How much time to eat at Specialty Restaurants at the NCL Epic

I am sorry if this has been answered, but how much time should we give ourselves to eat at the different Specialty restaurant venues aboard the Norwegian Epic?

I am sorry if this has been answered, but how much time should we give ourselves to eat at the different Specialty restaurant venues aboard the Norwegian Epic?

As long as you desire. There are no maximum lengths of time that you can stay in the restaurant.

Would it be poor planning to book reservations at 6 if a show starts at 7?

Would 1 hour be enough time?

Would it be poor planning to book reservations at 6 if a show starts at 7?

 

Would 1 hour be enough time?

1 hour is not enough. The specialty restaurants Re like good restaurants at home. I would budget 2-2.5 hours. Especially in LeBistro and Cagneys. Molderno you can do in an hour but I personally don't like to rush dinner. Either see a later show or get a dinner reservation for after the show.

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I appreciate the good advice, How long are the shows? Do you remember off the top of your head?

1 hour is not enough. The specialty restaurants Re like good restaurants at home. I would budget 2-2.5 hours. Especially in LeBistro and Cagneys. Molderno you can do in an hour but I personally don't like to rush dinner. Either see a later show or get a dinner reservation for after the show.

 

 

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This has been my experience, too, which is why I book late shows.

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I appreciate the good advice, How long are the shows? Do you remember off the top of your head?

Generally 60-90 minutes.

Would it be poor planning to book reservations at 6 if a show starts at 7?

 

Would 1 hour be enough time?

Not even close,

Plan 2hrs for dinner, I would eat by 6:30 for a 9pm show

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We ate specialty restaurants every night of our Epic cruise in November. We were never there longer than 90 minutes, but we were never there less than an hour. There was only one exception to that - that was Teppanyaki, where we sat at our table for 30 minutes past our reservation time with no service because they wanted to fill our table first. After a while, we pitched a fit, and finally they went ahead with starting our service.

Not even close,

 

Plan 2hrs for dinner, I would eat by 6:30 for a 9pm show

 

 

 

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I agree completely.

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I agree completely.

 

 

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Me too!

We had a 3 hour meal at Teppenyaki ( I know, unusual)....it was not worth our time and the food was way overcooked. Not to say, this is everyone's experience.

We just got off the EPIC. Le Bistro took about 45 to 50 minutes to eat dinner. We were 10 minutes early for our reservation, and they seated us right away since they had some open tables.

Do not plan on having dinner and then rushing off to the show to find no good

seats together with good viewing of the stage. You could pull this off if you are

in the extreme deluxe Owners suites or Haven/Garden with Concierge help.

But for the rest of the 99% this is just not workable.

Plan the dinner 2 hours before the show time for a nice leisure time enjoying

the meal and the company maybe even having an after dinner liquor or extra

desert and then have comfortable time to say walk the entire length*** of the

ship to the theatre and settle in for the show.

*** NCL DAWN & the STAR the MDR is all the way Aft and the Stardust Theatre

is all the way Forward and the after dinner - before the shows crowds can

pose a gauntlet of traffic milling about.

And don't forget the human relief breaks that some folks require and it is

prime time folks facilities are in high use.

The shows start on time and are independent of dinner reservations !

Would it be poor planning to book reservations at 6 if a show starts at 7?

Would 1 hour be enough time?

One hour is never enough time to eat dinner in a restaurant. It's too rushed. Then again we like to linger & always order a bottle of wine. On Epic it takes them forever to bring the wine which was very annoying.

The 7 pm shows were a p.i.t.a. given their timing. We had a snack around 4-5 & ate after the shows. When we tried to eat then see a show everyone got indigestion from being rushed.