Food Buzz: Oceania Cruises revamps the Grand Dining Room menu

Grand Dining Room menu redesign features a total of 85 new dishes, including three new lobster dishes and 10 new pastas and risottos.

Highlights of the new Grand Dining Room menu include: Diver Scallops over Orange-Braised Endive with Vanilla Vinaigrette Salad, Pancetta-Wrapped Jumbo Shrimp with Kalamata Olive Sauce and Vegetable Julienne, and Roast Segovian Suckling Pig with Rosemary Fingerling Potatoes.

85 new menu items in the Grand Dining Room

Cruise guests sailing on Oceania Cruises Riviera can look forward to choosing over  85 new dishes on its Grand Dining Room menu. The rest of the fleet will incorporate the new menus over the course of the next three months.

• What’s for dinner? Cruisers can select new creations, which include dishes such as Pancetta-Wrapped Jumbo Shrimp with Kalamata Olive Sauce and Vegetable Julienne, Roast Segovian Suckling Pig with Rosemary Fingerling Potatoes, and Diver Scallops over Orange-Braised Endive with Vanilla Vinaigrette Salad.
• It’s all about the details – quality ingredients. Oceania Cruises mentioned that the new dishes will be accompanied by high-end ingredients. Cruise guests should be on the lookout for Castilla–La Mancha saffron, Lessatini olive oil from Nice and Ibérico de Bellota pork.
• Looking for healthy options?. There is also a selection of new Canyon Ranch® dishes, including Dover Sole Meunière in Lemon Butter Sauce with Sweet Leek Puff Pastry and Steamed Potatoes, as well as Pulpo a la Gallega: Octopus on Warm Potato Salad with Sweet Spanish Paprika de la Vera.

Putting their money into cuisine. Oceania Cruises is devoted to culinary excellence.  While most cruise lines employ a single corporate chef, Oceania Cruises has an entire team at the helm of its culinary program, including its executive culinary director, renowned master chef Jacques Pépin.

At the helm of the menu renovation is Fleet Corporate Chef Franck Garanger. Chef Garanger traveled the world sampling international cuisines to inspire his intrepreations of the dishes (I want that job). It has taken the Oceania Cruises culinary team eight months designing, tasting and testing the new menu items.