Azamara Quest Dining room, Night 6

Azamara Quest Dining room, Night 6

Jul 07, 2011

    

I had commented to Tom earlier how civilised the dining room was compared to other ships we have sailed on, with diners just selecting one item from the menu and actually eating the whole thing, instead of ordering several different dishes, picking at them and then sending them back to the galley half-eaten. Tonight, however was to become what would affectionately be known as "The night the food wouldn't stop coming".

We were noticing that the tables we were being assigned to were getting progressively worse both in location and quality of wait staff.

Tonight we were seated against a wall behind an american couple who I overheard giving the waiter special instructions for making a surf and turf out of the dinner entrees.

We ordered our usual appetiser and soup and picked the half lobster for the main course.

Our starters and soups came as ordered, but then instead of our lobster, the waiter bought us the entree salad of shrimp ceviche. Not wishing to cause a problem by sending it back, and not really being great fans of lobster and feeling pretty full already, we thought the shrimp looked light and delicious and thought the waiter had made a simple mistake ordering, that turned out to our benefit. So we ate the shrimp.

After a while the waiter came over and as we were expecting him to bring the dessert menus, we were infact quite horrified to see him deliver two portions of lobster EACH. We looked at each other and decided we had better eat it as we had ordered lobster, albeit not a double portion, and that the shrimp had probably been given to us by mistake. We were just about to start on the lobster when the waiter bought a huge steak to the table! Horrified we sent it away.

We did our best to pick away at the lobster and managed to eat a little of it and hide away a fair bit under the shell. We were stuffed.

The waiter cleared away our plates and we decided not to have dessert. Before we had time to leave, he returned with new knives and forks, and then plonked down the dreaded steak in the middle of the table again! Nooooo! This time we insisted we had NOT ordered the steak and sent it away.

Then the penny dropped. Shrimp + double lobster + humungous steak = surf and turf = two very hungry americans at the next table who only got the meagre dinner we had ordered!