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Ship cuisine

by leigh767

Before my trip, I had read in Antarctica travel books that we should only expect basic types of food onboard. In other words, it was not going to be extravagant fanfare. However, the Orlova kitchen staff does an AMAZING job with the meals. Breakfast was always a buffet, but the lunch and dinner was always a 3-course meal with wonderful a la carte options that include a great variety of international cuisine. Among the more memorable ones are the king prawns, the South East Asian curry, the paella, the koulibiac and beef stroganoff. The desserts were works of art and if you are celebrating your birthday on the ship you'll have a very nice surprise :)Vegetarian options were always available, and they somehow were able to keep the vegetables fresh all the way to the last day of our cruise! Two thumbs up for the Orlova catering team!

Faraday Bar: The southernmost public Bar on earth

by globetrott

Faraday Bar in Vernadsky Point is considdered to be the "southernmost public bar on earth" and The Barman in Faraday Bar is obviously always very happy to see new faces there instead of just the same scientists living there all of the year round.There was great music, we even started to dance ( animated by the Vodka....), there is a billard-table as well and you may also play dart. The most common drink that you will get in Faraday Bar , will be Vodka from Ukraine of course : 3 US$ is what you will have to pay for a large glass of 4 or 5 cl.

Nordnorge Restaurant Deck 4: Large weight gain for all passengers

by LynCod

Very good imaginative food and excellent service throughout voyage. Imaginative as ship had no ports to call at to take on new supplies until we reached the Falklands. Uneaten food was reused by turning eg meat into pate, vegetables into soup & creating salads etc very skillfully.Service always superb, nothing too much trouble at anytime.On landing days a buffet lunch and dinner was served. At sea a buffet lunch and a set 4 course dinner(2 sittings for this) . The soups, homemade and delicious, had two bowls a day regularly.

MS Explorer: Lots of food....I mean lots

by Anita_Porec

The food on the ship was great. Very few complaints.You are served breakfast (buffet) // lunch (sometimes buffet, other times a la carter) //dinner (a la carte)You are served dessert at lunch and dinner every day. Good stuff.Also, snacks are availabe in the mean time.Cold makes you hungry (?!) = very easy to gain weight. Chocolate brownies....mmmm

Seven Seas: Main restaurant

by toonsarah

The main restaurant on board ship was large and although quite formal in style a little institutional in atmosphere. Nevertheless we enjoyed eating here and the delicious meals were one of the highlights of the holiday. There were four courses every evening, but we restricted ourselves to three, choosing either a soup or appetiser rather than both! There was a choice of several options for each course, always including a vegetarian dish and at least one that was marked as lighter and healthier – very helpful given the amount of eating it was possible to do on board ship!The service was excellent, helped in part by having the same waiter and wine waiter every evening – the incomparable Wayne and Edgar. We got to know both of them pretty well by the end of the trip. One helpful detail of the service was that any unfinished bottle of wine could be labelled and saved for us to have the...

Choice of restaurants: Eating on board ship

by toonsarah

There was a choice of places to eat on the Marco Polo – a self-service café with direct access to the large open-air seating area (where hot drinks were always available), or a more formal restaurant. For all meals there was a free choice of where to eat, and we chose mainly to eat in the formal restaurant for breakfast and dinner, and in the café for lunch. The latter served hot soup and other light meals, and also very good ice-cream. And yes, it might be freezing outside but you can always enjoy good ice-cream! While you could visit the café at any time, for dinner in the formal restaurant you had to go at the time of your allocated sitting. There were two of these sittings and we’d been asked to select one in advance. One was quite early, the other a little later than we would normally eat, but we chose this one and found it worked out well. We would have a pre-dinner drink in the...

MS Nordnorge: ... and today

by tini58de

The food on board the MS Nordnorge was spectacular! We had the feeling, that we were constantly eating, and we just could not resist:A breakfast buffet and lunch with a wide selection of food, and a three-course dinner was served every day. We had a choice of fish, meat or vegetarian for dinner. Beer and wine were sold at lunch and dinner, non-alcoholic drinks were included.

Port Lockroy kitchen: Restaurants then.......

by tini58de

This "restaurant" can be found in the museum of Port Lockroy. The military base has been turned into a museum now and many of the former collegues have donated things to authentically reconstruct, what it was like back then! I especially liked the kitchen and the storage room, but I must confess, that returning to the ship and having a fantastic lunch there, was even more appealing!!!

"Marina Svetaeva" dining rooms: Good, but watch the waistline!

by tiabunna

As with the tip on "hotels", in Antarctica your ship also is your restaurant! The "Marina Svetaeva" had two dining rooms, one large, one smaller. While the smaller one was a little more intimate, it also suffered from difficult access to tables at the back. The food and service in each was identical.The chefs were from Australia and New Zealand, providing what could best be described as good quality hearty food of a varied and 'international' nature. Breakfast was "help yourself" to cereals, juices, porridge, toast, plus something hot such as eggs, bacon, baked beans, croissants - the hot dish changed daily. Lunch and dinner were usually two courses, either main plus dessert or entree plus main. These meals were provided as friendly table service by Russian staff. On Christmas Day and New Years' Eve the cooks excelled themselves (Christmas lunch was five courses) - but those are special...

The ship's dining room: A lot of food!

by Marie-France

We were very well fed on board Explorer.Breakfast and lunch were served buffet style. Dinner was a 4-course meal affair, sometimes even 5-course during special evenings like the "Captains Welcome Dinner" and the "Captain's Farewell Dinner". I think my favourite meal was breakfast. Pretty much any breakfast food you can imagine was there, to satisfy the various tastes of our international crowd: from muesli & yogurt to eggs & sausage!

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