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The Kitchen: Season 3

20 episodes Premiered Mar 3, 2014
Previously on The Kitchen

Season 3 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Kitchen Season 2.
  • Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
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S3·E1 Mytharc

Episode 1

Mar 3, 2014

Max starts working as a waiter. Nagiyev decides that it's time for the restaurant to keep up with the times, and is looking for a new chef - a specialist in molecular cuisine. As a

S3·E2 Core

Episode 2

Mar 3, 2014

Max and Ilya argued: who will pick up the most tips per shift. Meanwhile, a commotion is happening in the kitchen: Senya and Fedya play a trick on Katya, taking her clothes from he

S3·E3 Core

Episode 3

Mar 4, 2014

Maxim had a conflict with a client who turned out to be the prefect's wife. And now Maxim and Vika have to apologize to her. Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Katya actively mess in the t

S3·E4 Core

Episode 4

Mar 5, 2014

Elena gave the boss an elephant, which brings good luck, and now the boss is lucky everywhere! Nagiyev eventually divorced Kristina, and now he has a reason to raise everyone's sal

S3·E5 Core

Episode 5

Mar 6, 2014

Nagiyev tries to win Vicky's favor, but Max is getting jealous. Senya is caught stealing, and not for the first time. Katya is going to leave the restaurant, but she can stay on on

S3·E6 Core

Episode 6

Mar 11, 2014

Max is suffering because of Vicky. Nagiyev and his ex-wife Kristina are fighting for the restaurant, trying to find out which of them is the full owner. They want to organize event

S3·E7 Core

Episode 7

Mar 12, 2014

Max realizes that he is losing Vika and tries to come up with the perfect plan to get her back, but every plan ends sadly. The main problem is Nagiyev. Kostya and Nastya are arguin

S3·E8 Core

Episode 8

Mar 13, 2014

Elena calls the boss to a meeting with her friends, and the boss has football - Spartak-CSKA. The boss tries to get to the TV by any means, but in the end he is defeated. Because o

S3·E9 Core

Episode 9

Mar 17, 2014

Kostya got a second job, but hides it from Nastya, since he works for her father. The boss goes on a singe and drags Max behind him...

S3·E10 Core

Episode 10

Mar 18, 2014

Lova, with the help of Max, is trying to arrange a date with Katya. The boss argues with Nagiyev that he can find himself a woman in one day...

S3·E11 Core

Episode 11

Mar 19, 2014

An old friend of the chef and the curator of the academy, from which Katya was expelled, comes to the restaurant. Because of this, Max becomes a victim of Katina's lies about pregn

S3·E12 Mytharc

Episode 12

Mar 20, 2014

Grandfather Kirill is the main enemy of the restaurant and tries to take revenge on the workers all the time. The persuasions of Nagiyev and the chief do not work. Soon grandfather

S3·E13 Core

Episode 13

Mar 24, 2014

Is Nagiyev ready for a serious relationship with Vika, and Vika with Nagiyev? Who smashed the bar in Claude Monet? What happened that night between Max and Katya?

S3·E14 Core

Episode 14

Mar 25, 2014

The boss doesn't like Katya's new boyfriend, and he tries to get rid of him with money. Max has a conflict with the Caucasians. Katya gets into an accident on a motorcycle.

S3·E15 Core

Episode 15

Mar 26, 2014

Nagiyev needs to learn how to cook urgently. Vika quits the restaurant, and Max uses his chance to get her back.

S3·E16 Core

Episode 16

Mar 27, 2014

There's a poltergeist in the kitchen! Max is trying to come up with his own dish. Nagiyev appoints Kristina as the art director of the restaurant, but it was an extremely rash deci

S3·E17 Core

Episode 17

Mar 31, 2014

Nagiyev is thinking about selling the restaurant. Max realizes that Katya likes it and begins to rejoice at it until Vika returns to the restaurant...

S3·E18 Core

Episode 18

Apr 1, 2014

Vika sets new rules for all kitchen staff. The boss gets angry, but then changes his position. Max is trying to explain himself to Katya and talk to Vika.

S3·E19 Mytharc

Episode 19

Apr 2, 2014

Andrei Mikhailovich, the new owner of the restaurant, saw Rodion Sergeevich in the backyard of the restaurant and wants to hand him over to the police. In a hurry, the chief says t

S3·E20 Mytharc

Episode 20

Apr 3, 2014

Maxim pretends to have lost his memory to start a relationship with Vika. Soon his plan is revealed... Nastya's fights start at the wedding. Nagiyev buys the restaurant with the he