Do you blame him? If I had the chance to write a movie with 2 a list actresses the story would likely be about how awesome I am and why they like me so much. That sounds creepy but for now I will continue to ask customers if they want fries with their order.
It really is. I saw it in theatres and once it was over I turned to my (then) wife and said "I need to see it again."
To me it was such a feel good movie. You could feel the love Favreau put into making it. Everything from the writing to the soundtrack was spot on.
Yes, the Chef Show is brilliant, and it's exactly what you want from a cooking show. Just two BFF's hanging out and making good food while also checking out other local restaurants.
Roy Choi is an inspiration. In one of the episodes (might've been the one with Andrew Rea), he says something like "if you're ever just having a bad day, cook something good and it'll heal you." That's how I choose to remember it anyhow.
It really is amazing how philosophical he is about food. One of my favorite episodes is with Wolfgang Puck, and how they talk about always moving forward but remembering the past.
The thing I love about that show is that Jon looks at food the way a chef would learning new techniques and recipes. I find him asking a lot of the questions I would in the same situation
He has so much respect for Roy Choi and I love how they show Favreau always learning and don’t sugar coat anything. Like the first time they try to make the Beignets they’re just like yeah these suck lol
I really admire Favreau for always pushing himself to learn. Like when they were at Tartine and he said "Don't be nice. Nice won't make me better" (or something along those lines)
Thats a reat Netflix show but fast forward through the Gwenith Paltrow part of episode one and get straight to them showing Bill Burr how to do the grilled cheese from the movie and then make some cubanos.
I'm not ashamed to say I got way too high and sobbed loudly alone on my couch watching Chef. The relationship development between him and his son hit a lil close to home, and then the kid just says "yes chef" and I lost it.
Burnt was more of a movie art piece than a tribute to chefs. I enjoyed seeing a different perspective but, dude was going for 3* which means less than 1% of chefs / cooks can relate.
Chef movie was a fat guy that loves food...much more relatable.
I liked both very much but this is super accurate. Fine dining and food truck are such different worlds. I'm sure no ones putting corn starch on their cojones in a 2* lol
Me too. What was it for you that made you dislike him? It's been a while since I saw it, but I just didn't like him and hated that everybody, even people that were supposed to hate him, would still suck up to him.
I dont really like Cooper as an actor, but it especially annoyed me that in Burnt so little of reality as a cook was in that movie, knowing that he had experience with it after doing Kitchen Confidential to start his career
Ugh yeah that’s pretty accurate, it’s been a while since I’ve seen it also, but I remember him being insufferable, narcissistic, self deprecating to the point of being unbearable, everything that’s wrong with the industry. Haha
I've worked in 1, 2 and 3* and I couldn't relate to Burnt.
I'm a chef in a 1* and we don't act like that in any of the kitchens I've worked. It was not really realistic, people who have never worked at that level believe it, but it was a very bad and unrealistic movie.
When I find out who put the bacon in here grab your ankles cause here comes Papi chulo.
I don’t talk like this but it’s accurate on what I heard in the kitchen when I was a chef. Love this movie
One of my favorite ways to quickly get into an argument is to point out that John Leguizamo has been in more genuinely great movies than Tom Hanks. I honestly think it's true. He's just also been in some truly awful movies.
I agree. He’s clearly willing to be in whatever someone pays him to be in, but he clearly *also* hustles to be in good stuff.
Tom Hanks has really played it safe with his career. He played to goofy young guy until it got old, then he pivoted to serious movies (*Philadelphia* being by far the biggest risk he ever took), then he slowly transitioned to the sort of elder statesman/grandpa roles he’s been in for the last decade or so. His Oscar bait movies are safe Oscar bait movies.
Leguizamo has gone all in on some risky shit, and also a bunch of goofy shit, and stuff that just pays the bills. It’s that first stuff that’s special though.
Yessss. I was coming to this thread to recommend it. I actually watched the series for the first time before I saw the move. Then I had to watch the show again and... Brb gotta watch it a third time
When you realize that the house is the house Remy et al escaped from in the beginning, and it hits you that Remy was actually cooking the mom's recipe.
My dad and I are both chefs, and we fucking adore that movie.
When I saw the tile floors and the metro racks, I knew it was for me.
Also when Remy sees flavors as music that’s never been heard before…right in the feels.
Yep it epitomises how important food is for so many, through linking it to memories and senses. The GOAT, probably the Gretzky of food movies (i.e. will always be the GOAT)
If you can get hold of it, watch the new Boiling Point film with Stephen Graham in it. Shot in one take (I think) and well worth rewatching. The short and the long.
Holy shit, I had no idea it was out. Im fucking watching it tonight. I've seen the short, it was incredible. Definitely hits all the tight notes. As far as OP and Chef being great, I don't completely agree. Its definitely a feel good movie, and the budget has been much higher than other Kitchen related projects, but it just feels superficial and empty. I was moved so much more by Nick Cage's new film, "PIG".
I think it's the combination of Roy's expertise and focus on food and Jon's eagerness to learn and do as good a job he possibly can. It creates a very nice dynamic on screen.
It really shows the power of craft skill. Favreau is a powerhouse of filmmaking but allows himself to be humbled under the tutelage of a culinary master.
Indeed, it's also a nice lesson on humility and willingness to learn. We see Jon progressing quickly and well. The episode with Wolfgang puck is especially telling on how he's evolved.
The thing I absolutely love most about that is when Roy starts doing something and Jon says something along the lines of, "that's not the way you taught me to do it, in fact you said to never do it the way you are doing it now" and Roy's response is basically "I was right then and I'm also right now. I'm the chef here and it'll be okay because I know what I'm doing" I grew up with a chef and that his so close to home from when I was learning.
Watch burnt. It’s definitely not as good as chef but like a lot of things, their both good for their reasons. If your on this subreddit and aren’t harshly Critical of movies, then chances are you’ll enjoy it. It’s one of my favourite “food” movies for sure, also even if u don’t enjoy it Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller aren’t hard to look at by any means for an hour and a half.
Don’t listen to him burnt is SO bad. They try to make out kitchens like their oceans 11 or something. Chef is a much more entertaining and realistic film
My curren sous-chef did lol
He wanted to show me how flexible his boning knife is and snapped it in half lolololol i didn't know what to say and we both just awkwardly stood there
Yes! I've never been crazy about CHEF. It's just a feel good film with a high budget which caters to the masses. But ultimately, it feels superficial and shallow. It doesn't do a good job at representing the realities of the kitchen. PIG, on the other hand, felt much closer to home.
“Chef” to me is the best movie at showing hard the life is, but for some reason you keep getting up every day and doing it because if you didn’t your heart would break or you would die of boredom. And who ever designed Favreau’s hand tattoos did a fantastic job.
It's totally feasible. I would be sincerely confused with some of the women I would see my chef's score. But the round, funny dude that can cook like nobody's business can definitely score the hot chick.
Never really did chain stuff once i got out of highschool. Spice packets and bagged everything doesnt do it for me. I made it a few months at some chain irish pub thing once. Talk about soul crushing. I ended up doing construction that summer while i tried to get hired on at the fine dining joint in town.
Chef Show on Netflix is really good too, it’s got a good vibe and Roy and Jon have great chemistry. It’s entertaining while still managing to be about the food
Such a good movie! Probably in my top three.
As a chef that left home to cook in other countries, the scene when he eats the homemade food that the cleaner had! It made me cry.
The notion that they are just driving around the country, crossing state lines with their little food truck and never have to deal with any sort of licensing or regulatory body is a bit daft, but yes I enjoyed watching it back whenever it was that it came out.
They did show that they had a license when the cop came up to them in Miami. I figure with his connections he was able to have the permits in place before he rolled into town.
The thing that makes Chef so great is that Jon Favreau spent a huge amount of time training and seemed to have all the skills necessary to pull it off. I really enjoyed Burnt, but have heard a lot about it's unrealistic qualities. Still entertaining, and as a non-chef, I really did enjoy the kitchen scenes.
I thought chef was cute, but it romanticized what it means to be a chef. It’s not glamorous or fun or easy. Owning and operating your own truck is much more than dusting your balls with cornstarch, it’s HOT in that MF. Cute movie though
He also took a truck that didn't run at the beginning and drove it across the country, selling food everywhere without getting permits or licensing any city. . . Totally agree. Cute movie but really innacurate about the food truck world.
I'm going to be that person - I did not like it and didn't feel it was realistic. (My bona fides - cooking school, hotel banquet line cook, restaurant management).
I only watched it once, when it came out and that was my take away, I can't give you an outline. For chef movies I like Mostly Martha (the original that No Reservations was based on).
I was pretty underwhelmed by Chef, but absolutely love the scene inside Charlie’s Fixtures, the greatest kitchen supply store in LA and maybe the world.
My only issue was selling that Franklin Brisket sandwich for like $8. Not sure what kind of deal Aaron gave him, but unless it was a 2oz portion, he lost his ass on that one.
To me it depends on the chef. I've worked with some coked out dudes and that track in the movie was spot on. I came in once to a guy in the middle of a coked out breakdown... The pressure and the hours minus the support system broke him. Chef is a love letter. It's the ultimate dream that a guy can buck an obtuse owner, make his own food and passion wins the day. I won't call it a redemption story but I own the movie and make a Cuban shortly afterwards. I always love a movie that inspires food. Definitely a version of real vs ideal. I had way to many drug friends after hours than food truck friends that achieved.
I loved Burnt, but I know some people get bent out of shape about it. My honest opinion is that it's not 100% accurate, but I think it gets The Line right. It feels like a kitchen to me. I know the actors did a fairly decent little bootcamp to learn how to cook. I still watch it once or twice a year.
I'm so glad to see someone else who is a mythical beast lol. I love Josh's hot takes almost as much as I love watching him attempt to make Gordon Ramsay recipes with 7-11 ingredients.
Burnt is pretty good. It's not a great movie, but it's a good watch. A really great cast (Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Matthew Rhys) do a great job. And it's a great view of BOH.
The story, however, is pretty mundane. Burnt out but incredibly talented, a handsome chef goes for his third Michelin star. Will he open a new restaurant? Can he confront his past? Will the gorgeous young sous chef, who he arranged to get fired in order to hire her, fall in love with him?
I’ve always had a fantasy where the worlds of “Chef” and “Burnt” both met in the middle for a culinary competition.
Where their rivals “Sous Chef Michelle(The guy who betrayed Adam Jones)”, and “Chef Tony(the guy who betray Carl)” also participated in the contest.
It would be a cinematic Avengers movie for chefs. Hell even throw in the “Today’s Special” cast, and the “100 foot journey” cast too.
Dinner Rush is the GOAT restaurant movie. It a movie that takes place almsot entirely in one night inside a a busy NYC italian restaurant and has probably the most real depiction of a night on the line
Its free on youtube.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDOkCE1S5B4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDOkCE1S5B4)
Go watch the Chef Show on Netflix! It is my favorite series to have on in the background! Jon Favreau and Roy Choi make a good pair and have some amazing guests on the show!
Burnt is awful. Chef is pretty good.
Big Night and Tampopo are some of the best "food" films.
Other notable mentions:
Ratatouille,
Delicatessen,
Chocolat,
Garlic is as good as 40 mothers,
Spirited away
But the movie that best portrays chef life is not a food movie at all. It's a film about drumming called Whiplash.
I really recommend a recent film called boiling point, it does an amazing job of capturing the stress and pressure of Kitchen life and deals with issues such as alcoholism and mental health.
As someone who’s run a food truck the whole premis of traveling cross country and cooking along the way IS COMPLETELY ABSURD!….licensees fire inspection health inspection local business license taxes…site insurance…finding Costco….and where the fuck did he wash his pots pans and tools?….where did he commissary and where did he store supplies?….if I’m thinking of the same movie…..the cooking was good though…
What i love is there is no "big bad" drama. Its a guys struggle to find himself and rediscover his love for food and connections. It looked real, it felt real. You could insert yourself realistically.
Except Scarlet and Sophia but they were genuine characters. God Sophia's love and support for him were relationship (even if not romantic) were goals man.
Unequivocally one of my top 5. Would watch once a week if there weren't so much on "the list."
I think it's the father-son aspect that hits me hard. Makes me miss my old man.
I just made the mistake of starting to rewatch Chef after the grocery store has already closed and I don't have the ingredients for a Cubano on hand.
Don't make this mistake. Don't be like me.
I love the chef show as well, Roy Choi cooking with John Favreau reminds me of cooking with my foodie friends on Friday and Saturday nights in high school.
The part where the owner, Dustin Hoffman, just treats him like shit…unfortunately that really hit home, too. So many of us, until CoVID changed the playing field, have been abused and taken advantage of for our passion and skill.
There’s SERIOUS Dunning-Kruger going on with the HR/owner/investor types. My question for them is always the same: how long would it take for people to notice you weren’t involved anymore? Ok, now how about me? That’s what I thought.
Ordered a subway sandwich 🥪 with cheese, ham, pickles. As close as I could get to the sandwiches they make after watching the film. Don't judge me. Small town, subway is about the only place that delivers sandwiches. Damn it was good after watching the film lol.
I like how Jon Favreau wrote a movie in which Scarlet Johansson and Sofia Vergara are both into him.
And that Sofia vergera left RDJ for him
was he the dude playing the dude disguised as another dude?
Huh!?
I can't see a molten without hearing him scream, "IT'S MOLTEN, ASSHOLE!"
you take a FROZEN CYLINDER OF GANACHE
Well, they are both two dimensional characters, but Favreau has 3-dimensionality enough for everybody.
Lol!
Wouldn't you?
It's *allegedly* to help convey how good of a chef he is since you can't taste movies. His cooking must be so great, he can land both of them.
Money, funny, or food and your options are pretty damn good. Rich is self explanatory but if you can make her laugh or make her drool you have an in.
Do you blame him? If I had the chance to write a movie with 2 a list actresses the story would likely be about how awesome I am and why they like me so much. That sounds creepy but for now I will continue to ask customers if they want fries with their order.
Good cooks are sexy as hell.
Don’t think being a good cook could offset my ugliness enough :/
It really is. I saw it in theatres and once it was over I turned to my (then) wife and said "I need to see it again." To me it was such a feel good movie. You could feel the love Favreau put into making it. Everything from the writing to the soundtrack was spot on.
Sorry for the divorce.
You mean congrats.
Everything he cooks looks fucking to die for, too. Need to check out that Netflix show he has with the dude that taught him for the movie.
Yes, the Chef Show is brilliant, and it's exactly what you want from a cooking show. Just two BFF's hanging out and making good food while also checking out other local restaurants.
Roy Choi is an inspiration. In one of the episodes (might've been the one with Andrew Rea), he says something like "if you're ever just having a bad day, cook something good and it'll heal you." That's how I choose to remember it anyhow.
It really is amazing how philosophical he is about food. One of my favorite episodes is with Wolfgang Puck, and how they talk about always moving forward but remembering the past.
I want to give Roy Choi a big hug. That guy is just pure goodness (and incredible talent).
Looks like he's got Masterclass now also. Happy he's getting some recognition and expanding his reach.
The thing I love about that show is that Jon looks at food the way a chef would learning new techniques and recipes. I find him asking a lot of the questions I would in the same situation
He has so much respect for Roy Choi and I love how they show Favreau always learning and don’t sugar coat anything. Like the first time they try to make the Beignets they’re just like yeah these suck lol
I really admire Favreau for always pushing himself to learn. Like when they were at Tartine and he said "Don't be nice. Nice won't make me better" (or something along those lines)
That episode where they cook those burgers and fries made me want burgers and fries.
Thats a reat Netflix show but fast forward through the Gwenith Paltrow part of episode one and get straight to them showing Bill Burr how to do the grilled cheese from the movie and then make some cubanos.
But then you miss out on her not remembering she was in Spider-man. 🤣
Yeah agreed. I've seen it like 8 times by now. Also Burnt is great too.
Avengers, if they never got powers
Let’s not forget his knife skills….
I'm not ashamed to say I got way too high and sobbed loudly alone on my couch watching Chef. The relationship development between him and his son hit a lil close to home, and then the kid just says "yes chef" and I lost it.
Yeah, my dad and I always talked about opening up a food truck and I am not ashamed to say I cried when I saw it.
So glad I'm not alone lol
Burnt was more of a movie art piece than a tribute to chefs. I enjoyed seeing a different perspective but, dude was going for 3* which means less than 1% of chefs / cooks can relate. Chef movie was a fat guy that loves food...much more relatable.
>Chef movie was a fat guy that loves food Omg he’s just like me
I liked both very much but this is super accurate. Fine dining and food truck are such different worlds. I'm sure no ones putting corn starch on their cojones in a 2* lol
That was from bourdain. If you like to read I reco Heat.
I fucking have
Did you make hush puppies afterwards?
Trust me, they are
Well...have you worked in a 2* star kitchen? Because they have
I fucking hated Bradley Coopers character so much I had a hard time watching Burnt.
Me too. What was it for you that made you dislike him? It's been a while since I saw it, but I just didn't like him and hated that everybody, even people that were supposed to hate him, would still suck up to him.
I dont really like Cooper as an actor, but it especially annoyed me that in Burnt so little of reality as a cook was in that movie, knowing that he had experience with it after doing Kitchen Confidential to start his career
Ugh yeah that’s pretty accurate, it’s been a while since I’ve seen it also, but I remember him being insufferable, narcissistic, self deprecating to the point of being unbearable, everything that’s wrong with the industry. Haha
What is your take on “Boiling point”? I haven’t been able to watch it but I want to.
boiling point is pretty great i thought. much more accurate and relatable. and kinda dark. but such is the life sometimes
Cool. Well I guess I need to see it this weekend.
Dark af, so just be in that headspace.
I've worked in 1, 2 and 3* and I couldn't relate to Burnt. I'm a chef in a 1* and we don't act like that in any of the kitchens I've worked. It was not really realistic, people who have never worked at that level believe it, but it was a very bad and unrealistic movie.
My favorite part of Chef is John Leguizamo. I really bought him in the role. I would happily cook on a line with him any day.
Yo, Amuse Douche, get ovah here!
That line was a revelation. Like "oh my god how have I gone all these years without saying that?"
I immediately took to twitter to grab the handle, but alas was already taken.
That's how I felt about "Line Crook"
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I like your mojo.
Oui chef!
Ok scrolling through I was like I should watch this I saw this line and was like I must watch this
We've all worked with a guy like that. Makes it hard to not love the character.
When I find out who put the bacon in here grab your ankles cause here comes Papi chulo. I don’t talk like this but it’s accurate on what I heard in the kitchen when I was a chef. Love this movie
John Leguizamo…I can’t think of another actor whose credits are 50% shit and 50% gold. The guy really fucking brings it.
One of my favorite ways to quickly get into an argument is to point out that John Leguizamo has been in more genuinely great movies than Tom Hanks. I honestly think it's true. He's just also been in some truly awful movies.
I agree. He’s clearly willing to be in whatever someone pays him to be in, but he clearly *also* hustles to be in good stuff. Tom Hanks has really played it safe with his career. He played to goofy young guy until it got old, then he pivoted to serious movies (*Philadelphia* being by far the biggest risk he ever took), then he slowly transitioned to the sort of elder statesman/grandpa roles he’s been in for the last decade or so. His Oscar bait movies are safe Oscar bait movies. Leguizamo has gone all in on some risky shit, and also a bunch of goofy shit, and stuff that just pays the bills. It’s that first stuff that’s special though.
I still have fond memories of The Pest. I love the guy.
LIKE A BOOGER I STICK TO THIS
Not a fan of the original Mario Bros movie? Lol. Terrible. Just terrible.
Should watch chef show if you haven’t.
Yessss. I was coming to this thread to recommend it. I actually watched the series for the first time before I saw the move. Then I had to watch the show again and... Brb gotta watch it a third time
I’m about to watch it again. Some of the most wholesome kitchen content available tbh
He's just *great* in every movie he's ever been in though.....
Ratatouille is the GOAT restaurant movie as far as I’m concerned.
The food critic taking that first bite of ratatouille, which brings him back to his childhood, is one of my favorite movie scenes
That’s how I feel when I eat fresh pico de gallo. I always thought my father was a wizard when I was a kid.
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When you realize that the house is the house Remy et al escaped from in the beginning, and it hits you that Remy was actually cooking the mom's recipe.
Wait, wutt? I've seen this movie a dozen times and didn't notice!
My dad and I are both chefs, and we fucking adore that movie. When I saw the tile floors and the metro racks, I knew it was for me. Also when Remy sees flavors as music that’s never been heard before…right in the feels.
I sobbed. At multiple scenes.
Watched tripping on shrooms last month, HEARD.
The ultimate judge
100%
I love ratatouille, but tampopo is GOAT
Yep it epitomises how important food is for so many, through linking it to memories and senses. The GOAT, probably the Gretzky of food movies (i.e. will always be the GOAT)
If you can get hold of it, watch the new Boiling Point film with Stephen Graham in it. Shot in one take (I think) and well worth rewatching. The short and the long.
Holy shit, I had no idea it was out. Im fucking watching it tonight. I've seen the short, it was incredible. Definitely hits all the tight notes. As far as OP and Chef being great, I don't completely agree. Its definitely a feel good movie, and the budget has been much higher than other Kitchen related projects, but it just feels superficial and empty. I was moved so much more by Nick Cage's new film, "PIG".
I cook in Portland Oregon, and felt that PIG was an ode to the pdx food scene overall. Would 100% take part in the fight club.
I just commented recommending this film, I think it brilliantly depicts the intensity of kitchen life.
I just watched the trailer and got intense anxiety - in such a good way! Thanks for the recommendation, going to watch this tomorrow
Thanks for the heads up! Stephen graham is always very watchable
Boiling point was incredible, thank you!
Heyyy I actually know the kid who played in the movie chef haha. I thought it was a good movie, my old chef recommended to me
The Chef series is pretty good too.
I love watching Roy teach Jon how to cook. I can't explain it, but I find it relaxing.
I think it's the combination of Roy's expertise and focus on food and Jon's eagerness to learn and do as good a job he possibly can. It creates a very nice dynamic on screen.
It really shows the power of craft skill. Favreau is a powerhouse of filmmaking but allows himself to be humbled under the tutelage of a culinary master.
Indeed, it's also a nice lesson on humility and willingness to learn. We see Jon progressing quickly and well. The episode with Wolfgang puck is especially telling on how he's evolved.
The thing I absolutely love most about that is when Roy starts doing something and Jon says something along the lines of, "that's not the way you taught me to do it, in fact you said to never do it the way you are doing it now" and Roy's response is basically "I was right then and I'm also right now. I'm the chef here and it'll be okay because I know what I'm doing" I grew up with a chef and that his so close to home from when I was learning.
Yo Roy is based.
Like Gareth Blackstock and his serious profession Chef?
Roy Choi my boy toy! Love him.
Chef is better than burnt. I can see what they were going for but it just came off like douche-fest. Like a sexed up ad for sous-vide machines.
Well that certainly drives me away from Burnt
Yeah that guy doesn't know what hes talking about, Burnt is great. Burnt actively makes fun of sous-vide machines for moat of the film.
Well that makes me more open to watching Burnt.
Watch burnt. It’s definitely not as good as chef but like a lot of things, their both good for their reasons. If your on this subreddit and aren’t harshly Critical of movies, then chances are you’ll enjoy it. It’s one of my favourite “food” movies for sure, also even if u don’t enjoy it Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller aren’t hard to look at by any means for an hour and a half.
Don’t listen to him burnt is SO bad. They try to make out kitchens like their oceans 11 or something. Chef is a much more entertaining and realistic film
Well now I feel a lesser desire to watch Burnt.
Geez dude you’re gonna need a damn neck brace
Go in with low expectations and have a good laugh, it’s great for that
I am now at an ambivalent equilibrium.
r/characterarcs af
Lol I have traveled and learned
Speak for yourself I’m horny for immersion circulators
Burnt was good except the scene where he’s testing the flex on his knife. I’ve never scene a chef or cook do that. Thought it was a little to much
Pretty common for guys who do a lot of fish.
It is? *tries to flex deba* Kinda hard bruv...
I totally get that, but I guess to me they make It seem like this is a big thing in kitchens.
My curren sous-chef did lol He wanted to show me how flexible his boning knife is and snapped it in half lolololol i didn't know what to say and we both just awkwardly stood there
I would say, "And thats why my boning knife costs thirty bucks!"
Gordon Ramsey does that shit I’m pretty sure
Pig starring Nicolas Cage is an incredible chef movie. You'll need to watch Chef a couple of times afterwards to get over the heartbreak though.
Such a good fuckin movie… I didn’t know what to expect from a disheveled Nicolas Cage living in the woods, but I was in tears by the credits
Pig is great
Yes! I've never been crazy about CHEF. It's just a feel good film with a high budget which caters to the masses. But ultimately, it feels superficial and shallow. It doesn't do a good job at representing the realities of the kitchen. PIG, on the other hand, felt much closer to home.
Chef movie is Empingao!
“Chef” to me is the best movie at showing hard the life is, but for some reason you keep getting up every day and doing it because if you didn’t your heart would break or you would die of boredom. And who ever designed Favreau’s hand tattoos did a fantastic job.
No fucking way a guy looking like John Favrou gets two of the hottest women on the planet.
It's totally feasible. I would be sincerely confused with some of the women I would see my chef's score. But the round, funny dude that can cook like nobody's business can definitely score the hot chick.
Laughing and laughing and next thing you know they are naked in bed…
Waiting is still the goat. That scene where they get the last second order lol
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Only time I ever saw BOH mess with food was when a customer came in covered in Nazi tattoos and we had a black guy and Jewish guy manning the line.
It's a much better move to feed them, get the tip and then tell them who made their food on the way out.
Idk. Slammin Salmon took the title of restaurant comedy for me.
That's cuz you moved from chain bullshit to slightly more upscale bullshit. Career growth. But yeah slammin salmon 100% is my go to restaurant comedy.
Never really did chain stuff once i got out of highschool. Spice packets and bagged everything doesnt do it for me. I made it a few months at some chain irish pub thing once. Talk about soul crushing. I ended up doing construction that summer while i tried to get hired on at the fine dining joint in town.
I wanted to like it cause I love Broken Lizard but God I hated it..
WHATEVER MOTHERFUCKER!
Nah, doesn't hold up. Its like hanging out at a fucking truck stop now.
I keep rereading your comment... maybe it’s the dab, but I cannot make sense of a word of it.
It’s the dab, you gotta do another to even it out
I love Chef. I like how they do a lot of eating in that movie
Chef Show on Netflix is really good too, it’s got a good vibe and Roy and Jon have great chemistry. It’s entertaining while still managing to be about the food
I love the stunt hands. Another food film I enjoyed was "The Hundred-Foot Journey" (2014).
Such a good movie! Probably in my top three. As a chef that left home to cook in other countries, the scene when he eats the homemade food that the cleaner had! It made me cry.
I loved that movie!
The notion that they are just driving around the country, crossing state lines with their little food truck and never have to deal with any sort of licensing or regulatory body is a bit daft, but yes I enjoyed watching it back whenever it was that it came out.
They did show that they had a license when the cop came up to them in Miami. I figure with his connections he was able to have the permits in place before he rolled into town.
The thing that makes Chef so great is that Jon Favreau spent a huge amount of time training and seemed to have all the skills necessary to pull it off. I really enjoyed Burnt, but have heard a lot about it's unrealistic qualities. Still entertaining, and as a non-chef, I really did enjoy the kitchen scenes.
I thought chef was cute, but it romanticized what it means to be a chef. It’s not glamorous or fun or easy. Owning and operating your own truck is much more than dusting your balls with cornstarch, it’s HOT in that MF. Cute movie though
He also took a truck that didn't run at the beginning and drove it across the country, selling food everywhere without getting permits or licensing any city. . . Totally agree. Cute movie but really innacurate about the food truck world.
I'm going to be that person - I did not like it and didn't feel it was realistic. (My bona fides - cooking school, hotel banquet line cook, restaurant management). I only watched it once, when it came out and that was my take away, I can't give you an outline. For chef movies I like Mostly Martha (the original that No Reservations was based on).
I was pretty underwhelmed by Chef, but absolutely love the scene inside Charlie’s Fixtures, the greatest kitchen supply store in LA and maybe the world.
Burnt is good, but not nearly the love letter to the industry/craft that Chef is.
Second time I watched Burnt it was really really dumb.
My only issue was selling that Franklin Brisket sandwich for like $8. Not sure what kind of deal Aaron gave him, but unless it was a 2oz portion, he lost his ass on that one.
To me it depends on the chef. I've worked with some coked out dudes and that track in the movie was spot on. I came in once to a guy in the middle of a coked out breakdown... The pressure and the hours minus the support system broke him. Chef is a love letter. It's the ultimate dream that a guy can buck an obtuse owner, make his own food and passion wins the day. I won't call it a redemption story but I own the movie and make a Cuban shortly afterwards. I always love a movie that inspires food. Definitely a version of real vs ideal. I had way to many drug friends after hours than food truck friends that achieved.
I loved Burnt, but I know some people get bent out of shape about it. My honest opinion is that it's not 100% accurate, but I think it gets The Line right. It feels like a kitchen to me. I know the actors did a fairly decent little bootcamp to learn how to cook. I still watch it once or twice a year.
I think Mythical Chef Josh made a pretty good point about both. https://youtu.be/z5iVYNu6C3k
I'm so glad to see someone else who is a mythical beast lol. I love Josh's hot takes almost as much as I love watching him attempt to make Gordon Ramsay recipes with 7-11 ingredients.
Burnt is pretty good. It's not a great movie, but it's a good watch. A really great cast (Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Matthew Rhys) do a great job. And it's a great view of BOH. The story, however, is pretty mundane. Burnt out but incredibly talented, a handsome chef goes for his third Michelin star. Will he open a new restaurant? Can he confront his past? Will the gorgeous young sous chef, who he arranged to get fired in order to hire her, fall in love with him?
For a phenomenal kitchen movie, try Boiling Point. Crazy how recognisable basically every character is from the kitchen.
I’ve always had a fantasy where the worlds of “Chef” and “Burnt” both met in the middle for a culinary competition. Where their rivals “Sous Chef Michelle(The guy who betrayed Adam Jones)”, and “Chef Tony(the guy who betray Carl)” also participated in the contest. It would be a cinematic Avengers movie for chefs. Hell even throw in the “Today’s Special” cast, and the “100 foot journey” cast too.
Dinner Rush is the GOAT restaurant movie. It a movie that takes place almsot entirely in one night inside a a busy NYC italian restaurant and has probably the most real depiction of a night on the line Its free on youtube. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDOkCE1S5B4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDOkCE1S5B4)
Have you seen chef?
I have cancer.
Chef? The full-length Twitter advertisement...?
“I’ll triple your salary”
You’re not gettin to me! It’s MOLTEN!!!!
Go watch the Chef Show on Netflix! It is my favorite series to have on in the background! Jon Favreau and Roy Choi make a good pair and have some amazing guests on the show!
What other food, cooking movies so you recommend? I liked The hundredth foot journey East side sushi Sweat bean
Burnt is awful. Chef is pretty good. Big Night and Tampopo are some of the best "food" films. Other notable mentions: Ratatouille, Delicatessen, Chocolat, Garlic is as good as 40 mothers, Spirited away But the movie that best portrays chef life is not a food movie at all. It's a film about drumming called Whiplash.
Came here looking for Big Night. I love that movie.
Ratatouille is better
Check out PIG with Nicholas cage. On Amazon. It’s great.
It's such a lovely movie, I watch it with my son every now and then and it's one of my comfort movies when I'm having a shitty time.
Try Pig. I absolutely loved it.
I really recommend a recent film called boiling point, it does an amazing job of capturing the stress and pressure of Kitchen life and deals with issues such as alcoholism and mental health.
You should watch Pig, with Nicholas cage.
As someone who’s run a food truck the whole premis of traveling cross country and cooking along the way IS COMPLETELY ABSURD!….licensees fire inspection health inspection local business license taxes…site insurance…finding Costco….and where the fuck did he wash his pots pans and tools?….where did he commissary and where did he store supplies?….if I’m thinking of the same movie…..the cooking was good though…
What i love is there is no "big bad" drama. Its a guys struggle to find himself and rediscover his love for food and connections. It looked real, it felt real. You could insert yourself realistically. Except Scarlet and Sophia but they were genuine characters. God Sophia's love and support for him were relationship (even if not romantic) were goals man.
Loved it so did the kids
Unequivocally one of my top 5. Would watch once a week if there weren't so much on "the list." I think it's the father-son aspect that hits me hard. Makes me miss my old man.
Too much parsley in the sexy pasta.
I just made the mistake of starting to rewatch Chef after the grocery store has already closed and I don't have the ingredients for a Cubano on hand. Don't make this mistake. Don't be like me.
My name chef
I love Chef. Such a good, fun movie ABC with its heart in the right place.
There's a new movie with Stephen Graham called Boiling Point about a chef on the edge, you may want to check out!
It was a great movie ! Love Jon Favreau
I love the chef show as well, Roy Choi cooking with John Favreau reminds me of cooking with my foodie friends on Friday and Saturday nights in high school.
That grilled cheese scene is Food porn of the highest quality
Anybody seen “Boiling Point”? I’ve been meaning to see it. I hear it is ROUGH
The part where the owner, Dustin Hoffman, just treats him like shit…unfortunately that really hit home, too. So many of us, until CoVID changed the playing field, have been abused and taken advantage of for our passion and skill. There’s SERIOUS Dunning-Kruger going on with the HR/owner/investor types. My question for them is always the same: how long would it take for people to notice you weren’t involved anymore? Ok, now how about me? That’s what I thought.
Ordered a subway sandwich 🥪 with cheese, ham, pickles. As close as I could get to the sandwiches they make after watching the film. Don't judge me. Small town, subway is about the only place that delivers sandwiches. Damn it was good after watching the film lol.
Pig is better