10 titles, most popular first
Na Bong-sun is a timid assistant chef with low self-esteem who can sometimes see ghosts. When she is possessed by Shin Soon-ae, the ghost of a young woman set on finding romance before she moves on, Bong-sun suddenly turns bold and confident, catching the eye of her arrogant star chef boss, Kang Sun-woo.
Kim Sam-soon is a loud, gifted pastry chef nearing thirty who hates her old-fashioned name. On Christmas Eve she is dumped by her cheating boyfriend and loses her job. Hyun Jin-heon, owner of a fancy French restaurant, hires her, and when she needs money to save her mother's house, he offers it if she will pose as his girlfriend.
Seo Yoo-kyung has spent years as a kitchen assistant at the Italian restaurant La Sfera, dreaming of becoming a real chef. When strict new head chef Choi Hyun-wook arrives from Italy and starts letting the women in the kitchen go, she becomes the last one left and must fight hard to keep her place.
Lee Jung-joo has worked hard all her life without catching a break, and after seven years at a Seoul clothing company she loses her job, her home and her boyfriend almost at once. Reluctantly starting over on Jeju Island, she meets Baek Gun-woo, a carefree, smooth-talking restaurant owner from a rich family whom she first takes for a con artist.
Yang Eun-bi, a student in her mid-twenties, is studying for the civil service exam so she can become a high school teacher. She runs into Cha Chi-soo, the arrogant heir to Korea's biggest food company, and likes him until she learns he is just a high school senior. Then she discovers her late father has left his ramen shop to a stranger, Choi Kang-hyuk.
Four single neighbors love living alone but share one problem: restaurants are not made for eating by yourself. Lee Soo-kyung, a happily divorced paralegal, Goo Dae-young, a mysterious food lover, and design student Yoon Jin-yi start eating out together and slowly become part of each other's lives, while a murder case shakes their neighborhood.
Go Seung-ji is a gifted pastry chef whose prickly, cold exterior hides a kind and caring heart, much like a hedgehog. Pan Da-yang is a cheerful, easygoing café owner who takes life as calmly as a panda. The story centers on these two very different personalities.
Grieving his father, Kang Seong-jae enlists and is sent to a unit in Ganglim. Despite topping boot camp, he is put under special watch because he grew up poor with only one parent, and his food-truck experience with his mother gets him assigned to Yoon Dong-hyeon, a famously hopeless veteran cook. Then a strange virtual screen pops up, giving him a mission to feed the troops.
Jo Hee-ra is a witch who runs a restaurant where desperate people come hoping a special meal will make their wishes come true. But every wish has a price: in return, each customer must give up the thing they value most in their life.
Eun-jae is a proud, stubborn 20-year-old who loves cooking, so she leaves high school early and runs off to a cooking school in Vicenza, Italy, along with a devoted friend. There she meets Han Yi-joon, heir to a family hotel and restaurant business, who has come to find the mother who left him as a child.
