toddnjamie Posted May 23, 2017 #1 Share Posted May 23, 2017 We will be on The Radiance of the Seas for the June 23rd sailing from Seward. My husband is curious if there will be any Alaskan food served in the main dining room.......mainly crab legs! Anybody know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10-777 Posted May 23, 2017 #2 Share Posted May 23, 2017 Regular menu when we did our RC cruise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbelc Posted May 23, 2017 #3 Share Posted May 23, 2017 There is a salmon bake in Juneau on an excursion. Sent from my iPad using Forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trinaM Posted May 25, 2017 #4 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Wasn't in the main dining room . but on Princess there was really nice Salmon from the crown grill.. yum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceMuzz Posted May 31, 2017 #5 Share Posted May 31, 2017 The most expensive place in the world to buy Alaska seafood is..............Alaska. The cruise lines generally cannot afford to buy seafood in Alaska. We do however, buy Alaska Salmon has been processed, frozen, and shipped to Los Angeles, stored there for a few years, then shipped back to Seattle or Vancouver. It's much cheaper - and not nearly as tasty. Alaska Mussels are very good, fresh, and reasonably priced. But the U.S. Public Health Service insists that we freeze them before we cook them and serve them to you. This requires too much time, space, and manpower to make it feasible, so most cruise lines do not bother with them. We are not required to freeze them before feeding them to the crew, so on my ship, we do buy them and feed them to the crew only. Alaska Crab and Halibut is expensive no matter where you buy it. It is very rare that cruise line food budgets will allow us to buy any. This is one of the side-effects of those incredibly cheap cruise fares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cb at sea Posted June 3, 2017 #6 Share Posted June 3, 2017 Seafood, amazingly is not a "feature" of cruise ship cuisine. Most is previously frozen...so it's about the same as you can buy in your local grocery! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rala Posted June 3, 2017 #7 Share Posted June 3, 2017 I have to agree about the seafood on cruise ships in general. It is pretty lame and when I can smell the fish before it even gets to the table...no thanks. The one exception to this, IMO and FYI, is the dover sole served in Murano (specialty rest.) on Celebrity. It is really, really good. However for $50 a head, I guess it had better be good! LOL:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10-777 Posted June 4, 2017 #8 Share Posted June 4, 2017 Save your seafood fix for lunchtime ashore, especially the Halibut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadragnfly Posted June 7, 2017 #9 Share Posted June 7, 2017 FRESH halibut fish and chips at cafe at icy straits port was the best !! enuff for 3people so 2 of us had to eat it all..watching whales from the shore ALL day. our new fav port in alaska. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughing husky Posted September 2, 2017 #10 Share Posted September 2, 2017 ALL crab is flash frozen on the crab boats....and then shipped to wherever. Only way to have "fresh" crab is to have your own subsistence crab pot and go crabbing in December in the arctic seas...:) Real Alaskan food consists of fish, moose, caribou, seal, muktuk, Walrus, Mt. goat, sheep.....most people would not eat it....and it would not have a USDA approval rating...:) It is, however, pretty wonderful food..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Keith1010 Posted September 4, 2017 #11 Share Posted September 4, 2017 On some cruise lines I've seen more fish at dinner then normally offered when sailing Alaska. Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkacruiser Posted September 6, 2017 #12 Share Posted September 6, 2017 On HAL's Amsterdam this July, there were lots of salmon entrees, crab legs, shrimp, and halibut offered. All of the seafood entrees that I tried were very good. The only item that I did not enjoy were the huge shrimp served in the Pinnacle Grill as their "Jumbo Shrimp Cocktail". Jumbo on the huge size they were, but they were tasteless and 2 of the 3 were mealy in their interior. (I was not alone in my opinion of this dish by others who dined in the PG on other evenings.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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