Richard, the owner of Zengo restaurant, needs a new Executive Chef who can handle the intensity of a high volume kitchen in the heart of New York. Anne Burrell brings four candidates who are tested on their ability to combine Asian and Latin cuisine and are asked to create a dish using cured and fermented ingredients. The final two chefs are each handed the keys to the restaurant for an evening to determine who will be Executive Chef: One chef has to dig out of a disastrous start to dinner service and a confrontation erupts between staff in the kitchen leaving a chef shorthanded with a packed house.