Love on the Menu

I thought this was well worth watching. Although I am not much on Frozen Dinners. LOL Yes i recommend it. James Welch Henderson, Arkansas 1/31/2021

When a workaholic widower meets an uptight corporate stooge, you wouldn't expect anything to happen. And yet one of the best things about this movie is how the characters grow, change, and stand up for what they believe in over the course of their relationship. Like all Hallmark movies, there are occasional lapses of believability, but at least no one resorts to lying or hiding secrets to fill out the 2-hour run time. The leads are likeable yet fallible, there's extensive use of montage to show the passage of time, and the Vivaldi mandolin concerto is the cherry on top! Keep it up, Hallmark!

Actually two things make this movie enjoyable and the cast is one of those things.

I've commented before on how well Kavan Smith works with Pascale Hutton, but in this movie he's done it again with a different partner. Smith and Autumn Reeser have great chemistry which really shows.. Their dialogue together is fun. Jordyn Ashley Olson adds a nice bonus as she and Reeser also work well together.

The second thing that makes this enjoyable is related to the first. I enjoy this kind of movie so much more when the lead characters spend time together rather than focusing on what are really side issues like saving the restaurant.

The villain was too vicious which was totally unnecessary.

Nice last line.

Just charming , maybe, as each mix of love and Italian food. It has many familiar details, it is the modern version of fairy tale but you feel good seeing it. The explanation - inspired manner to use the secondary themes. From single parent to the noble cause of a woman for career, from the dialogue to the humor and a sort of honesty about ordinary things out of sparkles frame. Short, just a charming romance .

As a chef, he probably would not have had pens in his uniform pocket (maybe a meat thermometer, though?). The situation with the daughter getting stranded by the bus seemed a bit unrealistic. Other than that, the characters seemed authentic, the conflict and resolution seemed more believable than most, and the actors had great chemistry. I also enjoyed some creative camera angles and cinematography in this movie!