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Krazy Kruizers · 09-11-2007, 01:28 PM

I am glad that you enjoyed it Reggie.

LuLu · 02-12-2008, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by stanford's girl

Is the warm lobster salad served in the Pinnacle or the dining room for lunch once a week?

Yonnie (KK) .... Please help with this. As you know, I'll be on Eurodam in September. Assuming you had this in the Pinnacle for lunch ?

Should we ask the maitre'D at Pinnacle on Eurodam if the Warm Lobster Salad will be on the menu for lunch on our cruise? You cruise on lots of HAL ships. Is the Warm Lobster Salad a fleet wide thing or something only on Maasdam?

Krazy Kruizers · 02-14-2008, 06:56 AM

LuLu

The warm lobster salad is served once a week at dinner only in the Pinnacle on all ships - right now. These specials could be discontinued at any time as some of them are not very popular.

I will look up the specials that are served and post them here.

Krazy Kruizers · 02-14-2008, 07:06 AM

Special Pinnacle Dinners
The Pinnacle does offer a special menu each evening besides the regular one that has been around for ages. You can choose everything on it or just one item.

For our cruises:

1st night:

Smoked Salmon Tartare - with grilled asparagus and a fresh ginger and sesame dressing served on new potato slices.

Prime rib rack of Veal with lemon thyme glazed and Sicilian style roasted vegetables.

Chocolate lemon cream tart - creamy milk chocolate ganache with a hint of lemon in a wafer anise crust.

2nd night:

Tequila shrimp and avocado cerviche - citrus marinated jumbo shrimp spiked with tequila and served with Peruvian aji.

Grilled rack of Veal Chop with lemon thryme glazed 7 Sicilian style roasted vegetables (the only difference between these 2 -- first night -- 3 small veal chops compared to 1 big chop).

Tiramisu flavored panna cotta - a rich combination of 2 classic Italian desserts served with passion fruit sorbet.

3rd night:

Grilled Sea Scallops with marjoram pomodoro coulis served on top of curried hollandaise spinach with fried capers.

Chef Rudi's Fillet Mignon with a brandy-spiked green peppercorn demi sauce.

French vanilla souffle classically served with a Grand Marnier sauce.

4th night:

Caribbean spiced Tuna Sashimi - island spiced ahi tuna accented with sesame oil, spicy sambal, sake and seaweed salad.

Lemon and Rosemary scented free range roasted half chicken with wild mushroom risotto drizzled with truffle oil.

Zinfandel-poached Bartlett pear with Italian mascarpone cream.

5th night:

Warm Maine lobster salad with grilled asparagus, fresh mesclun greens tossed in citrus dressing and pink grapefruit.

Peppercorn-crusted Monkfish with mustard vinaigrette on braised fingerling potatoes. DH tried this and loved it. There were also mixed vegatables - very good. Apparently DH was the first person to order this dish as the chef kept asking the waiters what he thought of it -- he had to come out and ask DH about it himself.

Chef Rudi's chocolate toque - our Master Chef's famous signature dish, rich chocolate Grand Marnier mousse served with strawberry compote and ornage scented cream. This is the same dessert that is served at the Master Chef dinner in th dining room.

6th night:

Fire-grilled baby romaine salad with gorganzola, five-spiced candied walnuts, Asian pear vinaigrette and port syrup.

Pan-roasted pear and pecan bread pudding with orange muscat vanilla cream sauce.

7th night:

Butternut squash soup with carmelized apple and crispy fried sage.

Grilled Diver scallops with wok-seared vegetables in Thai green curry, jasmine rice and sweet orange leek marmalade.

Frozen souffle Glace Grand Marnier with fig compote.

Krazy Kruizers · 02-14-2008, 07:07 AM

That menu may not be in the order that it was on our cruises. Especially on 10 day cruises when they start to repeat the selections.

LuLu · 02-14-2008, 04:26 PM

Thanks, Yonnie!

stanford's girl · 02-14-2008, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Krazy Kruizers

Special Pinnacle Dinners

The Pinnacle does offer a special menu each evening besides the regular one that has been around for ages. You can choose everything on it or just one item.

This is great info, Yonnie!!

Have you made a thread for this on the HAL board? If not, you should because I never knew about this and probably a lot of others haven't either.

Krazy Kruizers · 02-18-2008, 03:42 PM

I thought about it.

But the way HAL keeps changing things, for all I know these specialry dinners might not even exist on our next cruise.