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Oceania Cruises Sirena Dining Review

Michael by Michael
October 1, 2024
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Oceania Cruises Sirena Dining Review

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Introduction

In this Oceania Cruises’ Sirena dining review, we’ll cover what’s a little bit different between Sirena and every other ship in the fleet including other R-Class siblings – Insignia, Regatta, and Nautica.

What’s the Same?

For the smaller R-Class ships in the fleet, there are two specialty restaurants.  On Sirena‘s three siblings, those specialty restaurants are Toscana, the line’s Italian restaurant that’s featured fleet-wide, and Polo Grill, the steakhouse aboard all the ships in the fleet.  On the three (soon to be four) purpose-built Oceania Cruises ships, there are four specialty dining restaurants, including the previously mentioned Toscana and Polo Grill, as well as a third Red Ginger, the line’s pan-Asian restaurant concept serving South Asian cuisine.  The fourth restaurant on Marina and Riviera is Jacques, named after Jacques Pepin, who has collaborated with Oceania Cruises for many years.  On the new Vista and upcoming Allura, Jacques has been replaced by Ember providing a more casual and decidedly “American” menu.  Of course, the non-reservation Grand Dining Room, Terrace Cafe, Waves Grill, and Baristas have some variation based on the class of ship but are available throughout.

One thing that’s “new” but also the same throughout the fleet is in the Grand Dining Room, there are now daily souffles for dessert.  These are gluten-free and delicious!  I might have enjoyed one every night in the Grand Dining Room.

One of my many souffles on board, this one was pistachio

What’s Different?

Sirena was the last of the R-Class ships added to the fleet and came AFTER Marina and Riviera as opposed to the rest of the fleet.  So when Oceania Cruises acquired the ship they did something a bit different and added the very popular Red Ginger to the ship.  In order to accommodate Red Ginger, something had to go as there are only locations for two adjacent specialty restaurants at the front of Deck 10.  Oceania Cruises cleverly (at least in our opinion) combined Toscana and Polo Grill to create Tuscan Steak.  This made a lot of sense to us as Toscana already had steak, veal chops, fish filets, lobster, and other common elements available in both locations.  So, taking the best of the Toscano menu and adding more steakhouse favorites make for an absolutely winning combination.

What Did We Think?

This one is a bit difficult to answer.  We had some real highs with some amazing food and service generally in the Grand Dining Room and during one of our two visits to Red Ginger.  Here are some photos of breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the Grand Dining Room as well as a couple photos from Red Ginger.

Oceania Cruises offers lambchops for breakfast. I have to do it at least once with an herb omelet
Lunch portions allow for three courses without feeling stuffed. To start it’s usually a light salad or soup
Lunch entrees are reasonably portioned and nicely presented
A niçoise salad with freshly cooked fish was delicious
I start with a prawn cocktail for dinner in the Grand Dining Room at least once on every cruise. Sometimes more than once
The Parma ham “salad” is a delicious starter that’s overlooked by many of our fellow diners (please forgive the phone shadow, lighting in the MDR makes for challenging photography in the evenings)
Red Ginger’s famous duck and watermelon salad is not to be missed!
The Red Ginger spring roll was a bit simple but fresh and crunchy
Our entrees at Red Ginger did not disappoint

Unfortunately, both of our dinners in Tuscan Steak were very slow, with only mediocre food and service.  One of the highlights of eating in Polo Grill, or, in this case, Tuscan Steak, is the tableside preparations, the two most popular being the whole lobster removed from the shell and the Dover sole filleted.  Both were good, but not Oceania Cruises good like we’re used to on other ships in the fleet.

We had been warned by cruise friends who had sailed Oceania Sirena before that the service on board just wasn’t up to Oceania Cruises standards.  We have to agree, though we were also dealing with the Norovirus protocols that we discussed here.

Final Approach

As we’ve mentioned previously, we nearly always book an Oceania Cruise while on an Oceania Cruise and this one was no different.  Perhaps it’s telling that we chose to book on Oceania Marina.  For us, Marina and Riviera have the best culinary options because we really enjoy having Jacques, the Culinary Center (also available on Allura Class ships including Vista), and La Reserve (replaced by Aquamar on Allura Class ships). – Michael

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