Dishes

Breads

Bark Bread

Biscuit

Whole Grain Biscuit - Commonly made in Chantry cloisters. A staple in their simple diets.

Bark bread – a suggested alternative to black lichen bread should one be worried about the toxicity of black lichen.

Black Bread

Braided Honey and Date Bread (Anderfels)

Breadstick - some varieties have rosemary

Brown Bread

Robust loaf - a crusty loaf of brown bread

Buns

Butter Puff - Bread made by folding butter into the dough allowing it to become puffy and softer than usual bread. (Orlais)

Crumpet

Dark Bread

Dried Bread

Flat Bread - A no-rise bread.

Nevarran flatbread - Served with dip, brushed in oil, and/or as a side.

Rivaini flatbread

Honey Loaf

Lichen Bread - Bread that is made using lichen. (Orzammar)

Black Lichen Bread

Peasant Bread - Comprised of wheat, grease, and salt in equal measure, made by Dalish and city elves in Orlais. They top it with butter, jam, and sometimes sugar. (Elves - Orlais)

Pumpkin bread - A favorite of Dorian Pavus (Tevinter)

Raider Queen’s Bread of Many Tongues - Created by the Raider Queen, this bread calls for flour, baking powder, salt, butter, brown sugar, molasses, eggs, bananas. The creator calls for Par Vollen bananas but another version of the recipe says Rivaini bananas are an acceptable replacement. (Rivain)

Rolls

Bread Roll

Sweet Rolls

Ryott Bread - Made of a protein rich grain called ryott. (Ferelden, Chasind)

Sweet Bread

Thin Bread - A thin bread used to make wraps in Seheron.

Whole Grain Bread - Another staple made in Chantry cloisters.

Wraps - Described as "soft" bread.

Appetizers, Starters, and Refreshments

Blood Orange Salad - a salad of bitter greens with blood orange slices served on top. (Nevarra)

Canapé - a type of hors d'œuvre.

Couscous Salad - A salad comprised of couscous with many varieties, one such variety includes red bell peppers and mint. (Rivain)

Crab Cakes - a classic dish in Kirkwall. (Kirkwall)

Dried Bread and Fruit

Eggs à la Val Foret - An egg dish served with a cream sauce. (Orlais)

Fluffy Mackerel Pudding - Celery, pepper, mackerel, diced onion, mustard, salt, Antivan pepper, ground mace, cardamom seed, eggs. Also known as Feast Day Fish (Ferelden)

Fried Crab Legs - A subsitute for the Orzammar dish of fried young giant spiders.

Fried young giant spiders - A common food in Orzammar, usually served with an alcohol-based sauce that varies with every establishment. (Orzammar)

Roasted Cave Beetles - Roasted whole and eaten out of the shell. (Orzammar)

Roasted Prawns - A substitute to cave beetles, said to have the same taste and texture.

Shredded Dried Meat and Cheese - A dish that is commonly used as a spread by the dwarves and used for lunches. (Orzammar)

Snails Dressed in Butter and Oil (Avvar)

Snails and Watercress Salad - A non-traditional dish inspired by Avvar cuisine featuring snails and watercress to appeal to lowlander pallets.

Stuffed Deep Mushrooms - A dish derived from various Orzammar deep mushroom delicacy. This Fereldan creation is stuffed with cheese and spinach. (Ferelden)

Rations, Tavern Fare, and Travel Food

Armada Special - a sandwich that comes with meat and cheese. For additional cost you can add more meat and cheese, greens, pineapple, or make it "Nevarran" meaning vegetarian. It has a long history in Rivain, and is a common food eaten by pirates when they come into port. (Rivain)

Beer Nuts (Kirkwall)

Bread and Cheese

Breaded cheese wands - can be served as bottomless options with Orlesian sauce on the side. (Rivain)

Bronto Steak (Dwarven/Rivain)

Carta fries - served as a side to bronto steak. (Rivain)

Chicken Wings - Sold in The Rusted Horn as ‘Wyvern Wings.’ (Ferelden)

Crow Feed - made of rice, butter, and onions. A cheap meal named after the Antivan Crows. (Antiva)

Deep Fried Fish

Hal's Fish - deep fried fish sold by Halos, it has a metallic taste to it and is paired with a sauce while served on newsprint. (Tevinter)

Zeff's fish - deep fried fish sold by Zeff, described as having the lightest batter and being served on parchment. (Tevinter)

Deep Road Crispers - comes in three flavours: mild, medium, and paragon. The type of meat is not specified. (Rivain)

Dried Foods

Dried Fruit

Dried Meats

Fereldan Hearty Scones - a scone filled with bacon and cheese, careful, a mabari might snag it. (Ferelden)

Fish Pockets - A meal of fish, crisp vegetables, spices, and a soft wrap. (Seheron)

Fish Wrap - Fish wrapped in thin bread (Seheron)

Fish of the Day with pear slaw (Tevinter)

Free Marches mash-up - an unspecified dish that can be made vegetarian. (Rivain)

Fried bread

Fried bread with herbs (Tevinter)

Fry-bread (Tevinter)

Greens with Dressing - can have chicken or beef added to it, or be made "full Dalish". It can be served with Antivan, Orlesian or house dressing, it is unclear if the dressings are actually from Antiva and Orlais. (Rivain)

The Hanged Man's Stew - The tavern’s featured dish, made with a different mystery meat every morning. (Kirkwall)

Jerky

Jerky Ball

Spiced Jerky – a travel ration used widely by various cultures in Thedas. It is used by Dalish hunters when away from camp on hunts.

Meat Skewers - A portable snack. A known Orlesian version of this snack is primarily eaten by nobles while out on hunts and are not interested in the hunt, made of meat, cheese, and wine-soaked fruit.

Mystery Sludge - a type of stew served at the Hanged Man, the days leftovers would be tossed in a pot and left to simmer overnight. It changed every day as new things were added, it was sold cheap. (Kirkwall)

Peanut Butter and Sausage Special (Tevinter)

Pickled Eggs - Eggs, sugar, salt, vinegar, and various spices and seasoning of the cooks preference. Favored in Ferelden and seen as a cure all. Served in nearly every Fereldan tavern. (Ferelden)

Pig Oat Mash - A constant dish on The Hanged Man menu, a popular hangover cure if washed down with brandy spiked cider. This warming porridge contains apples, dried salt pork or smoked bacon, dried rolled oats, berries, ale or water (Kirkwall)

Poison Stings - "Poison stings" is the colloquial name. Orange peels coated in chocolate, a crunchy yet chew texture that is both sweet and sour. A favored snack of Dorian Pavus when traveling from Tevinter to Ferelden. (Tevinter)

Pork Hand Pies with Fresh Herb Sauce (Tevinter)

Provisions

Antaam Provisions - used by Antaam soldiers on the march. (Qunari)

Field Provisions - nutritionally dense, deeply unappetizing.

Specialty Provisions - may contain meat, these rations are for the discerning traveler.

Rations - Typically consist of dried meat, nuts, and a variety of other simple foodstuffs.

Dry Ration

Grey Warden Pastry Pockets - A hand pie filled with meat and other foods. Olesian Grey Wardens put their own twist using Olesian puff pastry. (Anderfels/Orlais)

Hardtack

Qunari Ration

Sausage Sauced with Nut Butter Stuffed in a Bun (Tevinter)

Savory Pie with Spinach (Tevinter)

Sea Monster Kebab - can be made vegetarian. (Rivain)

Spiced Fried Lentils (Tevinter)

Stuffed Vine Leaves - Common tavern food in Tevinter, stuffed with rice, herbs, and sometimes minced meat. Can be topped with lemon juice or tzatziki sauce. (Tevinter)

Taste of Ferelden Bread and Cheese - a spread of bread and cheeses from Ferelden. Can be upgrade to have a full cheese wheel. (Rivain)

Treviso Energy Balls - Made of peanut butter, oats, and dried fruit, it is a famine food invented during the occupation of Treviso in the Qunari Wars/The New Exalted Marches. (Antiva)

Turnip and mutton pie – served in Fereldan taverns such as the Rusty Horn. They are common tavern fare and consist of turnips, chunks of lamb, and a buttery crust. (Ferelden)

Unidentified Meat - Despite it's ominous name, it's simply chicken legs. Sometimes served with Nevarran flat bread. (Tevinter)

Dips, Glazes, Gravy, and Sauces

Apples Stewed in Brandy Sauce

Applesauce

Antivan Dressing (Antiva)

Cherry Sauce

Cheese Sauce

Citrus bagna cauda - an anchovy and garlic sauce (Antiva)

Cream Sauce

Deep Mushroom Flavored Cream Sauce - Commonly served with seared nug. (Orzammar)

Dragon’s Blood Sauce (Nevarra)

Fresh Herb Sauce (Tevinter)

Gravy

Honey-glaze - A sauce used to glaze various foods, particularly meats. (Anderfels)

Hot Sauce

Llomerryn Red Sauce - A sauce that goes on almost everything, contains pulped tomatoes, onions, red pepper, brown sugar, apple cider vinegar, mustard powder, hot pepper powder, salt, cinnamon stick, allspice, cloves, fennel seeds, dill seeds, mustard seeds, black peppercorns, bay, garlic. (Rivain)

Mushrooms cooked in ale - One recommendation for this sauce is to be served over roasted nug.

Mushroom Sauce

Nesting Roast Gravy - Gravy made from the pan juices of a nesting roast. Meant to be served with the roast. (Orlais)

Plum Sauce

Red Wine Marinade

River-herring Gravy - a gravy as white as apple blossoms. (Orlais)

Special Sauce - A sauce infused with the essence of fifty-two herbs, prized for the ability to help with “inadequacy”. (Kirkwall)

Spider Leg Sauce - a variety of alcohol-based sauces unique to each Orzammar establishment, meant to be paired with fried young giant spider legs. (Orzammar)

Toffee Sauce - served as a topping on sweets (Tevinter)

Tzatziki Sauce - Served with stuffed vine leaves. (Tevinter)

Wild Flower Glaze - A honeyed glaze made of wild flowers, it is recommended to use flowers plucked at dawn and the lowest blossoms. (Anderfels)

Yogurt Dip - Often served with flat bread (Nevarra)

Soups and Stews

Antivan seafood soup - a soup that comprises of sea bass, nocen shrimp, striped cod, squid, saffron, and salt.

Barley Soup

Blood Soup - Merrill is credited with the creation of this creamy beetroot soup, it is topped with roasted chickpeas. (Dalish)

Butter Soup - A simple, inexpensive, and easy soup. Made as midmorning meals or midday refresher for field workers. It is commonly fed to children and convalescents due to its nutritious nature. Ingredients include water, potatoes, cinnamon, star anise, clove, bay, peppercorns, salt, noodles, cream, butter (Orlais)

Cabbage Stew (Ferelden)

Dalish Seafood Soup

Deepstalker Stew - A stew of deepstalker is made when rations run low. (Legion of the Dead)

Denerim-rabbit Stew - Made with rat (City Elf)

Enchantment Soup - Made by Sandal, edibility unknown.

Fereldan Potato and Leek Soup

Fereldan Turnip and Barley Stew - White beans, oil, onion, carrots, celery, garlic, stock, turnips, turnip greens, sausage, barley, cumin, dried basil, oregano, salt, pepper, herbed wine vinegar

First Day Festival Stew (Orzammar)

Fish Chowder (Antiva)

Fish Stew

Hearty Chum - a stew made with fish heads, served in lands of the Qun and Rivain (Qunari)

Lamb and Pea Stew - a stew comprised of lamb and peas. It is considered to be a hearty and humble dish, and is so common in Ferelden that it is seen as being almost synonymous with the nation. Alistair has his own version of this soup. (Ferelden)

Lentil Soup - A universal soup, with lentils being common in every Thedosian pantry. Is eaten both in and outside of alienages.

Mutton Stew (Ferelden)

Mystery Stew

Nettle Soup

Norbotten Fruit Stew - This dish is used to rehydrate dried fruits: dried apricots, pitted prunes, raisins, mixed dried fruits (cherries, apples, cranberries, etc), lemon or orange, cinnamon, cloves, water, sugar or honey, brandy. (Anderfels)

Pea Soup (Ferelden)

Potato Stew (Fereden)

Ram Stew (Ferelden)

Sauced Eels (Qunari)

Sweet and Sour Cabbage Soup (Ferelden)

Turnip Stew (Ferelden)

Turnip-Goat Stew (Ferelden)

Wild Rabbit Stew

Main Course

Alamarri Pickled Krone - Krone, Brine, (optional) pine pitch and druffalo dung.

Apple cheesy butter noodles - a dish made by Harding that comprised of noodles cooked with butter and salt, diced or baked sliced apples or applesauce, and grated cheese. The apples are layered on top of the noodles, topped with cheese and then baked in the oven. (Ferelden)

Baked Fish - An Avvar cooking method where they wrap fish in pungent leaves and clay before cooking it in banked coals. (Avvar)

Baked Krone with Honey - The honey is typically used as a side sauce for dipping. (Fereldan)

Beans and Bread

Boiled Roots

Braised Nug with Elfroot (Dwarven)

Braised Ram with all the Trimmings (Ferelden)

Broiled Boar Head (Fereldan)

Bug-cakes (Dalish)

Cacio e pepe - A dish of three ingredients; spaghetti, pepper, and pecorino romano. (Antiva)

Cheese toast - toast in cheese sauce (Nevarra)

Dalish Deep Forest Comfort - String squashes, halla butter, garlic, mushrooms, elfroot or spinach, diced tomatoes or beetles, hot red pepper, rock salt, halla cheese or goat cheese, edible wildflowers (borage, chicory, etc), pine nuts. (Dalish, Southern Orlais)

Dumplings

Apple Dumplings - made by Harding's mother. (Ferelden)

Pork Dumplings

First Day Chicken - a dish served during First Day in some parts of Orlais. (Orlais)

Fish in Salt Crust - Cooked much liked the baked fish, instead of using clay, the fish is covered in salt and wrapped in pungent leaves before being cooked in banked coals. (Avvar)

Fried Fish

Pan-fried Fish - a favorite of Bellara's.

Fried Mush (Orzammar)

Fried leeks and potatoes

Gilded Swan with River-herring Gravy - An eastern spice, flour, gold leaf, river herring, swan, yolk. (Orlais)

Glazed Krone (Ferelden)

Gnocchi (Antiva)

Goat Custard - A broiled goat head, not to be confused with the dessert. (Ferelden)

Gravy on Fish (Tevinter)

Griddle Cake - can be topped with strawberries (Anderfels)

Grilled Halla (Dalish)

Grilled Poussin - Grilled chicken, typically a younger chicken. (Chasind)

Grilled Skewered Squid - served with tentacle salad and orange slices. (Tevinter)

Grilled Treviso with Citrus Bagna Cauda - features a fish named after the city covered in a citrus, garlic, and anchovy sauce. (Antiva)

Gruel - The Grey Wardens serve this cold at Weisshuapt according to Davrin.

Halla Cakes (Dalish)

Ham

Anderfels Smoked Ham – this ham is said to taste of despair, though this is only rumor or on word of the importers. One glaze for this ham is made of apricots and apples.

Avvar Ham

Ham and Herbs

Ham Stuck with Cloves

The Jade Ham - Honeyed with wild flowers (especially those picked at dawn), masterfully seasoned, and spiral-cut. Not considered edible but better used as a weapon. (Anderfels)

Jellied Ham

Orlesian Ham

Seleny Ham (Antiva)

Smoked Ham

Treviso Ham (Antiva)

Herbed Chicken and Biscuits (Ferelden)

Jellied Meats

Jellied Pigs Feet - A delicacy in the Free Marches and originally a popular commoner food that has risen to the tables of nobility. Pigs feet and/or pork hocks, salt, onions, garlic, allspice, peppercorns, bay. (Free Marches)

Veal Galentine (Orlais)

Khachapuri - one variety of this dish has three cheeses (Tevinter)

Liver

Lutefisk

Meat Pies

Dove Pie - A pie made with live doves, for the theater of the meal. (Orlais)

Nug Bacon and Egg Pie (Ferelden)

Pigeon Pie

Pork Pie

Starkhaven Fish and Egg Pie - Fish from the Minanter River (carp, trout, or others), wine, onion, carrot, thyme, bay, sea salt, dried currants, sliced almonds, boiled sliced eggs, butter, flour, fish broth, milk, salt, pepper, nutmeg, cream, fried whitebait or other small fish. (Starkhaven)

Unmentionable Pie - It is a meat pie that uses the typically undesirable parts of an animal. (Ferelden)

Venison Pasty - A hand pie filled with venison. In Serault, it is served with curls of goat cheese. (Orlais)

Nesting Roast - This dish is classically made with a quail stuffed in a pheasant stuffed in a swan. Served with gravy made from the pan juices. (Orlais)

Mad Burnard’s Gift of Flesh - A nesting roast unlike any other, involving a whole wyvern, stuffed with a whole gurn, stuffed with a horse, stuffed with a large halla (horns and all), stuffed with a swan, stuffed with a duck, stuffed with a quail, stuffed with a bunting that choked on a gold piece. (Orlais)

Noodles

Noodles with Gravy (Tevinter)

Rolled Noodles

Nug-gets (Orzammar)

Nug-loaf (Orzammar)

Nug-Nug - A dish meant to resemble a nug peeking from its burrow; made of ground meat (beef preferred), parsley, egg, salt, crushed cumin or mustard seeds, black pepper, cooked rice, tomatoes, onions, chives (Orlais)

Oysters

Fresh oyster - can be served with Llomeryn red sauce

Oyster platter - served on ice with lemon and mint, the pearls have been removed. (Tevinter)

Paella – an Antivan dish made with rice, saffron and various types ingredients.

Non-seafood paella - a variation made without seafood. (Antiva)

Seafood paella - a variation made with different types of seafood, such as shrimp, cuttlefish, and mussels. (Antiva)

Pancake - The breakfast food and savory dishes.

Crepes - A very thin pancake that can be filled with sweet or savory ingredients. (Orlais)

Hearth Cakes - Described as a common fare where they are baked on an iron griddle. They are made with halla butter (can be subbed for goat or cow butter), flour, hardwood ash (can be replaced with baking powder), cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, sugar, mixed dried fruit (like cranberries, raisins, and currants), an egg, and milk. Described as baeing crispy and flaky on the outside, but remains moist on the inside. They are grilled on one side and then are flipped over, ensuring they are all crisp and bown. (Dalish)

Nug Pancakes - A savory pancake made with nug. A favorite among dwarven children. (Orzammar)

Pasta

Crustacean pasta - a trio of poached crustaceans or scorpions on a bed of lightly dressed noodles topped with fresh herbs and sliced peppers. (Tevinter)

Demon-haired pasta (Antiva)

Pasta made of peppers and oils - a Harding creation

Porridge

Bland Porridge

Cider Porridge

Deer Porridge - A savory porridge served with deer.

Porridge with Raisins

Savory Porridge - Served with meat, vegatables, or spices.

Savory Porridge - served with apricots and currants.

Poutine - made of cheese curds, gravy, and potato fries.

Pudding - A sweet or savory, steamed dish that can be topped with gravy or chocolate.

Rack of Ribs (Ferelden)

Ram Chops (Ferelden)

Ram Cutlet (Ferelden)

Rice and Boiled Vegetables (Tevinter)

Roast

Gurgut Roast with Lowlander Spices and Mushroom Sauce (Avvar)

Roast Boar - One cooking method involves the boar being stuffed with apples (Ferelden and Orlais). Another has it served with a side of candied yams.

Roast Chicken

Roast Duck

Roast Hog

Roast Lamb

Roast Turkey - Common in the Free Marches, especially among Starkhaven nobility, as well as the Chasind.

Roast Wyvern - Common with the Avvar and Orlais.

Roasted Cave Beetle (Dwarven)

Roasted Giant Spider (Dwarven)

Roasted Nug (Orzammar)

Roasted Phoenix - One of the most infamous meals in Thedas, it is served with sweet red wine.

Roasted Rabbit

Roasted Venison with Wild Greens - The venison is seasoned with mint and pepper, served with wild greens and sweet pastries. Paired with wine to drink. (Ferelden)

Slow-roasted Nug-let (Orzammar)

Spit-roasted Deepstalker (Dwarven)

Spit-roasted Nug with Hot Sauce (Orzammar)

Roasted Cabbage

Roasted Cabbage with Gravy (Tevinter)

Salad

Roasted Chicken Salad

Salted Meat

Salt Pork

Salted Beef

Salted Dragon - a food that was once a more common food during the Orlesian highlands Hivernal festival.

Salted fish

Salted Goat

Salted Halla (Dalish)

Sandwich

Cucumber Sandwich

Ham Sandwich

Ham and jam slam - a sandwich comprised of buttered toast, ham, and jam. (Harding/Ferelden)

Yam and jam slam - a sandwich based on the ham and jam slam, a vegetarian option comprised of buttered toast, yam, and jam. (Harding/Ferelden)

Sausage - There are about twelve different kinds of sausage unnamed mentioned in Last Court.

Black Pudding - A type of blood sausage made from pork or beef blood, pork fat or beef sue, and a type of cereal. (Orlais)

Smoked Sausage

Spiced and Salted Sausage

Scrambled Eggs

Scrambled Eggs with Gravy (Tevinter)

Seared Nug - Usually served with a deep mushroom cream sauce. (Orzammar)

Simmering Partridge - Cooked with sweet onions and pale beans (Orlais)

Smoked Meat

Smoked Boar

Smoked Fish

Smoked Trout

Smoked Rabbit

Smoked Venison

Soufflé

Venison Soufflé

Spiced Nug

Steak

Nug Steak (Orzammar)

Peppered Steak

Wyvern Steak (Orlais)

Stir-fry

Stuffed Cabbage - A seasoned cabbage head stuffed with meat.

Venison with Apples Stewed in Brandy Sauce

Wandering Hills - A delicacy made from large creatures of the same name. (Anderfels)

Wild meat with Mushrooms (Dalish)

Sides

Antivan Olives - Soaked in vinegar and stuffed with capers.

Boiled Turnip (Ferelden)

Brandy Soaked Cherries (Orzammar)

Candied Yams

Croutons

Fried Peppers (Rivain)

Fried Potatoes - Recommended to be served with Llomerryn red sauce.

Fries - can be potatoes, served as a side to streak.

Hard-boiled Egg

Honey Carrots - Most common in Orlais where it is traditionally sweeter compared to other places due to the use of honey.

Jarred Olives (Tevinter)

Jellied Eels (Ferelden)

Mashed Turnip (Ferelden)

Pear Slaw (Tevinter)

Peeled Grapes (Tevinter)

Pickled Foods

Pickled Apples

The Pickled Apples of Arlathan - Apples said to be from the time of Arlathan. The taste is described to be one of fresh apples, with the same crispness.

Pickled Fish

Pickled Lamprey

Pickled Nug

Pickled Ox Tongue

Pickled Vegetables

Pickles

Roasted Chestnuts (Nevarra)

Roasted Figs (Rivain)

Roasted Potatoes - Recommended to be served with Llomerryn red sauce.

Roasted Turnip (Ferelden)

Sera’s Yummy Corn

Smoked Bacon

Steamed Beans

Steamed Turnips (Ferelden)

Stir-fried Turnips (Ferelden)

Toast

Toasted Bread - Used for dipping in stews.

Toasted Chickpeas - Used as a topping for soups and salads, sometimes as a replacement for croutons.

Wine Soaked Fruit

Baked Goods, Desserts, and Sweets

Bread Pudding - Made with stale bread, eggs, milk or cream, and other ingredients varied by if it is savory or sweet (Ferelden)

Cake

Apple Cake (Ferelden)

Cake with Apples

Cake with Nutmeg

Chocolate Cake

Cupcakes

Cherry Cupcakes - Historically a common method used to poison people, often served in the theater. (Tevinter)

Found Cake - A chocolate cream cake topped with white frosting and strawberries (Ferelden)

Hazelnut torte - a hazelnut cake layered with apricot preserves and topped with chocolate icing. It contains eggs, flour, dark chocolate, baking powder, heavy cream, salt, sugar, hazelnut, apricot liqueur, and either rum, orange liqueur, or strong coffee. (Nevarra)

Hearth Cake - A pan-made cake; made of flour, hardwood ash or baking powder, halla butter, sugar, mixed dried fruit (currants, cranberries, etc), egg, milk. (Dalish)

Honey Cake (Orlais)

Lamprey Cake - contains no actual lampreys, it is modeled after the appearance of lamprey.

Lemon Cake

Petit Fours (Orlais)

The Exquisite Misery - A little cake topped with a dusting of anise, deep mushrooms, and gold dust. (Orlais)

Pound Cake

Round Cake - Often topped with poppyseed and honey. In Serault, they will sometimes have the antlers baked into the crust. (Orlais)

Sponge Cake (Orlais)

Sugar cake – made with strawberries and sugar-cream icing on a pound cake. Seen as great gifts and good pick-me-ups after long days of traveling, and are often served by merchants. (Ferelden)

Sugar cake – a cake which shares its name with other dishes. This recipe calls for a "humble" cake (rather than a pound cake) to be topped with butter, sugar and almonds. It is also seen as a great gift and as a good pick-me-up after traveling all day, and sold by merchants.

Sugar-drizzled Lemon Cake - A type of lemon cake that was used in Antivan Crow history to assassinate templars.

Sugarcake - A dense cake usually topped with powdered sugar.

Sweet Cake

Wedding Cake

Candy

Black Licorice Candy - Can be salted. (Tevinter)

Bon-bons

Candied Almonds

Candied Fruit

Candy Apple (Ferelden)

Candied Dates (Tevinter)

Candied Sage Leaves - A popular treat in Nevarra.

Candy Cane

Carastian Candy - A candied chocolate. (Tevinter)

Peppermints

Spun Sugar (Ferelden)

Sweetmeat - A confectionery treat, sometimes candy coated fruit.

Toffee

Unnamed Candied Nuts with Spice - A candy that is sweet until swallowed, then they leave a spicy aftertaste. (Orlais)

Churro (Antiva)

Cobbler

Dalish Forest Fruit Cobbler

Strawberry and Rhubarb Cobbler (Ferelden)

Coffee Ice - a treat made in Minrathous, it tastes like coffie with a texture "like snow", it is topped by cream and toffee sauce.

Cookies

Biscuit - A hard, flat, and unleavened baked treat that can be sweet or savory.

Bran Cookies

Butter and Sugar Cookie - This cookie isn’t specified as it is only described by these ingredients.

Raisin Cookies

Shortbread

Sugar Biscuits

Tea Biscuits

Wafers

Custard

Goat Custard - Differing from the Fereldan savory counterpart. This custard is made throughout Thedas with goat milk and has numerous varieties. On pairs it with roast fig. A Rivain variation uses milk of the Ayesleigh gulabi goats specifically for its sweeter milk.

Donuts

Ice Cream

Orlesian Guimauves - Another name for marshmallows.

Pastries

Antivan Apple Grenade

Cinnamon Rolls - one of Varric's favorite pastries.

Croissant - Vivienne starts every morning with one. (Orlais)

Honey and Nut Pastry (Tevinter)

Macaroon

Marie du Lac Erre’s Sweet Ruin - One version of this pastry with a dramatic history, the recipe contains; butter, powdered sugar, chocolate, vanilla extract, flour, orange or mint extract, baking powder, and milk. (Orlais)

Tarts

Jam Tart

Strawberry Tart

Tart de limone - a lemon tart that pairs well with tea (Antiva)

Vanilla-and-nutmeg Tart

Unnamed Blueberry Pastry - A light, sticky pastry with blueberries. (Possibly Nevarra)

Varric's Favorite Pastry - A pastry spread created by Devon, a Fereldan cook, after consulting with Varric Tethras on his favorite pastry.

Pie

Apple Pie

The Blessed Apple - A pie made by a small cloister of Chantry sisters tending to the orchard, they use the windfall apples and share the pies freely; as well as the apples. The ingredients are flour, salt, butter, water, apples (golden apples from Lady’s Orchard preferred but others are acceptable substitutions), brown sugar, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. (Orlesian)

Elderberry Pie

Gooseberry Pie

Minced Pie - filled with finely chopped fruit and sweet things.

Rhubarb Pie

Pudding

Blancmange - A white pudding made of milk or heavy cream, its name is Orlesian for "white eating". Because of the mild, sweet taste it can have a variety of toppings such as toasted almonds, ribbons of fresh mangos, red grape compote, cherry saus, or Vivienne's preferred plating of white chocolate curls with whole jasmine flowers. (Orlais)

Caramel Pudding

Dessert Pudding

Jam Pudding (Ferelden)

Rice Pudding

Scones

Sour Cherries in Cream – an Orlesian dessert made of black cherries, cherry sauce, and whipped cream. In Orlesian cuisine it is eaten when a lighter dessert is required. (Orlais)

Sticky Figs Rolled in Nuts (Tevinter)

Sticky Jellies (Orlais)

Drinks

Absinthe

Absence - One of the bottles of Thedas you find in Inquisition.

Absinthe - also referred to la fée verte - “little green fairy”

Petite Absinthe - Made from a certain type of wormwood.

Ale, Beer, Drafts, Lagers, Malts, and Stouts

The Tapster’s Tavern in Orzammar serves 52 types of ale, some are listed.

Ale

Ander Stout - This stout is stored in oak casts. (Anderfels)

Barley Wine - Despite its name, this is an ale.

Beer

Brakien Brew (Orzammar)

Brown Ale

Coconut Draft (Orzammar)

Dwarven Stout - an Orzammar recipe brewed by associates of the dwarven Ambassadoria. (Orzammar/Tevinter)

Fereldan Beer

Fereldan Lager - A pale ale.

Lichen Ale (Orzammar)

Lichen-malt (Orzammar)

Oghren’s Homebrew - An amber coloured ale with a slightly sweet, nutty flavor and described to have a hint of toastiness, and is spiced with cloves. (Dwarven)

Qunari Ale

Ryott Ale (Ferelden)

Ryott Beer (Ferelden)

Starkhaven Lager

Tevinter Lager

Valenta’s Red (Orzammar)

Watered Beer - While watered beer is served to reduce the price of beer and stretch it along, it is also served as a provision. In Serault, the peasantry drink watered beer to stave off the summer heat.

Watered-down Ale

Wildwine - An ale made from ryott. (Chasind)

Wilhelm’s Special Brew - This dark-colored ale gives off a thick, oaky smell. When swirled in its tankard, it takes on an unexpected glow. (Ferelden)

Brandy

Ammazzacaffe - known as "Coffee-killer" it is a pomace brandy that is swirled in a still warm coffee cup and sipped.. (Antiva)

Aged Antivan Brandy

Antivan Brandy

Antivan Plum Brandy

Apple Brandy (Orlais)

Fire Brandy - a strong drink that is used to flambé desserts.

Orlesian Brandy

Plum Brandy

West Hill Brandy (Ferelden)

Cider

A drink made from fermenting crushed fruit, the most common being apple. It can be alcholic.

Brandy-spiked-cider

Cider

Elven Cider

Serault Cider (Orlais)

Winter Cider (Wycome)

Cocktails

Benediction - Made of Prophet's Larel gin, served with a wedge of lime, and a thimble of Golden Scythe.

Elfroot mixed with Dandelion Wine - A restorative draft. (City Elves of Orlais)

The Emerald Valley - A spirit distilled of over seventy different herbs and flowers by the Chantry sister in Lydes, it is topped with egg-white foam and dusted with nutmeg. Described as having a varied and complex flavour, fresh like a lush green valley. (Orlais)

Dragon’s Piss - The name is probably figurative, but no one knows for sure. BioWare gives the “recipe” for Dragon Piss as “1 oz light rum, 1 oz dark rum, filled with iced tea”. "Dragon's Breath" is offered as an alternative name for this drink as it is served while lit on fire in the glass and burns on the way down.

The Golden Nug - Made with a base of effervescent white Seleney wine, sweetened with a dash of West Hill brandy and a splash of pomegranate juice. Muddled with raspberries and garnished with a sprig of Royal Elfroot. The goal is to imitate the soft pink colour of a nug.

The Heart of Spring - A “restorative” drink from Verchiel made with violets. (Orlais)

The Hissing Drake - Mix of cinnamon-infused whiskey, darl Llomerryn rum, and Hirol's Lava Burst.

Ice Cream and Beer

A Night of Shame - Antivan port with a dash of chocolate bitters and a twist of orange, served in a flute of chilled Serault glass. (Orlais)

Orichalcum mixed with wine - Considered to have aphrodisiac properties.

Posset - A drink made of hot milk curdled with ale, wine, or other liquor and typically flavored with spices. Can be drunk as a delicacy or as a cold remedy.

Qun on the Rocks - rum matched with salt water and seasonal Par Vollen fruit. (Antiva)

The Randy Dowager - Rumored to be created by the editor of the periodical, it is a tall glass of Abyssal Peach liquor and fresh cream, garnished with sugared rose petals and served on a silk handkerchief with a scandalous rhyming couplet inked by the bartender. (Orlais)

To Cure a Cold - a folk remedy that requires boiling whiskey and adding lemon juice and crushed garlic.

Coffee

A major export of Antiva.

Andoral's breath - a special blend served in Treviso.

Aromatic coffee - finely ground and perfectly blanded roast, common among Trevesians.

Caf Pietra's coffee

Expensive coffee

Strong coffee

Gin

Gin

Daisy Fun-time Lemon Gin

Lemon Gin

Prophet’s Laurel Gin (Orlais)

Grey Warden Liquor

These are bottles unique to members of the order, as each warden will combine half-full bottles in order to save space. No bottle is ever fully emptied or cleaned. In order to preserve the base flavor. They are called Grey Whiskey, Ritewine, or Conscription Ale, each vintage is named after a warden with a small note.

Vintage: Warden Anras - Bottled whimsy.

Vintage: Warden Bethany Hawke - Princess piss.

Vintage: Warden Carver Hawke - Toast them all.

Vintage: Warden Daedalam - Extra red.

Vintage: Warden Eval’lal - Griffon Wing Ale

Vintage: Warden Gibbins - Don’t frigging touch! I spit in this! I mean it!

Vintage: Warden Jairn - Smash when dead.

Vintage: Warden Korenic - Notes of fruit and anger.

Vintage: Warden Riordan - Serve yourself.

Vintage: Warden Steed - Joining juice.

Vintage: Warden Tontiv - Home.

Mead

The Tapster’s Tavern in Orzammar serves 17 types of mead, some are listed. Honeywine is another name for mead.

Avvar Mead

Chasind Sack Mead

Lady Odette Guillory’s Family Honey Wine (Orlais)

Mead

Orlesian Honeywine

Port

A sweet, fortified red wine, typically served with dessert.

'28 Val Foret Port (Orlais)

Antivan Port

Tevinter Port

Rum

Boot Screech is another name for rum.

Alvarado’s Bathtub Boot Screech

Blackwater Rum (Wycome)

Dark Llomerryn Rum

Tea and Other Drinks

Cocoa/Hot Chocolate

Cioccolata calada - Antivan hot chocolate

Grave-mist - magically infused vapors captured near tombs where spirits dwell. (Nevarra)

Juice

Fermented Fruit Juice

Pickle Juice

Pomegranate Juice

Prune Juice

Punch

Spicy Punch

Tea

Almond Tea (Orlais)

Bitter Tea - An unspecified tea so bitter it is astringent. Served during the Fourth Blight.

Black Tea

Black Tea with Juniper

Fires of Change Tea (Orlais)

Ginger Tea

Gingerwort Truffle Tea - from an old recipe, can have magical side effects for some people.

Herbal Tea

Iced Tea

Lattenfluss Tea (Anderfels)

Lavender Tea

Mint Tea

Anderfels Mint Tea

Nameless Tevinter Tea

Rivaini Spice Tea Blend - Blend of cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. One of the teas from Rivain known for its healing properties. Empress Celene commonly uses this tea to stave off headaches.

Rivaini Tea

Rivaini Tea Blend - A blend of licorice root, oregano, lemon verbena, and peppermint. One of the teas from Rivain known for its healing properties. Rumored to be favored by Empress Celene to stave off headaches.

Rosehips Tea (Orlais)

Spiced Tea (Nevarra)

Stripweed Tea (Tevinter)

Tea with Milk (Tevinter)

Unsweetened Tea

Verimensis Tea – Tevinter's most famous tea, it is said to be the most expensive drink in all of Thedas. (Tevinter)

Whiskey

Cinnamon-infused Whiskey

Ferelden Whisky

Legacy White Shear

Mackay’s Epic Single Malt

Wine

The Tapster’s Tavern in Orzammar serves 12 types of imported wines, some are listed.

'39 Seleny Wine - Taash describes it as smelling like "a two-week-old towel" (Antiva)

Agreggio Pavali (Tevinter)

Alyons Black (Orlais)

Amaranthine Red (Ferelden)

Anderfels Red

Antivan House Wine

Antivan Red

Antivan Wine

Bitter Black Wine (Orlais)

Bottled Scar 5:34 Exalted - A rare collaboration between human and elf vintners.

Celestine Black Wine (Orlais)

Dalish Wine

Dandelion Wine (City Elves of Orlais)

Elderberry Wine (Ferelden)

Finale by Massaad (Orlais)

Flames of Our Lady (Orlais)

Flat Wine

Ghislain Red (Orlais)

Iced Wine - Mentioned in both Tevinter and Orlais.

Minrathous Red - rich in flavour, with hints of plum and spices (Tevinter)

Minrathous White - a light and refreshing wine, favourd during the humid summers in Tevinter.

Montsimmard White (Orlais)

Mosswine (Orzammar)

Mulsum (Tevinter)

Orlesian Red

Plum Wine

Red Wine

Serault Yellow Wine (Orlais)

Serault White (Orlais)

Silent Plains Piquette - the Nevarran vintages are popular among Venatori and are considered to be a cheap wine. (Nevarra/Tevinter)

Southern Black Wine

Spiced Wine

Sweetened and Spiced Yellow Wine

Unnamed Wine - a cheap wine with a cherry underscent.

Val Chevin Red Wine (Orlais)

Vint-6 The Common Red - thick and sweet, it is served by the sip. Tradition says the more who drink, the greater the fortune. (Tevinter)

Vint-9 Rowan’s Rose (Tevinter)

Watered Wine

White Seleny Wine (Antiva)

White Wine

Wildervale Rosé (Free Marches)

Yellow Wine

Additional Spirits

Abyssal Peach

Antivan Sip-Sip

Aqua Magus

Aquae Lucidius - A potent liquor made of wyvern venom; a rare drink known for its hallucinogenic properties.

Bottle of Rotgut - Rotgut is slang for cheap whiskey.

Butterbile :84

Carnal 8:69 Blessed (Orlais)

Dwarven Ale - Not actually an ale, but a black liquid reputedly made from fungus with a reputation as being almost undrinkable for anyone not a dwarf.

Garblog’s Backcountry Reserve

Golden Scythe 9:40 Black

Hirol’s Lava Burst (Kal'Hirol)

Maraas-Lok (Qunari)

Moonshine

Potent Moonshine

Sun Blonde Vint-1 (Tevinter)

Sources:

(If you want to find the direct links or page numbers, check out the Wiki's Food and Ingredients page.)

Primary Sources:

Dragon Age: Origins (Base and DLCs)

Dragon Age: Awakening

Dragon Age 2 (Base and DLCs)

Dragon Age: The Last Court

Dragon Age: Inquisition (DLCs + Multiplayer)

Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Books:

Dragon Age Tabletop RPG Core Rulebook

Dragon Age Tabletop RPG: Blood in Ferelden

Dragon Age Tabletop RPG: Game Master’s Kit: Buried Past

World of Thedas Vol. 1

World of Thedas Vol. 2

Dragon Age Official Cookbook: Tastes of Thedas

Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne

Dragon Age: The Calling

Dragon Age: The Masked Empire

Dragon Age: Asunder

Dragon Age: Last Flight

Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights

Short Story: Paper and Steel

Short Story: Paying the Ferryman

Short Story: Riddle in Truth

Short Story: As We Fly

Comics:

Silent Grove

Mage Killer

Knight Errant

Deception

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