Up-and-coming chef Tommy Pagano settles for a less than glamorous job at his uncle`s restaurant in Manhattan`s Little Italy. There, an eccentric group of wiseguys become his superiors. Tommy struggles to do the right thing but unwittingly becomes a partner in big-time crime. When the mob decides to use the restaurant`s kitchen for a murder, Tommy knows that nothing he learned in cooking school has prepared him for this kettle of fish.