Which Celebrity Chefs Have Cruise Ship Restaurants?
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Aussie TV personality, cookbook author and restaurant owner Curtis Stone is the latest big name to jump on board a cruise line with a signature restaurant and specially designed menus. Chef Stone has partnered with Princess Cruises and passengers cruising from Melbourne on Golden Princess this summer are among the first to sample Crafted by Curtis dishes in the ship’s main dining room.
Curtis’ SHARE restaurants will open across Princess Cruises’ fleet over the coming months; as the name suggests, the menu will include dishes designed for sharing among family and friends. The first Australian ship to feature the attractive new dining venue will be Sun Princess, in April. Chef’s Table by Curtis is another new venture that will include a galley tour with champagne and hors d’oeuvres, followed by a multi-course dinner.
Another local master chef and international restaurant owner, Luke Mangan, teamed up with P&O Cruises in 2009 to open Salt grill on board P&O Cruises’ Pacific Jewel. Since then, Mangan’s fine-dining restaurants have been rolled out across the fleet and the newly refurbished Pacific Aria and Pacific Eden include a cool cocktail bar in the Salt Bar Grill.
Sydney-based restaurateur, cookbook author and TV star Luke Nguyen has been an APT ambassador for several years and created the menus for the company’s Mekong river cruises on board AmaLotus. Every Mekong cruise features a Vietnamese dinner and degustation dinner that he designed. Twice a year Luke hosts cruises and takes passengers to meet his extended family in Saigon, runs cooking classes and accompanies shopping and tasting tours. In 2016, Luke is scheduled to be on board the ship in July and December.
Jamie Oliver is a global star of the cuisine scene and his first shipboard restaurant was a seaborne version of his internationally franchised Jamie’s Italian, which opened on Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas in 2014. As in the land-based restaurants, Jamie’s Italian on the Quantum-class ships (Quantum, Anthem and the upcoming Ovation of the Seas) serves rustic Italian dishes. Favourites include the antipasti plank, the signature prawn linguine, grills and an array of pasta dishes.
P&O Cruises World Cruising’s newest ship, Britannia, showcases the restaurants and menus of no fewer than five top British chefs, who are known as the Food Heroes. Regular cruisers with P&O’s UK-based ships will be familiar with names such as Atul Kochhar and his fine-dining Indian restaurants onboard Ventura and Azura; wine expert Olly Smith’s The Glass House, which is on Azura, Ventura and Aurora; and world-famous chef Marco Pierre White’s restaurants on Adonia, Ventura, Arcadia, Oriana and Oceana.
Atul Kochhar, Olly Smith and Marco Pierre White are joined on Britannia by British TV cooking star James Martin, who designed the ship’s Cookery Club, and master patissier Eric Lanlard, whose cakes and pastries are served in the Market Café and for the classic afternoon tea at The Epicurean restaurant. The Food Heroes will be cruising on Britannia and some other P&O UK ships in 2016, conducting cookery classes, holding Q&A sessions, book signings and hosting Chef’s Table dinners.
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