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The Kitchen: Season 4

20 episodes Premiered Oct 13, 2014
Previously on The Kitchen

Season 4 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 3.
  • 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 4 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 4: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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S4·E1 Mytharc

Episode 1

Oct 13, 2014

Max and Vika get used to the family life together. The chef becomes the hero of a television program, which is filmed directly in the restaurant's kitchen. Because of this, the bos

S4·E2 Core

Episode 2

Oct 13, 2014

Max's half-brother, Denis, unexpectedly comes to visit Max and Vika and asks to live for a while. They're trying to get him a job. Nagiyev is looking for a new chef instead of the

S4·E3 Core

Episode 3

Oct 14, 2014

Elena helps Barinov out of the checkpoint, but under certain conditions. Nagiyev introduces the employees to the new boss, Herman Mikhailovich, who immediately decides to conduct c

S4·E4 Core

Episode 4

Oct 15, 2014

Vika really wants to have a child, but Max is always torn between his wife and his brother's problems. Viktor Petrovich is getting used to the new team. Because of Herman Löw's cha

S4·E5 Core

Episode 5

Oct 16, 2014

Vika demands that Max ask Denis to move out of their apartment. Max wants to get a place as a sous-chef instead of the departed Lova, and Lova is trying to deal with Viktor Petrovi

S4·E6 Core

Episode 6

Oct 20, 2014

Victor meets his old friend Vladimir (he calls him Volodka in a friendly way), who wants to come to a restaurant for lunch. Victor does not admit that he is no longer a chef, and h

S4·E7 Core

Episode 7

Oct 21, 2014

A representative of the "Union of Cinematographers" comes to the restaurant to order a banquet. Nagiyev is forced to ask Viktor Petrovich to return to Claude Monet for one evening.

S4·E8 Core

Episode 8

Oct 22, 2014

His mother is coming to visit Max. Because of this, Denis is forced to move out. Senya rents a room to Denis to finally fulfill his dream: to buy a motorboat. Barinov suspects that

S4·E9 Core

Episode 9

Oct 23, 2014

Kostya asks Max and Vika to take care of his son, but Vika is urgently called to the restaurant, and Max has to stay alone with the child. Herman reports the theft in the restauran

S4·E10 Core

Episode 10

Oct 27, 2014

Restaurant workers fantasize about what movie about the restaurant they would like to watch. Senya makes an action movie, Fedya makes erotica, Nastya makes a horror movie, and the

S4·E11 Core

Episode 11

Oct 28, 2014

Victor is plotting a chef from a neighboring restaurant. Vika and Max are fighting because Max is not behaving like a man. Kostya is trying to become a sommelier. Nagiyev takes Den

S4·E12 Core

Episode 12

Oct 29, 2014

Barinov finds diamonds in fish. Sasha returned to Moscow with her fiancé and plans to celebrate the wedding in a restaurant. At the wedding, Sasha kisses Max in front of Vicky, and

S4·E13 Core

Episode 13

Oct 30, 2014

Vika doesn't show her feelings because of breaking up with Max. Katya, Viktor Petrovich's daughter, returns to the Claude Monet restaurant, where the dog's birthday is celebrated o

S4·E14 Core

Episode 14

Nov 10, 2014

Herman tries to take care of Victoria and decides to resort to cunning. It's Viktor Petrovich's birthday, but the planned celebration is under threat of disruption. Katya discovers

S4·E15 Core

Episode 15

Nov 11, 2014

After Viktor Petrovich's anniversary, many people do not wake up alone. German is with Ainura, Katya is with Denis, and Barinov is with his daughter's friend, a waitress Eva. In th

S4·E16 Core

Episode 16

Nov 12, 2014

Denis is trying to earn permission from the boss to meet his daughter. Lova prepared a surprise gift for her mother for her anniversary. Nastya offers Kostya to enroll in sommelier

S4·E17 Core

Episode 17

Nov 13, 2014

Eva informs Viktor Petrovich that she is expecting a child. Katya meets a childhood friend who has already married and decides to say that she is also getting married soon. Herman

S4·E18 Core

Episode 18

Nov 17, 2014

Katya and Denis start dating. Fedya and Senya find a video on the Internet, where you can see how German brutally beats the cook. Soon it turns out that Herman has mental problems,

S4·E19 Mytharc

Episode 19

Nov 18, 2014

Nagiyev arranges a culinary show "Chef" in his restaurant, in which Viktor Petrovich really wants to participate. Denis has nightmares. Nastya wants a second child.

S4·E20 Mytharc

Episode 20

Nov 19, 2014

Two candidates enter the final of Nagiyev's show: Viktor Barinov and Oksana Smirnova. Katya almost breaks up with Denis, but everything is solved. Vika finds out that she is expect