Whether you've binged The Bear season 3, or watched an episode a week like a civilised person, chances are your stomach is still grumbling for more. Over the past three seasons, over just as many years, we've watched the show mature like a fine wine, with increasingly powerful notes of panicked stress, dysfunctional families and adrenaline-packed kitchen mania as award-winning chef Carmy ( Jeremy Allen White ) turns his late brother’s ageing (albeit successful) Chicago sandwich shop into a fine-dining, foodie heaven. Between chefs whipping up mouthwatering braised beef, sumptuous omelettes finished with crushed sour cream and onion crisps or, more recently, pan-seared fish with jewels of blood orange, every episode of The Bear serves up a feast worth actually trying to recreate at home.
However, food on our screens doesn't begin and end with The Bear . So if you've got an appetite for high-stakes kitchen dramas and overly aesthetic dishes, here are eight additional films and TV shows to whet your palate: Boiling Point Boiling Point , a TV sequel to the 92-minute one-shot film of the same name, showcases endless mouthwatering meals throughout – but at what cost? Similar to The Bear , this culinary thriller takes us behind the scenes and into the heated, genuinely unhinged chaos of the kitchen. Head chef Carly (Vinette Robinson) leads her fellow cooks into the lion’s den each night, dealing with missed tickets and kitchen banter going way too far, as this nail-biting dram.