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| 1x01 - Exile on Main Street: | | Jack Bourdain was a great chef four years ago until he made his own demise. Now, he works in a restaurant where they serve "ninja pizza explosions" for kids birthday parties. He is contacted by Pino Lugeria, the owner of a great restaurant, to take over the kitchen and assemble a team of chefs, waiters, help and a menu in under 48 hours. For this, he goes back to his old friends, Seth Klein, the pastry chef, Teddy Wong, the seafood expert, Steven Daedelus, as a sous-chef and also great thief, [...] (More) |
| 1x02 - Aftermath: | | Jack blames Steven when expensive steaks and caviar start to go missing from the kitchen. Stockbrokers run up a huge bill and then dine and dash. |
| 1x03 - Dinner Date With Death: | | Jack's old mentor comes to Nolita with a strange request. He wants Jack to feed him to death. |
| 1x04 - French Fight: | | Nolita gets into a feud with a rival restaurant after the head chef steals from Nolita's menu and seduces Mimi. |
| 1x05 - You Lose, I Win: | | Jack realizes that he needs to spend more time with the patrons if he wants Nolita to be more successful. To accomplish this, he hires a female chef, which doesn't go over well with the rest of the kitchen staff. |
| 1x06 - Rabbit Test: | | Rabbits arrive for slaughter, and that freaks out staffers, who are unwilling to do the deed. Elsewhere, Jack gets romantically entangled with a vegan he insulted, and Steven sets out to charm Becky (Erinn Hayes), who's a very competitive adversary. |
| 1x07 - The Robbery: | | After a gang of armed robbers target Nolita, the restaurant runs low on patrons and several staff members begin to freak out. Jack, desperate for a revival, resorts to calling customers back without positive results. Steven throws a model party to turn their luck around but the crew realize that the models eat the food then vomit it back out again. In the end, Jack and the staff realize that if you are good at what you do, the customers will come back on their own. |
| 1x08 - Teddy Takes Off: | | Food and Wine magazine writes a favorable review of one of the Nolita meals that Jack invented, but Teddy makes. Jack decides to take credit for the meal, making Teddy storm out of the kitchen in protest. Jack decides he has had enough of Teddy's hot temper and replaces him with a gay chef called Chet, who the staff hates and decide to torture in various ways in an effort to get Teddy back.
Teddy, finding out he has been replaced, takes a job at another restaurant, where he is propositioned by [...] (More) |
| 1x09 - Let's Do Brunch: | | Jack and Becky’s secret affair continues. Meanwhile, Pino orders Jack to take his shortbreads off the menu because they are not selling. Becky convinces Jack to start serving brunch even though the rest of the staff is dead set against it. Seth has a run in with a suave chocolate maker. |
| 1x10 - Praise be Praise: | | Jim tries desperately to impress Jack with his initiative in the kitchen, but his good intentions turn against him causing Jack to give him the silent treatment. A “no send-back” policy is introduced at Nolita which annoys Mimi. Jack gets rated on his “bedroom skills” by the author of the ChefHunter.net website. But when he is given an score that does not sit well with him, he goes out to prove to the author he is top material. |
| 1x11 - An Affair To Remember: | | Exposes the secrets of the restaurant business through the delectable story of a talented chef who's determined to reclaim his reputation as one of the best in the industry. |
| 1x12 - Power Play: | | Mimi is the new owner of Nolita and Jack goes through every dirty trick in the book to gain control of the restaurant. But Mimi is more determined than ever to run Nolita, a power-struggle between the two enfolds. The two still fight for control over the restaurant and staff but when a surprise health inspector shows up for an inspection, this prompts Jack to try and bribe her and Mimi doing the inspection the honest way. Also, Jim deals with Tanya's kiss, and trying to keep it secret from Seth [...] (More) |
| 1x13 - And the Award Goes To...: | | Now that Nolita has changed hands and Jack and Mimi are in charge, Nolita is nominated for an EPICURE Award. However, Jack soon realizes that Becky's restaurant is also nominated for the same award prompting a series of mistrust and hostility towards Jack for welcoming her back into his life. Seth finally discovers Jim's indiscretion and Ramon sees the Virgin Mary in a Prize Lobster. |
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