A genius chef who cooks with math tries to save a dying restaurant full of messy human hearts.
7.046 minSeason 1 • Episode 11
LatestThis drama follows the staff of an Italian restaurant and their everyday struggles. “Roccabianca” is a famous and popular Italian restaurant, but their head chef and owner Tatsumi suddenly collapses and the restaurant loses its unique flavor. The number of customers rapidly declines, but the owner’s daughter and deputy manager Saori happens to find another chef named Ezaki through an online job market who learned cooking at the same place her father did. Ezaki becomes the new head chef of this restaurant and while nobody can deny that he is a gifted chef, it’s his extreme rationalism that doesn’t exactly go well with the restaurants attempt to save its traditional flavor.
Acting
Yosuke Eguchi's controlled stillness masks volcanic interiority.
Writing
Patient character reveals that reward emotional investment.
Production
Kitchen sequences so tactile you can almost taste them.
Creators
Mamoru Hoshi, Masato Hijikata, Hidenori Joho
Yosuke Eguchi
Ezaki Motomu
Kana Kurashina
Tatsumi Saori
Yusuke Santamaria
Soichi Segawa
Morio Kazama
Hideo Tatsumi
Yutaka Matsushige
Kohsuke Imai
Yoshihiko Hakamada
Daiki Natsuno
Norito Yashima
Kazuma Kimura
Megumi Seki
Hazuki Muto
Kotaro Shiga
Hamaoka Kotaro
Yuki Shibamoto
Eriko Motomiya
Mai Shinohara
Chihiro Nakano
Yuki Ito
Satoru Ōhashi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Yosuke Eguchi trained with actual Italian chefs for three months, developing the specific hand movements that became Ezaki's signature.
The 'shokunin' ideal — single-minded craft devotion — is typically masculine in Japanese media; here it's deliberately complicated by Ezaki's emotional incompetence.
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