

A soft serve machine and self-serve non-alcoholic beverages are also available.
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The afternoon snack buffet had a British influence, with some tasty finger sandwiches, scones, and cakes, plus American-style build-your-own sandwiches, French fries, and fruit. During our cruise, it was consistently open for breakfast and afternoon snacks, and occasionally for other meals the food at meal times is a smaller selection of the food available at the Garden Cafe. Great Outdoors is a weather-dependent outdoor buffet adjacent to the pool deck. It can be a bit of a sensory overload, and make sure you have a meeting spot arranged with your dining companions it's easy to get separated and tricky to find each other again. The Garden Cafe is reliably busy, whatever the time of day-we ate there daily for breakfast, for lunch on our at sea day, and once for dinner, plus we popped in for crepes a couple of times. Fruits and vegetables are always abundantly featured, and I absolutely love the muesli (if someone from Norwegian Cruise Lines is reading this, email me your recipe!) There's also a soft-serve machine, ice cream scooped to order, and in the evening, made-to-order crepes. You can also request plant-based burgers, gluten-free bread, and milk alternatives from the staff. There are a lot of things the Garden Cafe gets right: it's easy to find vegetable-centric vegetarian dishes, with a variety ranging from Chinese-inspired stir fries, Indian soups, Caribbean-style savory pastries, and Italian-inspired salads. It's relatively straightforward food prepared en masse I'd compare the quality to the hot bar at an upscale grocery store, like Whole Foods (or for my fellow Twin Cities folks, Kowalski's or Lunds & Byerlys). Garden Cafe is the ship's main buffet, with a dizzying selection of items for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Also, since I eat a primarily vegetarian diet, I've noted which dining options are best for vegetarians. For example, our experiences at the specialty restaurants on the Norwegian Jade in 2017 were nearly identical to our experiences on this cruise. Note that Norwegian Cruise Line has the same specialty dining restaurants throughout their fleet, so this information is also applicable to other ships. How good are the complimentary options? Wondering if the specialty restaurants are worth the surcharge? Here's my non-sponsored take, based on the Mediterranean cruise we took on the Norwegian Epic in May 2023. The Norwegian Epic offers both complimentary dining included with your cruise fare, and specialty restaurants that require an additional fee (more on that below). Coconut chocolate tres leches cake at Moderno Churrascaria, one of the Norwegian Epic's specialty restaurantsīuffets, main dining rooms, specialty restaurants: the Norwegian Epic has 13 different dining options (plus room service), and on our recent cruise, we checked out eight of them.
