Shokugeki no Souma has a brilliant concept.
Its strengts lay within the Charakters and their unique personalities and goals.
I enjoyed reading it, until the ''régiment de cuisine'' Arc ended.

Afterwards it suffered from a illness, which can be known as the ''Bleach-Syndrome''.
If you read the last 100 or so chapters it leaves way too much to be desired.

Many of the Charakters are more or less thrown out of the picture and you don't really see them any more (though that too happened after the ''autumn Election'' Arc to a degree).
The developement of the Main Charakters is mostly ignored just to press in new things. There is a try to build up a new Villian for a new big Showdown, but he is written so poorly you start missing even the badly written Charakters of the Tokyo Ghoul Anime.
There are no words for my dissapointment in the ending of this otherwise good Manga.
Either the author wanted the Manga to End or he just didn't know how to continue and made this mess of an Arc.
Every bit of foreshadowed realtionship or events between Charakters is just gone (no Romance, no new Friendships, no Trio between Yukihira, Sadatsuka Nao and Kobayashi Rindo (which I wanted to have), no fitting Shokugeki to solve the Rivalry of Takumi and Yukihira, no threeway battle with Hayama and Kurokiba.) All of this considered the Manga left many things to be desired.

I highly recomend stopping after the ''régiment de cuisine'' Arc and only continuing with Fan made Doujinshi or Fan-Fictions in generell.

I only rate what was before that bad ending, thats why it gets a 9/10, otherwise it would have gone down to a 4or5/10.