When we went you had the choice of the French menu or the American menu. Each was five courses plus amuse bouche plus cheese course and you could do the wine pairing with it. You also had the choice of making your own menu from a selection of items plus from whatever was on the French or American menu. Or you could make subsitutions on either of those menus. It could be totally different now.
DH did the American menu, no changes. I did the French and substituted the seafood dish for pigeon pie with foie gras (yum!) and both of us did the pairings. So our choices were completely different from each other except the cheese course, although we made some slightly different selections there.
When we do Victoria & Albert's which is very similar to Remy's, most of the time we do the wine pairings because I'm lazy, on vacation and making wine selections is too much like work plus they know pairings better than I do. But sometimes we make our menu selections and ask for them to give us a recommendation for a bottle DH and I can share or for 1-2 glasses that will work with our selections. I don't make up my mind until I'm sitting at the table and determine how I feel and if I've had a pre-dinner drink already. If you keep all three options open until you get there, you can see how you feel and how they structure it now. IMO, you can't go wrong whatever you do. They have wonderful selections and really know how to pair to bring out the best in both food and wine.
Sigh. Just talking about it makes me want to be there. We're considering another cruise prior to next year's cruise on the Magic and I'm trying to work it out so that we can go on either the Fantasy or the Dream so we can go to Remy's. I wish they'd put a Remy's on the Magic during her refurb.
