The story: Zinos owns a restaurant, the Soul Kitchen; he cooks too, but is not a chef. His girlfriend Nadine doesn’t understand his attachment to the place, and she has to move to Shanghai for work. Zinos’ brother Ilias is in jail because he’s a thief, but if he can prove that he has a job he can spend some time outside, so he asks Zinos to sign a document where he hires him. Ilias has no intention of working for real, but he gets interested in the Soul Kitchen’s waitress Lucia. Zinos and Nadine talk over Skype, and when he hurts his back she tells him to go to Anna, a physiotherapist or something, for help. Zinos meets Thomas, a guy he hasn’t seen for some time, and Thomas asks him to sell him his restaurant, and is very insistent. You can tell that he is trouble, but Zinos can’t. Thomas tries everything to make him fail and close, but Zinos who can’t work anymore because of his back, hires a new chef, Shayn, and the place slowly gets new customers and starts working great. Zinos want to go to Shanghai to be with Nadine, so he gives his restaurant to his brother, who is an idiot and loses it playing poker, so to pay his debts he gives it to Thomas. Nadine comes back because her grandma died, and Zinos loses his mind when he sees her holding hands with another guy.
Now, it might seem not too bad, but it was not only annoying that Zinos walked the whole time with a slipped disc looking like a zombie, but there were other scenes that I didn’t like. The party when the chef put so much of an aphrodisiac root into the dessert that it turned out an orgy was not fun because that was like a drug that people didn’t know they were ingesting, and watching the IRS woman looking around to find a man to have sex with was also not fun because she didn’t really want to, she couldn’t help herself. The place should have been shut down and the chef arrested.
Many things were obvious, you knew it way before they happened: since you see Thomas taking pictures of himself having sex with the IRS woman and subsequently you hear her asking for his name, you can imagine that she won’t take it lightly and seek revenge, now that she’s back to her senses. As soon as Thomas sits at the poker table, it was obvious that Ilias would have lost the restaurant, no question about it. Even the ending is obvious: Zinos getting together with Anna. It was obvious from the first time he speaks on the phone with Nadine that they wouldn’t last, and Lucia got together with Ilias, so Zinos had to get involved with Anna.
The only thing I couldn’t imaging way ahead was how he could get the restaurant back: after Thomas was arrested the place was sold at an auction, and Zinos asked Nadine, now rich after inheriting her grandma’s money, 200.000 euros to buy it back. That wouldn’t have been enough but for a stroke of luck: the other man bidding ingested a button and couldn’t raise, so Zinos won, for 200.000 and 15 euros. I didn’t like even this, that it all turned out ok only because of sheer luck.
I didn’t like the chef at all, because he was way too arrogant, talking about his ‘art’, the great man who couldn’t lower himself to make the simple things that people wanted to eat.
Only one good thing: the first few minutes, Nadine’s grandma was fun. I liked her.
Zinos Kazantsakis-Adam Bousdoukos
Ilias-Moritz Bleibtreu
Nadine-Pheline Roggan
Lucia-Anna Bederke
Shayn-Birol Unel
Anna-Dorka Gryllus
Thomas-Wotan Wilke Mohring
Grandma-Monica Bleibtreu
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