Soul kitchen... Music and food for the soul!

Have you ever thought about opening a restaurant with crazy and funny friends?
Zinos, the main character of the movie Soul Kitchen (directed by the Turkish director Fatih Akin), has!

Zinos, a German of Greek descendant, owns Soul Kitchen, a shabby restaurant providing working-class food in the Hamburg area, in an old warehouse space. The business is struggling financially, and tax inspectors ask Zinos for payments. Occasionally a punk rock band uses the restaurant as practice space, but never pays rental fees.

Unable to cook, Zinos finds Shayn and hires him as Soul Kitchen's new cook. Shayn insists on changing the menu to a new haute cuisine menu. This drives away the old clientele. Illias, Zinos’ brother, has the idea of being a DJ at Soul Kitchen with the help of his criminal friends. In the meanwhile Shayn begins to teach Zinos gourmet cooking skills.

Gradually, the restaurant's reputation and fortunes turn around. One evening, Shayn spikes one dessert with an aphrosidiac ingredient…This will have an effect on everyone in the restaurant!

Glossary
To own: if you own something, it belongs to you
shabby: extremely old
warehouse: a place where a company stores things they are going to sell
to struggle: to fight to overcome something
fee: the cost of something
unable: incapable of doing something
to hire: when you hire someone you invite them to work for you
to drive away: to force to go away
to turn around: to go from bad to good
to spike: to change, to make different