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We plan to dine on the terrace for dinner as much as possible & wonder if you can order one of their standard options at the buffet, ie the baked salmon or steak or are your only choices being the buffet choices.

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We haven't sailed them for three years, but at that time the Aquaterrace had its own menu, period. One could not order off the menu in the MDR. It was not Viking 's intent for its passengers to view that Terrace as an additional/alternative seating area for its full course dinner. Therefore, one could order from its small menu or eat from the limited buffet only.

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Our last river cruise with Viking in December 2016, you had to use the menu for the Terrace for dinner. Nice quiet place for dinner. We especially enjoyed lunch in Terrace area when we were sailing down the river. In the spring when some days were chilly, they had lap blankets for you so you could eat outside.

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At lunch and breakfast the terrace is just buffet but at dinner you order from an abbreviated menu. There is no buffet service at dinner. However we found that they were happy to get anything from the dining room menu if you requested it. They also offer the "available anytime " items like steak, grilled chicken and salmon. It was never crowded on the evenings we dined there on any of our 3 cruises and was a great option when we didn't feel like being social (you don't share tables) or we're tired and not up for a 2 hour dinner or if we were a little late returning to the ship and main dinner service had already started.

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At lunch and breakfast the terrace is just buffet but at dinner you order from an abbreviated menu. There is no buffet service at dinner. However we found that they were happy to get anything from the dining room menu if you requested it. They also offer the "available anytime " items like steak, grilled chicken and salmon. It was never crowded on the evenings we dined there on any of our 3 cruises and was a great option when we didn't feel like being social (you don't share tables) or we're tired and not up for a 2 hour dinner or if we were a little late returning to the ship and main dinner service had already started.

 

We've always had lunch there with the buffet. Will try a quiet dinner there on our Bordeaux cruise.

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I wonder if it varies from ship to ship or if we had pushed harder or spoken to someone else we'd have gotten a different answer -- but last month on the Rhine when we ate dinner on the Aquavit Terrace we were told we could only have what was on the Aquavit menu. That was one appetizer, one salad, one entree, one dessert - - no choices at all. And nothing from the dining room menu and not the "available anytime" items either. It was disappointing because we had planned to eat there more nights than in the dining room. That night we did stay there and ate a gravlax-heavy meal (two of the courses had gravlax) which was my very least favorite of the week.

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