Regent Seven Seas Navigator 2010

This was from a special luncheon onboard the Regent Seven Seas Navigator for travel agents and press while in port in Vancouver 2010.  The Compass Rose restaurant is an elegant dining room, with gourmet cuisine. The cover is designed in the shape of the waiter's dress uniform, gold buttons and all.

Disney Cruise Line Pirates of The Caribbean Menu 2005

Disney Cruise Line always puts a bit of creativity into everything they do, including the menus. This is from the Pirates of the Caribbean night on the Disney Magic in Mexico, 2005.

Matson LInes Passenger List 1946

Back when there was a "First Class" on passenger ships and ocean liners, the line would issue a passenger list to the guests. After all, you met the most fascinating people on board, this way you could keep in touch with them.

The cover of this passenger list is an illustration of the Routes of the Matson Line - Hawaii New Zealand Australia via Samoa and Fiji. This is by noted illustrator E. Melbourne Brindle.  Gorgeous!

Sailing from Honolulu for Los Angeles Harbor and San Francisco on August 23, 1946 at 12:00 noon.

Princess Cruises Lunch Menu 1970 Mexico

Buy this menuThis is a lunch menu dated Monday June 8, 1970 from the Princess Carla.  Lots of great selections - pickled pearl onions and fruit Jell-O are among the selections.  The cover art is a sepia toned photo of Taxco, Mexico.

Floating through Europe

This is a handwritten copy of the "farewell dinner" on our very first "cruise," a 13-passenger barge floating through Holland to see the tulips. Dated April 12 and 1

3, 1984. We booked this trip not really expecting much, and we had  the best time.  We're still talking about it 30 years later - the passengers, the crew, the food.  The most amazing thing was that a menu like this was created in a galley the size of a phone both.

Gluhwein - Hot Mulled Wine Recipe

Glühwein (Hot Mulled Wine) Around the Christmas season, public houses in nearly every European town offer mulled wine as a delicious antidote to the season’s chill. To warm up on a stormy evening or put yourself in a celebratory mood, you can make your own glühwein at home. Or, visit Europe on one of our late-fall Rhine or Danube cruises for an unforgettable holiday season experience. Ingredients: Four quarts dry red wine (e.g., zinfandel, pinot, burgundy) One quart dry white wine One pint brandy One cup white sugar (more to taste) Six cinnamon sticks Twelve whole cloves One-eighth teaspoon allspice One-eighth teaspoon mace Two oranges One lemon Directions: Pour red wine into a three-gallon pot (or larger) and begin gentle heating. Add sugar and spices. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Add brandy and white wine, slices of one orange and the lemon. Steep for one hour over low heat. Serve hot and garnish with orange slices or a cinnamon stick. Makes 12–15 servings. From Viking River Cruises - contact us to book your Viking River Vacation

Princess Cruises 1971 Princesses on the menu

purchase this menu...from a collection of 1971 menus on the Italia's Alaska route. The dinner menus depicted portraits of Princesses on them. This is from July 17, 1971, and features a portrait of Princess Mathilde Bonaparte on the front.

Dinner did have some items we just don't see any more....Roast Capon on the Skewer, Veal Sweetbreads, Smoked Ox Tongue... 

QE2 Queen Elizabeth 2 Lunch Menu

This is a menu from a visitor's luncheon in Los Angeles in 1997. Cunard's Queen Elizabeth 2, aka QE2. Nice detail with the gold cord attached.

Canadian Pacific S.S. Princess Alice 1930

Purchase this menu

Menu from Commander's Dinner and Carnival night on the S.S. Princess Alice. signed by the Chief Engineer Aug. 21, 1930.

Cunard White Star R.M.S. Queen Mary 1950 Dinner Menu

Purchase this menuThe cover is by Stanley Jezzard and features an English waterfront scene. The menu is for Dinner on the R.M.S. Queen Mary, Monday, January 23, 1950, in Cabin Class. There are some items on the menu that you just don't see on a menu these days: Creme St. Louis, Jugged hare a l'Anglaise (sounds awful), and Congress Pudding for dessert.

Olympic Dining Room - Celebrity Millennium

This is a "hand-out" menu from the "Millie," Celebrity Cruise Lines Millennium. The Olympic Dining Room is a specialty restaurant, where there is a $35 service fee. The walls of the dining room are lined with original panels from White Star's Olympic, a sister ship to the Titanic.

The story goes that when the Olympic was scrapped, the panels were purchased and installed in a country estate in England. Celebrity Cruise Line bought the estate when it came up for sale, took out these panels, and then resold the estate. The panels were installed in this dining room. Well worth it.

The Warm Goat Cheese Souffle is worth a visit alone....