Brogana Sunfrog

Neither leads nor sidekicks are endearing. You have a grumpy female lead who is hyper focused on just food paired with a sly conman male lead who goes around stealing recipes. Female sidekick is a shrew who verbally & physically abusing male sidekick because she can ( as female he's not allowed to retaliate.) male sidekick is a clingy loud whiny dullard. Who wants to see any of these people for 10 episodes ? Male lead evolves & tries to be charming, but they base the reason for his attraction to initially be based on a memory of someone else, so it's really not valid to transfer that emotion.
The female lead does begin to be less abrasive (late in the series), I still did not find the romance (such as it is) to be something I wanted. The series takes a turn for boring after episode 5 & pulls the leads into a love triangle . It's not only depressing, it's also not really well explained. The food is interesting. The romance feels forced. (Also, DO notice that the female lead is eerily similar to the male lead's despotic mother so yeah in a few years he will be regretting this) .I only finished this because it was 10 episodes, because , honestly, I was ready to quit early on- it just wasn't fun to watch.