Valerie Bertinelli hosts as restaurant-owning families compete in challenges requiring them to overcome real-life restaurant curve balls. The team that impresses the food world's most intimidating judges wins $10,000.
Mexican-American, Italian and Laotian families compete to prove their food is best and take the $10,000 prize home to their restaurant. In the first round, Valerie Bertinelli challenges them to make a spicy special without any of their usual spicy ingredients. Then the remaining two families have to create an upscale dinner that incorporates breakfast items and wows judges Clinton Kelly, Bricia Lopez and Jet Tila.
