Antique Bakery covers the lives of four employees of Antique, a pâtisserie in residential Tokyo: Keiichir Tachibana, pastry chef Yusuke Ono, apprentice pastry chef Eiji Kanda, and server Chikage Kobayakawa. Antique is called for the fact that the pâtisserie is housed in a former antique shop and serves food on antique dishes and furnishings. The show follows the men as they deal with a variety of hilarious and dramatic situations, most of which revolve on workplace humour, pastry creation and growth, or love intrigue. Though the series is mostly a slice-of-life narrative with no overarching plot, Tachibana's desire to discover the guy who abducted him as a child is a constant theme; the series culminates with Tachibana working as a detective.