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The Cooks

2004

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EP1 Nights Of Living Dangerously Oct 18, 2004

Life is pretty good for the staff of R&R restaurant. With no real competition on their strip, their restaurant is now a year old and a success. That is until the arrival of Gabe, the next in line to the old Italian family restaurant across the road.

EP2 Desiree Oct 28, 2004

The competition between the two restaurants hots up, as the new, remodelled Snatch and Grab takes off, and R&Rs business begins to suffer.

EP3 The Olive Garden Nov 04, 2004

The passionate relationship between Sachin and Carmelita is tested. Meanwhile, Gabe is beginning to realise that running a restaurant and being a single father might be too much to handle.

EP4 Swimming Upstream Nov 11, 2004

Sexual longing for Gabe and her passion for food combine in Ruth's dreams to produce a new salmon dish. Despite Gabe's denials, Ruth sees this as a move for the two to be reunited and refuses to accept Gabe's pleas to meet him half-way.

EP5 Waltzing Sakamoto Nov 18, 2004

Dishpig is experiencing something of a meltdown. The combination of Ruth's rejection of his advances and Gabe stealing his girl has flushed out all his deepest insecurities.

EP6 The Gingerbread Man Nov 25, 2004

Gabe and Raffa learn that Rosie is being ostracised by her friends because her mother is ""crazy"". In an attempt to cheer her up, everyone pitches in to organise a fabulous karaoke party for her ninth birthday.

EP7 Beef With You Dec 02, 2004

When, through the influence of Ruth's ""tame"" DJ, R&R begins to edge ahead of Snatch and Grab, Gabe and his team decide they need some publicity of their own. Sachin gets invited to do a cooking segment on ""Good Morning Australia"" and Dishpig proposes marriage to Carmelita to keep her in the country.

EP8 Beer And Skittles Dec 09, 2004

A former mentor and, it turns out, lover, of Rita's comes to town to conduct a cooking master class. This man, Rita assures everyone, is a food genius, and so R&R will host the class. But George Bolley is not the man Rita once knew.

EP9 Blood And Chocolate Dec 16, 2004

Inspired by his new found relationship with Carmelita, Dishpig undergoes a transformation.

EP10 Hole Lotta Love Dec 23, 2004

R&R restaurant is raided by the Department of Immigration, and terrified of something going wrong, Carmelita brings forward the date of her wedding to Dishpig.

EP11 Heart Of Marshmallow Dec 30, 2004

Two influential celebrities have chosen to dine at R&R on their wedding anniversary, and have asked Rita to prepare a heart shaped dessert for the occasion. Gabe is strapped for cash so he asks Dishpig to go without pay for one week, so Dishpig goes mental.

EP12 Honey And Wounds Jan 06, 2005

Carmelita and Dishpig prepare to face a series of interviews at the Immigration Department, in which they must prove the legitimacy of their marriage.

EP13 Sticky Jan 13, 2005

During the ""Cooks of 2000"" cooking school reunion, various relationships come to the boil, and in one long night of very hard partying, some things change forever.
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Synopsis

The Cooks was an Australian television drama series that ran for one season on Network Ten during the summer of 2004/05. It was a co-production with subscription television and screened on the UKTV channel on Foxtel. It was produced by Penny Chapman and Sue Masters. The directors were Tony Tilse, Ian Gilmour, Brendan Maher and Ian Watson. The Cooks was about the love and war involving the staff of two restaurants on the same street. R&R's Restaurant was run by chefs Rita and Ruth, with waitress Argentine Carmelita. Across the road at Snatch and Grab, its chefs are Gabe and Sachin, who's of Indian descent, with Dishpig at the sink. The Cooks was a spin-off of a telemovie called Temptation, which screened in 2003, starring Colin Friels as Roberto Francobelli.

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Reviews

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Supelice Dreadfully Boring
FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
erinchristine-smith I stumbled upon this show recently and still can only catch it once in a while since it is on quite late at night. I am a Canadian born food and cooking lover who now resides in rural NSW.There are things I really liked about this show, the 1st being that there is nothing else like it on television and its not your usual Aussie drama that you see on prime time. I enjoy the sultry, indie style of the characters, but I have to say it lacks a little in character dynamics. I almost wish the characters would give each other more, engage with each other.On a different note, I secretly enjoy this show late nights when I cant sleep and I do hope I can catch the entire series at some point. Maybe this show would have done well with a second or third season? I sure think so.
sarahjose The Cooks is my most favourite Australian TV show and i only wish that they made more episodes, 13 was not enough. Leon Ford is a great actor and extremely funny. I loved the whole cast and i think that they had wonderful chemistry on camera. The show is set in Sydney and revolves around two restaurants, the head chefs from both restaurants Gabe and Ruth were an item before they became chefs in opposing restaurants. While getting used to the idea that they will be competing, the mother (Raffa) of Gabe's daughter (Rosie) shows up on his doorstep causing more problems. Raffa was just released from a psyche ward and asks to move in with Gabe and Rosie. Sachan who is Gabes 2nd chef is dating Carmalita who works for Ruth which also doesn't help with rivalry between restaurants. Then there is Dish-pig he washes dishes for Gabe he is a very troubled soul and falls into bouts of depression mainly due to Ruth constantly rejecting his advances. I thoroughly enjoyed this series and recommend it to everyone. FIVE STARS
azzonline The Cooks, based on Network TEN's low rating 2003 tele-movie/pilot "Temptation" was one of the lowest rating drama premieres and was quickly dumped in a late-night time-slot to waste away (TEN couldn't axe The Cooks as it would jeopardise their Australian content quota).Starring up and coming actor Toby Schmitz and "SeaChange" star Kate Atkinson, the action took place in two competing restaurants in Sydney's inner west.There were numerous problems with the series, namely a lack of chemistry between the cast and sketchy writing and plotting, but there were moments of freshness and some nice ideas.