Jeremy Allen White as Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto, an award-winning New York City chef de cuisine, who returns to his hometown of Chicago to run his late brother Michael's failing restaurant Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Richard "Richie" Jerimovich, the de facto manager of the restaurant and Michael's old best friend Ayo Edebiri as Sydney Adamu, a talented but inexperienced chef who joins The Beef as its new sous chef under Carmy Lionel Boyce as Marcus, The Beef's bread baker turned pastry chef, spurred on by Carmy's mentoring Liza Colón-Zayas as Tina, an acerbic and stubborn veteran line cook Abby Elliott as Natalie "Sugar" Berzatto, Carmy and Michael's younger sister and reluctant co-owner of The Beef