NCL Breakaway...Geoffrey Zakarian restaurant??

[lockone]

Is it truly worth the surcharge??? Menus? Reviews??? Please!! Thanks!!

[mizLORInj]

I have heard that it isn't. We've not ever bothered with it when we've been on Breakaway. The included restaurants are enough for us. :cool:

[L-in-CLT]

We enjoyed it for our anniversary dinner on our January cruise...

[ncklhaus]

We didn't go on our last cruise but plan to on our next one. We have the Dining Package so we will get 20% off.

[hpecorari]

Is it truly worth the surcharge??? Menus? Reviews??? Please!! Thanks!!

 

You will get many different answers to this question. Some will say yes, others will say no.

 

I'm in the group that says 'yes'.

 

Harriet

[Casino Comp Chick]

I love it, I love their mussels appetizer and Jonah crab risotto entree

My mom loved their Dover sole.

[fuzzel]

See here for a sample of all the menus:

 

http://www.beyondships2.com/norwegian-breakaway-menus.html

 

(these might have slightly changed since then).

 

 

We did not go to Ocean Blue for two reasons:

- mostly fish food (which I do not eat, hence the major reason)

 

and another, slightly very important one:

- Smoke

from what I could see it is directly attached to the atrium with no doors (like Le Bistro, though you can sit outside there). As I have a major issue with smoke, I would not be surprised that, like La Cucina, there is a lot of smoke hanging there too.

 

I am actually _extremely_ surprised that there is that much Smoke hanging around the whole ship. One can even smell it coming up the staircases, both forward and aft and thus smell it on the 14th floor. This while when we had to walk through the casino to get to the Atrium for instance, I rarely saw many people actually do any smoking.

 

Fun detail is also that there is a Humidor next to Maltings, but the smoke at Maltings bar was already heavy enough to make me walk on... (don't even want to know how much crap there is hanging in that 'closed' room... not my problem, hence walk along ;) )

 

What is also surprising about this whole Smoke issue is that most locations in New York are smoke-free, or better said: smoking is banned. As Breakaway is a "New York ship" one would expect that kind of thing to also happen there.

 

At minimum I hope they will at one point install much better air-refresher/ventilation or at least some kind of sliding door/air-lock that can keep most of this crappy air out of the rest of the boat. But I am well aware that that is wishful thinking unfortunately.

 

Good that the ship is huge and one can walk quite quickly through these areas, which indeed also means the shops and everything else around the casino/atrium as it is all connected and thus smokey..... less revenue there from me at least.

[lockone]

Thank you for your thoughts and opinions, especially the link to the menu. Much appreciated!!

[geegee1]

This what I wrote when we got off the Breakaway last February:

 

 

Ocean Blue – Going in we were expecting a meal that was worthy of a $50 upcharge. Basically a 10 on the 1-10 scale. What we got was a 5. My rib eye was not nearly as tasty as Cagney's and my wife's scallops had grit aka sand in them. The meal as a whole really was forgettable, which is a shame . It made my wife and I wonder if the Iron Chef just sold his name to NCL and really doesn't care about the restaurant itself.

[hpecorari]

To each their own. My sister-in-law has a ribeye and when I tasted it I thought it was better than Cagney's LOL

 

Harriet

[graphicguy]

We had the UDP. Wife wanted to eat there. Even with the 20% off, we felt the portions were anemic and the dishes to taste just OK. So, not worth it.

 

Not sure why the whole smoking thing was brought up. Not a smoker and its not worth mentioning. Can't even recall smelling any smoke.