Princess Cruises has been making important enhancements to its eating choices throughout the fleet whereas additionally introducing new culinary and beverage experiences aboard its latest ship, the Solar Princess, Sami Kohen, vp of meals and beverage, advised Cruise Business Information.
“These are distinctive instances for Princess,” he mentioned. “We’re going above and past, delivering the last word meals and beverage expertise to our visitors.”
For the fleetwide enhancements Kohen mentioned the present focus was on three totally different areas of which crucial is the principle eating reservation system for eating flexibility.
“Since Aug. 31, we’re providing three desk reservation choices,” he mentioned. “One is the standard eating, with first and second seating, one other is the anytime versatile reservable eating, and the third is a eating room with open seating, you possibly can stroll in anytime between 5 pm and 9 pm without having a reservation.”
“The latest ship within the fleet, the Solar Princess, represents our brightest and largest meals and beverage ‘locations’ the place we’re additionally making some adjustments that had been in place when she began crusing from Fort Lauderdale on October 14,” Kohen continued.
Among the many new ideas launched on the Solar is The Butcher’s Block by Dario (Cecchini). He’s an eighth-generation Tuscan butcher persevering with a 220-year household custom.
“And we’ve got moved The Catch by Rudi by our personal Chef Rudi Sodamin into its personal devoted area, additionally on Deck 7. We’ve got that restaurant on 4 of our ships up to now and it’s our highest rated seafood restaurant.
“For our Sanctuary area, which is our ship inside a ship idea, we’ve got created a devoted restaurant on Deck 8 for breakfast, lunch and dinner.”
The Solar additionally has an American-style diner, one other new idea for Princess. It’s open from 10 am to 10 pm serving an all-day menu.
Different distinctive experiences on the Solar embody a partnership with The Magic Citadel (of Los Angeles) for Spellbound by Magic Citadel, a venue that mixes eating and cocktails with leisure and the artwork of illusions, which has turn out to be a giant hit, in accordance with Kohen.
“We’ve got additionally upgraded our sushi operation, teaming up with Sushi Chef Makoto and created Makoto Ocean, presenting Japanese sushi dishes. We’re flying in fish from Japan, and I feel we will say that we provide the most effective sushi at sea.
“Because the Love Boat, we’ve got our past love restaurant within the fleet, Love by Britto, in partnership with the artist Romero Britto. In collaboration with our head of culinary arts, Chef Sodamin, Love by Britto gives a seven-course menu,” Kohen mentioned.
Different partnerships function pizza chef and 13-time pizza world champion, Tony Gemignani, claiming to be the one American-Italian pizza chef that holds a Guinness world report; Chef Darren McGrady, who served the Queen and Woman D for greater than 15 years, and has created Royal Afternoon Tea; mixologist Rob Floyd and wine maker Gerard Bertrand.
Princess has additionally rolled out the Love Line premium liquors and wine collections, collaborating with celebrities reminiscent of Pitbull, Jason Aldean and Romero Britto. These are unique traces of premium spirits and wines which might be being providing to visitors crusing with Princess plus and premium packages.
Different partnerships are with Camila and Matthew McConaughey for his or her Pantalones Natural Tequila and with Blake Full of life for her glowing non-alcoholic drinks.
Ice cream lovers haven’t been forgotten both, with the cruise line teaming up with Victoria Secret’s mannequin Tyra Banks whose SMIZE ice cream line is served onboard.
Picture: Sami Kohen, vp of meals and beverage
Excerpt from Cruise Business Information Quarterly Journal Fall 2024