Mcadamia

Everyone has his or her own opinion about catering on cruise ships. For me, I find the Thomas Keller Grill Restaurant a big improvement over R2’s mini bites and decor, an evening I book well in advance and look forward to. Same with some of his dinner menus in the Colonnade. Further, and while I am usually quite happy with the MDR choices for dinner, we have enjoyed fabulous special order menus there on a couple of special occasions.

 

That said, please advise where you find the culinary satisfaction you are seeking. We have our first Silversea cruise on the Whisper in 3 weeks and I

am keen to see how they compare with Seabourn.

 

Happy and healthy sailing!

Spoke to another couple on board who were echoing our sentiments and they said Silverseas was now on par with Seabourn food wise ( rather than better than them as before) so will be interesting to hear your take after you have tried it.

Our first approach is to speak to the Seabourn head office to try and improve things and to the Food and beverages manager on board to see if they will cook items we bring on board to add variety to tne meals for our next trip as it's too late for us to get out of that trip now

Though as Australians ( as were the other couple) it may be we are used to a much more varied diet than Americans . We have a lot of Asian influence on our food and there is very little of that on board and we do miss it.

Ok, must be a bean counter thing then as tne drop in variety over last few years is very noticeable .

<|3We are foodies and since small ships offer very little in the way of other amusements, the food is very important.

We have just been on Seabourn Quest from Boston to Montreal and were quite shocked about how the food experience has been dumbed down. It's 3 years since our last Seabourn cruise, having gone regularly yearly prior to that. The boring lack of variety and creativity of options, the restricted options (Collonade offers only choice of 2 options at night). The replacement of restaurant 2 by Thomas Keller had been a retrograde step with minimal options and just more of the same. Basically it's meat or fish every night, Prawns and chicken breast and that about sums it up.

All the appetisers are vegetarian except one.( we are not vegetarian) , It was a struggle every day to find something , sometimes we had to traverse between the three eating places to get three courses due to minimal variety. Nothing clever or creative about the food, just basic protein on a plate . Since we only want to eat red meat once a week and only eat fresh ( never frozen) fish and don't consider chicken breast tasty , it was a very sad trip. Not looking forward to the 35 day Feb trip we had booked for next Feb. Definitely wouldn't have booked it after being bored with the food after 5 days on this trip. Looks like we will need to eat off ship to ensure we don't die of foodie boredom. On the upside our loyalty ties with Seabourn are now broken and we will look elsewhere to the ships that win the best food categories . There were comments by others along similar lines so think Seabourn should rethink their cost saving approach as in the long term it will lose loyal customers like us .