Watch Chef Online HD Movie Online Free Chef is a 2014 American comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by Jon Favreau, and starring Favreau, SofÃa Vergara, John Leguizamo, Scarlett Johansson, Oliver Platt, Bobby Cannavale, Dustin Hoffman, and Robert Downey, Jr. Favreau plays a professional chef who, after a public altercation with a food critic, quits his job at a popular Los Angeles restaurant and returns to his home town of Miami to fix up a food truck. He reconnects with his ex-wife and invites their young son to join him in driving the truck back to L.A. while selling Cubanos in various cities along the way.Favreau wrote the script after directing several big-budget films, wanting to go "back to basics" and to create a film about cooking.[3] Food truck owner and chef Roy Choi served as a co-producer and oversaw all of the menus and food prepared for the film. Principal photography took place in July 2013 in Los Angeles, Miami, Austin and New Orleans. C