The Food Experience

 Regent offers a great choice of food on board, with both buffets and table service dining experiences offered every day. And La Veranda, the buffet dining room for breakfast and lunch, becomes the Italian restaurant called Sette Mari at dinner. Along with this are the three specialty dining venues - the French option Chartreuse, Prime 7 steakhouse and Asian style Pacific Rim. Both Chartreuse and Prime 7 are open alternately at lunchtime with lighter menus. And then there is the Pool Grill which serves fresh made pizza, sandwiches, salads, hamburgers and hotdogs during the day and is often open in the evening for a very casual meal option with some elevated dishes. All this on top of the main dining room, Compass Rose. Anyone who says they can't find anything to eat on this ship hasn't looked very hard!

Here's a selection of photos from our meals so far.

We'll start with Chartreuse. We've eaten dinner there twice already. It is the most elegant of the restaurants on board, with a French inspired menu to match. Everything from escargot and cheese soufflé to filet mignon and Dover sole, and some really interesting desserts is on the menu. But it is easier to show than describe these dishes.

A delicious salad

The goat cheese tart

An interesting presentation of escargot

x

Lamb chops

Île Flotant, an island of egg white floating
on a bed of vanilla sauce. It tasted like a cloud!

The cheese soufflé

Filet mignon

Tarte Tatin, apple tart with cinnamon
whipped cream and ice cream.

Next up, here are some dishes we had at Prime 7. We've been there for lunch as well, but haven't taken photos. I'll have to remedy that next time and put some photos in the next food post.

The 'amuse-bouche' of a little glass of
tomato soup with a cheese foam

The harvest salad. Quite the presentation and
it is delicious as well.

Surf and turf.

The mushroom and pepper tian with goat cheese
topping. They sure like their goat cheese, but then
so do I!

The Caesar Salad is almost big enough for a meal!

We both had roast beef the last time we were there.
It tasted as good as it looks.

The standard little confection plate - caramel
fudge and S'mores bars

The Key Lime Pie is a favourite

And finally for this post, we'll look at some of the dishes from Sette Mari. The menu is quite large, as are some of the dishes! Even though you'd like one item of every course on the menu, it would be impossible to finish.

They always bring out a selection
of breads, bruschettas and
cheese to start off.

The Osso Buco is not always on the menu,
so I made sure to get it right away.

Larry ordered the special Chicken Parmigiana -
too big for even him to finish it!

We went to the buffet and found the
cannolis. Mine had chocolate chips on it,

and Larry chose pistachios.

I'm leaving Pacific Rim out for this post, since we've only been there once and don't have many photos yet. We'll also cover Compass Rose, the lunches at Chartreuse and Prime 7 and the Pool Grill next time.

I have already been to one Culinary Arts Centre class and have a second one scheduled for next week. I'll post those two together. It turns out that the chef who is teaching the classes was the same one, David Shalleck, who was on Oceania Vista in 2024 and also on Oceania Riviera in 2017 when we both took a class in the Culinary Centre there. No wonder he recognized us when we met him the first day!