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The two teams are challenged two each create a dish based on ingredients chosen by rolling dice with letters on them. Though one team makes some strange choices, the results end up being close, with the final determination coming down to the quality of the cooking rather than the nature of the dishes. The winning team enjoys a thrilling day experiencing a wind-tunnel, while the losers are made to clean up the front of the house and then prep both kitchens for service. During this prep, one chef has a breakdown and has to be brought back from the brink. The evening's dinner service features a number of flops, but also some surprisingly strong cooking from several chefs, including one that Chef Ramsay had been riding particularly hard to date. A surprise comes at the evening's elimination when Chef Ramsay makes a sudden change-up.

Jack Bourdain was a great chef four years ago until he made his own demise. Nowadays, he works in a children's restaurant run by his girlfriend. But his luck is about to change. Pino Lugeria, owner of Nolita, wants Jack to take over as head chef and to assemble a crew in 48 hours. For this, he goes back to his old friends, Seth Richman, the pastry chef, Teddy Wong, the seafood expert, Steven Daedelus, as a sous-chef and also great thief, offering all of them a chance to work together again. But this decision does not sit well with Pino's daughter, Mimi, who resents Jack.

When Pino suspects Steven of stealing steaks, Jack is determined to change Steven and himself from their old ways but his plans don't go to plan. Tired of his new ways, Seth and Steven plan to get Jack laid so it will ease the pressure off him but he instead runs into his ex-girlfriend. Meanwhile, Stockbrokers run up a huge bill and then dine and dash.

Jack's old mentor, Gerard, comes to Nolita with a strange request. He wants Jack's food to feed him to death. Meanwhile, Steven and Seth's authority drives Jim to find his way up the kitchen hierarchy with ineffective results.

Television and film star Michael Vartan will guest-star as Michel, an arrogant, womanizing French chef who steals from Jack’s menu and seduces Mimi, his head waitress, sparking a brutal feud between Nolita and a rival French bistro.

After an article on Page Six claims that Jack snubbed a famous actress at Nolita, Jack realizes that part of the success of the restaurant includes his spending more time with Nolita's patrons. Not wanting to leave a hole in his very busy kitchen, Jack hires a female chef he knows and trusts. At first, the boys resent a woman in their midst, but Becky (Erinn Hayes) quickly wins the crew over - and the more Becky fits in, the less space there is for Jack.

Jim accidentally accepts a delivery of rabbits for Nolita's special, but when they arrive alive, no one has the guts to kill them. Meanwhile, Jack dates a vegan and is impressed by the strength of her convictions, until he sweet-talks her into trying meat and she becomes obsessed.

Jack and Becky's secret affair continues. Meanwhile, Pino orders Jack to take his shortbreads off the menu because they are not selling. Becky convinces Jack to start serving brunch even though the rest of the staff is dead set against it. Seth has a run in with a suave chocolate maker.

Food and Wine magazine writes a favorable review of one of the Nolita meals that Teddy makes but Jack takes total credit for it. This makes Teddy quit in anger, but seeing him quit and return so often, Jack decides to hire another chef, Chet. He is immediately despised but the rest of the staff and decide to make his time a living hell as they want Teddy back Jack refuses to cave in. Teddy, finding out he has been replaced, takes a job at another restaurant, where he is propositioned by two waitresses wanting a threesome, and begins to like his new job. Meanwhile, Nolita is flooded with guests wanting the fish meal, and Jack soon discovers he does not know how to make it, and realizes he has to get Teddy back.