Street Food at Sea
Luxury cruise ships are also looking for a younger audience. What better way than with street food? So, got money to spare? Try haute street food out at sea.
Grand banquets, lavish buffets with luxury ingredients or cocktails and finger food by the pool – that’s more or less the idea of cruise food. At first glance, things are no different on the new hyper-luxury cruise ship Ovation from cruise line Seabourn, which will glide over the waves off the coast of Europe from May onwards. With five gastronomic restaurants.
Thomas Keller
So it will come as no surprise to anyone that a partnership has been entered into with the world-famous American star chef Thomas Keller . The Grill by Thomas Keller serves new versions of iconic dishes and rare wines in an interior that exudes the American fifties and sixties.
New Cruise Food: ramen noodles and artisanal ice cream
So far, nothing surprising. But even an ultra-luxury cruise can no longer get by with just a star chef and fine dining at sea. Street culture also reigns on the choppy waters. Artisanal ice cream and ramen noodles are the new cruise food.
Sorrento lemons
But haute street food, of course. For example, the chefs of Ovation were trained at the prestigious Carpigiani Gelato University in Bologna to learn how to make artisanal ice cream from fresh fruit and dairy. They adapt the flavors to the geographical location of the moving ship. This means, for example, ice cream made with Sorrento lemons when sailing along the Amalfi Coast, the home of this fruit.
The cruiser can also score fresh sushi and ramen noodles , and even in seafaring fine dining, the focus is increasingly on vegetables and vegetarian food (black truffle risotto with poached egg). In addition, mixologists shake signature cocktails according to the latest mixology trends in nine lounges and bars. It sounds like a new hip neighborhood, but at sea.
