Pasta (2010)

Both drama Male leads are chef in profession .
Both male leads train female lead for better cooking skils.
Both dramas have cute romantic scenes.
Both dramas have happy ending

Both:
Food themed rom-coms
Same writer
Similar humor
Set in a restaurant (one is Italian and one is Asian)
Good focus on food
New boss trying to take over the old staff
ML is a skilled hot-tempered chef, with an ex
FL is kindhearted
Charming main cast and
Shinning supporting cast
Heartfelt, feel-good dramas

The romances in these two dramas remind me of each other. In Pasta, the shared passion is food - in Nodame, it's music.

Plucky girl has great potential but lacks technical skill. Girl falls for anti-social, rude guy that is tops in his field. Quirky girl wears down rough exterior of guy and brings out the best in his personality thus making him a better (and less anti-social) person.

1. Not only do both star "The Voice" as the male lead, but they feature some familiar supporting characters.

2. They have the same director so the production quality feels the same.

3. The indie band Every Single Day produced the music/ OST for both.

they have the same background story. The head chef/boss doesn't permit office/kitchen romance and in the end the boss falls for an employee. :)

In both dramas they deal with food and romance.

Both shows take place in the kitchen; an Italian restaurant for Pasta, and a run down coffee shop for Coffee Prince. In Pasta, a brand new cook falls for the head chef who has a no kitchen romance policy and has even fired two other employees for this, while in Coffee Prince, a rich reluctant manager of a small coffee shop pretends to be gay to avoid his grandmother's matchmaking sessions, only to fall for one of his employees who he thinks is a man, but is really a girl disguising her gender to make a living working in an all male establishment. Both also have the phenomenal actor Lee Sun Gyun

Both are dramas that handles food theme. Both has funny situations in Italian restaurant.

Even though the settings are different, I found many similarities between the two dramas:

- A cold, selfish but brilliant man becomes in charge of a group of people
- A sweet, warm-hearted girl falls in love with him
- A kinder second lead pines after the girl
- The dramas concentrate on the lives of the group of people also rather than just the main couple (more so in Beethoven's Virus, I think).
- Main lead makes decisions for the group that others don't approve of, causes drama
- Main lead slowly earns the trust of the members creating a more united team

The only major difference I saw was that there wasn't as much of an emphasis on romance in Beethoven's Virus as there was in Pasta.

Both dramas are about Italian food and has somewhat similar points on saving the restaurant.

My princess kept reminding me of pasta while I was watching it. Then I learned that they were done by the same director.
If you want a similar romance drama with the same lovable vibe, and a slowly progressing romance, with good acting cast…
They even have similar music.
Both are very addicting after the first episode.

The protagonist is young, determined, inspired to join the restaurant/bakery that they've eaten from. Romantic lead is an arrogant, skilled hot tempered chef/baker who doesn't cut the protagonist any slack. 2nd romantic lead is very kind and caring to the protagonist during their rough time at first.

Both dramas have the same director, screen writer and lead actor, so while watching you might get the same feeling.

But that's not it. Both dramas don't focus on the romance directly. In "Pasta" it is about working in a restaurant, while in "Miss Korea" it is about working out to be Miss Korea and managing a cosmetic company.

Beside the lead actor, Lee Sun Gyun, actors Lee Sung Min and Choi Jae Hwan also acted in both dramas as supporting roles.

Both stories are about a young girl who is inexperienced and is tutored by someone who is a master at the craft and then she falls for him. Both dramas have the same feel although one is about food and the other about writing.