Restaurant movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant restaurant movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good, touching, semi serious and culinary films and TV shows about / with restaurant, chef, food, cooking, kitchen, cooking and food, wine, love and romance, love and gourmet plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as restaurant: Mostly Martha (2001), The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014), The Menu (2022), Kitchen Confidential (2005), Delicious (2021), Bread of Happiness (2012), Burnt (2015), Boiling Point (2021), Love's Kitchen (2011), Eden (2006).

List of restaurant movies

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Mostly Martha (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef at a chic restaurant, Martha has no time for anything - or anyone - else. But Martha's solitary life is shaken when a fateful accident brings her sister's ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: cooking, chef, restaurant, cooking and food, food, love and romance, italian food, wine, self discovery, family relations, opposites attract, fall in love ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: germany, italy
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The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience: teens, family outing, date night, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: restaurant, cooking, cooking and food, food, chef, culture clash, interracial relations, prejudice, beautiful scenery, interracial romance, small town, immigrant ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: france, india, mumbai india, south of france, london ...
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 7.2
 383K
The Menu (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A couple travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
Style: suspense, atmospheric, dark comedy, humorous, art house ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: food, restaurant, revenge, obsession, food critic, chef, perfectionist, mass murder, social satire, grudge, murder, cooking ...
Time: 2020s
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Kitchen Confidential (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Kitchen Confidential is an American television sitcom that debuted on September 19, 2005, on the Fox network, based on Anthony Bourdain's New York Times bestselling book, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. Bradley ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot: chef, cooking and food, restaurant, comeback, food, lifestyle change, workplace situations, one more chance, lifestyle, success, supportive friend, character change ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.0
 6K
Delicious (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story: France, 1789 - just before the Revolution. When talented chef Manceron is dismissed from his prestigious position by the Duke of Chamfort, he loses the taste for cooking. But when he meets the mysterious Louise, together they decide to create the ...
Style: scenic, dramatic
Audience: kids
Plot: restaurant, food, poison, gastronomy, chef, murder disguised as suicide, plot twist, revenge, rain, rainstorm, cooking, horse ...
Time: 18th century
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Bread of Happiness (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A couple decide to relocate from Tokyo to the northern island of Hokkaido where they settle and establish a bakery and café called Mani. One cooks. The other bakes. Everyone walks out happy.
Style: atmospheric, semi serious, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: restaurant, food, hobby, marriage, love, family relations, cooking, revelation, bittersweet, family problems, hospitality, life philosophy ...
Time: 2010s
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 6.6
 132K
Burnt (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.
Style: culinary, inspirational, talky, exciting, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: chef, cooking, restaurant, food, abuse of power, violent behavior, violent man, male chauvinist, psychopath as protagonist, redemption, bullying, physical abuse ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, y2k
Place: london, new orleans
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 7.5
 41K
Boiling Point (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A head chef balances multiple personal and professional crises at a popular restaurant in London.
Style: suspense, tension, dark comedy, powerful, psychological ...
Audience: date night
Plot: restaurant, chef, food, food critic, bartender, drug, gastronomy, art, depression, addiction, mental health, alcoholism ...
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Love's Kitchen (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Rob Haley (Dougray Scott), an up-and-coming chef and restaurateur in London, is grief-stricken when he loses his wife. With encouragement from his infamous friend and real life TV Chef Gordon Ramsay, Rob decides to spice up his life by turning a ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: cooking, chef, cooking and food, restaurant, food, lifestyle, fall in love, starting over, love affair, english countryside, wine, gourmet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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 7.2
 894
Eden (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Fat German star restaurant chef Gregor shows romantic interest in waitress Eden Drebb. She's happily married to hunky Xaver Drebb, but feels romantically neglected. Gregor's deserts seduce her, first trough her brat daughter Leonie, to ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, humorous, touching ...
Plot: restaurant, food, infidelity, fall in love, forbidden love, lifestyle, swimming, couples, love and romance, dishonesty, rivalry, wooing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, paris france
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A Taste of Romance (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Uptight French chef, Sara Westbrook, gets fired up when her upscale café, Chez Varenne, is suddenly overshadowed by a new restaurant moving in next door run by a group of rowdy firemen. Led by handsome former fire fighter Gill Callahan and his ...
Style: feel good, sweet, light, funny, emotional ...
Audience: family outing, date night, girls' night
Plot: firefighter, restaurant, chef, food, love, rivalry, lifestyle, love and romance, cooking, cooking and food, love affair, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Frankie and Johnny (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fling with waitress Cora, Frankie develops an attraction for Cora's friend and fellow waitress ...
Style: sentimental, touching, light, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: cafe, true love, waitress, restaurant, male female relationship, ex convict, loneliness, dating, love, love story, life philosophy, friendship ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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No Reservations (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined ...
Style: feel good, romantic, sentimental, sweet, uplifting ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: cooking, restaurant, chef, love, love story, cooking and food, opposites attract, fall in love, initially antagonists, guardian, love and romance, food ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: new york, italy, usa, manhattan new york city
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 6.7
 106K
Waiting... (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Employees at a Bennigan's-like restaurant (called, creatively enough, Shenanigan's), kill time before their real lives get started. But while they wait, they'll have to deal with picky customers who want their steak cooked to order ...
Style: funny, feel good, humorous, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: restaurant, food, employer employee relationship, friendship, workplace, workplace romance, college, staff, prank, buddies, workplace situations, wooing ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, France
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but ...
Style: art house, dark comedy, allegory, surreal, black comedy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: food, cannibalism, restaurant, female nudity, surrealism, unfaithful wife, gangster, erotica, adultery, sexuality, public humiliation, revenge ...
Time: year 1989, 20th century, future, 80s
Place: britain
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The Trip to Spain (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on a road trip along the coast of Spain.
Style: road movie, humorous, feel good, light, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: restaurant, food, friendship, travel, friends, friendship between men, escapades, critic, society, actor, chef, wine ...
Place: spain, europe
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Everyday People (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The closing of a local restaurant concerns a number of employees who've dedicated their lives to the eatery
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: restaurant, workplace romance, interracial relations, workplace, fighting the system, social differences, love and romance, hopes, society, boss and employee, power relations, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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 6.6
 18K
Le Chef (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A veteran chef faces off against his restaurant group's new CEO, who wants to the establishment to lose a star from its rating in order to bring in a younger chef who specializes in molecular gastronomy.
Style: light, sentimental, funny, sweet, touching ...
Plot: cooking, chef, wine, restaurant, food, mentor, creativity, love, culture clash, underdog, fight scenes, partner ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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Midnight Diner (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Set in a small restaurant in the corner of a shopping district. The unusual eatery is only open after midnight, and its standard menu consists of just a single choice. However, the customers still come for the amusing chatter and the ...
Style: contemplative, melancholic, touching, sincere, psychological
Plot: restaurant, diner, unrequited love, food, chef, cooking, beer, storytelling, employee, customer, boss, employer ...
Place: tokyo
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 7.2
 40K
Soul Kitchen (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: SOUL KITCHEN film centers on a likable but hopelessly disorganized restauranteur, Zinos, whose cafe is second home to a motley crew of lovable eccentrics. When his girlfriend Nadine up and moves to Shanghai, a love-sick Zinos decides to fly after ...
Style: talky, feel good, entertaining, funny, humorous ...
Plot: restaurant, chef, cooking, workplace, lifestyle, food, brother brother relationship, loneliness, family relations, life is a bitch, workplace problem, family business ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: germany, europe, hamburg germany
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Nora Roberts' Angels Fall (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman starts a new life in a small Wyoming mountain town after suffering a traumatic event on the other side of the country - but one day, she witnesses a murder in the woods......
Style: serious, realistic, touching, exciting, emotional ...
Plot: restaurant, murder, woman in danger, dishonesty, hidden identity, small town, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, cooking, adultery, chef, beautiful scenery, disability ...
Place: usa, wyoming
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A Dash of Love (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young woman who dreams of opening her own restaurant lands a job at a prominent restaurant whose head chef becomes her unlikely ally when the restaurant's unscrupulous owner, a Master Chef herself, plots to return the place to its former ...
Style: light, sweet, feel good, humorous, funny ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: restaurant, cooking, chef, happy ending, love, food, intrigue, promise, rivalry, society, love and romance, male female relationship ...
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Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A troubled security guard begins working at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. While spending his first night on the job, he realizes the night shift at Freddy's won't be so easy to make it through.
Style: supernatural thriller, scary, suspenseful, dread, captivating ...
Plot: restaurant, supernatural horror, pizzeria, security guard, doll, video game, monster, terror, job, night, dinner, robot ...
Time: 80s, year 2000, 2000s, year 1980
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Kitchen in Paris (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The employees of the famous Russian "Claude Monet" restaurant are forced to move their business to Paris.
Style: humorous, entertaining, captivating, funny, feel good ...
Plot: restaurant, escapades, workplace, couples, friendship, coworker, co worker co worker relationship, chef, cooking, gastronomy, meal, waiter ...
Place: paris france
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The Slammin' Salmon (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The brutal former heavyweight boxing champion Cleon "Slammin'" Salmon (Duncan), now owner of a Miami restaurant, institutes a competition to see which waiter can earn the most money in one night: the winner stands to gain $10,000, ...
Style: humorous, funny, light, talky, not serious ...
Plot: restaurant, chef, cooking and food, farce, mentor, food, boss and employee, workplace, power relations, workplace situations, workplace intrigue, obnoxious boss ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: miami, usa
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Simply Irresistible (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After her mother's death, mediocre chef Amanda Shelton is having trouble attracting customers to her family's restaurant. While shopping for ingredients, she is given a magical crab by mysterious Gene O'Reilly. Afterward, ...
Style: romantic, teen, cute, entertaining, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: food, cooking, love, magic, chef, cooking and food, fall in love, restaurant, witch, female protagonist, magical, in love ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 6.3
 11K
The Ramen Girl (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a rĂ¢men chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: cooking, restaurant, food, culture clash, american abroad, mentor, interracial romance, chef, cooking and food, language barrier, writers, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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 7.5
 1K
Wok of Love (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: It's a love story hotter than the boiling oil in a sizzling hot wok. Across the street of the 6-star Hotel Giant, there stands a small, shabby Chinese restaurant, Hungry Wok. Chil Seong, the owner of the restaurant, originally took over the ...
Style: captivating, dorama, light, sincere, humorous ...
Plot: love triangle, restaurant, food, fall in love, chef, popularity, friendship, workplace, revenge, rivalry, entrepreneurship, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea
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 6.6
 36K
Last Holiday (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After she's diagnosed with a terminal illness, a shy woman decides to take a European vacation.
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, inspirational, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: holiday, terminal illness, vacation, hotel, female protagonist, cooking, human nature, food, love and romance, black woman, restaurant, snow ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, europe, indiana, czech republic, central europe ...
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 7.1
 14K
My King (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski accident. Dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers, she takes time to look back on a turbulent relationship that she experienced with Georgio.
Style: disturbing, psychological, rough, thought provoking, romantic drama ...
Plot: marital problem, restaurant, unhappiness, wedding, newborn, marriage, child custody, wedding ceremony, egotism, male nudity, flashback, neglected wife ...
Time: year 2015, 90s, 2010s, year 1978
Place: france, somalia
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