Food Improvement

[nukesubsailor]

It appears that Princess took action in response to all the complaints about declining food quality.

 

 

New Main Dining Room Flavors

Experience our most comprehensive food launch in over 20 years! Savor new and enhanced dishes on our Main Dining Room menus across the fleet. We’ve kept your favorites, enhanced flavors and added a greater variety of choices. Discover a brand-new dining experience that combines our best culinary traditions with updated selections.

[GUT2407]

Look forward to seeing the menus and tasting sme of it.

[Aus Traveller]

I hope they have brought back the beef medallions as an 'Always Available' choice.

[stoneharborlady]

5 minutes ago, Aus Traveller said:

I hope they have brought back the beef medallions as an 'Always Available' choice.

Me too, they could ditch the hamburger and meat loaf instead.

[Aus Traveller]

3 minutes ago, stoneharborlady said:

Me too, they could ditch the hamburger and meat loaf instead.

Agreed.👍

[Astro Flyer]

28 minutes ago, nukesubsailor said:

It appears that Princess took action in response to all the complaints about declining food quality.

 

 

New Main Dining Room Flavors

Experience our most comprehensive food launch in over 20 years! Savor new and enhanced dishes on our Main Dining Room menus across the fleet. We’ve kept your favorites, enhanced flavors and added a greater variety of choices. Discover a brand-new dining experience that combines our best culinary traditions with updated selections.

Where did you locate the information?

 

It’ll be interesting to learn if new & enhanced are how passengers will describe the changes or instead new & not improved. 🤔

Edited January 25, 2019 by Astro Flyer

[hllwdcruiser]

I wonder when the launch takes place. Do you think they are referring to "Crafted by Curtis" additional dishes that they announced in October 2018?

"Guests choosing a “Crafted by Curtis” menu item in the main dining rooms can now choose from new options including Steamed Mussels, Chorizo and White Wine, Beef Tenderloin Tips and Mushroom Cobbler. These new dishes join guest favorites Chicken and Leek Pot Pie and Roasted Pork Belly."

[bemis12]

2 minutes ago, hllwdcruiser said:

I wonder when the launch takes place. Do you think they are referring to "Crafted by Curtis" additional dishes that they announced in October 2018?

"Guests choosing a “Crafted by Curtis” menu item in the main dining rooms can now choose from new options including Steamed Mussels, Chorizo and White Wine, Beef Tenderloin Tips and Mushroom Cobbler. These new dishes join guest favorites Chicken and Leek Pot Pie and Roasted Pork Belly."

 

 It doesn’t appear to be. It looks like it’s an across-the-board overhaul of the MDR 

[Potstech]

I hope they just get rid of Curtis all together.  Nether DW or I have liked any of his items.

[hllwdcruiser]

42 minutes ago, bemis12 said:

 

 It doesn’t appear to be. It looks like it’s an across-the-board overhaul of the MDR 

 

I truly hope so and I hope even more that it is a change for the better. 

[#1Nanna]

Sounds great! When is this changed menu coming?

[pms4104]

Interesting  ... but I thought Princess redid the menus not so long ago.  I found those new offerings recently on the Coral to be pitiful.  Couldn't understand the ever-present pork belly.  What's with that? 

[wheezedr]

Writing that you are changing and improving  the menu sounds good and is easy.  Actually improving the menu is much more difficult.  I think we should withhold comment until we all see and TASTE the results.

[Coral]

Do you think they are taking the Ruby menus fleet wide?

[hllwdcruiser]

7 minutes ago, Coral said:

Do you think they are taking the Ruby menus fleet wide?

 

I bet you are right.

You jogged my memory to this recent thread:

 

 

[Wishing on a star]

Can somebody please post a link to this, and when this was released.

 

The, I found the supposedly new improved menus and recipes, along with the cut-backs on the quality of the food ingredients and the service,  that has been floated on some ships to be, well, absolutely horrid.

Edited January 25, 2019 by Wishing on a star

[hllwdcruiser]

2 minutes ago, Wishing on a star said:

Can somebody please post a link to this, and when this was released.

 

The, I found the supposedly new improved menus and recipes, along with the quality of the food ingredients and the service,  that has been floated on some ships to be, well, absolutely horrid.

 

https://www.princess.com/ships-and-experience/food-and-dining/

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[Wishing on a star]

Yes....  just found that....  food-and-dining.

I don't think this is anything brand new.

I believe it refers to what we experienced on our recent cruise.

Not impressed.

 

And, I agree that Curtis Stone needs to just go away.

The one dish that I did try, to me personally, tasted just awful.

Not the cutbacks and poor preparation...  But, the actual 'taste'. 

[joeyancho]

31 minutes ago, Coral said:

Do you think they are taking the Ruby menus fleet wide?

 

Sailed the Ruby on November and enjoyed the new menu I immensely!

[Cyn874]

I'm still a bit confused about the 'chocolate journey'. Is that one of the free/included dining options, and if so, when and where is it? Is it part of the MDR dessert menu every night or is it something independent of that?

[Astro Flyer]

28 minutes ago, hllwdcruiser said:

 

https://www.princess.com/ships-and-experience/food-and-dining/

Scroll down

Thanks...hopefully it’s more than just a new marketing statement & is truly an improvement.

[OzKiwiJJ]

1 hour ago, Coral said:

Do you think they are taking the Ruby menus fleet wide?

They had them on Majestic with cost-extra Crown Grill options. 

 

The included formal night steak (beef tournedos?) was the worst quality beef I have ever had on Princess. I struggled to find something I liked on another night so had the always available salmon which was dry and tasteless. On another night we looked at the menu and went to Harmony restaurant again. The final nigh was still good - pepper pot soup and guinea fowl nicely cooked.

[OzKiwiJJ]

50 minutes ago, Cyn874 said:

I'm still a bit confused about the 'chocolate journey'. Is that one of the free/included dining options, and if so, when and where is it? Is it part of the MDR dessert menu every night or is it something independent of that?

 

There is a Chocolate Journey dessert option on the menu most nights. Some are very nice indeed.

[Aus Traveller]

3 hours ago, Potstech said:

I hope they just get rid of Curtis all together.  Nether DW or I have liked any of his items.

👍

[capriccio]

2 hours ago, joeyancho said:

 

Sailed the Ruby on November and enjoyed the new menu I immensely!

We had the new menus on the Ruby this summer and thought they were a great improvement.  We were disappointe that last month the Crown still had the old menus.

 

Unlike some other posters we have enjoyed some of the Curtis Stone dishes and since there is only one per menu I hope they are retained.  But then we also thought Share was the best specialty dining room (as opposed to the Chef's Table and the Winemakers Dinner) we've experienced on Princess.