Sweet Melindas

Advantages: Tasty food, nice atmosphere, fresh fish
Disadvantages: If you don't like fish the choices are limited

...The Restaurant Sweet Melindas is a small restaurant in Marchmont which is an area on the South side of Edinburgh. My husband took me there last week for my birthday dinner, it was the first time we had been there, we thought the menu sounded nice and wanted to give it a try and see what it was like. The Decor The restaurant is fairly small with only 12 tables. It is a square shaped room with two large windows at the front looking out onto the street. The windows have wine coloured blinds on the lower half so you keep some privacy from the outside street. The walls are covered in interesting old photographs of people and old paintings, they are the sort of photographs you look at and wonder who the people are and what their stories are. The tables are covered in white tablecloths with high...

AJ26 01.01.1970 · Read review
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Review of Sweet Melinda's, Edinburgh

Radha Mitchell steals the show

Advantages: Typical Allen quirkiness, some good acting
Disadvantages: Not as tragic or comedic as it could be

...Melinda and Melinda is a quirky film and I expected it to be considering it's directed by Woody Allen. I recently had the idea of catching up on some Will Ferrell films that I hadn't seen, although he's best known for his goofy films playing such characters as Frank the Tank, Elf and Ron Burgundy - he's proved himself more flexible in 2006's Stranger than Fiction as Harold Crank. Chiwetel Ejiofor's name in the cast was another mouth-watering prospect - the film "Talk to Me" that he starred in 2007, is one of the best films I've seen in recent years. Melinda and Melinda starts off with several playwrights drinking coffee around a table, a storyline is set out, one of the playwrights turns the story into a comedy, whilst the other goes for a tragedy. The outline of the plot is that a group of people are having a dinner party when...

dangaroo 01.01.1970 · Read review
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Review of Melinda And Melinda (DVD)

Life is tragic...no it's funny. I'm confused!

Advantages: Well put together charming film
Disadvantages: Not many unless you don't like Woody Allen films

...Before I start this is just a review of the film. I have always had mixed feelings about Woody Allen films. I hated them when I was younger. They seemed full of bumbling characters that I couldn't identify with. But as I've got older and I've watched his films more often I've realised that actually I just didn't understand the subjects that well and any mixed feelings that I still have is more because some of his films are a bit hit and miss. However, my husband is very much a fan and so whenever a Woody Allen film is on it is either recorded, we go and see it or it is added to our DVD list. And so for the first time the other evening I sat down to watch his 2004 film Melinda and Melinda. The premise of this film is simple. Set in Allen's beloved Manhatten four friends - two playwrights and their intellectual friends begin to...

Suzela 01.01.1970 · Read review
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