Oceania Cruises
Oceania Cruises, the world’s main culinary and destination-focused cruise line, has unveiled a choice of its 2025 Specialty Cruises, providing enriching onboard programming. Led by famend hosts, visitors will go to fascinating locations whereas experiencing world-class delicacies and cultural immersion alternatives.
Chef Kathryn Kelly, Oceania Cruises’ Director of Culinary Enrichment is the founder and driving pressure behind The Culinary Center. She oversees Oceania Cruises’ staff of 11 gifted Chef Instructors.
Kelly is the chief architect of the road’s signature Culinary Discovery Tours, a key a part of The Culinary Center program. These fashionable chef-led excursions can be found in additional than 40 locations worldwide. Guests have the chance to study to prepare dinner destination-inspired dishes on board. Enrichment experiences embrace searching for substances in native markets and studying from native specialists and artisans in regards to the meals and tradition of the area.
Throughout 2025, Oceania Specialty Cruises will invite visitor authors, tv personalities and cooks to guide courses within the state-of-the-art Culinary Center. Some of the invited visitors embrace Claudine Pépin and Sara Moulton; Food & Wine 2023 Best New Chef Aisha Ibrahim; and Oceania Cruises’ personal Executive Culinary Directors and Master Chefs of France – Alex Quaretti and Eric Barale.
Oceania Culinary Center
“We are the only cruise built by foodies, for foodies,’ said Frank A. Del Rio, President of Oceania Cruises. ‘Food is at the heart of everything we do at Oceania Cruises – we have literally built our ships around the culinary experience, from vast galley spaces to an unparalleled range of restaurants. I am so proud to say we were the first line ever to have a hands-on cooking school at sea, and the popularity of The Culinary Center shows no sign of abating. This is testament to the incredible work done by Chef Kelly and her creative team, as they continue to drive our culinary legacy.”
The culinary staff are from all around the world, together with Christchurch, New Zealand, to Riga, Latvia, to San Francisco, California. They are completely positioned on Oceania ships to maintain their fingers on the worldwide meals pulse and produce the most recent culinary developments to the kitchen school rooms.
Backgrounds of the gifted staff of chef instructors embrace an early profession as Julia Child’s government assistant; government chef for world-renowned tv exhibits akin to “Sesame Street” and “30 Rock”; and main the meals applications of blue chip firms together with Google and Amazon. Many of the chef instructors are graduates of The Culinary Institute of America, Le Cordon Bleu, and Boston University’s prestigious gastronomy program.
“Oceania Cruises has always set the standard for onboard culinary excellence and immersive travel experiences, and our 2025 Specialty Cruises continue to raise the bar even higher,” stated Frank A. Del Rio, President of Oceania Cruises. “These voyages are a celebration of our commitment to creating one-of-a-kind travel experiences, offering an unparalleled fusion of culinary and cultural offerings for our guests. Thanks to the impressive line-up of renowned chefs and experts to enhance our onboard programming, including specially crafted menu items in The Grand Dining Room and at the Chef’s Market Dinners in the Terrace Café by each of our culinary hosts, our guests are in the best possible hands.”
Oceania Cruises Marina
Celebrating 15 years, The Culinary Center is the first-ever hands-on cooking college at sea. The Oceania Marina is the first purpose-built foodie ship for the road. Other Oceania Cruises’ Culinary Centers can be found on three different elegant ships: Riviera, Vista and the latest ship Allure, resulting from be part of the fleet in Summer 2025.
New culinary courses concentrate on dishes from the Pacific Northwest of the United States, tropical Polynesia, and down underneath in Australia.
The Culinary Center boasts greater than 60 present courses taught in custom-built instructing kitchens with particular person stations and professional-grade gear. The courses provide the prospect to discover a vacation spot’s tradition and historical past by meals, or to hone core kitchen abilities because of the college of devoted Chef Instructors.
Culinary Kitchens on board Oceania Cruises
New Classes for 2025 Culinary Northwest Passage
One of the trendiest areas within the culinary world immediately is the Pacific Northwest. Truly a celebration of the farmer and the fisherman, this class is impressed by the revolutionary cooks from Seattle to Anchorage. The Pacific Northwest meals scene embraces seasonality fish and seafood fundamentals. Guests will study “deep dish” signature desserts that they’ll wish to replicate after they return residence.
Down Under Abundance
Traveling to New Zealand and Australia, cooks and visitors marvel on the abundance of substances accessible. The seafood is various, and the meats are prized all around the world. Class celebrates the ocean, the mountains, and the vineyards of this particular area of the world.
It’s a Dessert Party
Dine early and skip dessert so you possibly can attend the dessert and drinks class at 8 p.m. It will end earlier than the night present. Learn the right way to put together a decadent lava cake paired with a glass of Champagne, or crêpes Suzette paired with a Grand Marnier spritzer. It’s a beautiful night class between dinner and showtime.
South Seas Salt Life
After a day swimming in blue lagoons and strolling pristine white seashores, take a Polynesian delicacies class to have a good time recent, seasonal, and native substances with delicate influences from France and China. Tradition and household gatherings dictate the Polynesian “salt lifestyle.” This Tama’a Maitai Polynesian-style meal is a fan favourite.
Snow Days Brunch
Bake scorching cinnamon rolls and an egg casserole on a leisure day when it’s chilly or snowy exterior. Snow day brunch is full with a warming beverage or bubbly cocktail. The ship’s mixologists’ are comfortable to share the recipe for an much more memorable brunch expertise.
Oceania Cruises 2025
The cruise line’s eight small, luxurious ships carry a most of 1,250 visitors. Enjoy visiting locations with a concentrate on culinary wealthy itineraries that span the globe. Voyages vary from seven to greater than 200 days. Oceania Cruises has two further ships on order scheduled for supply in 2027 and 2028 or 2029. Now is the time to guide an Oceania Cruise.
