Films about restaurants have proliferated in recent years. In step with the food porn that has taken over prime-time television, restaurants both fabled (El Bulli) and lesser-known (Entre Les Bras) have had the documentary treatment.
Who would have heard of Jiro Ono if it weren't for the film Jiro Dreams of Sushi, about his three-Michelin-star sushi restaurant in Ginza?
As pieces of film-making, these are as wildly variable as their menus (the El Bulli film was a dog; Sally Rowe's A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt, which showed in festivals here, was fascinating).
This, the feature debut by a Frenchman who is presently completing a film about last year's Rugby World Cup, is neither of those.