A Cozinha

Throughout, Ruizpalacios allows the Grill to be both exactly what it is—a specific workplace with its own Kitchen Confidential-style rituals and pecking order—and a microcosm of American capitalism.

Almost every scene of the powerful “La Cocina” takes place in or just outside the kitchen of a Times Square tourist trap bluntly dubbed The Grill.

Tensions flare between front of house and kitchen staff in Alonso Ruizpalacios' Times Square restaurant-set drama.

Rooney Mara stars in overstuffed New York kitchen drama.

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