Menus from 1/7/08 to 1/13/08

Menus from 1/7/08 to 1/13/08
Click the link above to view menus. A note here about viewing the photo files of text. Doubleclick on the first image and on the next screen you can use the magnifying glass to enlarge it so you can read it. Then you can use the arrows to scroll through the rest of the menus.
RSSC Mariner's Menu notes: There are no breakfast menus scanned and posted because we never got one! Obviously, an oversight on our part. Since the breakfast menu is only available at Compass Rose and it never changes it is not one of the menus that is delivered to your cabin on request the night before. We did not think to ask for one in the Compass Rose. That said, here are some thoughts and comments on breakfast. Compass Rose offers a full service breakfast and usually opens a half-hour to hour later than LaVeranda. LaVeranda offers a full buffet with an eggs-to-order/omelet station. You will need to have your table selected and secured before placing an order here. LaVeranda usually always has one item from the Compass Rose menu that you can special order from your waitperson each day. Our experience has been that this service is so slow that if we want something from Compass Rose that we will just walk down there and have it there. Compass Rose breakfast notes: Avoid the French Toast unless you like very thick, almost pudding consistency French Toast. We don't like it! There is a pasty tray that should be offered at the same time/before the menu. Pastries are not listed on the menu. Sometimes they forget to offer the tray, or offer it after you have ordered breakfast and would be too much now. If you don't get offered the Pastry Tray before ordering ask for it. The chocolate croissants are wonderful! A new thing this year is the Eggs Benedict singular/plural debate. Eggs Benedictnever appears on any menu, never has to my knowledge, but you can always order it. In the past, if you ordered in LaVeranda you got a singular egg and 2 eggs in Compass Rose. There is a sign up in LaVeranda that says Eggs Benedict (plural) when it is available there. Eggs Benedict is usually the featured Sunday Morning with Champagne Special Breakfast (almost always with some kind of seafood, like crab, or salmon roe or caviar or sometimes with spinach, etc.). Even though again the sign says Eggs (plural) this year you only get ONE egg unless you ask for 2. Likewise, if you order it when it is not offered and it is always available, you will only get ONE now unless you specify 2. We were told that the waitstaff/kitchen had been instructed to cut back to ONE unless a guest ordered TWO. Now you know.
Final notes on menus here: At this point in our cruise, LaVeranda settled in to having one menu for a week or so at a time. So, the LaVeranda menu will only appear when it changes and not everyday. Also, at some point the menus stopped being delivered and it took a day or so to get them started back up. So, you may notice the time gap.