The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), The Harvey Girls (1946), A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt (2011), Everyday People (2004), Comme un chef (2012), Au Petite Marguery (1995), The Chinese Feast (1995), Love Sarah (2020) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Restaurant Business movies.
Storyline: Cousins Paulie (Eric Roberts) and Charlie (Mickey Rourke) plan to rob a merchant in the New York City neighborhood that's home to the restaurant where they work. When their scheme results in the death of a police officer and draws the ire of the Mafia-linked businessman who was ripped off, Charlie's girlfriend (Daryl Hannah) bolts, and mob henchmen exact a brutal price from Paulie. With the mob threatening to kill them, the thieves must think fast if they intend to survive.
Plot Keywords: thief, cousin, waiter, mafioso, girlfriend, police officer, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On a train trip West to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley (Judy Garland) meets a cheery crew of young women travelling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop to provide good cooking and wholesome company for railway travellers. When Susan and her bashful suitor find romance daunting, she joins the Harvey Girls instead. The saloon across the street with its alluring worldly-wise women offers them tough competition, fair and foul, and Susan catches the eye of the Ned Trent (John Hodiak), the distant but intense proprietor of the bar.—Michael Meigs <Michael.Meigs@dos.us-state.gov>
Plot Keywords: waitress, restaurant manager, saloon girl, saloon owner, cowboy, uplifting, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Paul Liebrandt is one of the most talented and controversial chefs in the food world and the youngest chef to have received 3 stars from the New York Times. He was 24. NY Times food critic, William Grimes, likened Paul to 'a pianist who seems to have found a couple of dozen extra keys.' Through Paul, the film reveals the creative process, the extreme hard work, long hours, and dedication it takes to be a culinary artist and have success in the cutthroat world of haute cuisine. Exploring the complicated relationships between food critics, chefs, and owners the film delves into the life of a dedicated young chef ahead of his time.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: chef, artist, restaurant employee, food critic, girlfriend, restaurant owner, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Customers and staff (Bridget Barkan, Stephen McKinley Henderson) react to the news of a Jewish restaurateur's (Jordan Gelber) decision to sell his neighborhood eatery to developers.
Plot Keywords: restaurant owner, restaurant employee, patron, young man, corporate stooge, spirited, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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.
Plot Keywords: cook, chief, restaurant owner, restaurant manager, wife, amusing, airy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After twenty-five years of practice in a popular district of Paris, Hippolyte and Josephine decided to close their restaurant. Not for economic or urbanistic reasons but, more serious, because Hippolyte is suffering from a cancer of the nose which deprives him to the taste and to smell.—morroviolet
Plot Keywords: chef, son, hostess, friend, customer, charming, moving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kit (Kenny Bee) is a well-known, highly regarded chef, but his work has always come before his family. After his wife leaves him, taking their new baby with her, an inconsolable Kit drowns his sorrows in alcohol, causing his career and life to fall apart. Meanwhile, Au (Lo Ka-Ying) is a restaurateur trying to retain ownership of his business. It seems the only way to do this is to win the Manchu Han Imperial Feast cooking competition, so Au enlists Kit to help him do just that.
Plot Keywords: restaurant owner, wife, daughter, father, baby, amusing, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young woman wishes to fulfill her mother's dream of opening her own bakery in Notting Hill, London. To do this, she enlists the help of an old friend and her grandma.
Plot Keywords: young woman, mother, grandmother, old friend, pastry chef, chef, dead person ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This comedy revolves around two brothers, both wonderful chefs, who fall out catastrophically. At the climax of their dispute they rip the family recipe book in half - one brother gets the starters and the other gets the main courses. They set up rival restaurants, across the road from each other, and spend the next twenty years trying to out-do each other. Neither brother will admit it but they both know they are not entirely successful in the 'other half' of the menu. It takes a daughter - a successful corporate lawyer marrying a man from a very different background - to reunite them. She is planning her marriage and is determined that they will both cook the wedding banquet.—The Producers
Plot Keywords: brother, chef, rival, daughter, lawyer, restaurateur, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Jewish man who owns a Brooklyn deli asks his domineering uncle for a loan so he can buy his dream restaurant in Manhattan, but the uncle demands that he give up his Gentile girlfriend even though she's one of the few sources of stability in his somewhat chaotic life.—Determined Copy Editor
Plot Keywords: roman catholic, jew, uncle, restaurant owner, girlfriend, cousin, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A fanciful battle of the sexes ensues when the relationships of the staff and patrons of a quirky London café are unexpectedly turned upside down by sudden revelations of terribly embarrassing secrets having to do with their sexual misadventures.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: restaurant manager, cook, waiter, customer, mother, boyfriend, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The owner (William Hurt) of a failing cafe lies about the sighting of a rare bird in order to improve business.
Plot Keywords: restaurant manager, friend, sister-in-law, wife, husband, neighbor, hedonistic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Isidor's Tortilla Heaven is the best restaurant in New Mexico maybe even the world. But though his tortillas are scrumptious, his enchiladas divine, Isidor has never made a dime. Why? He lives in Falfurrias, population 73. One Sunday, while all the town, including his wife and son, are piously praying mass, a miracle occurs. Upon one of his famous, hand-made tortillas appears the face of Jesus Christ.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: restaurant owner, businessman, priest, cook, quirky, offbeat, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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 run-down country pub into a gourmet restaurant. His food catches the eye - and taste buds - of beautiful American food critic Kate Templeton (Claire Forlani) and they soon both write a recipe for love that leaves both their hearts - and their stomachs - full.—madjanssen
Plot Keywords: restaurateur, daughter, food critic, celebrity chef, widower, waitress, airy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The balding, middle-aged owner of a seafood restaurant makes three awkward attempts at extramarital romance.
Plot Keywords: restaurant owner, wife, sexpot, actress, depressed person, best friend, amusing ...
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