Kitchen (Кухняrom.) is a Russian comedy series produced by Yellow, Black and White and KeyStone Production, broadcast on October 22, 2012. The show focuses on the comedic events that unfold in a fictional restaurant in Moscow called "Claude Monet".
The series is set in Moscow and mainly focuses on the young and enthusiastic Maxim "Max" Lavrov, who dreams of becoming a renowned chef one day, so after finishing culinary college in his home town of Voronezh and completing his army service, he goes to work at Moscow's most expensive restaurant - "Claude Monet", whose owner is Dmitry Nagiev, a famous Russian actor.
This show provides examples of:
- The Alcoholic: Victor Barinov second main flaw. Often drinks at work, comes drunk, and appears on screen after a hangover.
- Angry Chef: Victor Barinov, very hot-blooded chef who constantly yells at his team.
- As Himself: Dmitry Nagiyev, famous Russian actor, plays… Dmitry Nagiyev, famous Russian actor and also "Claude Monet" owner.
- Badass Crew : The chef's elite consists of chef itself, Lyova, Senya, Fedya and Louie. Max joins the team later.
- Compulsive Liar: main character Max is pathological liar. He lies to everyone, especially to Vika and Sasha.
- Fedya also likes to lie, especially about his mysterious Dark and Troubled Past.
- I Ate WHAT?!:
- Lyova eats the salad that the Chef made to find out why the client likes the Chef's salad but doesn't like the same salad when he makes it. Victor takes him to his office and explains that their client is a Dirty Old Man with many mistresses, so he adds large doses of Viagra to the salad that Lyova just ate.
- Nagyev often eats random dishes in the kitchen, which leads to him eating a prank dish made from sheep's poop. On another occasion, he eats an unverified puffer fish fillet and gets poisoned.
- In-Series Nickname : Chief always calls Max "Rump" from the start of the series. In " Kitchen in Paris" movie reveals that chef was called "rump" by his father.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Victor Barinov, despite his anger, he truly loves his team and his daughter's
- Food Fight: Chef constantly throwing food at his cooks.
- The food fight scene between cooks and waiters in episode 31.
- Speech Impediment: Lyova, the sous chef stutters when speaking. Temporally spoke normally in episode 54.
- Sticky Fingers: Senya always steals food from the kitchen. Everyone is aware of this, but throughout the series he was not fired for it.
- Plucky Comic Relief: Senya and Fedya, who are constantly making fun of and pulling pranks on colleagues, especially newbies, such as Max or Denis.