sneekpeek
April 4th, 2004, 09:25 AM
The one thing I didn't expect was to have the same menu in each restaurant each night.
Each restaurant had a few entrees that they served every night. You also got the international dining room menu every night in the PC restaurants so it was just fine. In addition to the entree there salads, soups and deserts. But it was the same every night on the PC menus. The salads, soups and deserts changed every day on the international dining menu.
SANTA FE Chicken/Beef Fajitas
Spicy Catfish
When you sit down at your table you got guacamole (sp) and chips
STERLING Prime Rib (excellent)
New York Steak (excellent)
Thick Cut Pork Chop
Before they take your order you get a basket of hot rolls and butter. They had some kind of herb in them and they were good.
VIVALDI Penne Pasta
Ravioli
Ousso Bucco (very good)
They served some of that Italian Foccacia (can't spell!) bread
PACIFIC MOON Mandarin Duck
Tiger Prawns
This was my favorite. Sushi before dinner! It was great. My husband said "no way" I made him try it and he loved it!
So that's it for the entrees in PC. If you have ever cruised before, you know what to expect in the international dining room. I'll try to name some of it. DON'T FORGET YOU GET THE INTERNATIONAL MENU IN ALL OF THE DINING ROOMS EVERY NIGHT AND IT IS POSTED OUTSIDE OF EACH DINING ROOM EVERY DAY.
Onion Rings, all kinds of salads and soups (if I had to pick the worst thing on the menus it would be the wierd soups) pina colada soup, mushroom soup, asparagus soup, peach soup. Shrimp cocktail every night was available. Deserts - cheese cake, cream puffs, apple pie and ice cream, ice cream sundays sorbet, non sugar item every night - like pudding, flourless cakes. Some entrees were shrimp stir fry, veal chops (excellent) rack of lamb (my personal favorite), lobster pasta, beef wellington, lobster tails, snails. The international menu always had some kind of pasta dish, one kind of fish, one kind of meat, I think you could get prime rib almost every night.
We made our reservations as soon as we got our cabin. We did see people turned away as early as 6:00pm for dinner. The dinner takes about 1 1/2 hours from start to finish. So if you want to go to the show you need to go to dinner by 6:30. The theatre fills up very early for the 8:30 show. Sometimes the show starts at 8:15. The waiters in the PC restaurants are not as friendly as the international dining room, but that is because they don't see you every night. Our favorite waiter was Jesus in Santa Fe. He wouldn't let us have desert unless we cleaned our plates! If you get a table for two you will still sit close to other tables for two so we met so many nice people in the Pc rooms and it was just like being in the main dining room, but you met different people every night. I'll post more of my notes soon, my husband wants to get on the computer.
Each restaurant had a few entrees that they served every night. You also got the international dining room menu every night in the PC restaurants so it was just fine. In addition to the entree there salads, soups and deserts. But it was the same every night on the PC menus. The salads, soups and deserts changed every day on the international dining menu.
SANTA FE Chicken/Beef Fajitas
Spicy Catfish
When you sit down at your table you got guacamole (sp) and chips
STERLING Prime Rib (excellent)
New York Steak (excellent)
Thick Cut Pork Chop
Before they take your order you get a basket of hot rolls and butter. They had some kind of herb in them and they were good.
VIVALDI Penne Pasta
Ravioli
Ousso Bucco (very good)
They served some of that Italian Foccacia (can't spell!) bread
PACIFIC MOON Mandarin Duck
Tiger Prawns
This was my favorite. Sushi before dinner! It was great. My husband said "no way" I made him try it and he loved it!
So that's it for the entrees in PC. If you have ever cruised before, you know what to expect in the international dining room. I'll try to name some of it. DON'T FORGET YOU GET THE INTERNATIONAL MENU IN ALL OF THE DINING ROOMS EVERY NIGHT AND IT IS POSTED OUTSIDE OF EACH DINING ROOM EVERY DAY.
Onion Rings, all kinds of salads and soups (if I had to pick the worst thing on the menus it would be the wierd soups) pina colada soup, mushroom soup, asparagus soup, peach soup. Shrimp cocktail every night was available. Deserts - cheese cake, cream puffs, apple pie and ice cream, ice cream sundays sorbet, non sugar item every night - like pudding, flourless cakes. Some entrees were shrimp stir fry, veal chops (excellent) rack of lamb (my personal favorite), lobster pasta, beef wellington, lobster tails, snails. The international menu always had some kind of pasta dish, one kind of fish, one kind of meat, I think you could get prime rib almost every night.
We made our reservations as soon as we got our cabin. We did see people turned away as early as 6:00pm for dinner. The dinner takes about 1 1/2 hours from start to finish. So if you want to go to the show you need to go to dinner by 6:30. The theatre fills up very early for the 8:30 show. Sometimes the show starts at 8:15. The waiters in the PC restaurants are not as friendly as the international dining room, but that is because they don't see you every night. Our favorite waiter was Jesus in Santa Fe. He wouldn't let us have desert unless we cleaned our plates! If you get a table for two you will still sit close to other tables for two so we met so many nice people in the Pc rooms and it was just like being in the main dining room, but you met different people every night. I'll post more of my notes soon, my husband wants to get on the computer.