Leave your menu hacks here.

[Tracey.kinney425]

Have any menu hacks? Post them below and maybe pick up some new ones while you're at it.

[Tracey.kinney425]

I'll start, order cheese fries or even dare I say it, chili cheese fries from guy's.

[bowlinmoe]

Ask for two entrees if you can't decide.

 

Yeah, I'm a...

🐷

[bburk00]

I don't like chocolate that much, so don't really like the melting cake. The only way I can eat it is order peanut butter with it. Makes it like a Reese's peanut butter cup.

Edited April 4, 2019 by bburk00

[SandiLynn]

If we want to eat whats on the menu in MDR but don't want to spend the entire time in there, we have them bring us to go and then we can take it and eat on balcony. 

[almitra]

Great tips ya'll 🙂

[saltshell]

Sundae from the kids menu.

[PortSideCruzan]

51 minutes ago, Tracey.kinney425 said:

Have any menu hacks? Post them below and maybe pick up some new ones while you're at it.

 

Hi Tracey.kinney425 ☺️

 

On most cruise lines, not just Carnival, in the main dining room, you can order a main entree in appetizer size, as an appetizer or as a side dish to your entree. 

 

Of course you can order as many entrees as you like, however I'm just trying to make a specific point in regards to ordering a (main entree in appetizer size). 

 

 

🌴

[Cru1s1ng2009]

49 minutes ago, bburk00 said:

I don't like chocolate that much, so don't really like the melting cake. The only way I can eat it is order peanut butter with it. Makes it like a Reese's peanut butter cup.

 

 

GAME CHANGER!!! YOU ARE AN EVIL GENIUS.

Edited April 4, 2019 by Cru1s1ng2009
GFDS

[crewsweeper]

7 minutes ago, Cru1s1ng2009 said:

 

 

GAME CHANGER!!! YOU ARE AN EVIL GENIUS.

Have you ever tried the peanut butter on the ship?!!!  Choke a horse!

[crewsweeper]

My old menu hack was to get an order of fish n chips from the fish n chips place, (or the Tandoori fish from the Tandoori Grill) then head down to the Blue Iguana and ask nicely for plain tortilla (fresh made), remove the breading from the fish (none on Tandoori), make fish tacos using condiments from salsa bar.  The puny fish pellets at the Blue Iguana are terrible.  But removal of Fish n Chips and Tandoori wiped that hack out.

[Organized Chaos]

Just a pet peeve of mine, but I wish we could go back to calling tips and advice just tips and advice, not "life hacks."

 

36 minutes ago, PortSideCruzan said:

On most cruise lines, not just Carnival, in the main dining room, you can order a main entree in appetizer size, as an appetizer or as a side dish to your entree.

 

Is this common? They prepare/plate so many of their meals ahead of time. We've tried to get just the main dish of an entree (for example, just a filet mignon at brunch without the sides) but they wouldn't do it. They'd bring the entire meal and our waiter said it was because it's already prepped. I've heard plenty of people try this at dinner, too, and get the entire meal. So it seems odd they'd give you the main dish as a side.

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3 minutes ago, Organized Chaos said:

Just a pet peeve of mine, but I wish we could go back to calling tips and advice just tips and advice, not "life hacks."

 

 

Is this common? They prepare/plate so many of their meals ahead of time. We've tried to get just the main dish of an entree (for example, just a filet mignon at brunch without the sides) but they wouldn't do it. They'd bring the entire meal and our waiter said it was because it's already prepped. I've heard plenty of people try this at dinner, too, and get the entire meal. So it seems odd they'd give you the main dish as a side.

It's hit or miss... the headwaiter would need to replate it prior to serving. You can arrange anything ahead of time through the hostess including special requests for items not on the menu.

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1 hour ago, Tracey.kinney425 said:

I'll start, order cheese fries or even dare I say it, chili cheese fries from guy's.

Thanks for the tip.

[indygirl76]

(Particularly if you have Cheers, so you're not paying extra for it...) Pouring a shot of Frangelico over the vanilla ice cream in the MDR is SO good. Big thanks to the awesome headwaitress I had on my last cruise for the suggestion!

[Elsisi]

Room Service Hack … em, Tip.

 

I order two BLTs from Room service, then remove the L and T and make one massive bacon sandwich.  Nightly ritual.

[mrpayroll]

2 hours ago, saltshell said:

Sundae from the kids menu.

Or the banana split..

[Organized Chaos]

56 minutes ago, Elsisi said:

Room Service Hack … em, Tip.

 

I order two BLTs from Room service, then remove the L and T and make one massive bacon sandwich.  Nightly ritual.

 

Nice. I don't like L and T, but do enjoy a bacon sandwich, so this is a good one. Can you get mayo (or preferably Miracle Whip) with it?

[BNBR]

As a previous restaurant owner and in the business for a long time, this makes me cringe!  Lol.  Some of these aren't so bad, though.

 

I just think of one of my favorite restaurants, very popular, right on their menu:

 

"Absolutely no changes or substitutions.  Let me do what I do and don't break balls"

[dcwalker]

4 minutes ago, BNBR said:

OMG. This is hilarious. Totally explains why my son wants to strangle me when we go out to eat. You've changed my annoying restaurant behavior for good.

 

I just think of one of my favorite restaurants, very popular, right on their menu:

 

"Absolutely no changes or substitutions.  Let me do what I do and don't break balls"

 

[coevan]

1 hour ago, BNBR said:

As a previous restaurant owner and in the business for a long time, this makes me cringe!  Lol.  Some of these aren't so bad, though.

 

I just think of one of my favorite restaurants, very popular, right on their menu:

 

"Absolutely no changes or substitutions.  Let me do what I do and don't break balls"

 

 

and they're still in business? 

[BNBR]

6 minutes ago, coevan said:

 

 

and they're still in business? 

 

Yes, wait list every night. Opened locations in Vegas and Atlantic city as well as published books and even pasta sauces at the grocery store. 

 

Cafe Martorano. 

Edited April 4, 2019 by BNBR

[mama_2_boys]

1 hour ago, Organized Chaos said:

 

Nice. I don't like L and T, but do enjoy a bacon sandwich, so this is a good one. Can you get mayo (or preferably Miracle Whip) with it?

I've always had them add cheese and mayo to my blt. Yummy.

[bdever]

Okay, I haven’t actually tried this one yet but I am going for it on my next cruise in June.

 

I only eat breakfast in the MDR and I like to order the eggs Benedict but sometimes I notice that the English muffin is too hard. A local French restaurant serves eggs Benedict on a croissant instead. I am going to request a sub out on the English muffin and ask for Eggs Benedict prepared on a split croissant.

 

on another thred I read that someone goes to the blue iguana cantina for breakfast and orders a breakfast burrito bowl instead of a typical breakfast burrito and I like that idea too because I can’t digest tortillas very well due to water retention while cruising. 

[bdever]

BTW Tracey.Kinney425 Thank you for starting this thread! Brilliant!