Name: The Kitchen
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Foreign
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Dmitri Nazarov, Dmitriy Nagiev, Sergey Epishev, Olga Kuzmina, Viktor Horinyak

Dmitri Nazarov

Dmitriy Nagiev

Sergey Epishev

Olga Kuzmina

Viktor Horinyak

Марина Могилевская

Sergey Lavygin

Mikhail Tarabukin

Mikhail Bashkatov

Zhanyl Asanbekova

Vasily Kutsenko

Igor Tudvasev

Dimitry Jan

Pavel Danilov

Vitaly Shlyappo

Maksim "Max" Lavrov wants to become a great chef. But he finds out that  the kitchen isn't the place for an easy career. And at restaurant  "Claude Monet," this job looks to be harder and much more complicated than just cooking.

The Kitchen

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Young chef Maksim Lavrov comes to Moscow to work in famous restaurant Claude-Monet. However, it turns out to be not so easy. He deals with a stern head chef, the ridicule of the team and art director Vika, with whom he spent the night before.

Episode 1

Vika tries to get Max fired; the head chef loses his favorite knife and refuses to cook.

Episode 2

The chef is preparing a banquet for the judge who deprived him of his driving license. Max can't fulfill his task - to kill a goose for the banquet. Vika is not let by her ex-boyfriend.

Episode 3

Max is given an important task - to prepare dinner for all the restaurant staff. Meanwhile, the chef finds out that someone from the restaurant wants to get a job with competitors. Bartender Kostya likes the waitress Nastya. Max decides to help a friend establish a personal life.

Episode 4

Max is trying to prove to Kostya that there is nothing between him and Nastya, but Nastya is sure of the opposite! Fedya and Max are competing to see which of them will cook the fish better.

Episode 5

The boss prepares for the arrival of the inspection from the SES and organizes cleaning in the kitchen. Max and Kostya accidentally throw out rare expensive mushrooms. To correct the mistake, friends have to accept the help of the homeless mand return him.

Episode 6

The chef burns his mouth with vinegar and can't appreciate the taste of his own dish. He turns to the cooks for help, but catches them in a lie. Max has to "compete" with Nastya for a free room in Kostya's apartment.

Episode 7

Viktor Barinov makes a bet with the chef of a competing restaurant Elena. They argue that Elena won't be able to spend a day in the kitchen of the Claude Monet restaurant. Nagiyev also asks Vika to babysit his dog.

Episode 8

The boss's ex-wife Tatiana brings their daughter to the restaurant and asks Vika to sit with her, but it's not so easy to keep track of little Alice even for her own father. Max is assigned to help Louis, but he has to replace him. As a result, he comprehends the secrets of confectionery and more.

Episode 9

The boss doesn't want to work on television, but he wants to make a big bet on football. He can't get the necessary amount and uses the money to buy black caviar in the hope of getting even. Max thinks that Vika is in love with him and begins to avoid her, which is why Vika lies to Max that she is pregnant.

Episode 10

Vika learns that "Claude Monet" should be visited by a restaurant critic. She is trying to calculate the criticism among restaurant visitors. Max, meanwhile, defends his culinary abilities, and the chef defends his leadership in the kitchen.

Episode 11

To raise the rating of the restaurant, Vika tries to introduce new ideas, new orders and a new menu, and the chef tries to defend the old ones. Max seeks Vicky's attention persistently and not without results!

Episode 12

The boss is quarreling with Elena over a parking space. Max comes up with a "lie to save Vicky", for which she has to pay. Nastya and Kostya are going to move on to "real" intimacy in a relationship.

Episode 13

The chef is "unable" to hold an outdoor banquet - he turns out to be very drunk! Max decides to save the banquet from failure. Staying in the kitchen for the chief, Lyova gets the opportunity to prove himself as a chef.

Episode 14

Vika offers Max to move in with her. Max will have to figure out if he is ready to live together. Kostya stays in the apartment alone with Nastya. He enjoys the opportunities, but gradually realizes that he is missing something. The chef takes full advantage of the kindness and gentleness of the faithful sous-chef and at the same time sets him up. A cold war begins between old friends.

Episode 15

In "Claude Monet" an inspection from the migration service came. Max, meanwhile, is trying to figure out the recipe for the chef's "branded" pate.

Episode 16

A new seasonal dish "from the chef" is a dish from Senya. The owner and the chef pay a "friendly visit" to Elena's restaurant, but the chef is hostile. Max is upset that Vika doesn't want to communicate with Nastya and Kostya - he comes up with a way to bring his friends closer.

Episode 17

Kostya and Max are going to raise the rent. Max teaches his friend to get left-handed earnings from the bar. Nagiyev is dissatisfied with the restaurant's income and introduces a strict austerity regime, which is why he fires several kitchen workers.

Episode 18

Igor, a potential new owner, comes to the restaurant. The boss tries to influence the owner's decision, returns his team to work, and loses his job on television. Max tells Vika that they have a free relationship, but soon he has a reason to regret these words.

Episode 19

The Chief's drunken prank threatens him with severe punishment of the master, but turns into a holiday for the whole team. Max is preparing a luxurious gift for Vicky, but on her birthday he presents her with a completely different "surprise". Nastya offers Kostya to move to a "new stage of relationship", but forgets to specify which one.

Episode 20

The new owner of Claude Monet forbids the Chef to drink alcohol while working. Max is trying to apologize to Vika for cheating, and Nagiyev is going to divorce his wife.

The chef is trying to prove the advantages of French cuisine and defend Vika. Max is forced to "established" a relationship with Nastya's father. Sasha wants to be close to Max, but not only as a friend.

Elena provides driving services to the Chief. Max negotiates with Sasha about a free relationship. Fedya argues with Senya that he can eat a leather belt.

The famous French chef Voldemar Barani comes to the restaurant "Claude Monet" with a master class. Max agrees to fly to Cyprus with Sasha, but unexpectedly explains himself to Vika. Now he has to give up one of the girls.

The leader of the Spartak team should come to visit the Chef. Max can't make a choice between Vika and Sasha. Once in the hospital, he hopes to calmly figure everything out, but while there, Max continues to rush "between two fires".

Max is worried that because of his jambs he can't get into the "special team of the Chef". He adjusts a joint trip to the bathhouse and finds out how the members of this team - Senya, Fedya and even the sous-chef - did at one time.

Another argument between the Chef and Elena spills into morning runs. But they have to measure themselves not with sports achievements, but with health. Nastya brings home a "guy" - a homeless man Rodion Sergeevich. Max and Kostya are not happy with the new neighbor and are trying to survive him.

The boss wants to invite Elena on a date, but is afraid of refusal. With Max's light hand, he learns modern courtship methods. To help Nastya make peace with her father, Kostya has to talk to him "in a manly way".

Max becomes a victim of harassment by Christina. He tries to understand what he is more afraid of - the Master's jealousy or the Mistress's anger. The behavior of the Chef in love causes false suspicions among the cooks.

The boss is in the hospital. To maintain the reputation of the restaurant, Senya is appointed to "portray" Viktor Petrovich in front of important guests. Among other things, he is visited by the creditor Chef, and now Sene himself needs support. Sasha intends to move in with Max, and Max intends to prevent her from doing so. Nastya organizes the rescue of a delicatessen turtle.

Doctors forbid the Chef to smoke. In order not to give up the bad habit, he goes for various tricks. Sasha and Nastya hardly get along in Max and Kostya's apartment, and all four of them suffer from it. Senya and Fedya start another argument, which develops into a quarrel, and the sous-chef tries to restore "peace and friendship" in the kitchen.

A young chef Alex comes to the restaurant to replace the sick Chef. Max helps him join the team, but after learning about the new boss's plans for Vika, he "helps" him to leave.

The chef is fed up with hospital food and is ready to do anything for a piece of meat. Max cooks for a vegetarian, but recklessly leaves the dish unattended. The owner suffers from the persecution of the journalist and asks for help from Sena and Fedya.

The boss receives a voucher to the sanatorium as a gift from Elena and "goes to rest". Max is concerned that Ilya, Sasha's former waiter and ex-boyfriend, returns to the restaurant.

The boss expects to continue the date with Elena. It remains to figure out where to invite her for this. Kostya and Nastya expand their "love horizons". Ilya is trying to get Sasha back.

The boss meets Elena's son. It happens spontaneously and not too successfully. Elena is looking for a way to improve her boys' relationship. Max has a plan of revenge for the intriguer Ilya, drawing inspiration from Eastern philosophy, but his victory also turns out to be a defeat.

Max wants to apologize to Ilya and organizes a party at home. Trying to tell his friend the truth about Sasha's betrayal, Kostya himself gets into a tangle of lies. Louis flirts with a girl and now doesn't know how to get rid of her attention. The boss, at Elena's insistence, learns to control fits of anger.

Max is called to replace the sous-chef during his vacation. In addition to stale products, unplanned guests and drunken cooks, an unexpected offer from the Chef is waiting for him. Kostya and Nastya's parents are seriously alarmed by a strange call: a mysterious stranger demands money in exchange for... Nastya.

Because of the skirmish between the Chef and Vicky, a real war begins between the kitchen and the hall workers. Max is forced to make a choice in favor of one of the parties. A regular visitor of retirement age appears in the restaurant, who is interested not only in French cuisine. The host is preparing for a meeting with a famous Romanian director.

The boss refuses to move to Elena, fearing to lose his independence. A meeting with a former classmate makes Nastya think about the wedding. Max tries in fain to explain himself to the Chef. As a result, he gets a chance to prove himself and stay in the team, albeit in a new role.

Max starts working as a waiter. Nagiyev decides that it's time for the restaurant to keep up with the times, and is looking for a new chef - a specialist in molecular cuisine. As a result, Viktor Barinov's eldest daughter, Katya, becomes him. Nastya doesn't dare to tell her father that she's pregnant. Max is trying to ask Vika out on a date by any means...

Max and Ilya argued: who will pick up the most tips per shift. Meanwhile, a commotion is happening in the kitchen: Senya and Fedya play a trick on Katya, taking her clothes from her. Katya decides to take revenge on them: she prepared a molecular dish with mutton manure. Nagiyev, not suspecting anything, tries the dish, and he likes it. Meanwhile, Nastya can't help herself and eats meat. Nagiyev fires Sasha because of Ilya.

Maxim had a conflict with a client who turned out to be the prefect's wife. And now Maxim and Vika have to apologize to her. Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Katya actively mess in the team. The boss doesn't like it, and he decides to prevent it...

Elena gave the boss an elephant, which brings good luck, and now the boss is lucky everywhere! Nagiyev eventually divorced Kristina, and now he has a reason to raise everyone's salary and himself. Ilya falls under the hot hand and the changeable mood of Nagiyev, who fires him. Ilya decides to take revenge on Nagiyev, but the boss, Max and Katya also suffer from it. Max is trying to get closer to Vika again.

Nagiyev tries to win Vicky's favor, but Max is getting jealous. Senya is caught stealing, and not for the first time. Katya is going to leave the restaurant, but she can stay on one condition: if the chef makes her a sous-chef of molecular cuisine. Will the boss adme this condition?

Max is suffering because of Vicky. Nagiyev and his ex-wife Kristina are fighting for the restaurant, trying to find out which of them is the full owner. They want to organize events on the same day in secret from each other. The boss is trying to please both of them...

Max realizes that he is losing Vika and tries to come up with the perfect plan to get her back, but every plan ends sadly. The main problem is Nagiyev. Kostya and Nastya are arguing about the name of their future baby...

Elena calls the boss to a meeting with her friends, and the boss has football - Spartak-CSKA. The boss tries to get to the TV by any means, but in the end he is defeated. Because of Nagiyev, Max is working in the kitchen again... though, as a janitor. Maxim is going to quit, but soon he becomes a cook again...

Kostya got a second job, but hides it from Nastya, since he works for her father. The boss goes on a singe and drags Max behind him...

Lova, with the help of Max, is trying to arrange a date with Katya. The boss argues with Nagiyev that he can find himself a woman in one day...

An old friend of the chef and the curator of the academy, from which Katya was expelled, comes to the restaurant. Because of this, Max becomes a victim of Katina's lies about pregnancy. The boss thinks Nagiyev wants to fire him...

Grandfather Kirill is the main enemy of the restaurant and tries to take revenge on the workers all the time. The persuasions of Nagiyev and the chief do not work. Soon grandfather Kirill dies. Vika moves from her apartment to Nagiyev and leaves the keys to Nastya, who gives them to Max...

Is Nagiyev ready for a serious relationship with Vika, and Vika with Nagiyev? Who smashed the bar in Claude Monet? What happened that night between Max and Katya?

The boss doesn't like Katya's new boyfriend, and he tries to get rid of him with money. Max has a conflict with the Caucasians. Katya gets into an accident on a motorcycle.

Nagiyev needs to learn how to cook urgently. Vika quits the restaurant, and Max uses his chance to get her back.

There's a poltergeist in the kitchen! Max is trying to come up with his own dish. Nagiyev appoints Kristina as the art director of the restaurant, but it was an extremely rash decision on his part.

Nagiyev is thinking about selling the restaurant. Max realizes that Katya likes it and begins to rejoice at it until Vika returns to the restaurant...

Vika sets new rules for all kitchen staff. The boss gets angry, but then changes his position. Max is trying to explain himself to Katya and talk to Vika.

Andrei Mikhailovich, the new owner of the restaurant, saw Rodion Sergeevich in the backyard of the restaurant and wants to hand him over to the police. In a hurry, the chief says that Rodion Sergeevich is his future employee, and takes him to his kitchen. There it turns out that Rodion Sergeevich is a famous businessman who disappeared 3 years ago. Max starts a new relationship with Vika, until Katya quits the kitchen...

Maxim pretends to have lost his memory to start a relationship with Vika. Soon his plan is revealed... Nastya's fights start at the wedding. Nagiyev buys the restaurant with the help of Rodion Sergeevich...

Episode 21

Max and Vika get used to the family life together. The chef becomes the hero of a television program, which is filmed directly in the restaurant's kitchen. Because of this, the boss has a conflict with Nagiyev. Kostya and Nastya can't retire because of their son's whims. Nagiyev is offered the role of Napoleon.

Max's half-brother, Denis, unexpectedly comes to visit Max and Vika and asks to live for a while. They're trying to get him a job. Nagiyev is looking for a new chef instead of the fired Viktor Petrovich. In the evening, the drunken boss hits Nagiyev by car.

Elena helps Barinov out of the checkpoint, but under certain conditions. Nagiyev introduces the employees to the new boss, Herman Mikhailovich, who immediately decides to conduct certification.

Vika really wants to have a child, but Max is always torn between his wife and his brother's problems. Viktor Petrovich is getting used to the new team. Because of Herman Löw's character, he goes to work at the Arcobaleno restaurant as a sous-chef.

Vika demands that Max ask Denis to move out of their apartment. Max wants to get a place as a sous-chef instead of the departed Lova, and Lova is trying to deal with Viktor Petrovich in the new place.

Victor meets his old friend Vladimir (he calls him Volodka in a friendly way), who wants to come to a restaurant for lunch. Victor does not admit that he is no longer a chef, and he has to get out of this situation. Max quarrels with Vika and decides to arrange a "conciliation dinner", for which he steals a bottle of expensive Nagiyev wine from the restaurant bar.

A representative of the "Union of Cinematographers" comes to the restaurant to order a banquet. Nagiyev is forced to ask Viktor Petrovich to return to Claude Monet for one evening. Victor agrees, but on his own terms.

His mother is coming to visit Max. Because of this, Denis is forced to move out. Senya rents a room to Denis to finally fulfill his dream: to buy a motorboat. Barinov suspects that they want to fire Elena.

Kostya asks Max and Vika to take care of his son, but Vika is urgently called to the restaurant, and Max has to stay alone with the child. Herman reports the theft in the restaurant to the police - a copper saucepan is missing.

Restaurant workers fantasize about what movie about the restaurant they would like to watch. Senya makes an action movie, Fedya makes erotica, Nastya makes a horror movie, and the boss makes a fantasy.

Victor is plotting a chef from a neighboring restaurant. Vika and Max are fighting because Max is not behaving like a man. Kostya is trying to become a sommelier. Nagiyev takes Denis to a restaurant as a musician part-time.

Barinov finds diamonds in fish. Sasha returned to Moscow with her fiancé and plans to celebrate the wedding in a restaurant. At the wedding, Sasha kisses Max in front of Vicky, and Maxim is forced to go to a friend in St. Petersburg.

Vika doesn't show her feelings because of breaking up with Max. Katya, Viktor Petrovich's daughter, returns to the Claude Monet restaurant, where the dog's birthday is celebrated on the same day. Taking the opportunity, Barinov throws a cat there and sets up his daughter.

Herman tries to take care of Victoria and decides to resort to cunning. It's Viktor Petrovich's birthday, but the planned celebration is under threat of disruption. Katya discovers that there is a shortage of food in the restaurant.

After Viktor Petrovich's anniversary, many people do not wake up alone. German is with Ainura, Katya is with Denis, and Barinov is with his daughter's friend, a waitress Eva. In the evening, there should be a show-kitchen of molecular cuisine in the restaurant, and Katya's important ingredients are missing. Denis is called to help her.

Denis is trying to earn permission from the boss to meet his daughter. Lova prepared a surprise gift for her mother for her anniversary. Nastya offers Kostya to enroll in sommelier courses, but this makes him drink all the time. German proposes to hold a Halloween-style corporate party in a restaurant, which everyone agrees to. Then he seriously sets up Vika in front of Nagiyev, but soon saves her from dismissal.

Eva informs Viktor Petrovich that she is expecting a child. Katya meets a childhood friend who has already married and decides to say that she is also getting married soon. Herman continues his attempts to conquer Victoria.

Katya and Denis start dating. Fedya and Senya find a video on the Internet, where you can see how German brutally beats the cook. Soon it turns out that Herman has mental problems, which is why he constantly drinks a sedative. Then the team of chefs together with the chef decide to get rid of Herman.

Nagiyev arranges a culinary show "Chef" in his restaurant, in which Viktor Petrovich really wants to participate. Denis has nightmares. Nastya wants a second child.

Two candidates enter the final of Nagiyev's show: Viktor Barinov and Oksana Smirnova. Katya almost breaks up with Denis, but everything is solved. Vika finds out that she is expecting a child from Max. Viktor Petrovich loses the show to his rival and decides to open his own restaurant.

The Victor restaurant opens in the five-star boutique hotel "Eleon". The boss has a lot of contradictions with the hotel administrator. Denis wants to propose to Katya at the opening of the restaurant.

Denis is tormented by his conscience because he cheated on Katya, and he is going to confess everything. A "secret customer" stays at the hotel.

The owner of the hotel Eleonora Andreevna is trying to fire Denis, and Denis can't admit to Katya that he cheated on her.

The boss and Elena are starting their relationship again. Katya is going to give Denis an erotic surprise. She is waiting for Denis in a suite, but Eleonora Andreevna unexpectedly comes there.

Max returns to Moscow. Elena meets Eleonora Andreevna, who invites her and the chef to an exhibition of her own paintings. Max is trying to find out the term of Vicky's pregnancy. Denis admits to Katya that he cheated on her and leaves the hotel.

Max and Vika go to the registry office to file for divorce. Max stubbornly does not leave attempts to find out who Vica is pregnant with. Katya falls into a depressed state, accompanying him with drinking alcohol.

The boss beats the oligarch in the casino. Max does not leag behind Vicky and returns to work in the kitchen. Marina is jealous of Senya to Katya and gets a job with him.

An Arab sheikh is coming to the hotel. Everyone is trying to please him. One of his wives is blackmailing Katya and the boss. Kostya thinks that the sheikh wants to take Nastya to the harem.

Max does not leave attempts to regain Vicky's favor and promises her that he will never lie again. Elena finds an old suit of Viktor Petrovich, which is too small for him, after which Victor makes a bet that he can easily lose weight in a week. Lova falls in love with Gulnara, Ainura's niece.

A commission comes to the hotel to assign "stars" to the hotel. The chief has to replace Mikhail Dzhekovich before the commission. Max and Kostya are looking for a hypnotizing fraudster who pays with unreal money.

Max is visited by his grandparents, who know nothing about Max and Vicky's divorce. The chef hires a new cook to spite Eleonora Andreevna, but when he finds out the truth about him, he turns everything in his favor.

Viktor Petrovich is preparing a birthday present for Elena, but everything turns out a little differently. Max thinks that a pimm massage therapist is coming to Vika. Max and Vika are getting divorced.

Viktor Petrovich celebrates Elena's consent to become his wife, and the restaurant staff at this time gives free rein to their own fantasies about their soul mates.

Elena bought Viktor Petrovich a ticket for the Spartak match as a gift, but because of the boss's gambling, they had to celebrate the anniversary in the kitchen of the restaurant. Max gets into a sensitive situation with Eleonora Andreevna.

Elena informs Viktor Petrovich that she is not yet divorced from her ex-husband. Viktor Petrovich takes on the divorce. Maxim helps Vika in front of Eleonora Andreevna. A new waiter appears in the restaurant - Nikita.

Mikhail Dzhekovich tries to get Eleonora Andreevna's attention, remaining a secret admirer. Max meets his first love. Nikita hides from Katya that he has a rich father. The kitchen staff makes fun of Max, and he makes fun of them, not suspecting what it could lead to.

Mikhail Dzhekovich wants to fight with Nagiyev because of jealousy of Eleonora Andreevna, and Viktor Petrovich does not allow him to do anything stupid. Max finds out that Vicky had false fights, but later she has real ones. Nikita has to steal Nagiyev's car.

Max, together with Viktor Petrovich, is preparing to check out Vicky from the maternity hospital. They have a conflict with their neighbor. Lova tries to get Guli's attention, but she has false suspicions. Nikita is preparing a romantic surprise for Katya and is looking for a musician.

Nagiyev wants to return Viktor Petrovich to Claude Monet and comes up with a clever plan. Inspector Michelin is coming to Moscow. Nikita is preparing a romantic evening for Katya, and Maxim gets an unexpected promotion.

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