@terminator7832

1 year ago

We just completed 10 days cruise from Aruba with Celebrity Summit. The Main dining room is total disappointment, and they use low quality ingredients and cheap quality foods for their customers. It is just a Fancy restaurant with Cafeteria style dishes.

It is a medium/small size cruise ship with great service and with mature well manner passengers.

Oceanview Cafe are great, it has lot of great selections, fruit selections, Indian dishes and the Bakery, all are excellent. The Indian dishes actually are much better than American Dishes. Most of the American dishes are subpar. They look dark and very salty,

As a minimum, MDR should use fresh ingredients for their soup base, not just Powder for the soup base for their connivence, in It is quite easy using real bean, green pea and diced potato for their soup base, they use grain powder for their watery soup base, they are unacceptable. they may need to hire a new Chef.

Main dining room is total disappointment, they also use baby meatless mussels, baby shrimps and baby scallops for Shrimp scampi, they try save money using low budget ingredients, they turn the Main Dining Room into a fancy cafeteria with great service, it is quite easy using real bean, green pea and potato for their soup base, such as for clam chowder, green pea and pasta fagioli, they are not saving money at all.

Coffee (flat taste) and the powder watery coffee Creamer, * one star, just lack of taste and lack of aroma, they taste so bad, need to be upgraded, Spa Cafe offers much better cafe than the Oceanview Cafe, get your coffee at Spa Cafe.

Shrimp scampi dish is a joke, 1 star * they put four baby shrimps on top of the yellow sauce, they call them shrimp scampi, need to learn the real scampi receipt,

Prime rib (thin cut) and sirloin steak (thin cut) * three stars, they just served them as cafeteria style. They are disappointment.

Watery Pasta fagioli soup * one star, it tasted is so bad, they should use fresh diced potatoes, fresh pasta, not potato starch for their soup base, need to get to use real diced fresh potato, need new receipt.

Watery green pea soup, taste so bad, they use green pea powder for soup base, need to use real green peas for soup base. it is the worst green pea soup i ever tasted, Need new receipt.

Shrimp cocktail ** two stars, they use Baby shrimps as shrimp cocktail

Chicken breast * one star they overcooked

chicken Lemon pepper chicken * one star dry and overcooked

Seafood orzo * one star, they cook with baby meatless mussels, baby shrimps and baby scallops as ingredients, it may be good enough for a cafeteria, but not enough for a premium grade cruise ship. need to be improved and upgrade the ingredients.

Sautéed salmon grill salmon * one start on top of pasta, * one star, need to learn the sautéed receipt, not just grill the salmon and put it on top of pasta, need to learn and understand Sauteed the Salmon, need to be improved.

Grilled Salmon, it looks so dull and unattractive, i am not a chef, but I know how to cook, they need apply some butter/sugar for the final glazing.

Mushroom tempura, they breaded the mushrooms with sauce. it is not crispy tempura style fry mushrooms. need new tempura receipt.

Grill sirloin steak (less than 1/2" thick with gravy, are you kidding, they put gravy over a grilled sirloin steak, need to be improved.


MDR should use fresh ingredients for their soup base, not just Powder for the soup base for their connivence, in It is quite easy using real bean, green pea and diced potato for their soup base, they use grain powder for their watery soup base, they are unacceptable.

Just like a simple dish (grilled Salmon), it looks dull and unattractive, at a minimum they need to apply final butter/syrup dressing for final browning.

Coffee (flat taste) and the powder watery coffee Creamer, just lack of taste and lack of aroma, they taste so bad, need to be upgraded, Spa Cafe offers much better cafe than the Oceanview Cafe, get your coffee at Spa Cafe. Much better coffee.

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