Real treat dished up for film-lovers
Dinner Rush
Stars Danny Aiello, Kirk Avevedo, John Corbett, Edoardo Ballerini, Mike McGlone, Sandra Bernhard, Vivian Wu, Summer Phonix. Madman Cinema.
Rated MA. 98 mins.
By PTE Simone Heyer
Dinner Rush follows the scenes that take place during the evening meal at a popular New York trattoria. The scene for the film is set when we see a trattoria co-owner gunned down, mafia-style in the street.

What follows is a web of staff, gambling debts, food critics, artists, detectives, free food and the mafia.

Each component is linked to the other and it all unfurls nicely at the end.

Dinner Rush was luscious. It had all the ambience of a good restaurant – the warmth, sights and smells of an eatery-refuge on a cold winter’s night.

The mafia link wasn’t so strong to make it a gangster film, and according to an on-hand chef, the goings on in the kitchen are an accurate reflection of a bustling restaurant.