10 Must-Try Dishes Aboard Ruby Princess Alaska Cruise. The BEST dishes to try during your Princess Alaska Cruise. From breakfast omelets to fish tacos, burgers, gorgeous desserts and more!

10 Must-Try Dishes Aboard Ruby Princess Alaska Cruise

The food aboard Ruby Princess Alaska was out of this world good! I never realized that an experience could be so intense. The scenery of Alaska combined with the food was unbelievable! Here are some of our favorite from our ROMANTIC Ruby Princess Alaska cruise!

Ernesto Burger from Salty Dog Gastropub

Fresh ground rib eye and short
rib patty, grilled pork belly, caveaged
Gruyère, caramelized kimchi
beer battered jalapeño, charred
onion aioli, smoked salt & pepper
brioche bun

Hand-Tossed Pizzas on deck – the pizza was AMAZING! I know it sounds lame but I loved the pizza. You can grab it anytime. There is always the traditional Margarita. But they change it up everyday with a specialty pizza that is new. It was fun going by and seeing what the pizza of the day was. Also the pizza is out where the GIANT screen is and it was fun to grab a slice and watch a game or grab a slice and watch the movies under the stars!

Custom Omelets from the buffet – the buffet had lots of scrambled eggs and even poached eggs ready to go. My favorite part was ordering a custom omelet. You can fill out a paper with the exact toppings yow want and they will bring it right out to you. So good!

10 Must-Try Dishes Aboard Ruby Princess Alaska Cruise  

Fish Tacos. The pizza place also serves tacos! One day were were strolling past the pizza stand and notices a very large line. We learned that they were giving out fish tacos that day. YUM!

Toffee Cheesecake From SHARE – soft, understated and decadent. An amazing dessert.

Seafood from the buffet – the seafood was so good! They had shrimp, crab legs and even lobster. So fresh and SO good!

Ernesto’s Dip Sticks – The perfect appetizer!

Crunchy bread sticks, beer-cheddar fondue, flaked smoked salt

BEEF SHORT RIB POUTINE – the meat was done to perfection!

Braised in Cabernet wine,
rosemary gravy, potato frites,
cheddar cheese curds

Breakfast on the Balcony – we ordered breakfast on our balcony the morning that we sailed through Glacier Bay. It was THE most romantic breakfast ever!

10 Must-Try Dishes Aboard Ruby Princess Alaska Cruise  

Shrimp Salad, Lemon Gel, Turnip, Citrus Salt, Brioche at SHARE by Curtis Stone (on board Ruby Princess). A beautiful, light salad.

There is so much more I can say about the food and everything about the trip. It was THE most magical honeymoon. We couldn’t have asked for anything better. It was such a wonderful way to start off our life as a married couple! If you ever have a chance to go on a cruise, consider a Princess Alaskan Cruise. It is an amazing experience!

There is also something new — the Princess Cruises Ocean Medallion program. A free, wearable device that facilitates extraordinary guest vacation experiences to make cruising more personal and simple than ever before. The Medallion holds your unique digital identity which is encrypted and communicates with thousands of sensors on-board and in port. It lets the Crew see information they can use to serve you better. That’s in addition to using Medallion for payments, unlocking your stateroom door, speeding up embarkation and much more. Such a cool idea!

Check out the other posts about our Alaskan honeymoon:

10 Reasons to go on a Romantic Alaska Cruise 

12 Items to Pack on Your Alaskan Cruise

18 Princess Alaska Cruise Tips

Behind the Scenes Princess Cruise Alaska Food 

And a huge THANK YOU to Princess Cruises for sponsoring our honeymoon. It was a dream come true!

You can find out more about how to plan YOUR Princess cruise:

Princess Cruises website 

Princess Cruises Instagram 

Princess Cruises Facebook

Have a beautiful day!

xoxo

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Behind the Scenes on an Alaskan Cruise – The Food

We had SUCH a fun time on our Princess Alaskan honeymoon cruise. We were hosted by Princess and the Princess staff did a wonderful job showing us around! Because the cruise was hosted by Princess we able to do some cool things that not every cruise-going has access to. I thought it would be fun to share some behind-the-scenes things with you! We were able to dine at all of the restaurants and buffets aboard the ship. It was fun to try all of the AMAZING Food! 

We also were able to tour the kitchen. I met some of the chefs too! 

When you go on a cruise you don’t realize how much effort goes into making everything work. I found out all about how the food is created, prepared and served. There is so much thought put into making the cruise a once-in-a-lifetime special event!

Did you know that ALL of the food on the ship is fresh? Because there are so many people with food allergies like gluten allergy, it’s imperative that the Princess Ruby food is made fresh. That way the staff knows all of the ingredients in every dish so that they can serve guests with food allergies confidently.

It all starts with a shopping list consisting of food from all over the world. Cheeses from Italy, England United States, Scandinavia and France, choice of selected beef, as well as choice selected fresh fruits and vegetables from California and Florida. On a single cruise, the list usually consists of between 100-155 TONS of food that much be delivered for EACH TRIP! Kind of mind-boggling.

Different menus are offered each day in the Dining Rooms, out on deck and in the Horizon Court Buffet and there is also the room service menu! There are over 1,100 staff members on each Princess Rub Cruise. Many of those work in the kitchens in some capacity. There are storekeepers, butchers and fish and vegetable preparation specialists who work on such a tight schedule to prepare everything in the correct way in the time allotted. In the galleys teams of chefs, cooks and pastry-men use their skills to turn all of this raw food into amazing, delicious meals. And the most amazing thing to me is that the menus rotate every single day!

Here are a few other DAILY statistics: 

Average amount of fish prepared – 1,700

Poultry – 1,400 pounds

Beef – 1,700 pounds

Veal – 300 pounds

Lamb – 200 pounds

There are five butchers, three assistants and helpers in the meat preparation area. Three butchers in the fish preparation area. In the Garde Manger (cold kitchen) there are 11 crew members, 13 members of staff work preparing soups, pastas and vegetables. Ten bakers work in the bakery making sweet rolls, croissants, bread rolls, bread sticks, pizzas and biscuits. The Pastry Shop is busy 24  hours a day with 13 people working.

DAILY

Pastries made – 6,000

Ice cream prepared – 100 gallons

Cakes and pies made – 300

Fruit and Cheese Pastry has 6 employees working.

DAILY

Butter used – 400 pounds

Fresh fruit – 6,000 pounds

Coffee – 470 gallons

Coffee Cream – 62 gallons

Sugar – 400 pounds

Of course there are also people that clean up and wash all of those dishes and glasses! There are 57 members of the crew that clean up and keep all of those items clean including all of the pots and pans and baking ware that gets dirty creating all of that food!

DAILY

Dishes washed 70,000

Glasses washed 21,500

I was AMAZED learning all of the statistics that go into running a cruise ship. And I was SUPER impressed by the quality of the food, the friendliness and competancy of the Princess Ruby staff and the skill everyone had doing their part to make our experience SO wonderful. Thank you again!!

Plus they are rolling out a new Princess Cruises Ocean Medallion program. A free, wearable device that facilitates extraordinary guest vacation experiences to make cruising more personal and simple than ever before. The Medallion holds your unique digital identity which is encrypted and communicates with thousands of sensors on-board and in port. It lets the Crew see information they can use to serve you better. That’s in addition to using Medallion for payments, unlocking your stateroom door, speeding up embarkation and much more. Such a cool idea!

If you ever consider going on a cruise, look into Princess. They made our experience once-in-a-lifetime! 

And a huge THANK YOU to Princess Cruises for sponsoring our honeymoon. It was a dream come true!

You can find out more about how to plan YOUR Princess cruise:

Princess Cruises website 

Princess Cruises Instagram 

Princess Cruises Facebook

xoxo

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