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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 at restaurant "Claude Monet," this job looks to be harder and much more complicated than just cooking.
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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 at restaurant "Claude Monet," this job looks to be harder and much more complicated than just cooking.
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Episode 1
Max and Vika get used to the family life together. The chef becomes the hero of a television program, which is filmed directly in the restaurant's kitchen. Because of this, the boss has a conflict with Nagiyev. Kostya and Nastya can't retire because of their son's whims. Nagiyev is offered the role of Napoleon.
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Episode 2
Max's half-brother, Denis, unexpectedly comes to visit Max and Vika and asks to live for a while. They're trying to get him a job. Nagiyev is looking for a new chef instead of the fired Viktor Petrovich. In the evening, the drunken boss hits Nagiyev by car.
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Episode 3
Elena helps Barinov out of the checkpoint, but under certain conditions. Nagiyev introduces the employees to the new boss, Herman Mikhailovich, who immediately decides to conduct certification.
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Episode 4
Vika really wants to have a child, but Max is always torn between his wife and his brother's problems. Viktor Petrovich is getting used to the new team. Because of Herman Löw's character, he goes to work at the Arcobaleno restaurant as a sous-chef.
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Episode 5
Vika demands that Max ask Denis to move out of their apartment. Max wants to get a place as a sous-chef instead of the departed Lova, and Lova is trying to deal with Viktor Petrovich in the new place.
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Episode 6
Victor meets his old friend Vladimir (he calls him Volodka in a friendly way), who wants to come to a restaurant for lunch. Victor does not admit that he is no longer a chef, and he has to get out of this situation. Max quarrels with Vika and decides to arrange a "conciliation dinner", for which he steals a bottle of expensive Nagiyev wine from the restaurant bar.
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Episode 7
A representative of the "Union of Cinematographers" comes to the restaurant to order a banquet. Nagiyev is forced to ask Viktor Petrovich to return to Claude Monet for one evening. Victor agrees, but on his own terms.
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Episode 8
His mother is coming to visit Max. Because of this, Denis is forced to move out. Senya rents a room to Denis to finally fulfill his dream: to buy a motorboat. Barinov suspects that they want to fire Elena.
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Episode 9
Kostya asks Max and Vika to take care of his son, but Vika is urgently called to the restaurant, and Max has to stay alone with the child. Herman reports the theft in the restaurant to the police - a copper saucepan is missing.
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Episode 10
Restaurant workers fantasize about what movie about the restaurant they would like to watch. Senya makes an action movie, Fedya makes erotica, Nastya makes a horror movie, and the boss makes a fantasy.
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Episode 11
Victor is plotting a chef from a neighboring restaurant. Vika and Max are fighting because Max is not behaving like a man. Kostya is trying to become a sommelier. Nagiyev takes Denis to a restaurant as a musician part-time.
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Episode 12
Barinov finds diamonds in fish. Sasha returned to Moscow with her fiancé and plans to celebrate the wedding in a restaurant. At the wedding, Sasha kisses Max in front of Vicky, and Maxim is forced to go to a friend in St. Petersburg.
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Episode 13
Vika doesn't show her feelings because of breaking up with Max. Katya, Viktor Petrovich's daughter, returns to the Claude Monet restaurant, where the dog's birthday is celebrated on the same day. Taking the opportunity, Barinov throws a cat there and sets up his daughter.
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Episode 14
Herman tries to take care of Victoria and decides to resort to cunning. It's Viktor Petrovich's birthday, but the planned celebration is under threat of disruption. Katya discovers that there is a shortage of food in the restaurant.
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Episode 15
After Viktor Petrovich's anniversary, many people do not wake up alone. German is with Ainura, Katya is with Denis, and Barinov is with his daughter's friend, a waitress Eva. In the evening, there should be a show-kitchen of molecular cuisine in the restaurant, and Katya's important ingredients are missing. Denis is called to help her.
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Episode 16
Denis is trying to earn permission from the boss to meet his daughter. Lova prepared a surprise gift for her mother for her anniversary. Nastya offers Kostya to enroll in sommelier courses, but this makes him drink all the time. German proposes to hold a Halloween-style corporate party in a restaurant, which everyone agrees to. Then he seriously sets up Vika in front of Nagiyev, but soon saves her from dismissal.
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Episode 17
Eva informs Viktor Petrovich that she is expecting a child. Katya meets a childhood friend who has already married and decides to say that she is also getting married soon. Herman continues his attempts to conquer Victoria.
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Episode 18
Katya and Denis start dating. Fedya and Senya find a video on the Internet, where you can see how German brutally beats the cook. Soon it turns out that Herman has mental problems, which is why he constantly drinks a sedative. Then the team of chefs together with the chef decide to get rid of Herman.
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Episode 19
Nagiyev arranges a culinary show "Chef" in his restaurant, in which Viktor Petrovich really wants to participate. Denis has nightmares. Nastya wants a second child.
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Episode 20
Two candidates enter the final of Nagiyev's show: Viktor Barinov and Oksana Smirnova. Katya almost breaks up with Denis, but everything is solved. Vika finds out that she is expecting a child from Max. Viktor Petrovich loses the show to his rival and decides to open his own restaurant.
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