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Oceania Cruises introduces new bistro lunch menus

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The Bistro's salade niçoise
Oceania Cruises has expanded its bistro lunch service fleetwide and introduced an entirely new slate of menus with more than 600 new dishes.

Offered every day at The Grand Dining Room, guests can choose from the traditional menu along with daily-changing regional specialities on the new The Bistro menu. 'The Bistro offers the ultimate combination of lunchtime Grand Dining Room classics that our guests have known and loved and is now infused with
Jacques Pépin’s hallmark specialities from France and around the world, to create an afternoon experience,' stated Bob Binder, president & ceo of Oceania Cruises   
 
Debuted aboard Sirena in 2016, The Bistro is being introduced across the fleet's  other five ships – Regatta, Insignia, Nautica, Marina, and Riviera and the new menus will be on all ships by end March 2018.A sampling of some of Pépin’s bistro-style dishes include crisp Salade Niçoise and a warm Croque-Monsieur accompanied by a glass of wine such as a refreshing Coteaux du Languedoc rosé.
 
The Bistro offers five appetizers, fours soups and salads, and eleven entrée selections, daily.

A selection of four different desserts and six ice cream flavours are also available each day.

Lunchtime at The Bistro also offers 14 new Taste of the World selections from Cuba, Mexico, Scandinavia, Italy, Asia, Greece, France, Lebanon, Spain, Morocco, England, Philippines, the Caribbean, and India.

Each Taste of the World dish offers a selection of six different local or regional specialities that have been inspired by our culinary team member’s roots and their travels and can be ordered as an entrée or as an appetizer for sharing.

Some of the more off-the-beaten-path dishes that guests will find include pickled vegetables and roasted lemongrass chicken from the Philippines, lamb kefta from Lebanon, aubergine chickpea salad from Morocco, and marinated herring with polar bread from Scandinavia.