Adam improves his attitude, but refuses her request for time off for her daughter Lily's birthday. Tony convinces Helene to return with a doubled salary and some insight about Adam's behavior. At his second opening, a restaurant critic gives a positive review, enraging Reece. Adam goes on a talk show that he previously turned down to drum up publicity for the restaurant. He publicly humiliates her, escalating from verbal to physical aggression, and she quits. Opening night is a disaster, and Adam furiously closes early, blaming Helene. Helene is irate about being fired, but Adam convinces her to work for him by tripling her salary. Helene rebuffs further job offers until Conti fires her and sends her to Adam's kitchen. Another old friend, Max, joins Adam's team after being released from prison. Adam agrees to the tests, although he is uninterested in therapy and throws himself into preparations for the grand opening. He stipulates that Adam must submit to weekly drug tests with Tony's psychiatrist Dr. Simone's favorable review convinces Tony to renovate the hotel's kitchen and hire Adam as head chef permanently. Seeing no other way, he allows Adam to cook. Tony realizes that Adam set this up and is reluctant to let him cook, but his kitchen is in such poor condition it would result in Simone shutting his restaurant down. Adam's former drug dealer realizes he has returned to Europe and attempts to collect Adam's outstanding debt.Īdam convinces famed restaurant critic Simone to dine at Tony's hotel. Adam also visits a cutting-edge eatery run by Reece, with whom he has a long-standing rivalry, and the visit ends poorly. After a brief fistfight, they talk and Michel forgives Adam then asks to work for him. A Paris colleague, Michel, whose restaurant Adam had sabotaged out of jealousy, tracks him down. Adam checks into one of The Langham's rooms then visits an old friend, Conti, and notes the talent of his sous-chef Helene, but she dislikes his arrogance and dismisses him immediately.
In London, Adam searches for old colleagues, beginning with his mentor's former maître d'hôtel, Tony Balerdi, now a hotel manager of The Langham Hotel in London, under the ownership of the Balerdi family. In the aftermath, Adam went into self-imposed exile in New Orleans by shucking a million oysters to sober up, planning to head to London to restart his career and attempt to earn a third Michelin star. Adam Jones was the chef at a high-class Parisian restaurant owned by his mentor Jean-Luc, until his drug use and temperamental behavior destroyed his career and the restaurant.