The Lonely Gourmet is based on the comic book of the same name written by Masayuki Kusumi and painted by Jiro Taniguchi. The original is currently in the Weekly SPA! "(Fusang Society) is an occasional serial, which tells the story of a man who runs an imported grocery store alone, and goes to a restaurant for dinner during work breaks. The restaurants appearing in the works are all real, and one of the important features is that they are basically popular restaurants, but the works do not simply describe the food culture, but focus on the scene and psychological description of the protagonist's eating.