Live report MSC Seaside Marseille 7th November first time YC! YAY!

[Itochen33]

Coopertime!

 

 

He is NOT ready for breakfast… until granny gets his breakfast ready… until then he will keep being the laziest Chihuahua on earth…

[Itochen33]

At lunch right now:

[Itochen33]

Starters:

 

King Crab Compote

VERY tasty!

 

 

and the Foi Gras

Also very good. The apple slice could have been a bit thinner compared to the foi gras though… almost overpowered it. 

[Itochen33]

Entree:

 

The Lobster ravioli. 
to be honest… and as you know me by now I always am: that’s the smallest portion of pasta I have ever gotten! And I seem to be very unlucky when it comes to pasta on MSC… the ravioli sadly where undercooked. Not on slightly Aldente stage even… seriously undercooked… they went back to the kitchen sadly. 
 

I see a trend here…

[Itochen33]

‚Dessert‘:

 

Assorted Cheese plate… as you can see the portion was bigger than the portion of Ravioli 😂🤣😂🤣

 

and it tasted way better…😂🤣😂

 

but because I was still a bit hungry I went to the grill and had:

 

a Little portion of lamb with sautéed beans. 
 

VERY tasty. Lamb was perfect!!!!

 

this was it for lunch. I probably am going to explode after dinner tonight…

[Itochen33]

Okay… let’s start the dinner frenzy and stuffing of one Tina with enough food for 3 people… it’s ELEGANT night!

 

 

 

[Itochen33]

The Starters:

Shrimp Cocktail!

Unlike in the MDR the Tails were peeled and then just put back on for decoration! I did NOT have to tell them to maybe losen them as Service to the guests 😂🤣😂

 

it was very tasty and the addition of the pickled jalapeño was a nice twist I never had before

 

then I had:

 

foi gras! This time without the pesky apple! And it was WAAAY better than during lunch!

 

and because I am me…:

 

Shellfish buisque! That is EXACTLY the same as in the MDR 😂🤣😂

 

lacked salt but was tasty non the less!

[Itochen33]

Kitchen: She ordered off the potatoes! Let’s break her! 🤣

Me: Challange accepted! 😈

[Itochen33]

Entrees!:

 

The Truffle Risotto!

🤤 perfect! Without a doubt the best risotto I had on a cruise!

 

 

The Lobster… and yes you are seeing right! I had TWO tails… like I said kitchen tried to break me! I am NOT admitting defeat so easily! 😂

 

the lobster was perfect as well. Kitchen really put their heart and soul into it and cooked them to perfection. 
 

wasn‘t done there though…

 

 

the filet! Again cocked to perfection!

 

i could practically hear the jaws of the chefs in the kitchen drop when they where told that I ate it all 😂🤣😂

[Itochen33]

And the DESSERTS I didn’t order had to order😂 kitchen just send them! 🤣

 

ice cream pyramid! Filled with pistachio and straciatella ice

Very good and the pistachio fitted weirdly good with the merengue!

 

 

Cheeries Jubelee. God that was good!

 

 

After aight sensation! 🤤

 

I FINISHED! And KITCHEN admitted defeat! Muhahahahaha… ☠️
 

(God I am stuffed…)

Edited November 8, 2021 by Itochen33

[zekekelso]

8 hours ago, Itochen33 said:

Starters:

 

King Crab Compote

VERY tasty!

 

 

and the Foi Gras

Also very good. The apple slice could have been a bit thinner compared to the foi gras though… almost overpowered it. 

I often wonder who was the first chef to accidentally splatter sauce on a plate and start a trend by claiming it was intentional. Uh, I meant to do that. It’s art. Makes the food taste better. Random curses in French. 

[Itochen33]

31 minutes ago, zekekelso said:

I often wonder who was the first chef to accidentally splatter sauce on a plate and start a trend by claiming it was intentional. Uh, I meant to do that. It’s art. Makes the food taste better. Random curses in French. 

Gordon Ramsay! And he didn’t do it by accident! He told the guest ‚that is how your blood will look on the plate after i splattered it all around if you don’t like my dish!‘.

 

Other chefs saw it as art… 😂

[rkacruiser]

2 hours ago, Itochen33 said:

the lobster was perfect as well.

 

The Butter Creme on the tails looks to be too much for the amount of Lobster that is in the shells.  Was such a "topping" really better than just melted butter?

 

2 hours ago, Itochen33 said:

Risotto!

🤤 perfect! Without a doubt the best risotto I had on a cruise!

 

The Chef's preparation looks different than what I had on Meraviglia.  

[Itochen33]

27 minutes ago, rkacruiser said:

 

The Butter Creme on the tails looks to be too much for the amount of Lobster that is in the shells.  Was such a "topping" really better than just melted butter?

 

 

The Chef's preparation looks different than what I had on Meraviglia.  

It didn’t overpower the taste of the lobster but rather supported it nicely. It were very ‘meaty’ tails if you understand what I mean. 
 

can’t say how they look on the Meraviglia. Haven’t been on that one… yet…

usually you would just get one tail here but because I ordered off the potatoes kitchen gave me two

[Itochen33]

31 minutes ago, rkacruiser said:

 

The Butter Creme on the tails looks to be too much for the amount of Lobster that is in the shells.  Was such a "topping" really better than just melted butter?

 

 

The Chef's preparation looks different than what I had on Meraviglia.  

Whoops! You meant the risotto! 😅

 

can’t comment on that either though 😂 I liked how it was prevented here on the seaside. No unnecessary decoration or other things that would distract from the excellent taste

[Itochen33]

Presented not prevented! Sorry… Autocorrect…

[Germancruiser]

Hi Beddy,

 

sorry- Betty- of course! Thanks for greeting the Concierge – and thanks for the greetings in return. Good girl- for not yelling at them. Hehe!

Your food pictures are amazing. I quite liked the fact the main courses where not to big- so it was easy to order two mains- or whatever course found my liking!

Do you also enjoy the calm and the wonderful service in YC. Congrats to your upgrade- so we had the exact same suite on a different deck- I was on deck 16.

I have to say, though, that I enjoyed my two shore excursions- organized by MSC very much. One was in Marseille – the other in Syracus- both where walking tours.

In “ normal” times I never book a guided tour!

So great to see how you enjoying yourself- and trying not to “ booze” you into oblivion! LOL.

Greetings

Michael

[Itochen33]

8 hours ago, Germancruiser said:

Hi Beddy,

 

 

 

sorry- Betty- of course! Thanks for greeting the Concierge – and thanks for the greetings in return. Good girl- for not yelling at them. Hehe!

 

Your food pictures are amazing. I quite liked the fact the main courses where not to big- so it was easy to order two mains- or whatever course found my liking!

 

Do you also enjoy the calm and the wonderful service in YC. Congrats to your upgrade- so we had the exact same suite on a different deck- I was on deck 16.

 

I have to say, though, that I enjoyed my two shore excursions- organized by MSC very much. One was in Marseille – the other in Syracus- both where walking tours.

 

In “ normal” times I never book a guided tour!

 

So great to see how you enjoying yourself- and trying not to “ booze” you into oblivion! LOL.

 

Greetings

 

Michael

 

Bed or Bett… where is the difference? 😂🤣😂

’not booze myself into oblivion’… Michael… I had two bottles of red wine to dinner… and you do NOT want to know what I drank during the day… 😂

[Itochen33]

I am so sorry my lovelies! I have problems posting since yesterday! I will try my best but at the moment my photos just won’t load…

 

i will try later again and then you will get a report of lunch and dinner from yesterday!

[Beamafar]

Have you tried clearing your history?   I have similar problems with the site on my phone.   It was worse when on Seashore.  Don’t know if it had anything to do with data roaming. 

[LeCommandant]

WiFi in ships is provided by Satellite, it is normal if it is slow (uploading pictures/videos is the most difficult thing to do for a satellite connection). 

 

[Itochen33]

I tried that

i tried turning off the MSC WiFi and use my roaming. Didn’t work either. I logged out and in again… I tried from my phone and my laptop. 
i am at the point where I think it CruiseCritic that has a problem at the moment. At least with photos as posting plain text seems to work. 
 

funny… it doesn’t work if I put in emojis…

[Itochen33]

Let see if this is working now:

 

Lunch yesterday!:

 

As starter I had:

 

Chrispy potatoe pancake with Salmon

 

The pancake wasn’t crispy at all but okay. It was still tasty even when the potato was more like a pressed disk of mash.

That was it already on the starters…

Entress!:

 

Tagliolini with Scalops -small portion-

Since I am very unlucky when it comes to pasta onboard MSC I was cautious and just ordered a small portion… I kicked myself for that after the first bite! It was AMAZING. Seriously the best pasta I had on board… but then that isn’t very hard isn’t it? Comparing it to the pasta I had before…

Then I had:

 

The Monkfish stew… Sorry I started eating before I made a picture that’s why it looks like a teeny tiny portion… it wasn’t… and I had seconds of that… I would have had thirds but that would have looked VERY weird so I refrained from eating myself into a food coma…

Almost… because then…

 

I had the Angus Burger… without fries and stuff… just don’t like fries…

The burger also was very good and WAAAY bigger than the one I had in the MDR if you remember that from my last review…

I skiped dessert during lunch. There was just nothing on the menu that interested me.

 

[Itochen33]

Let’s go to Dinner!:

the Starters!:

The Crabcake! And let me tell you HOLY CRAB! It was good! That was by far the best crabcake I ate ANYWHERE in the world! Sorry Royal Caribbeans 150 central park! MSC Yacht Club bested you!

Then I had:

 

Vitello Tonato… I did NOT care for the Strawberry syrup… it was… interesting and still tasted quite good but… Strawberrys with Tuna?... ahhh…

 

Entrees:

 

The Risotto. Because I am addicted to Risotto… and it was a good risotto… the crispy sausage was a shredded burger patty though

 

Then:

 

Duckbreast without the sides… because I seriously don’t care for Potatoes (and that out of the mouth of a German… I can never go home again (YAY!!!)) Was good! Not the best I ever had but not the worst either.

After that and because I am weird:

 

The Seabass…

I am very sorry to say it but that was the WORST piece of fish I had in my entire life… it went back to the kitchen after the first bite… the sear on it was good but… I don’t want to give anyone the fault but I don’t want to get foodpoisoning on Vacation… that fish tasted not just… well fishy… it tasted rotten!... I DID tell the waiter and the chef came out apologizing PROFUSELY to me… he had tasted it himself in the kitchen and was embarrassed to the roots of his hair for serving me that piece of fish… I was nice and did NOT yell at him… I made him promis though to never EVER do that again and TASTE what he is cooking BEFORE he sends it out… He promised on his hands and knees…

Despite the fish and my appetite diminishing thanks to that I still had dessert though:

 

 

Crispy Tulip

Yesterday was my unlucky day with dinner apparently… while the fake strawberry on the Vitelo tasted weird with the Tuna sauce… the fresh strawberries didn’t taste of anything at all… not even freaking strawberries… and now I will run around in Berlin in search of squared Tulips!!!!

Then I had:

 

The petie fours!

What am I supposed to say to them?... do you guys want a analizes of every single one of them? Let me know and I will sit down and write you a hilarious review of them…

 

Other than that? See you later! (If I am able to still post…)

[Beamafar]

2 hours ago, Itochen33 said:

I tried that

i tried turning off the MSC WiFi and use my roaming. Didn’t work either. I logged out and in again… I tried from my phone and my laptop. 
i am at the point where I think it CruiseCritic that has a problem at the moment. At least with photos as posting plain text seems to work. 
 

funny… it doesn’t work if I put in emojis…