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The legendary chef Toshizo Kitakata feels the impending crisis about to hit The Kobe Goryokaku Tei and its self-righteous prodigy chef, Okita. Kitakata then fails to teach him the heart of the true chef and loses a cooking contest. Having lost all his confidence, Kitakata starts work at Hakurai Tei where Okita's father helps him become aware of his own conceitedness. Kitakata, revived and back in action, faces off with Okita again but this time in...
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Mumyoan is a soba shop established by our very own restaurant revival consultant Toshizo Kitakata. However, one of the customers has a complaint about the soba's dipping sauce. After that, an article appears in a magazine criticizing Kitakata. Reading this, all the chefs that have trained under Kitakata race to Mumyoan to stand by his side. Just what does Kitakata do...?! The deeply emotional and inspiring finale that begs the question of how real...
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Restaurant revival consultant Toshizo Kitakata helps Iwashi Kayutei, a washed up rakugoka and one-hit wonder comedian rebuild his struggling hamburg-steak business. Under Kitakata's training, Iwashi has regained a new sense of purpose as a chef. But, now low on capital, decides he must close his restaurant for good. Kitakata decides to change the recipe with cheap sardines in order to keep the business afloat, but the truck carrying the ingredients...
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In a city famous for its gyoza (Chinese dumplings), Mirakuen, a shop who's success has earned it multiple plaudits from the mayor himself is harshly criticized by Toshizo Kitakata, a restaurant revival specialist. Upon visiting the establishment, Toshizo decides it is beyond redemption.The owner, however, upon hearing a single utterance from his grandson, realizes the error of his ways and pleads with Toshizo who agrees to help revive his struggling...
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After shutting his curry restaurant, Chef Yamazaki seeks a new beginning at Yokohama Goryokaku-Tei only to have his pride dealt a heavy blow by executive chef Serizawa. At the end of his rope, Yamazaki happens upon a curry food truck and meets Toshizo Kitakata, a restaurant turnaround specialist who is just beginning to hear unflattering rumors about Yokohama Goryokaku-Tei...
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The now reconciled Masamune Aoba and half-brother Shingo Nagakura try opening up a pizza shop on their own with the backing of Aoba Foods but it's stolen from under them by a changed Toshizo Kitakata. The Aoba brothers try and compete against Kitakata with a beef-tongue pizza but...?! Just what will be the outcome of this pizza war in Sendai?!
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The rice ball shop, Kanie, reopens in a newly decorated building in town. However, the rights to managing the store are taken from Kanie by Saruta. The restaurant revival consultant Toshizo Kitakata brings Kanie to Gohan Temple for training so that he can take his shop back. Thinking his training is finished, Kanie goes out drinking to celebrate and runs into the tengus of the mountain...!!
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While Toshizo Kitakata's brother, Seishiro, attempts to expand Goryokaku-Tei across the country by using any dirty means necessary, the ambitious Shibayama, Tokuta, and Akashi aim at stealing Goryokaku-Tei in Hakodate right from under him. Shibayama gains control of Goryokaku-Tei in Asahikawa and decides to mess with the menu...!!
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The restaurant revival consultant Toshizo Kitakata is saved by the owner of a rice ball shop, Kanie. In order to return the favor, Kitakata thinks about saving Kanie from an inevitable foreclosure due to a wave of redevelopment in the area, but Kanie's wife, Namiko, goes ahead and signs the restaurant over herself...!!
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Aware of his brother Seishiro's plan to expand Goryokaku-Tei across the country using dirty methods, Kitakata heads to Hokkaido to put an end to his and everyone else's shady ambitions. While there, Kitakata sets up a shop of his own in Otaru for Miyata, whose dinner party was suddenly cancelled by Tokuta to make way for another...!!
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The quality of the rice ball shop, Kanie, is lacking and they are continuing to lose customers. The owner Kanie, having just come back from rigorous training, fights to gain everyone's trust but can't handle all the orders coming in. Then, Kitakata presents to him a rice ball made by their old rivals, the Saruta Brothers...!! The thrilling conclusion to the rice ball war in Akita!!
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Kondo makes a wedding cake for the reception, which is nothing more than a trap set up by IKEDAYA's Sakamoto. However, the legendary chef Toshizo Kitakata tells everyone why the simple cake, which they hid inside the more elegant one, is the cake more deserving to be eaten at such a celebration. Then Kondo talks about his daughter Mami and how this cake came to be...!!
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Taking a down and out restaurant on the verge of closing it's doors, retraining the staff, and rebuilding it into a booming business, this hot blooded gourmet comic tells the story of the legendary chef Toshizo Kitakata. Son of the owner of Mitsubachi, an unpopular restaurant, Shoichi goes hat in hand to plead for Kitakata's help and he is taken to an unexpected place for training...!!
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Upon taking an early retirement from his office job, Mr. Nozaki decides to open a standing udon noodle restaurant. After his shop fails and his wife leaves him, however, he tells restaurant revival specialist Toshizo Kitakata that his only wish is to die mastering the craft of making udon noodles. After making a pilgrimage into the mountains to eat the best udon noodles in Japan, why is Nozaki being taken to a video game arcade as part of his training...?!...
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The legendary chef Toshizo Kitakata tries to introduce a respected pâtissier, Kondo, to Okita, who now knows what it means to have the heart of a true chef. But Kitakata finds Kondo drowning himself in alcohol and having lost his ability to make the perfect cake. Kondo tries to regain the soul of the cake maker but falls right into the trap lain by 'Ikedaya's' Sakamoto...!!
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Aware of his brother Seishiro's plan to expand Goryokaku-Tei across the country using dirty methods, Kitakata heads to Hokkaido to put an end to his and everyone else's shady ambitions. There, he squares off against Chef Tokuta of Otaru's Goryokaku-Tei, the celebrity-lover, for the graces of the famous Matsuda...!!
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The restaurant revival consultant Toshizo Kitakata is asked to rebuild the restaurant section of the Bay Sky Hotel in downtown Tokyo. The chef at Mihama-Tei, Tatsuko Fushimi, challenges her father's enemy Kitakata to a breakfast cook-off but loses. Kitakata then sends her a breakfast of her own. After seeing what Kitakata made for her, she realizes her mistake in thinking Kitakata was her father's enemy...!!
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Not wanting to let his favorite restaurant from his childhood days, "Tetsugoro" go under, Honda, a government bureaucrat goes to lend a hand in the restaurant's kitchen. While Mako, the owner's daughter, is out of the kitchen, Honda is forced to serve a pair of customers and fails miserably. Meanwhile, Restaurant Turnaround Consultant Toshizo Kitakata, on contract with the takoyaki restaurant across the street stops in to Tetsugoro to borrow some...
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Edward Cooke, apprentice to the legendary chef Toshizo Kitakata, does as he pleases with Goryokaku-Tei in Hakodate after Kitakata takes his leave. At the same time, Edward's henchmen infiltrate the other Goryokaku-Tei restaurants. Kitakata digs into who Edward really is and not only does he find out that he's famous for hijacking restaurants but also that his great-grandfather wasn't on the best terms with his own...!!
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Aki and Peter enlist the help of B-Gourment restaurant revival consultant Toshizo Kitakata to help their struggling Champon restaurant, Dejima-Ya. Looking to start over as a ramen restaurant, Toshizo has them cook lunch for a travelling circus troupe. The performers, however, are not at all pleased with the resulting bowls of noodles. In order to get Aki and Peter to work together, they must practice... knife throwing?!
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