One of the most watched K-Dramas of 2025 so far, Netflix Tastefully stars Calmar game‘S kang ha-neul like Han Beom-Woo, a ruthless manager of the soulless gastronomic conglomerate of his mother, Hansang, whose philosophy of life is disputed when he meets Mo Yeon-Joo (The frog‘S Go Min-Si), a brilliant but stubborn gastronomic chef who runs a restaurant at a table in the distant Jeonju.
When we meet Beom-Woo, he is obsessed with the construction of a restaurant that will get Hansang a three-star coveted note in the fictitious diamond system. His mother, Han Yeo-Ul (When life gives you mandarins‘ Oh min-ae), built Hansang alone, prioritizing the company on its children. Now she soothes the Beom-Woo and Han Seon-Woo brothers (Low class 2 heroesA BAE NA-RA) against each other in a diamond note race. Finally, hoping to win the love and approval that it has retained throughout their lives, they compete for the accomplishment.
[time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]Beom-woo’s ambitious path towards the success of the three stars is not paved by a hard and honest work, but rather by deception. His conman game book is to buy independent restaurants, steal their recipes to use for his flagship currency of the establishment and close them. However, when he goes to Jeonju and meets Yeon-Joo, something changes for him. During 10 episodes, Beom-Woo and Yeon-Joo fall in love and build a family found in the Jeonju restaurant in Yeon-Joo with the inhabitants Jin Myeong-Sook (Hell‘S Kim Shin-Rok) and Shin Chun-Seung (Crash land on you‘S yoo su-bin) like their colleagues. In the process, Beom-Woo becomes a much better person, although the changes come with their just part of drama.
The fall of Beom-Woo
When Beom-Woo’s past as director of Hansang who steals the recipes from other restaurants comes out at the end of episode 8, the idyllic life he built begins to collapse. Yeon-Joo, Myeong-Soook and Chun-Seung feel naturally betrayed, especially when it is revealed that one of Yeon-Joo’s recipes is served to the motto as a chef Jang Young-Hye’s (Buried hearts“Hong Hwa-Yon) original creation. When diamond judges eat the dish, they are impressed, putting the motto on the right track to become the first Korean restaurant to win three stars.
However, Yeon-Joo’s recipe was not stolen by Beom-Woo. The thief is the young man and the former right man of Beom-Woo Lee Yu-Jin (Taxi driver‘S Bae Yoo-Ram), but our male leader does not take the time to explain it to Yeon-Joo. To be fair, he taught young people and sly tactics to young people and Yu-Jin. Beom-Woo never resisted her mother when she ordered him to close Jeongjae; If there is, this constitutes a threat to the success of the motto.
Yeon-Joo withdrew into the monastery where she grew up, and Beom-Woo heads for Seoul, where he cleanses his office at the currency and spends a lot of pen before and drinking alone in bars. The news that finally does it on its aptifness is in the form of an unexpected announcement of the French -based diamond guide: both The motto and Jeongjae won three stars.
The three stars of Jeongjae
Chef Yeon-Joo never cared about the recognition of industry. Although she was trained at the CIA and cooked in one of the best gastronomic restaurants in Japan before opening Jeongjae, she defines success in a way other than reaching the rating stars. If the people who come to her restaurant appreciate the food she does for them, then she has done her job well. However, his sincere, creative and meticulous work could not help finding recognition.
Earlier in the season, Beom-Woo took a delicate job for Jeongjae: a multinational committed couple wanted a restaurant for the meeting of their parents. His parents would come from France and his father would join Korea. They needed to find food that would complete their two palaces and prepare the ground for membership of their two families through cultural borders. Yeon-Joo manages to find the perfect balance, and they all leave happy.
With the knowledge of Jeongjae’s staff, the French father was in fact the editor -in -chief of the diamond guide. When this year’s decision comes, he puts a special word for Jeongjae, a restaurant outside of Seoul whose few “important” people have ever heard. In particular, this moment would never have come without the arrival of Beom-Woo to Jeongjae. While Beom-Woo had learned to care solely about the success and success of the industry, Yeon-Joo probably cared too much about the holiness of the recipe, taking into account any commercial consideration or the preferences of the people for whom she cooks. Together, they balance.
The announcement of the three stars of Jeongjae Angers Han Yeo-Ul, who spent his life working for a goal that apparently appears in Yeon-Joo and Jeongjae easily. In episode 9, she orchestrates a force test on the television competition between the two restaurants and plans to close Jeongjae, regardless of the result.
The winner of the television competition
One of the least successful elements of Tastefully“The end comes in the execution of the television cooking competition between the motto and Jeongjae. Although this is not a terrible idea of history for an event culminating around which to build the culmination of the series, the configuration is precipitated and does not include Yeon-Joo, which is with its monastery for a large part of the competition. As a female manager and someone whose sincerity and skills tells us throughout the series is an integral part of Jeongjae’s success, it is a shocking and not won conclusion. Although it is powerful to see Myeong-Soook succeed as a chief of a non-traditional background, the episode and the series as a whole do not look at this theme.
In the end, the challenges of the competition are still invalidated when Yeo-Ul is and says that the motto and the Jeongjae have even really got Jeongjae obtained more votes from influencers and food judges. The competition collapses, the Diamond judge going in protest, but there does not seem to be real consequences for this twist. When Yeon-Joo presents himself and challenges Yeo-Ul to his own competition-Yeon-Joo will cook for the Yeo-Ul, and will abandon Jeongjae if the CEO does not like this-PD Kim, the character leading all the production under the orders of Yeo-Ul, pivots at a new end. At this point, we do not know what form this special television will even take, since it was mainly shot as a cooking competition program. Tastefully Also, do not care to explain it.
Although the cooking competition ends up feeling like lost time, Yeon-Joo’s challenge does not do so. She uses the framing of a challenge to bring Yeo-U to sit with her two wires and enjoy a meal cooked at home in a way she never did when they were children. The meal is inspired by the memories of Beom-wo on the cabbage of his grandmother Kimchi and by the shrimp caretaker Yeo-Ul said in a television show that she was cooking for her sons when they were children. Although Yeo-Ul comes out after the Cup of the cameras, it is obviously affected by the moment. She tells Yeon-Joo and Beom-Woo that they can keep their restaurant.
How Tastefully END
Tastefully I arrived where he went in 10 episodes (which is in particular less time than this kind K-Drama can generally tell a story) but not always in the most efficient or most efficient way. A mid-season sub-contort involving Yeon-Joo’s culinary and romantic past in Sapporo has lost a precious narrative time that could have been given to the frame of Jeonju and the characters. (Although it is always pleasant to see the actor Yoo Yeon-Seok (When the phone rings,, Hospital playlist), who plays the ex of Yeon-Joo here).
Beom-woo’s growth of a bad person to a good guy arrives, but feels somewhat won. The final reveals that he ends up helping one of his previous victims to recover their family restaurant is vital, but it comes After Yeon -Joo – and the public – is supposed to forgive him.
The growth of Beom-Woo, and the confirmation of his romantic relationship with Yeon-Joo, are injured by the absence of a scene which said in Beom-Woo to Yeon-Joo all history and to put his actions and his growth in context to prove his understanding. Instead, this work is done by other characters. We see the mother of Yeon-Joo, Yu-Jin, and Sun-Woo all saying to Yeon-Joo that Beom-Woo is sincere, but we are deprived of the opportunity to see Beom-Woo prove that he has changed through a great risk or a moment of real vulnerability-things that can pass a k-play from pleasant to employment.
Always, Tastefully is supported by his commitment to the rich theme of food sincerely cooked as a potentially force that changes life, with a warm visual direction to support it. You can’t help but root the Jeongjae crew. They all find themselves together, engaged in the family and the house they found in each other. The series ends with Yeon-Joo and Beom-Woo fortunately in a relationship, kissing in the garden behind Jeongjae where they met for the first time.
The ji-hoon camée park
K-Dramas have a glorious tradition of shoe random actors in the main plot in a creative way. For TastefullyIt came in the form of Park Ji-Hoon, The Star of Action Teen Drama Weak hero. We see extracts from park in the fictitious television series Myeong-Soook watches throughout the series. Called Beautiful joggerThis is obviously a reference to the K-Drame phenomenon of last year Charming runner. Park embodies Eun-Jae, apparently a game on the Charming runner Name of the main character, Sun-Jae.
In the Tastefully Final, Eun-Jae comes to the Chun-Seung family gukbap restaurant, where he and Myeong-Sook organize a cooking class together. Myeong-Sook panic about the arrival of the star, but it’s Chun-Seung who shares a particularly intense moment with Eun-Jae. While serving Eun-Jae water, Chun-Seung stops to better look at his face and ask “if you don’t ask me, what high school are you?” The smile falls from the face of Eun-Jae as the music is built.
All this is a reference to Low class 2 heroesIn which Park plays the role of Si-Eun, an introverted high school student who faces school intimidators. Yoo Co-Stars as a hyo-man choi, an intimidator that targets Si-Eun upon arrival at Eunjang High School. Tastefully And Weak hero Share a large part of the same production team in the creator Han Jun-Hee and the director Park Dan-Hee (Low class 1 heroonly). The series shares another actor in Bae Na-Ra, who plays the older brother of Beom-Woo, Sun-Woo, in Tastefullyand antagonist na baek-jin Low class 2 heroes.
