Dream v. Fantasy food

[gatordoc]

We've just cruised both in the past month, and enjoyed comparing the little differences between the ships. But one thing really surprised us, and both my wife and I came to the same conclusion independently.
On the Fantasy, we thought the food at Cabanas was really good, very fresh and tasty. But on the Dream, we found many of the same dishes to be much poorer in quality and taste.
However, we found just the opposite to be true for the main dining rooms. On the Fantasy, we found many dishes lacking flavor, the bread to be pretty uniformly hard and nearly stale, and had very few items that we enjoyed. But on the Dream, we thought the food in the main dining rooms was great - fresh, tasty, and really enjoyable throughout.
I suppose this may have just been a quirk of the particular cruises we sailed on, but it made me wonder about whether the food prep processes differ on the two ships, or if these sorts of things are chef-dependent.

 

[Quellman]

I would assume a lot of it is independent and not easily correlated between the two. Different kitchen chefs, different days in port for getting "fresh food", time of day you visit cabanas, the additional 3 menus on the Fantasy MDRs. Our back to back on the Dream was acceptable in terms of food in terms of freshness, taste, served at temperature. Sure its been a few years on the Fantasy, so its hard to have quantifiable determination of which is "better". I'm glad you were able to compare the two in short order though and thank you for your insight. It is always another data point for people to consider. Food prep should largely be similar since both ships are cast from the same mold. The Dream recently did dry dock, so you would think they fixed, replaced, and changed older things which could be why you enjoyed the MDR more.