RogerEbert.com by Susan Wloszczyna

Instead of focusing on gastronomic nirvana, this listless culinary drama feels and looks more like a glossy European travel commercial.

New York Post by Farran Smith Nehme

Pretty and pleasing, but no more. A bon-bon, not a meal.

The Hollywood Reporter

Over the last couple of reels the film shakes off its self-conscious inhibitions and displays some healthy unruliness, and just as we're warming to a group of characters whose indulgences have been not only culinary but emotional, it's all over.

Los Angeles Times by Sheri Linden

Director Roger Gual presents little in the way of tantalizing culinary visuals, and that leaves the paper-thin characters as the main course.

The A.V. Club by Mike D'Angelo

Doesn’t even remotely qualify as flavorful. Among other demerits, this is the rare foodie movie that doesn’t seem to care much about food.

Variety by Justin Chang

Bringing together some of the least compelling dinner guests in recent memory at a world-class restaurant that’s about to permanently close its doors, this blandly seriocomic misfire from Spanish co-writer/director Roger Gual is too lazy to rise to the level of farce, too banal and insincere to work as drama.

The New York Times by Daniel M. Gold

Roger Gual’s half-baked film hopes to split the difference between romantic comedy and foodie delight but fails at both.

The Dissolve by David Ehrlich

The film is so busy attending to all its people that it never manages to adequately serve any of them.

Village Voice by Nick Schager

A mushy concoction that's not only unfulfilling, it's gag-worthy.

Slant Magazine by Clayton Dillard

There's a sinister, even insidious quality to a film that insists upon using incessant food montages not as a source of passion, but fodder for class-based self-congratulation.