Cruise Ship Restaurants

The cruise lines are expanding culinary choices, resulting in more ocean restaurants than ever before. You’ll find delicacies from the seas, to sushi, to Mexican fare and more. There are 2553 actual ocean view restaurants, and we mean really in the middle of the ocean!

A couple of examples of fashionable gastronomic experiences:

Table La Rive – An exclusive experience on Scenic River Cruises at a 10-seat executive chef’s table. This elegant and intimate dining includes a six course dégustation menu replete with sommelier paired wines.
Ultimate Vintage Room Dinners on Crystal Cruises, The Vintage Room (Our favorite)
The Vintage Room promotes wine education and the vast range of fine wines available on board Crystal’s Ultimate Vintage Room. Dinners are one-of-a-kind culinary experiences featuring some of the rarest wines in the world. They are only offered a few times each year on both Crystal Serenity and Crystal Symphony. Depending on the wines selected the exceptional dinners are priced at an estimated $1,000 per person. The first Ultimate Vintage Room Dinner was an eight-course French meal prepared by Master Chef André Soltner, former chef/owner of world-famous Lutèce, paired with, among others, a nearly impossible-to-get 1959 Château Lafite–Rothschild, Pauillac, Bordeaux and a Screaming Eagle 1996 from Napa Valley, considered its dream year.

Enjoy looking at all of the restaurants at sea.

Award-Winning Journalists

Gerry Barker is a life-long journalist, and he has been on more than forty cruises, from Barcelona and Rome to the Panama Canal.

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Dennis Cox is an award-winning travel photographer and writer who has visited over one hundred countries on all seven continents.

Judi Cuervo is a New York City native who has been writing about travel for over 20 years.

Bob Ecker is a Napa, California based freelance writer and photographer who is constantly traveling the world.

Jackie Sheckler Finch has cruised on large and small vessels on numerous rivers and oceans.

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Debi Lander is a freelance writer and photographer who specializes in travel, food and lifestyle.

Monte Mathews is a New York-based food and travel writer, with a special focus on culinary cruising.

David Molyneaux has cruised on more than 50 ships and visited six continents. He is vice president of the SATW Foundation.

Barbara Orr has more than three decades of travel experience, and has been widely published in Canada and the U.S.

Bryce Sanders has traveled the world extensively and is now concentrating on writing about his adventures.