Food in MDR on Sky Princess

[Pat King]

We took our 2nd TA on Sky Princess last month, and were pleasantly surprised that the MDR was much more enjoyable. The menu offerings and presentation was much better than our first in March. Anyone else think that?

Now, if they could dim the lighting a little.

Pat King

[Desert Cruisers]

2 hours ago, Pat King said:

We took our 2nd TA on Sky Princess last month, and were pleasantly surprised that the MDR was much more enjoyable. The menu offerings and presentation was much better than our first in March. Anyone else think that?

Now, if they could dim the lighting a little.

Pat King

We were also on the October TA out of Southampton.  Relatively speaking, the food and presentation in the MDR was better than on a January sailing on the Grand Princess.  But, it was still not all that great and the menus were repetitive - e.g., shrimp with the sauce of the day.  Some dishes were poorly prepared.  We are not talking about gourmet cooking.  How can you mess up spaghetti and meatballs? 

 

The most experienced chef can only do so much with an inadequate budget, cheap ingredients, and galley staff of mixed skills.  We had a long conversation with a Food & Beverage manager who agreed that the quality of the beef served was poor and that there were difficulties in finding experienced galley staff.

 

While the specialty restaurants were good to excellent (we ate at 2 of the 3 venues),  Alfredo's served very good pizza, and the buffet was more innovative (with mixed success due to cheap ingredients and cooking issues), Princess needs to up its game in the food arena.  The "COVID hangover" excuse is getting old.  Food wasn't all that good and exciting prior to COVID.