Lucy, a woman with an uncanny sense of taste and smell, discovers that her favorite restaurant has changed kitchen staff--and she does not know the identity of the chef whose cooking she's loved for years.

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    Lucy has an extraordinary sense of taste and smell, and one day finds that her favorite restaurant, Dimanche, has changed their kitchen staff, and the food she once loved had changed its taste. However, she doesn’t know the identity of the chef who cooked her favorite meals there, and by sheer coincidence of smelling burnt eggs and breaking down a stranger’s door, she runs into two former chefs of Dimanche and is determined to track down the people from Dimanche who produced “the perfect taste”.

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    Lucy starts to work at Brie and Graham’s café, Gourmet Hound, to pay for the door she broke from smelling Graham’s burnt eggs, and everything just keeps rolling from there. I like how there’s an underlying mystery and hidden character backstories that we have yet to discover, but the tone of the plot is so light-hearted and cheerful that we just allow ourselves to get carried away by it.

    The characters of Gourmet Hound serenade and appreciate food like no other, and it probably resonates very well with many of us. Good food brings us all close together no matter our differences, and using the theme of food and memorable tastes, this webtoon explores diversity among people, culture, backgrounds and types of food, all served together on a shimmering plate of goodness.

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    The plot itself is engaging, and creates some sort of adventure for Lucy to embark on to find the former chefs of Dimanche who all quit due to some unexplained conflict. I enjoyed Lucy’s first meeting with Graham especially, but she always has a memorable first meeting with most of the characters in the story which are generally either food-related or dog-related (in Graham’s case it was both).

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    The episodes always end with some sort of cliffhanger that isn’t terribly painful to wait for, since this webtoon updates twice a week, but is still engaging enough to keep us excited for the next episode.

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