Best friends Ona and Saule work as chefs in a small canteen, Tasty. Always going out of their way to please their customers, one day Saule signs them up for a televised cooking contest and they miraculously get in. Turning up to the show, the unlikely pair are the clear underdogs, struggling to compete with their idol: chef Madame Brukne - and they are not sure how to handle even the simpler requests like cooking ‘operatives’ (aperitifs). Despite this, their simple but pitch perfect dishes have them noticed, and they successfully go through the first rounds - that is until Ona falls for the charismatic French judge Emanuel.