Talantlivoy i tseleustremlennoy Yu Chzhin prorochat blestyaschuyu kareru. Odnako v tridtsat dva goda devushka brosaet uspeshnuyu zhizn v Seule i pereezzhaet v kroshechnuyu derevushku na beregu ozera. Ee novyy proekt - knizhnoe kafe-pansionat - kazhetsya okruzhayuschim prihotyu i neizbezhnym provalom.
Nö slovno magnitom v «Knizhnuyu kuhnyu» prityagivaet samyh raznyh lyudey. Teh, kto poteryal tsel v zhizni, i teh, kto zaputalsya v svoih chuvstvah. Teh, kto boitsya ostanovitsya hot na minutu, i teh, kto ne reshaetsya sdelat sleduyuschiy shag. Teh, komu predstoit prinyat samoe slozhnoe reshenie v svoey zhizni. Yu Chzhin predlagaet kazhdomu kofe i knigu po vkusu - i vot uzhe v malenkom kafe nachinaet tvoritsya volshebstvo bez kapli magii.
Vmeste s Yu Chzhin my prozhivem v «Knizhnoy kuhne» tselyy god, lyubuyas prirodoy v samom zhivopisnom gornom krayu, probuya samye vkusnye koreyskie blyuda i slushaya samye udivitelnye istorii ee postoyaltsev.