Crunchy roll announced that it will stream the first episode of Ristorante Paradiso for free today at 11:30 AM Pacific standard time.

The series itself premiered in Japan today as a one-hour special. In the US, future episodes of the series will only be available to Crunchyroll's Anime Membership subscribers.

Ristorante Paradioso's story focuses on a restaurant in Rome, which is visited by the heroine Nicoletta (Fumiko Orikasa). Nicoletta is a girl from the countryside who ends up apprenticing at the restaurant under her mother Olga's (Haruhi Terada) new husband Lorenzo (Kenji Nomura). The restaurant is staffed by a motley bunch.