We follow the adventures of the arrogant but extremely talented Obana Natsuki, an influential French Cuisine head chef obsessed with obtaining a three Michelin stars award. He has been trying to accomplish this for all of his career and has managed to get granted an award of two with his French restaurant Escofille, when suddenly, three years before the events portrayed in the show, a disastrous diplomatic incident during an important lunch at his restaurant destroys his career. Due to this, it’s now impossible for him to get employed in any eatery, as he’s now dubbed the "Shame of Japan”. At the beginning of the show, however, while trying to get employed at a renowned restaurant in Paris, he meets Hayami Rinko (played by Suzuki Kyoka https://mydramalist.com/people/2025-suzuki-kyoka), a talented and vibrant French cuisine chef who is trying to get employed there as well, in order to achieve the three stars rating, but is having a hard time due to her limited prior experience. Sadly, they are both discarded by the owner of the French restaurant. With nowhere else to go, Obana decides to help Hayami in her quest for the ultimate stars rating, by opening a restaurant in Japan with her. They will have to find a way to hire Obana’s previous co-workers at Escofille, who are now working for different venues in Japan, or there will be no hope of success. Due to his incredibly negative fame, though, it won’t be easy.
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What, in my opinion, particularly shines in this show is how the various characters are portrayed. Firstly, even though they are all supposed to be famous chefs, they are written in a way where you can easily sympathize with them and understand their reasoning and emotions even if you know almost nothing about high-class cuisine. For example, Obana starts as an arrogant character, who does whatever he wants and ignores how others are feeling, thinking nothing can beat his cooking, but as the show goes on, you can understand that this is just a facade, and in reality, he does care about people, he just doesn’t show it well. He will also realize that if he wants to be awarded three stars, he has to adapt and change. We can all imagine that it can be quite hard to change your way of thinking if you are already a renowned chef.

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