Regent Seven Seas Cruises is reimaging its restaurant offerings for its newest ship, Seven Seas Grandeur, when it debuts in NOV 2023.
The cruise line’s expert culinary teams, led by Bernhard Klotz, Regent’s Vice President Food & Beverage, have created over 130 new dishes and enhanced recipes of guest favorites across seven dining venues - including reimagined spaces in its gourmet specialty restaurants.
“As a celebration of Regent’s heritage, Seven Seas Grandeur has been stunningly reimagined for the future, enhancing the eclectic culinary experiences found on board through delightfully refined menus and beautifully reimagined specialty restaurants,” said Andrea DeMarco, President of Regent Seven Seas Cruises.
Highlights of the new dishes and recipes on board Seven Seas Grandeur include:
- 13 new dinner dishes to be served in Compass Rose, Regent’s signature restaurant.
- Prime 7, Regent’s steakhouse, will offer a new lunch menu, as well as a sharing plate of grilled meats for two at dinner.
- Three of the seven new dishes on French restaurant Chartreuse’s menu have been inspired by the 3-Michelin Star L'Auberge du Vieux Puits following an in-depth culinary tour of Narbonne, France.
- For Pan-Asian delights, Pacific Rim will offer two new entrees and four new desserts.
- 8 authentic new hot appetizer recipes have been created in Sette Mari at La Veranda.
- New plant-based dishes available include an Impossible Salisbury Steak with truffle butter and Pacific Rim tofu and crudité poke salad, plus additional healthy options such as chia yogurt and homemade granolas will appear for breakfast at La Veranda.
- Korean-fried chicken burger with gochujang-black garlic mayo for those looking for a bite at The Pool Grill.
- Four Gerard Bertrand wines will be found exclusively on Chartreuse’s complimentary wine list and a further five will be found at the ship’s Connoisseur Wine Menu.
Reimagined Spaces
Compass Rose
Guests sailing on board Seven Seas Grandeur will discover a new design for Compass Rose, Regent Seven Seas Cruises’ signature specialty restaurant. Before entering, diners can marvel at the cascading waterfall sculpture fashioned with laser-cut metal and hand-blown glass. Inside, the restaurant’s dining room sits under a canopy of interwoven crystal and wood-edged illuminated trees. Thousands of crystal-faceted leaves encrusting the pillars and branches will envelope the restaurant.
Compass Rose’s menu offers a unique experience where guests are able to design their own entrée from preferred sides, sauces, pastas, and main features - in addition to daily specials and a selection of vegan and vegetarian dishes. New dishes crafted exclusively for Seven Seas Grandeur include a decadent Maine lobster risotto served with a mascarpone-leek fondue; a roasted Black Angus striploin accompanied by fingerling potatoes and parmesan broccoli stems with a romesco sauce; and a tuna tataki comprised of Sichuan pepper, vegetable tartar, miso aioli, radish and sesame.
Prime 7
Seven Seas Grandeur will introduce the fully reimagined Prime 7 restaurant. Taking its cues from the classic New York City steakhouses of the 20th century - beginning in the vestibule, a wall of black-and-white photography and antique leather travel cases greet guests before continuing onto the entrance space modeled after a traditional streetcar. Moving through the restaurant, the aesthetic changes to feel more residential - Persian carpets underfoot, residential-style lighting, and memorabilia in vitrines that disguise server stations and back-of-house areas.
The menu is full of guest favorites including lump crab cakes, Black Angus Beef steak tartare with truffle-beer bread, jumbo shrimp cocktails, and dry-aged 28 days USDA prime beef steaks from porterhouse to filet mignon. Seven Seas Grandeur’s Prime 7 will serve an sharing plate for two of clandestine entrecote, d’Artagnan chicken, Galician chorizo and New Zealand lamb chops, with roasted garlic, tomato confit and chimichurri. Catering to all palates, the steakhouse will also offer a new plant-based option of Impossible Salisbury Steak served with French fries, roasted tomato, and an indulgent truffle butter.
Further updates to Prime 7’s offerings can be found in its lunch menu with casual dishes such as Black Angus beef empanadas and salsa cruda; country fried chicken, bacon mashed potatoes, scallions, buttermilk biscuit and chipotle dipping sauce; or a fisherman's platter of panko-breaded shrimp, squid, fish, lemon, French fries, and truffle aioli. An array of new lunch-time desserts can also be found including bananas fosters with dark rum, Mississippi mud cake with chocolate creameux, and a chocolate-baked blueberry pudding with coconut-vanilla cream.
Chartreuse
Chartreuse is Seven Seas Grandeur’s French restaurant with a patterned floor that draws diners into the entry while the bar, wrapped in leather and topped with marble, evokes 1930s Paris finished with Art Deco inspired lighting. Inspired by the Art Nouveau aesthetic of the Paris Metro, the dining room is surrounded by sea views.
A number of new dishes on Chartreuse’s menu have been inspired by Narbonne, France. New dishes that honor classic French cooking include halibut viennoise with fennel, porcini, spinach and veal jus; soupe de poissons with brandade, mussels, aioli and seed crisp; and velouté de champignons consommé, egg yolk confit and truffle cappuccino. The Chartreuse dessert menu will be enhanced with a selection of petit fours to recreate a café gourmand experience with a selection of mignardises.
Chartreuse’s complimentary wine selection will now include four Gerard Bertrand wines, exclusive to Regent Seven Seas Cruises, including Heritage Kosmos, a full-bodied organic red made up of a blend of Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre grape varieties.
Pacific Rim
Setting the tone, guests are greeted by an Tibetan prayer wheel on Seven Seas Explorer and a dragon on Seven Seas Splendor, while the restaurant's interior boasts intricate architectural details. The entrance artwork for Seven Seas Grandeur’s Pacific Rim will be unveiled at a later date, along with more highlights from the ship's art collection.
Pacific Rim celebrates the flavors of Asia with two new dinner dishes of duck confit adobo accompanied by adlai risotto, XO sauce, foie gras and shimeji mushrooms; and the plant-based Pacific Rim poke salad comprising of vegetable crudité, tofu, avocado, wakame, miso and sesame. For those with a sweet tooth, new desserts include a dark chocolate and passion fruit cake with mango-chili sorbet, green tea matcha cheesecake, and a Thai coconut and tapioca pudding with lemon-grass syrup.
Sette Mari at La Veranda
Positioned at the top of the ship and inspired by the coastal landscape of the Mediterranean, Sette Mari at La Veranda will serve meals inspired by the flavors of Italy. The design inspiration, taken from the Amalfi Coast, is apparent in the architectural elements, fixtures and art that complement the curvature of the glazed walls and panoramic windows.
Seven Seas Grandeur’s Sette Mari at La Veranda will feature a refined menu, focused on heritage of Puglia, Italy. Drawing inspiration from the area’s Masserias, or farmhouses, the team have crafted a hot appetizer menu for Seven Seas Grandeur with authentic recipes for sformato di ricotta, a ricotta and parmesan cheese tart with tomato basil sauce; cozze alla marinara e pepperoncino, black mussels in a sauce of garlic, chili flakes, fresh tomatoes, white wine and parsley; and zucchine Ripiene, baked zucchini stuffed with slow roasted prime rib, herbs and parmesan cheese in a tomato sauce; among more.
More information can be found on Regent Seven Seas Cruises' website.
