Anna Madison is in a dilemma. Her beloved Fireside café burned down. Added to that, she is in deep debt because of investing in her late father's book shop to keep it afloat and expanding it into a café with coffee and baked goods. She cannot afford the loss of income from the main café. The only way to stay afloat is to keep the Annex supplied with goodies and for that she needs a large kitchen.

The only available kitchen belongs to Mark Hastings' diner from across the street. The problem lies in the fact that Mark is Anna's ex; her one true love who no one in Briar Creek knows about and one who broke her heart back in culinary school, seven years ago. Mark on the other hand, regrets nothing more than letting Anna go back then and shattering her heart but he still firmly beliefs he was right in his decision. Still Anna was once his best friend and he longs for that friendship more than anything else. The kitchen wars are on with a meddling aunt determined to be a matchmaker between Anna and Mark and a culinary competition three weeks away which can set them free from all the debts and get their plans in motion if they win it as a team.

A MATCH MADE ON MAIN STREET did not live up to its blurb. In fact I found the blurb pretty misleading. For one thing, the café's name is wrong, another thing is instead of looking at the café burning down as a way of starting fresh she is very very worried about the debts and how to keep everything from drowning till the café is back up. I understand her concern but as I said the blurb misleads. Also Mark just wants to get their relationship back to cordial friendship rather than blatant ignoring. He has not even entered the Fireside café once in six years despite it belonging to his mother and being his father's legacy because he knew Anna will not like it. He still believes she deserves more than he can give her.

Apart from the blurb issue, A MATCH MADE ON MAIN STREET is an okay read. Nothing memorable. I had a hard time liking Anna. She is one stubborn fool who would rather bake in her tiny kitchen than in a big diner one just to avoid Mark, would rather go bankrupt than admit to her sister for help or change a recipe they practiced even though she knew Mark is an instinctive cook which made him top of his class. She takes the heartbreak way too far compared to her sister who is going through a divorce from her childhood sweetheart. Mark's reasoning for leaving Anna could have been solved long ago if he had ever confronted his mother or she had thought to confide in her kids the reason behind their father's leaving. The story felt dragged at times, too many characters in between, some with their own side story. The romance felt a bit forced with not much chemistry.