Chef is a 2014 American
comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by and starring
Jon Favreau, and co-starring
Sofía Vergara,
John Leguizamo,
Scarlett Johansson,
Oliver Platt,
Bobby Cannavale,
Dustin Hoffman, and
Robert Downey, Jr. Favreau plays a professional chef who, after a public altercation with a food critic, quits his job at a popular
Los Angeles restaurant and returns to his home town of
Miami to fix up a
food truck. He reconnects with his ex-wife and invites their young son to join him in driving the truck back to L.A. while selling
Cubanos in various cities along the way.