At a restaurant located somewhere in midtown New York, waiters, waitresses, cooks, a struggling playwright, and one exceptionally nasty restaurant owner serve up lavish helpings of food and mordant comedy. Among the players is a narcissistic would-be screen idol (Michael Buchman Silver), a naive and relentlessly eager young waitress (
Ellen Pompeo), and an embittered veteran hash-slinger (
Molly Ringwald). On the job, their lives tend to gravitate toward Adam (
The Blair Witch Project's
Joshua Leonard), a playwright who takes his job very, very seriously. They also find themselves continuously terrorized by Simon (
Eric Bogosian), the restaurant's owner, and the psycho head chef, Kurt (
Kirk Acevedo). Over the course of one night, a romance blossoms, Adam struggles to break free of his manipulative girlfriend, a diamond ring goes missing, and a creme brulee meets an unfortunate fate. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide