NCL Dinner Menus

[ReneeFS]

Hi everyone! I just went on a 7 day cruise from Miami to the Eastern Caribbean back in December. On Sunday, I am going on another cruise that is 7 days, but on a different ship and different ports or call from NOLA. Does NCL tend to have the same menus on their 7 day voyages?  I was on the Encore back in December and now I am going on the Breakaway. I just like looking at menus in advance. I noticed they have the same names for their restaurants Taste, Savor, and Manhattan.

[complawyer]

usually all menus are similar

[ColeThornton]

There are about 12 or 13 menus in rotation for the MDR's.   What you get on one 7 day jaunt might not be exactly the same on another.

[nolatravelgirl]

They used a similar naming convention for the QR codes and I am a nerd so I tried all the combos and downloaded all the one available. I was on the Breakaway March 13 out of New Orleans.

Fleet_MDR_Lunch_Mobile-Menu_Day-2_v011222.pdf Fleet_MDR_Lunch_Mobile-Menu_Day-1_v011222.pdf Fleet_MDR_Dinner_D21_Mobile-Menu.pdf Fleet_MDR_Dinner_D20_Mobile-Menu.pdf Fleet_MDR_Dinner_D19_Mobile-Menu.pdf Fleet_MDR_Dinner_D18_Mobile-Menu.pdf Fleet_MDR_Dinner_D17_Mobile-Menu.pdf Fleet_MDR_Dinner_D16_Mobile-Menu.pdf Fleet_MDR_Dinner_D15_Mobile-Menu.pdf Fleet_MDR_Dinner_D14_Mobile-Menu.pdf Fleet_MDR_Dinner_D13_Mobile-Menu.pdf Fleet_MDR_Dinner_D12_Mobile-Menu.pdf Fleet_MDR_Dinner_D11_Mobile-Menu.pdf Fleet_MDR_Dinner_D10_Mobile-Menu.pdf Fleet_MDR_Dinner_D9_Mobile-Menu.pdf Fleet_MDR_Dinner_D8_Mobile-Menu.pdf Fleet_MDR_Dinner_D6_Mobile-Menu.pdf Fleet_MDR_Dinner_D4_Mobile-Menu.pdf Fleet_MDR_Dinner_D2_Mobile-Menu.pdf Fleet_MDR_Dinner_D3_Mobile-Menu.pdf

[chrisdar1]

@nolatravelgirl  Incredible!  Thanks so much for sharing those and for your "nerd-ness!"

[casofilia]

@nolatravelgirl

 

Absolutely brilliant; thank you.

 

Would you please do the same thing every time you cruise especially if you see the menus have changed from these.   Or could you explain how you went about finding these so I could do it before I cruise next in November.  (My email is below)

 

Thanks

 

Mike

[snorklinbarb]

Amazing help.  Thanks.  Do you have night 1?

 

I was on Breakaway twice last fall(one being 14 nights) and some of these are a little different.  Getting on Gem tomorrow 10 nighter B2B with 5 nighter.  

 

Very useful sneak peek!  Excellent work.

 

Enjoy your next cruise!

[kona_wahine]

We are new to NCL, cruising on the Encore in May. It looks like there are 3 different dining rooms? Are you assigned a dining room or can you pick one to go to? We’ve only cruised Carnival and have always been assigned one. Our room is midship on deck 15. TIA

[casofilia]

@kona_wahine

 

You can go to whichever dining room you want to, when you want to, with whom you want to (or just together) and change rooms whenever you like.   No fixed seating, you turn up at the desk, may be asked if you want to share, and someone will show you to your seats.  "FREESTYLE DINING" NCL style

[kona_wahine]

Thank you Casofilia!

[KeithJenner]

Just to be clear, whilst these menus are numbered it doesn’t mean that you will get a certain one on specific days of your cruise. These are a selection that they choose from and what you get can vary from cruise to cruise.

[ggTexasGal]

2 hours ago, KeithJenner said:

Just to be clear, whilst these menus are numbered it doesn’t mean that you will get a certain one on specific days of your cruise. These are a selection that they choose from and what you get can vary from cruise to cruise.

          ^^^ @KeithJenner makes a VERY IMPORTANT point ^^^

Also, often cruisers do not look at the entire menu, each day.

If they don't, they complain that NCL only serves the same selection everyday.

Only some of the selections stay the same everyday, therefore, be sure to read the entire menu!!!

[RunBikeCruiseDC]

9 hours ago, kona_wahine said:

We are new to NCL, cruising on the Encore in May. It looks like there are 3 different dining rooms? Are you assigned a dining room or can you pick one to go to? We’ve only cruised Carnival and have always been assigned one. Our room is midship on deck 15. TIA

You can go to any of the main dining rooms.  On the Breakaway+ ships (including Encore), they have the Tropicana (or Manhattan room) at the aft of the ship.   Be sure to go there one night as they tend to have entertainment (usually from the shows), it's fabulous!

 

To add, yes - one side of the menu is the same everyday but the other side typically has unique offerings each day.  It's a good variety.  I know people that will order the same dish every day (the salmon that used to be on the menu daily is very tasty).

Edited March 30, 2022 by RunBikeCruiseDC
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[hallux]

1 hour ago, RunBikeCruiseDC said:

Be sure to go there one night as they tend to have entertainment (usually from the shows), it's fabulous!

I don't think any of the BA+ ships have the entertainment.  Bliss and Joy certainly don't, I'm not positive about Encore (though the floor seems to be missing), the Escape does appear to have the dance floor so that would make it the only BA+ ship with the entertainment in the Manhattan Room.

[jlabs03]

10 hours ago, kona_wahine said:

We are new to NCL, cruising on the Encore in May. It looks like there are 3 different dining rooms? Are you assigned a dining room or can you pick one to go to? We’ve only cruised Carnival and have always been assigned one. Our room is midship on deck 15. TIA

The Manhattan room has a more strict dress code than Taste and Savor. No shorts or T-shirts in the Manhattan room.

[hallux]

1 minute ago, jlabs03 said:

The Manhattan room has a more strict dress code than Taste and Savor. No shorts or T-shirts in the Manhattan room.

and yet I walked right in wearing exactly that on the Joy.  I normally dress a little better, but sometimes participating in other activities results in having to be a little 'less dressed' because you're a little later than you planned to be.

[KeithJenner]

18 minutes ago, jlabs03 said:

The Manhattan room has a more strict dress code than Taste and Savor. No shorts or T-shirts in the Manhattan room.

this depends on the ship. On many, especially the newer ships, there is no difference in dress code between the MDRs

[mrsturkelton]

@nolatravelgirl

 

Thanks for sharing the menus.  Now I'm starving and wanting to eat at a MDR soon.  Only 81 more days!

[Sand and Seas]

I have been on several cruises where they follow Day 1, Day 2, Day3 etc menus.  

However, as pointed out above, they can choose to use any of these menus that they want to in whatever order.   

 

I have a favorite dessert (soufflé) that is usually on day 6 so I sometimes book my specialty dining around that.   However, if the day for soufflé changes, I have been known to skip dessert in a specialty and go into the MDR just for the dessert😋  (I must not be the only one....when checking in at host stand they do not seem surprised I'm there just for dessert.)