Love Under the Olive Tree is a Canadian television film directed by Peter DeLuise and written by Samantha Herman, with a story by Jenna Milly and Ann Marie Allison.

Nicole Cabella is determined to prove the opponent Jake Brandini her family's recipe is award-worthy.

[2] Love Under the Olive Tree explores two evolving relationships: one that is heterosexual, and the other one between a same-sex couple (Shawn Roberts and Andrew Dunbar).

[6] A review for The Best Darn Girls was mostly favorable: "While the conclusion is anticlimactic, the love story still has promise.

[7] He also believed Roberts' character was a positive gay role model and went on to describe him as a "Bruce Willis type of a man", "with a musculature of a Superman".