Eating Like Royalty on Regal Princess Cruises

This Regal Princess Cruises Dining photo essay will feature culinary delights available on a 2-week Caribbean Cruise.

International Café in the Piazza onboard the Regal Princess Cruises

On deck 5 of the Regal Princess is the International Café. Open 24 hours a day, this is the spot to get a cappuccino, silk road chai tea latté, or a frosty honey lavender coffee. There is also a selection of sandwiches, pastries, and fruits.

Almond Croissant and coffee on Princess Cruises

PRO TRAVEL TIP: In the morning, visit the International Café for the best almond croissants. They aren’t available anywhere else on the ship. If there aren’t any on display, ask the server.

They also have delicious fruit smoothies in the morning. The selection here is different from what is available in the buffet.

Regal Princess Cruises Horizon Court Buffet

Most cruise lines offer options in the buffet to suit various dietary restrictions, tastes, and comforts.

On the Regal Princess in the Horizon Court Buffet, I was delighted to see separate areas in the buffet for kids (chicken fingers, macaroni and cheese, hot dogs) and vegetarians (couscous, veggie lasagnas). No need to go searching through the rest of the buffet.

I also noticed East Indian curries, biryanis, lentils, Italian pasta, Asian stir-fries, noodles, and rice congee for breakfast—something very inclusive for everyone.

Sugar-free and vegetarian selections were well labelled; however, no labelling for dairy-free or gluten-free. You’ll need to ask for assistance, but they will accommodate you whenever possible.

Breakfast in the Concerto Dining Room of Regal Princess Cruises

I always recommend having breakfast in the dining room whenever possible. You get to beat the crowds and the long queues of the buffet line and have a relaxing, unhurried meal. Just be aware that breakfast will take time – allow 1 to 1.5 hours. We typically do this on a sea day when we have all the time in the world.

Regal Princess Cruises breakfast menu and place setting

Regal Princess dining room breakfast offers your usual fare – pastries, fruit, eggs, sausage, omelettes, pancakes etc. but also provides two different specialty selections each day.

Eggs Benedict

– Two poached eggs and Canadian bacon on toasted English muffins topped with Hollandaise Sauce

Open-faced omelette with mushrooms, cheese, Italian sausage, polenta, and focaccia bread

Frittata Con Funghi

– An open-faced omelette with sliced mushrooms and provolone cheese served with grilled Italian sausage, polenta, and herbed focaccia bread.

Dinner in the Concerto Dining Room on Regal Princess Cruises

Note: We were on two cruises back-to-back (stay tuned for that article to come soon), and the dining room menu was the same for both weeks.

One annoyance, for us anyway, was having to reserve our table/time for dinner for each day of our cruises. Called “Dine Your Way” in the Princess Medallion Mobile App, I can see how some people would love the flexibility of eating dinner at a different time each day.

Not us. Perhaps it’s that we’ve been cruising for many years. We have become accustomed to traditional seating – same table, same time, same waiter each night. No queueing up, no thinking, show up.

Fortunately, we asked the Restaurant Manager, Nelson, if we could switch, and he made it happen. He assigned us a lovely window seat table for two, and we ate there at 7:30 pm every night, expertly waited upon by waiters Mars and Moshan.

Here are some of the dishes we dined upon: