Bon Appétit, Your Majesty (2025) [+]
Nov 12 2025
Bon Appétit, Your Majesty is a South Korean romance historical drama running twelve 75-minute episodes.
Yeon Ji-yeong (Im Yoon-ah, supporting in The K2, female lead in Big Mouth) is a Michelin-rated chef who ends up trapped in the Joseon era where she ends up becoming the royal chef to the tyrant king Yi Heon (Lee Chae-min) who is intent on revenging himself on the people who had his mother killed. But it is that purge that historically known to Ji-yeong leads to his downfall.
In each episode Ji-yeong has to make a unique meal to prove herself or solve some problem (such as a meal that reconciles two rivals). Since she specialized in French cooking most of her meals are either wholly French or French and Korean fusion. The series does a good job of dramatizing making the meal, presenting it, and having people taste it (they are carried away into a CGI wonderland themed around the flavors of the food).
Meanwhile Ji-yeong shows herself as a caring and moral person without any agendas and so becomes king Yi Heon's confidant and later he starts to fall for this mad woman who thinks she's from the future. All the while there are two factions working against him — one wants to paint him as a tyrant so they can overthrow him and gain power and the other supports him but did have his mother murdered so don't want him finding out.
Im Yoon-ah does a good job being the main character as the story revolves around her and with 12 episodes you don't have secondary subplots with other characters to fill space. The sets and costuming are good and the CGI is good (most obvious when people are tasting Yeon Ji-yeong's cooking). The love story is really nice with a satisfying ending (a bit deus ex machina but right at the end so you don't have time to dwell on it).
Overall a really good Netflix K-Romance.
Yeon Ji-yeong (Im Yoon-ah, supporting in The K2, female lead in Big Mouth) is a Michelin-rated chef who ends up trapped in the Joseon era where she ends up becoming the royal chef to the tyrant king Yi Heon (Lee Chae-min) who is intent on revenging himself on the people who had his mother killed. But it is that purge that historically known to Ji-yeong leads to his downfall.
In each episode Ji-yeong has to make a unique meal to prove herself or solve some problem (such as a meal that reconciles two rivals). Since she specialized in French cooking most of her meals are either wholly French or French and Korean fusion. The series does a good job of dramatizing making the meal, presenting it, and having people taste it (they are carried away into a CGI wonderland themed around the flavors of the food).
Meanwhile Ji-yeong shows herself as a caring and moral person without any agendas and so becomes king Yi Heon's confidant and later he starts to fall for this mad woman who thinks she's from the future. All the while there are two factions working against him — one wants to paint him as a tyrant so they can overthrow him and gain power and the other supports him but did have his mother murdered so don't want him finding out.
Im Yoon-ah does a good job being the main character as the story revolves around her and with 12 episodes you don't have secondary subplots with other characters to fill space. The sets and costuming are good and the CGI is good (most obvious when people are tasting Yeon Ji-yeong's cooking). The love story is really nice with a satisfying ending (a bit deus ex machina but right at the end so you don't have time to dwell on it).
Overall a really good Netflix K-Romance.