now i've had the opportunity to eat at all three of the major specialty restaurants
here on board the celebrity apex so i'm going to review those for you also going to tell you
a little bit about the two main dining rooms that i was able to eat in so far this cruise so we're
gonna go all the way back to the beginning of the cruise the first night of the cruise i ate
in the main dining room one of the main dining rooms of course this ship has four
main dining rooms cosmopolitan they have the tuscan restaurant they have cyprus and they
have normandy i still haven't eaten at tuscan and normandy i will be eating at those the next
two nights of the cruise and i'll tell you in my final review of the cruise which will be out
soon i will tell you about those restaurants but starting with cosmopolitan the first night of the
cruise i told you a little bit about this in the embarkation day video cosmopolitan was very very
good this was my first experience in celebrity dining and i was very impressed i was like wow
this is a main dining room but it tastes like specialty dining food i had the the cajun fried
chicken and that was so amazing it was so tender and juicy and the food itself was hot i mean it
was piping hot normally even the best food i've had on cruise ships which is royal caribbean right
now as it stands uh it's not as hot as this food was i mean this was like it literally just came
out of the fryer right off the grill right to the table nowhere did that food sit waiting for
anyone to come get it like it was piping hot it had mashed potatoes and a biscuit with it
um and then dessert was great that night as well so really enjoyed cosmopolitan the second night i
was in the second main dining room experience and this time i went to cyprus because this was a day
we're at mykonos and i'm like well i'm going to have this like authentic greek meal this
mediterranean meal uh it's going to be amazing and it was the food was so hot the food was so fresh
everything was amazing for my main dish that night i had the chicken slovakia that was good
my appetizer i had that night was some cheese dish and i put the name here because i forget
the name of it basically just melted cheese and i had maybe half of it or a quarter of it and then
i realized i just couldn't do it anymore because it was just too much cheese is that even a thing
but it was for me i'll say but it was really good everything was hot there the service has been on
point everywhere the service was good in there for dessert that night i had the new york cheesecake
with caramel sauce drizzled over the top and this is one of the menu items of course you eat in the
main dining rooms it's sort of rotational dining but they do have some items that they have across
all of the dining rooms that night the dining rooms of course because they're themed differently
a french restaurant a mediterranean restaurant an american cuisine restaurant they do have
cuisines and a menu of food that's just unique only to that eatery however they also have the
main dining room menu for that night which is different every night the the selections from
that restaurant itself which are unique to that restaurant those are always the same each night
but they also every dining room will have a portion of the menu that's the same across
all four dining rooms so part of that menu was the new york cheesecake and that's why i picked
it that night i wanted to try that and it was delicious everything was good at cypress really
enjoyed it now we move in to the specialty dining the first specialty dining location and i'll let
me back up a little bit first and say that because i'm a part of the concierge class on this cruise
i'm able to go down to my concierge and shout out to the concierge you've been helping me
dana dana's been great this cruise to take very good care of me went down the first day of the
cruise after i boarded a couple hours after i bought it in athens worked with dana to set up
my dining reservations both for the main dining rooms each night but also for my specialty dining
i had pre-purchased the three-night dining package i think it was about 137 dollars which was
a pretty good value i think that's like a 15 savings because each of the specialty
dining restaurants here on celebrity are 55 per person this is a little bit more than what you're
going to pay on carnival and royal caribbean and lines like that those are usually 35 to 40
so the food is a little bit more expensive the specialty dining so if you do think you might want
to do the specialty dining make sure you check out one of those packages that can only be purchased
i think before the cruise starts maybe up till 24 hours before the start of the cruise so make sure
that's something you purchased before so got on board went to the concierge dana helped me book
all my specialty restaurants and we ended up because we wanted to block off lobster night which
is actually tonight so it ended up just being that the specialty restaurants were consecutive nights
um night three of the crews four and five of the crews so first i went to eden and i
was super excited to eat there i've been back there to check out that area a few times over
the course of the cruise and it's a very cool area first of all wow the setting of this restaurant
is amazing it's on the very back of the ship on decks four and five so when you sit down
uh the view i had anyways it was looking right off the back of the ship the after
you could see the wake of the ship that's one of my most favorite views on the entire cruise ship
so uh i mean we're selling off the coast of roads and so you have roads on one side and you have
turkey on the other and you can see the wake you can see the sky starting to turn tonight slowly
and start to get dark it was just an amazing view my server this night i had shaquille and he was
amazing very very good service some of the best services i've had our crews was that night in eden
and the food was phenomenal the the thing about eden is they try to make unique dishes that are
earthy that have a connection to earth that are sort of more organic so for my starter i had the
sheep's milk gnocchi the sheep's milk nookie was very good the only thing i'll say was it
was actually too much and they gave you very large portions even for appetizers because i
was like wow you know gnocchi is sort of doughy so it's actually a lot to eat so i didn't even
get to finish that because i'm like wow this is a lot of food the thing about the specialty
dining restaurants here you can have as much as you want so he encouraged me to try more of the
food not just one appetizer not just one entree he said you know have as many as you'd like so i said
also i want to try uh the soup that they had on the menu and this soup was incredible y'all some
of the best soup i've ever had this was a type of soup that you wish you could have on like a cool
crisp fall night like it's very spicy a lot of different flavors were going on in the soup a lot
of different textures in the soup it was really really good and i really enjoyed it it tasted very
fresh and very organic and sort of went with that feel that eden was trying to go for so it worked
really really well for my main dishes i actually had two of those because of course i did i had the
filet mignon and wow that was a tender piece of meat i could have cut it with my fork it was like
melt in your mouth filet mignon i also had the lobster casserole and y'all the lobster casserole
was amazing i thought that lobster casserole now every day since i went there i just want to go
back and be like can i have another helping of lobster casserole i'm very tempted to book eden
again because i enjoyed the restaurant so much but really just to get another helping of that lobster
casserole never been served so much lobster on a cruise ship normally you order and they give you
a single little tail but this was like almost like a full lobster in this casserole and like
the casserole also had this sweet corn cream in it and it was just so good i can't say enough
about it about how great it was i really enjoyed that dish for dessert i had the creme brulee and
this creme brulee was very unique because it had carrots in it never had creme brulee with
carrots in before creme brulee of course if you watch my channel my cruise vlogs you know i eat
creme brulee all the time on a cruise uh this one was just okay it was actually cold i it was
supposed to be served that way but i just wasn't into it that much but all said eden was amazing
perhaps the best meal that i've had on this ship it's gonna be really close with another eatery i'm
gonna talk about in just a minute now the second specialty restaurant that i ate at the next night
was the steakhouse fine cut steakhouse and i'm going to say a big man on this one i wasn't as
impressed with the service the service just was not there and fine cut steakhouse it was okay
but it wasn't like the service i've experienced everywhere else on the ship so far the food was
just okay like i got the ribeye i love a good ribeye and i thought wow i'm going to this nice
fancy steakhouse on a celebrity cruise ship this steak is going to be amazing and it was just
okay you know for 55 additional 55 dollars i don't feel like it was worth it in the middle that i ate
for my starter i had the crab cake i normally love a crab cake this one was just okay it had too hard
of a outer crusting on it it kind of felt like something that you might get at the grocery store
frozen and fry and make it home yourself it sort of felt like that a little bit i wish it that it
take i'm sure it wasn't i'm sure it was that they make everything fresh right but it tasted very
you know like it was heated up or it was fried from frozen so it wasn't that into the crab cake
my steak was just not very flavorful by the time it came to the table it was just almost all cold
i had the truffle fries with it the truffle fries were not good they were not crispy they were just
very like cold almost stale like so didn't like that had some mushrooms with it the mushrooms
were fine there were mushrooms what more can you say and then also had some creamed spinach it was
also fine a little lukewarm as well so wasn't as into the food as far as appetizers and main dishes
go in the steak house but one redeeming quality of the steakhouse was the dessert i had the warm
apple and walnut cobbler and whoa that was really good it really tasted wonderful it
was warm it was served with some ice cream on the top but wasn't sold on the steak house not
a big fan of the steak house and probably would skip it if i were to come back aboard the apex or
the edge or the beyond or you know another celebrity ship i probably would just bypass
the steakhouse because of that experience that i had now let's talk about the next place that i ate
lay petite chef and family and this was an amazing eatery such a cool idea and a neat concept
i've never had a meal like it before in my life uh this is one where you go sit at the table
and you have a set menu and if you're okay with that set menu that you know
they'll go over it with you the waiter does and if you're okay with all the the dishes
and of course it's the seasons it's like cooking through the the year cooking through the seasons
so there's a course for spring there's a course for summer there's a course for fall there's a
course for winter and that corresponds to your soup to uh you know your appetizer to your entree
to your dessert then once that's done there's actually an animation that plays out on your table
on your plate and the little movie the little characters it's almost like a pixar movie right
they come together and they actually prepare your meal you see them throwing all the
ingredients together right on your plate and then as soon as they're done with the meal on
there the waiter is standing puts the actual dish right on your plate and that was just
amazing i was blown away by that i loved it it's about a two-hour experience they do start it
at six o'clock in the evening at 8 30 in the evening there's two set dining times because
everyone in the restaurant is eating at the same time because they're showing this animation
and the speakers are playing the audio for the animation so everyone has to be on the same entree
at all times so there are only two seatings each night for that dining experience and you have to
try it if you're coming on a celebrity ship that has it y'all i'm not kidding it's worth the 55 or
whatever price you pay whatever dining package credit you use go eat at la petite because you
won't be disappointed i have some video that i'm gonna play here because i did video quite a bit
of the experience just to show you what it was like so i'm gonna start those videos now
and family and this is actually where they'll do a lot of animations on the plate and stuff
as the mill progresses so super excited about this this is a
pretty unique dining experience offered here on the celebrity apex so excited to see how
this goes down and i'll share some of it with you all well enjoy the flavors of the seasons
hmm
thank you so much thank you
because the plate is very hot thank you so much
so there you go that was lay petite wasn't that such a cool concept
uh let me know down in the comments before if you've eaten there before or if you've eaten at
a restaurant similar to that before i know a lot of crews the other cruise lines have
similar concepts so i'm interested to know have you eaten there before have you eaten somewhere
similar before let me know and that concludes our sea day food reviews goodbye everybody