History Main / KitchenChase

* ''Film/SisterAct'': Dolores witnesses a mobster committing a crime, and she makes a hasty getaway through the kitchen of the Reno casino where she performs.

* In the ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' pilot, Paul and Echo's fight starts in a kitchen.

* In the ''Series/{{Vegas}}'' pilot, Dan Tanna chases a rapist through a casino kitchen.

Bottom line, if you can't stand the heat, escape through the kitchen.

* ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett''. Played for laughs when Boba and Fennec Shand sneak into the Jabba's palace via the kitchen drain, and are confronted by a chef droid [[MultiArmedAndDangerous swinging six cleavers simultaneously]]. Boba is preparing to fight it with his gaffi stick... [[AnticlimaxBoss only for Fennec to pop up behind it and cut its head off.]] A rat catcher droid actually gives them more trouble, as Boba struggles to catch the small droid as it scrambles through every tight space in the kitchen.

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* In ''Film/FinalDestination5'', Sam reserves the restaurant for an afterhours date with Molly. Peter, who has become unstable after Candice's death, interrupts the date and tells them that he will kill Molly to take her lifespan. After Peter draws a gun, Sam and Molly both escape to the kitchen. Peter pursues and running chase/battle ensues.

* ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'': An episode has a chase scene in a TV studio - they bump into a TV show chef, just as he is in the middle of explaing how much care today's dish requires.

* Season 2 of ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' opens with Matt chasing down some diamond thieves who are evading the cops that are pursuing them. He manages to corner one of the thieves in a Japanese restaurant kitchen and beats the guy senseless. Once Matt is gone, the kitchen staff get their turn to beat the shit out of the thief.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' fanfic "The Flux of Mortal Things", B'Elanna and Seven run through an alien slaughterhouse to escape an assassination attempt.

* ''Film/CastADeadlySpell''. After a restaurant owner tries to put a written curse on him, Philip Lovecraft goes after him into the kitchen to return it. The curse manifests when a demon comes out of a pot on a stove. Lovecraft joins forces with a cook to defeat it.

** ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain''. The assassin trying to kill Bond at Shrublands follows him into a kitchen and a fight breaks out, complete with a terrified female chef.

** ''Film/QuantumOfSolace''. The gunfight in the opera house between Bond and several bodyguards leads from a restaurant and passes through the kitchen.

Subtrope of ExcuseMeComingThrough and sister trope of CrashingThroughTheHarem. See also ImprovisedWeapon. Not to be confused with CookingDuel. This trope may also appear after a DinerBrawl or a WokFu scene.

* ''Film/JurassicPark''. Two velociraptors pursue the children into a kitchen and try to hunt them down inside it.

* ''Film/TheFugitive'': During the confrontation between Kimble and the villain at the hotel.
* ''Film/SisterAct'': Dolores witnesses a mobster committing a crime, and she makes a hasty getaway through the kitchen of the Reno casino where she performs.
* ''Film/FrightNight1985'': Charlie and Amy run through the kitchen of a club to escape the vampire.
* ''Film/EnemyOfTheState'': Daniel runs through a the kitchen of a club to escape the pursuing federal agents.

* ''Film/KungFuTheLegendContinues'': The Ancient One just won a lottery and was rich. Caine and The Ancient One get in a fight in the kitchen against some Kung Fu punks who want the ticket while escaping a golddigger at a formal dinner in a hotel.
* The {{flashback}} in ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'', with Kid!Snakeeyes and Kid!Stormshadow.
* ''Film/TheRocketeer'': Cliff Secord is chased by Lothar and other gangsters through the kitchen of the South Seas Club. {{Justified|Trope}} as Cliff was disguised as a waiter.
* The hotel chase in ''Film/TheRock'' goes through a kitchen before heading outside.
* ''Film/{{Nikita}}'' is cornered in the kitchen by several bodyguards after making a hit in a restaurant, and dives down the garbage chute to escape being blown up by a rifle grenade.

* ''Film/{{Outland}}''. A lengthy ChaseFight through the colony ends up with a brutal fistfight in a kitchen. At one point, the criminal O'Niel is chasing throws drugs in a pan of boiling oil to destroy the evidence, but [[TheDeterminator our hero plunges his bare hand in and fishes it out]].
* In ''Film/{{Tamara}}'', Chloe and Jesse have to fight a BrainwashedAndCrazy Kisha in the deserted kitchen of the hospital (although, oddly, one the deep fryers is still running).
* ''Film/InTheLineOfFire'', though they're actually not chasing anyone, just rapidly evacuating the President after an assassination attempt.

* In the {{Vegas}} pilot, Dan Tanna chases a rapist through a casino kitchen.

* Season 2 of ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' opens with Matt chasing down some diamond thieves who are evading the cops that are pursuing them. He manages to corner one of the thieves in a Japanese restaurant kitchen and beats the guy senseless. Once Matt is gone, the kitchen staff get their turn to beat the shit out of the thief.

** One scene in ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' involves a full-on fight between a British intelligence mook and a KGB hitman in the kitchen of an MI6 safehouse.