If you want Bancho Sushi to truly succeed in Dave the Diver, especially to reach higher and higher Cooksta ranks, you need to enhance your food. Sure, unlocking new recipes is also incredibly important, but you can take dishes that are really easy to make and bring them up a notch. You’ll be able to enhance food in Dave the Diver right at the start, but you won’t really interact with it until after you’ve had a few dives under your belt.
[Updated May 17, 2024 – Rewritten to add detail and update formatting]
Dave the Diver: Food Enhance System Explained
In Dave the Diver, you can enhance your food in one of two ways. The first way is when you’re selecting dishes to add to the menu or directly from the menu itself. Both are valid ways, but I prefer the first method (which we’ll get to).
- While you’re at Sushi Bancho, open the Menu tab.
- From the list, select a spot that isn’t already taken up by another dish—any spot that says “+Add Menu.”
- Highlight a sushi dish you want to enhance, then select “Enhance.” On PC, it’s CTRL; on
Xbox it’s X; and on PlayStation, it’s Square. - Assuming you have the ingredients, confirm you want to enhance the dish by selecting “Enhance” again.
- Sit back and enjoy Bancho at work.
The other way to enhance a dish in Dave the Diver is when you’ve already selected a dish for your menu. While the menu is open, highlight a dish you’ve added and you’ll see on the right-hand the option “Manage.”
Selecting “Manage” will open additional options for each dish such as adding new ingredients, swapping the dish for something else, auto-supply, deleting the dish from the menu, and most importantly, enhancing that dish.
Now, recipes in Dave the Diver can be enhanced all the way to level 10. Each time a dish is enhanced, each of its stats—Price, Taste, and Dish—increases. It’s a great way to make cheaper dishes worth far more, not to mention easier to gather supplies for.
However, each time you want to level up a dish, the necessary ingredients are exponentially greater. Usually, the first enhancement requires three of the same fish.
For example, enhancing Yellow Tang to level 2 will require three Yellow Tangs, but level 3 requires four Yellow Tangs. Keep that in mind if, say, you want to serve Yellow Tang that night and want to enhance the dish. Be sure to have enough for the upgrade and the menu!
Out of the two ways to enhance food, I prefer enhancing when I’m selecting dishes. If you do it that way, you’ll actually see every dish you have available and little green arrows next to dishes that can be enhanced. It’s a nice way to get an overview of what can and can’t be enhanced.
