingredients look like in the inventory and the finished meal (make sure it’s this exact meal name “Meat and Rice Bowl”, other meals won’t work for the next step).