Alaska : Places to See, Things to Do, Food to Eat

Apparently, one trip to Alaska is not enough.

We're looking forward to a trip up the Inside Passage so that we can
enjoy the legendary scenery.  We weren't thinking so much about the food
until we read Adventure Your Way Across Alaska ,  a new CNN special
travel feature with good information about where to eat. We better have a
plan for working out because it seems as though this trip will be about food :)

Food, Glorious Food On Board

We booked four restaurant reservations today. This is the first year that

passengers have been able to make reservations in advance of boarding.
There are five restaurant choices on the Regatta. Three of the five restaurants
do not require advance reservations, two do. Since we are staying in the A1
concierge level of the ship, we are guaranteed, at minimum, two meals

in each of the intimate high end restaurants, the Polo Grill and the Toscana.

Even tho' we had a total of two guaranteed reservations on our last cruise, we
ended up eating in those two restaurants four or five times. It was fairly easy to
get last minute reservations because our fellow travellers had so many other good
choices including the Grand Dining Room and the Terrace that can accommodate
dining without reservations.

We decided to make all reservations for 6:30 PM as opposed to 7:30 or 8:30 so
that we can digest before going to bed.  We also tried to book those times
during at-sea days but some of those days had no space left at 6:30 so we just
selected other days.


Three of the five ship restaurants require that you wear country club
casual/no jeans. Two others are very casual. Sometimes the extra casual 
atmosphere combined with delicious food is the favoured combination. 


Here are the menus for the five restaurants on our ship, all designed by French 
chef Jacques Pépin :
Polo Grill Menu
Toscana Menu
Grand Dining Room Dinner Menu
Grand Dining Room Lunch Menu
Waves Lunch Menu