Kitchen Impossible season finale with 'Best Friends' edition

Culinary highlights await viewers in the season finale of "Kitchen Impossible". In the "Best Friends Edition", Tim Mälzer and two top chefs battle it out in a very personal competition and go to their limits for the right flavour.

Tim Mälzer and Juan Amador in Florence (Italy): Viennese 2-star chef Lukas Mraz makes his friends Tim Mälzer and Juan Amador sweat with the name of one of the most successful chefs of our time. Massimo Bottura is an Italian three-star chef who makes both Tim Mälzer and Juan Amador a little nervous with admiration. When they see the dish, they immediately realise that Bottura must have had a hand in it. What they don't realise until the next day, however, is that despite Bottura's name, they won't be facing him at the restaurant, but none other than the world's first Mexican star chef. Karime Lopez is a good friend of Lukas Mraz and makes it anything but easy for his opponents at the impressive "Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura".

Tim Mälzer and Lukas Mraz in Nagoya (Japan): Juan Amador has come up with something very special for his opponents. He is travelling to Japan, the cradle of precision cooking. After an impressive visit to a master swordsmith comes the culinary challenge. Tim Mälzer and Lukas Mraz have to face a local classic - mazesoba, a ramen variation. It is the culinary supreme discipline of Japan - but this time in an even more complex form! Under the strict eyes of inventor Naoto Niiyama, the two of them take on the challenge and work together like real best friends. Nevertheless, there is mistrust between them - can they really trust each other? Or are they leading each other down the wrong path to victory?

Juan Amador and Lukas Mraz in Berlin: Juan Amador and Lukas Mraz have a long history together, as Lukas Mraz completed a school internship with Juan Amador. Their motto: "We are the team: TWO AGAINST MALZERS". To strengthen the team spirit, Tim Mälzer has come up with a special activity for the two of them: out into nature to go fly fishing! After that, however, the harmony should come to an end, because Tim Mälzer sends his best friends to Berlin to the city's only three-star restaurant: Marco Müller's "Restaurant Rutz". The challenge: Müritz carp in two courses. It remains to be seen whether the two of them will remain a team during the challenge or whether they will now put their claws out.