Mikhail Tarabukin

This zany, character-driven melodrama focuses on successful young professionals living fast-paced lives in ultra-modern Moscow. (Picture This! Entertainment)

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 in restaurant "Claude Monet" this job looks even harder and much more complicated than just cooking.

Recently, Slavik has started to question the meaning of life and he has not found a positive or satisfactory answer. On the brink of suicide and about to end it all, Slavik is offered a chance to alter the outcome of his life.

The restaurant team comes to grief and is forced to relocate to Paris, where Chef and Max face dangerous rivals. The team must feed the Presidents and overcome obstacles million à la française. (imdb)

At the personal request of the President of Russia, Viktor Barinov and his team travel to Sochi for the World Championship among professional chefs, to prove that he and his team are the best in the world. In this hard struggle for the title of the winner, Chef will be assisted by a "dark horse": his own son Ivan, whom he unexpectedly found out about on the eve of the championship. (imdb)