A roasting apparatus for cooking skewered food constituted by food and a skewer skewering the food includes a main apparatus body having a wall member forming a cooking space maintained within the food during cooking, a heater provided in such a manner that a heat-emitting section is positioned at an upper part of the cooking space, and a food holding mechanism for positioning food downwards from the heat-emitting section and being capable of holding horizontally laid skewers in a manner enabling free rotation about a center axis of the skewers, so as to enable heat from the heating means to be used effectively and enable the skewered food to be effectively cooked.