Shokugeki no Souma

Soma Yukihira grows up cooking in his father's small diner, constantly challenging Joichiro and dreaming of surpassing him one day. He is stunned when his father closes the restaurant and sends him to Totsuki Culinary Academy, an elite school where only a small fraction of students ever graduate.

Soma brings the instincts of a neighborhood diner cook into a world of heirs, prodigies, and students who treat cuisine as an art reserved for the exceptional. At Totsuki, a Shokugeki can make one dish decide a student's status and future. Every new rival forces Soma to improve without abandoning his own style and to prove that great food depends less on prestigious origins than on a cook unafraid to experiment.