I was doing the regular scan of Netflix and Prime video on Saturday night and found this "food movie" on Prime. The story is about a chef who is cooking in a successful restaurant until the untimely death of his wife. He is left as a single parent raising a young daughter and he loses his passion for cooking. He then relocates to a country pub which he and his wife were on the verge of purchasing when she died.
Gordon Ramsay makes a cameo appearance as something of a mentor to the chef Rob played by Dougray Scott. Of course as is the case in films of this genre he meets a girl and falls in love. The kitchen is successful but there is a little interference from the locals who try to put a spanner in the works and close him down. The "girl" or more appropriately woman Kate played by Claire Forlani is a food critic and of course there is all the expected bi play between the love interests.
As for the food or cooking in the movie there is actually very little. The chef makes an amazing (or so we are told) trifle which is adored by all but this is not a movie with the hands-on cooking that you get in some of the American cooking movies like Chef and Burnt.
Having said that, it was an enjoyable movie and whilst not the greatest movie ever made I most definitely could have done a lot worse.
I have to add that I did have one of those "that guy looks familiar moments with the actor playing Kate's father. It turned out that he was Peter Bowles. Peter played Richard Devere in To The Manor Born between 1979 and 1981, though I am sure that I would have watched on Australian Television later than that.
Any how I don't want to spoil the ending for you so I will try to leave it there and say that whilst it's not a get a group of friends together to watch a movie type of movie it is well worth watching if you need you fix of food television.
I am no expert but I would give it 6.5/10.
If you'd like to check out the preview check it out here https://youtu.be/5t26WiR3EKU
