We just disembarked from the NCL Breakaway yesterday. Our experience with the food was awful. I lost 5 lbs over the course of the week because I struggled to find anything that was worth finishing. We ate in the main dining rooms and the buffet along with a couple specialty dinners. I talked to other passengers who agreed with my assessment. Poor quality steaks in Cagneys, sushi was bulked up with too much rice, etc.
I think my wife said it best…when you combine the demographics of the guests with the quality of the food, it felt like we were on a floating nursing home. Chocolate silk pie with the texture of jello, icy ice cream, mushy shrimp, rubbery fried chicken, every bread product was dry and stale. I could go on all day. We found the quality of the main dining room to be only slightly better than the buffet.
I know its difficult to cook 15,000 meals a day, but if I were the head chef, I’d be ashamed to sign off on any of the food I ate. Before this trip I didn’t think I was a food snob, but maybe I am.
The plus side was that the poor quality food pushed us to eat on shore as much as possible and we had some great meals on shore, my favorite being in Bar Harbor.
This was our first cruise on NCL and needless to say we won’t be cruising on NCL again.