![]() We visited some great ports, though, which I’ll explore in detail in later posts. This cruise was heavy on sea days, which is exactly what we wanted for maximum relaxation. If you don’t have access to good Italian at home, I can see why this would quickly become your favorite restaurant. Turns out they were right – the service was great, the food was really quite good & it was a much better experience. ![]() – Tuscan Grille: We had a really bad experience at Tuscan Grille on the Equinox, but everyone kept telling us how it was their favorite restaurant, so we thought it was worth another shot. – Qsine continues to be one of my most unique, delicious dining experiences I’ve ever had on land or sea! They’re also open for breakfast, but it was hard to justify spending $5 for a breakfast panini when I could basically make my own at the buffet. This restaurant also only has a $5 charge per person & makes for a lovely lunch. The panini sandwiches & salads we had were great, as were the giant cupcakes that came for dessert. We actually hadn’t planned on eating here, but we missed lunch in the Ocean View one day & decided to try something new. It’s an open air bistro up on the top deck by the Lawn Club that feels very much like eating at a neighborhood cafe which has the world’s best view. – The Porch: This is a new addition on the Reflection. ![]() With only a $5 charge per person, the Bistro makes lunch feel a bit like a splurge, but it’s very budget friendly. The food is consistently good, the service is always friendly & the nutella crepes – my. Despite the fact that there’s a crepe restaurant about 100′ from my office, I never eat there & this feels like an especially wonderful treat. – Bistro on 5: This creperie at sea continues to be a highlight on every Celebrity cruise. On the other hand, a disappointing dining room experience allowed the Ocean View Cafe and the specialty dining restaurants to really shine. My preference is not to eat at the buffet or have to pay to eat at a specialty restaurant every night it was just difficult to find positives about the dining room on this cruise. I feel like a throw back to traditional dining in ocean liners where five courses was the norm & everyone enjoyed themselves. The bread basket could really use an overhaul: Celebrity bakes everything fresh on board, but the dining room bread basket always disappointed (oddly enough, we were tempted to steal bread from Ocean View, which has a wide selection!). In addition, none of the food really shined – it was just fine, which is disappointing to say. Our section of tables was often being handed dessert menus when most of the rest of the dining room were just receiving their dinner entrees. The service was fine, but always felt very rushed. We always do second seating, but this one seemed especially late at 8:30pm. – Opus Dining Room: This was the first cruise we’ve been on in a while that the main dining room was disappointing. I love that they offer international dishes, often cooked by chefs from those countries – I wish some of the international dishes in the Ocean View were offered in the dining room. After getting our food (we ate breakfast here almost daily & often grabbed an afternoon snack of sushi), we were always able to grab a table in the aft of the ship, outside, in the shade. The buffet consistently offered new, different foods – we even had dinner there one night & commented that the paella was one of the best dishes we had all week on the ship. Instead of feeling like a tired, overcrowded buffet restaurant, this space is actually large enough to accommodate passengers without having to share tables or bump into each other. – Ocean View Cafe: This is one of the biggest areas of improvement I’ve seen on Celebrity. I’ll be doing a separate post on specialty dining, but just to give you a flavor, our meals included: We ate at many of the restaurants on board, including the main dining room, where we had a table for two in the second seating. (C) Christina Saull – All Rights ReservedĬombine all this with the best room steward we’ve ever had (shout out to Leslie, who we also ran into at the airport on our way home!) & it was really a fantastic cabin.
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