‘The Bear’ Season 2 Trailer: If You Can’t Take the Heat, Don’t Open a Restaurant

“This is coming from a place of wanting to start fresh and clean,” says Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) at the top of the trailer. After shutting down his rough-and-ready sandwich shop, The Beef, at the end of season one, Carmy and his crew—including sous-chef Sydney (Ayo Edebiri), “cuz” Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), and sister Sugar (Abby Elliott)—have big dreams for their new restaurant, The Bear. “This is going to be a destination spot,” says Sydney.

But according to the trailer for season two, creating one from scratch may be harder than it looks. “It’s gonna take six months to open,” Sugar says as Richie and his gang get to work on rehabilitating the space. Over in the kitchen, Sydney and Carmy take The Bear’s notorious frenetic energy and infuse it straight into their cooking. “Still thinking chaos menu?” Sydney asks Carmy as they come up with new recipes for the restaurant. “Yeah, chaos menu but thoughtful,” says Carmy, before promptly spitting out one of the new recipes. 

Sydney and Carmy aren’t the only Beef alums trying to step up their game, as veteran line cooks Ebraheim (Edwin Lee Gibson) and Tina (Liza Colón-Zayas) get sent back to culinary school. Even Richie is trying to level up at the new restaurant, declaring himself “the supervisor.” (“Supervisor of what?” asks Lionel Boyce’s pastry chef, Marcus.) Unlike Richie, Sydney is certainly in a position of power as a chef at The Bear, but she finds it difficult to exert her authority when looking to hire new staff. “When can I talk to the chef?” asks a potential employee during a job interview shown in the trailer. “You are,” replies Sydney, before giving him a withering look. 

Outside of the restaurant, things are heating up for Carmy as well. In the trailer, we get our first glimpse at season two addition Molly Gordon, whose still-unknown character seems to have something of a history with the troubled chef. “How has your life been, Berzatto?” Gordon’s character asks after bumping into Carmy in a supermarket. Could Carmy have to juggle opening a new restaurant and reigniting an old flame? You’ll have to wait and see when season two of The Bear serves up all 10 of its episodes exclusively on Hulu on June 22.