Episode Title:
A Bar's Secret Ingredient - The Face of a Martini
Episode Description:
The chef at Hotel Cardinal is leaving and Chairman Kurushima asks Kamishima to get Ryū to convince the fussy prospective chef Yamanouchi to run the hotel's restaurant. After dinner, Kamishima takes Yamanouchi to Edenhall where Ryū gives him a blind taste test of an aged Japanese mirin which comes across as a European sherry which causes Yamanouchi to question his preconceptions. Later, while Miwa and Yukari are still at Edenhall, the trainee bartender, Kawakami Kyouko, enters and is despondent because he boss told her that her Martini "had no face." Ryū explains that each Martini is different, but the character and fragrance of the gin must show through.
