Two Scoops of Italy (2024)

Director: Roger M. Bobb

Starring: Hunter King, Davy Eduard King, Ruby Kammer

When an American chef travels to a quaint village in Italy for inspiration, she falls in love with the flavors, culture, gelato, and the Italian gentleman who helps her discover it all.

‘Two Scoops of Italy’ is a romantic comedy. Being a Hallmark movie, it is predictable. But being familiar with Hallmark’s predictability it came as no surprise, and I knew what to expect going into this movie. That’s what Hallmark is about: family entertainment.

Danielle is a chef, and she desperately needs inspiration for a new menu to save her restaurant. When her sister suggests she goes to Italy, Danielle sees it as the perfect opportunity to clear her mind, and concentrate on a new menu – and be inspired by the tastes of Italy.

Meanwhile in Italy, Giancarlo – who works at his family restaurant – is tired of the restaurant’s same-old gelato flavours, and is trying to create an exciting new flavour. His most demanding ‘critic’ is a young boy who prefers strawberry flavour, and Giancarlo is trying to win him over with new flavours.

Danielle and Giancarlo meet by chance, and she helps him with new flavours – so much so that she neglects working on her new menu. Yes-yes, we know from the very beginning they are bound to fall hopelessly in love, but this was what I was in the mood for at the time: a romantic comedy to put a smile on my face – and it did.

Would I watch it again? No.