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"A café shrouded in the woods... This is a special place where people who love cars, including car designers, come to visit."
―Sarah, during in-game tutorial
GT Café Exterior

The exterior of GT Café

GT Cafe

A GT Café menu book being shown

Café is a new game mode in Gran Turismo 7, located at the center of the World Map. In this mode, the player has to collect cars to earn rewards while also learning about automotive history. This game mode, being the game's main campaign mode, is designed to provide players a place to learn about cars and the cultural background behind certain significant models.

Collecting cars and performing actions required by the menu books allows the player to obtain Roulette Tickets and unlock new features and tracks.

GT7 features 39 menu books at launch that leads to the ending credits, with new menus added in updates as a way to introduce new World Circuits events.

Menu Books[]

Launch Books[]

These menu books are available at launch and requires the player to collect cars by reaching the podium in every race, perform some tasks, or complete a championship (in a top-3 finish). They also have to be done in order.

  • No. 1: Collection: Japanese Compact Cars
  • No. 2: Test Yourself at the License Center
    • Visit the License Center and see if you can earn the B-1 License.
  • No. 8: Wash a Car at GT Auto
    • Visit Maintenance & Servicing at GT Auto.
  • No. 13: Try Your Hand at a Mission
    • Go to Missions and select "The Magic Mountain" to try your hand at Deep Forest's "The Pass".
  • No. 16: Take a Photo of Your Car in Scapes
    • Visit Scapes and take a photo.
  • No. 20: Show Your Custom Wing
    • Go to Customize Cars at GT Auto and fit a custom wing set.
  • No. 26: Collection: Ford
    • Ford Focus RS '18
    • Ford GT '06
    • Ford F-150 SVT Raptor '11
      • These cars can be obtained by finishing top three in each Pick-up Truck Race events; however, doing so requires that the player have a pickup truck beforehand (both the F-150 SVT Raptor and Toyota Tundra TRD Pro '19 can be purchased from the Brand Central; buying the former will make the car no longer available from the Colorado Springs race). The Focus RS is also one of the possible prize cars the player could select at the end of the European Championship.
  • No. 28: Get a Wide-Body American Car
    • Head to GT Auto and visit Maintenance & Servicing.
  • No. 30: Upgrade Your Porsche
    • Tune to a PP of 600-650.

Bonus Books[]

These post-ending menu books are added with updates and usually requires the player to complete a series of World Circuits races. In order to play these, the player must also have completed Menu Book 39 with the ending movie being watched before completing any of those.

Bonus books 40 to 44 are named "Enter the '[event name]'"; later bonus books are simply the event name.

  • No. 41: Vision Gran Turismo Trophy
    • Added in update 1.15; Collector Level 20 required. Completing earns the player a six-star roulette ticket.
  • No. 42: Gr.1 Prototype Series
    • Added in update 1.15; Collector Level 30 required. Completing earns the player a six-star roulette ticket.
  • No. 43: Neo-Classic Competition
    • Added in update 1.19; Collector Level 33 required. Completing earns the player a five-star roulette ticket.
  • No. 44: Hypercar Parade
    • Added in update 1.19; Collector Level 35 required. Completing earns the player a six-star engine ticket, which gives the player a random engine.
  • No. 45: The Silvia Sisters
    • Added in update 1.23; Collector Level 27 required. Completing earns the player a six-star part ticket.
  • No. 46: Historic Sports Car Masters
    • Added in update 1.25; Collector Level 29 required. Completing earns the player a four-star roulette ticket.
  • No. 47: Super Formula (GT7)
    • Added in update 1.32; Collector Level 31 required. Completing earns the player a six-star roulette ticket.
  • No. 48: World Touring Car 900
    • Added in update 1.40; Collector Level 39 required. Completing earns the player a five-star roulette ticket.
  • No. 49: X2019 Nations Cup
    • Added in update 1.40; Collector Level 50 required. Completing earns the player a six-star roulette ticket.
  • No. 50: Jimny Cup
    • Added in update 1.42; Collector Level 28 required. Completing earns the player a four-star roulette ticket.
  • No. 51: Evolution Meeting
    • Added in update 1.52; Collector Level 32 required. Completing earns the player a four-star roulette ticket.

Extra Books[]

Main article: GT Café/Extra Books

These post-ending menu books are added with updates and requires the player to collect series of cars only. Like Bonus Books, the player must also have completed Menu Book 39 with the ending movie being watched before completing any of those. These however can be done and claimed at any time once the necessary collector level is reached, and have a separate numbering to the main and Bonus Menu Books. Most extra books added to the game in updates typically has a book relating to a car added in that update.

Birthday Cars[]

From version 1.15, the player can pick up birthday cars from the Café a week before or after the player's registered birthday on their PlayStation Network account. When the birthday car is available, the game will notify the player about the availability of their birthday gift.

Trivia[]

  • Internally, Menu Books are referred to as quests.[1]
  • The game's release date and Brembo partnership trailers featured Menu Books for kei cars and Toyota 86 models, respectively. The game's State of Play presentation also features a Menu Book for Vision Gran Turismo cars. However, neither Menu Books were included in the final game at launch.
    • The kei car and Vision GT menu books were later converted into Bonus Books added in version 1.15, although there are no car collecting quest associated with them.
      • Conversely, the Toyota 86 menu book was converted into an Extra Book in version 1.17 as a car collecting-only quest.
  • For the main Menu Books, Used Cars will occasionally sell the cars the player need to complete a collection if they are not eligible for purchase from Brand Central. These cars are treated separately from the server-refreshed line-up and can never be marked as sold out, instead changing when a new collection quest starts.[2]
  • A number of the car collection scenes reuse Photo Travel locations from the PlayStation 3-era games. For example, the Alfa Romeo collection uses the San Galgano Abbey location from Gran Turismo 5, while the BMW M3 collection (and the Bugatti extra book) uses the The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia photo location from Gran Turismo 6. However, neither appeared in Scapes in Gran Turismo 7, although said locations are made accessible from the VR Showroom mode for PlayStation VR2 users.
  • Menu Books 6 and 30 were known to be bugged, where it may not recognize that the player had performed changes to the required car as obtained from the respective collection, at least until the game is restarted or another instance of the required car is obtained.[3] This was fixed in update 1.06, released on March 10, 2022, which also fixes a game crash if the player attempts to equip a license plate when doing Menu Book 20.[4]
  • Despite the name, Menu Book 27 caters to Chevrolet Corvettes exclusively. This may be because the only other Chevrolet lineup in the game is the Camaro, which was covered in Menu Book 15.
  • After Menu Book 39 is started, the game's menu music will play "Chariots of Fire" by Vangelis exclusively until the championship is completed and the player returns to GT Café to watch the ending.
  • Lore-wise, GT Café serves coffee, tea, juices and breakfast items, as seen on its windows. The following items are as follows:
    • Coffee Menu: Espresso, Café Latte, Cappuccino, Cafe Mocha, Irish Coffee, Americano
    • Drinks: Black Tea, Green Tea, Matcha Tea, Fresh Juices, Fruit Water, Bottled Water
    • Breakfast: Croissant, Brioche, Muffins, Ham, Sausage, French Toast, Pancakes
      • However, the presence of wine glasses and salt and pepper shakers may suggest an unseen, all-day dining menu which includes lunch and dinner, which doubles the cafe's purpose as a bistro.
  • There is a real-life Gran Turismo Café located within Twin Ring Motegi, dedicated to the series' memorabilia and serves Japanese food.
  • In version 1.17, it was possible to receive prizes from Extra Books more than once. As this was not an intended behavior, this was fixed in version 1.18), although there were no penalties for players who used it.
  • The supplementary text for the Gr.2 Racing Cars Extra Book talks about racing cars in general, rather than race cars that form the Gr.2 class.

Notes[]

  1. ↑ PlayStation Tweet comparing GT2 and GT7's Castrol Supra; note the broken localization that displayed internal strings in the GT7 screenshot.
  2. ↑ GT7 Online Info: Menu Book Used Cars
  3. ↑ Progression Blocker Notice - gran-turismo.com (Wayback Machine)
  4. ↑ Update Details (1.06) - gran-turismo.com
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