A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum and at Osteria. This January while on board Serenity; while dining at Osteria we were surprised the waiter via directions from the chef refused my request for a side of marinara sauce to accompany my entree.
The entree was a kind of fancy breaded veal patty ( I do not see it now on the current menu provided here by dimundsR? maybe it was taken off? ) I thought it would be nice to have a marinara suace placed on the side of the entree... Mind you I was not asking to have the sauce put on the entree, just to the side... 🤔
The explanation from both the waiter and also the maitre d' for the refusal was that given the restaurant has a Michelin status they do not allow modifications or special requests. The maitre d' explained further that that if an Osteria entree was altered and then a guest might take a picture of the said altered dish, it could get out on social media and this is what they were trying to avoid. Actually we were all kind of floored and I was able to laugh it off and not get upset with a first world problem🙂 but I do think this refusal was laughable and it made us miss Prego all that much more. These are the trials and travails of having to put up with a luxury cruise line which we do love but greatly annoyed by the 'no' being given when we are always accustomed to the Crystal 'yes'. I summed it up as Osteria is a 'no restaurant' on Crystal a 'yes ship'. I would be Interested to know some thoughts on this from some of our Crystal Society members.
