"Dating in the Kitchen" follows the trope of the rich guy falling in love with a poor girl.

The show has a good start with enough comedy and flirty moments to keep you entertained, but this is lost quickly following old tropes that end up making no sense and indicating that there was no character development at all. They only start "dating in the kitchen", but this is left behind from mid show when the story changes to family drama and company scheming.

This is yet another show where they do not honor the title. You may believe that the most relevant from both main leads is the girl because she is the chef, but the final plot is all about the business man male lead winning the fight against his brother to save his company.

Misunderstandings and love triangles will be present across the whole story with at least three love triangles. One for each main lead until half the show, and a completely unnecessary last love triangle between the male lead, female lead and male lead's brother, where the female lead makes all classic mistakes of allowing too much from a guy that she just met versus the boyfriend that is supposed to be truly in love with.

The show can be a funny and cute rom com, but the story is all around the place and lacks character development. This is yet another show where you just don't understand why the male lead wants to be with the female lead, but I guess is fate.

Watch it for the fun, and feel free to skip or risk dropping the show.