Yukihira Soma"s dream is to become a full‑fledged chef of his father"s restaurant and surpass him in culinary arts. But as soon as Soma finishes high school, his father, Junchiro Yukihira, closes the restaurant and heads to America to cook. Soma"s fighting spirit, which had been suppressed, is revived by Junchiro"s challenge: to survive in an elite culinary school from which only 10 % of students graduate. Will Soma manage this test?