If you liked The Bear, you really should try this English kitchen drama

She’s inherited a bunch of the staff from Andy’s old place – including pastry chef Emily (Graham’s real-life wife Hannah Walters) and her junior, Jamie (Stephen McMillan), the French import Camille (Izuka Hoyle), the hot-headed Freeman (Ray Panthaki), and front-of-house stars Dean (Gary Lamont), the flamboyant restaurant manager and occasional DJ, and Robyn (Aine Rose Daly), an aspiring actress.

The camera is fluid and intimate, but the single-take conceit has been abandoned. The hour-long episodes occasionally get outside of the kitchen, indeed outside of the restaurant entirely, which is a significant departure from the earlier versions of Boiling Point.

But the intensity of the hospo life remains its focus. The tension, the pressure, the clashes and the camaraderie.It’s a war zone, every night, and the survivors are both scarred and bonded by it.

Barantini used to work in commercial kitchens, starting at the bottom and working his way up to head chef over 12 years. Boiling Point positively drips with the authenticity born of that experience.

There are moments when the sheer drama of it all seems a bit much – can one workplace really harbour so much addiction, poverty, mental health issues and sexual harassment (answer: probably). But everyone involved in Boiling Point goes about it with such absolute conviction that you might not even notice how overloaded your plate is until you’ve licked it clean.

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