Sunday, April 1, 2012

Epic Main Dining Rooms

Throughout our week onboard the Norwegian Epic we had the opportunity to experience seven of the dining options on the ship.  It is important o note that there are over twelve places that you can grab something to eat on this ship.  There is something for every taste!

Norwegian prides itself on it's Freestyle Dining concept, in which there are no set dining times (unless you make a specialty restaurant reservation.) This worked for us because we could decide to go to dinner when we were hungry, not when we were scheduled to go!

Comments have been made that, in order to enjoy your meals on Norwegian Cruise Line, you have to eat in a specialty restaurant.  I will firmly say that it is not true.  You can survive and enjoy your dinners in the main dining rooms and not have to spend an extra dime!



Taste- Main Dining Room- This casual main dining room is located on Deck 5, AKA ground floor.  Each time that we dined here we had no wait.  That being said we had a few lunches and three dinners in this dining room.  We enjoyed being able to have dinner without having to get dressed up for the evening.  The service was fast, we were often in and out in under 45 minutes.  We enjoyed everything we ate in this location.



The lunch menu remains the same throughout the week.


The dinner menu confused some guests.  We overheard some people saying that the menu never changed, when in fact it did.  The right side of the menu remained the same all week.  Those were standard items.  The left side of the menu were the nightly specials.  Unfortunately, I did not snap any photos at dinner.  This was generally the time I took to recharge my camera battery.

Manhattan Room- Main Dining Room- This was the "formal" dining room.  Shorts, sandals, and tank tops not allowed.  This location came with a 40 minute wait the night we chose to try it.  It has a supper-club feel with live music from a band.  There is even a dance floor if you feel inclined to dance between courses!  The volume was much higher in this restaurant.  There food selection was slightly better than the other main dining room.  We only ate in here once because we enjoyed the casual atmosphere of the other venue.




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