The chefs of The Bear are opening up their restaurant earlier than expected. Hulu has announced that it’s pushing up the premiere of The Bear’s highly anticipated third season, dropping all 10 episodes exclusively on Hulu at 9:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday, June 26—three hours earlier than originally scheduled.

Along with the early-bird special, the series’ stars have clarified the status of the onscreen relationship between head chef Carmy Berzatto (played by Emmy winner Jeremy Allen White) and sous chef Sydney Adamu (played by Emmy-winner Ayo Edebiri). At a recent press conference, White and Edebiri said that Carmy and Sydney are not destined to be a couple. “There was no talk in the rooms about any romantic implications” between the characters, said White.

“Carmy is somebody that I think she’s really looked up to, but now is sort of in the thick of doing business with,” added Edebiri. “It’s, I think, a lot more chaotic than she might have idealized before they really started working together.”

So, if not romance, what will TV’s favorite chefs be cooking up in The Bear season three? Here’s everything we know about the next course.

When will The Bear season three actually premiere?

Chefs, it’s time to sharpen those knives. All episodes of The Bear’s third season hit Hulu on Wednesday, June 26.

In a teaser trailer released May 9, Carmy walks into an empty kitchen and begins to unwrap his precious knives. The camera zooms in on a concerned-looking Carmy and his icy blue eyes before zooming out to capture his restaurant, The Bear, and the city of Chicago at night.

Where will we be able to watch season three of The Bear?

In the United States, The Bear will air on Hulu (and Hulu via Disney+), while it’s on Star+ in Latin America and Disney+ everywhere else.

Internationally, Disney+ will drop all 10 episodes simultaneously at the newly announced time in the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Gibraltar, the Balkans, Singapore, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Egypt, and select countries in the Middle East. Season three of The Bear will launch in all other territories at a later date.

Who will be in The Bear season three?

As a workplace dramedy that relies heavily on its ensemble, The Bear isn’t likely to be the kind of show that jettisons characters without warning. In November, FX entertainment president Nick Grad specifically singled out stars White, Edebiri, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, so if for some reason you were worried, they’ll definitely be back. So will Abby Elliott’s Natalie, Lionel Boyce’s Marcus, Liza Colón-Zayas’s Tina, Edwin Lee Gibson’s Ebraheim, and Matty Matheson’s Fak. Then there’s Oliver Platt as Uncle Jimmy, who earned an Emmy nomination alongside White, Edebiri, and Moss-Bachrach for the show’s first season, and will almost certainly do the same for the second. The season three trailer seemed to confirm the return of Jon Bernthal, who was also Emmy-nominated for the first season and got an even bigger spotlight in the season two flashback episode “Fishes.”

And don’t forget that, given the caliber of guest stars in season two, literally anyone could show up as a new character. They’ve already brought in multiple Oscar winners—maybe Nobel laureates are next?

What will happen in The Bear season three?

Unlike the first season, which built to Carmy’s decision to reopen a new restaurant called The Bear, the end of season two was deliciously open-ended. The Bear’s friends-and-family night was a success but still ended with Carmy getting locked in the walk-in fridge and breaking up with Claire (Molly Gordon). Natalie’s baby is still on the way, Carmy and Natalie’s mom, Donna (Jamie Lee Curtis), remains a wild card, and even though everyone in the kitchen set aside their differences for the sake of opening night, the next blowup is inevitably around the corner.

According to a release, season three of The Bear will find the kitchen gang pursuing culinary excellence that will “propel the crew to new levels and stress the bonds that hold the restaurant together.” The team grows in size as Carmy and co. struggle to elevate their beef stand turned fine dining establishment into a force to be reckoned with in Chicago’s culinary scene. “Our chefs have learned that every second counts, but this season we’ll find out if they have what it takes to make it to tomorrow,” reads the press release.

Following his second Golden Globe win, White teased a juicy morsel of a potential plot in the pressroom. “I think Claire is so lovely and kind to Carmy,” he said of Gordon’s character. “I think she deserves an apology, at the very least. So I hope there’s some version of that when I read the scripts.”

Abby Elliott, who plays Carmy’s more stable sister Natalie, told Vanity Fair ahead of the Globes that she had yet to read a season three script. But if her character were to get a solo episode à la Richie’s in season two, Elliott would want to dive into new parenthood with Chris Witaske’s character, Pete. “I would love to go deeper into their marriage,” she said. “He is this jolly, funny, sweet guy. He’s her rock, but she also has these moments of rolling her eyes at him. She might be a little smarter than he is. So it’s interesting why she chose him as a partner after enduring years of her chaotic family.”

Where can I watch the cast of The Bear while I wait, or after I binge?

White had his biggest film role yet in Sean Durkin’s The Iron Claw, about a Texas wrestling family. He stars opposite Zac Efron and Harris Dickinson in a battle of the biceps that must be seen to be believed. After a theatrical run this past winter, the film is now streaming.

Edebiri had a starring role in the raunchy summer 2023 comedy Bottoms, and also has a role in indie The Sweet East, which was released in December. She continues to lend her voice to a range of animated projects, including Netflix’s Big Mouth, which heads into its eighth and final season, as well as the movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, in which she plays a delightfully awkward teenage April O’Neil. You can also catch Edebiri’s voice work as “Envy” in Pixar’s hit animated film Inside Out 2.

Moss-Bachrach was also busy last summer, with a supporting role in the Jennifer Lawrence–led sex comedy No Hard Feelings, which is now on Netflix. You can also catch him catching up with his Girls costar Allison Williams for Vanity Fair’s Reunited series.