Oceania Cruises has expanded its vary of immersive food-focused shore excursions with 12 new excursions for 2025.
The new chef-led excursions can be found in Amsterdam, Belfast, Invergordon, Valencia, and Valletta in Europe; Kobe, Kochi, Shimizu, and Busan in Asia; and Halifax, Quebec City, and Victoria in Canada.
The new additions imply Oceania Cruises now gives a complete of 46 Culinary Discovery Tours, obtainable on its 4 bigger ships Marina, Riviera, Vista, and Allura, the later of which debuts this July.
Each Culinary Discovery Tour is proscribed to only 18 visitors and is led by Oceania’s staff of professional Chef Instructors. They transcend conventional sightseeing, offering entry to native markets, acclaimed eating places, and hands-on cooking courses — each onboard and ashore.
New Culinary Discovery Tour Highlights
Kobe: New Chef-Led Culinary Journey Through Kobe (6 hours):
Busan: Chef-Led Busan Markets Tour (4 hours):
To put together conventional Korean dishes throughout the onboard cooking class, the Chef Instructor will lead visitors via two native markets to forage for components. First cease is the legendary Jagalchi Fish Market. Widely heralded as “the ultimate place to see seafood,” this sprawling waterfront market is the most important of its variety in Korea. As vacationers browse the seemingly infinite stalls, they’ll anticipate finding each possible marine creature, together with reside eels, sea squirts, and skates, that are just like stingrays. Using a “seafood treasure map,” visitors will determine and verify off these distinctive native specimens. After touring the seafood market, cease in on the Gukje Market, identified for its worldwide collection of connoisseur components earlier than returning to the ship to create genuine Korean dishes.
Allura (Rendering courtesy of Oceania Cruises)
Belfast: Chef-Led Tour of Coastal Flavors of County Down (4.5 hours):
Join native chef Paul Cunningham – a competitor on the BBC cooking collection “Great British Menu” – alongside the shore to find out about domestically sourced components whereas sampling mussels and oysters and eating on a bowl of his seafood chowder at a close-by restaurant. A pint of Guinness or one other stout will probably be completely paired to enhance the meal. Afterwards, pause for pictures on the atmospheric ruins of Dundrum Castle, a landmark because the thirteenth century.
Halifax: Chef-Led Tour Cider & Chowder: Authentic Nova Scotia (3 hours):
Learn in regards to the “chowder trail” and artesian cider developments that outline the trendy culinary scene in Nova Scotia. Guests will go away the ship and meet a neighborhood foodie information for the primary cease on the taproom of an artisanal cider maker the place they are going to be served a flight of 4 vastly completely different laborious ciders. These could also be seasonal pours, year-round favorites, or combined into cocktails such because the Apple Spice, a concoction of spiced cider, ginger kombucha, and cinnamon liqueur. Other prospects embrace a non-alcoholic cranberry cider and a watermelon cider mimosa. A brief stroll will deliver visitors to a famed native restaurant, a “fixture” within the fashionable Dartmouth neighborhood, the place they’ll watch the cooks getting ready varied dishes from their reserved seating space.
Invergordon: Chef-Led Foraging & Onboard Scottish Cooking Class (4 hours):
Shop in Invergordon for components historically present in a traditional Scottish chowder and study to organize it in a hands-on cooking class onboard. The soup Cullen Skink is known as for the close by village of Cullen and skink, a time period for the meat from the entrance legs of a cow. While purchasing for haddock and different objects at George Cockburn & Son, visitors will pattern the butcher’s award-winning haggis, one other traditional Scottish dish. Select the greens for the soup at Black Isle, an natural brewery that additionally grows natural produce, earlier than assembly again onboard and studying to organize the soup.
Riviera
Valletta: Chef-Led Tour Artisanal Malta Treasure (3 hours):
This rigorously curated, small-group expertise introduces Oceania Cruises visitors to Maltese delicacies whereas sampling artisanal meals in a shocking grotto that was reworked right into a restaurant a long time in the past. A brief however scenic drive inland brings vacationers to Rabat, the place they’ll first go to a bakery that has been in the identical household for generations. While displaying how conventional Maltese breads are made, the baker will invite visitors to assist put together a loaf and pattern one other bread straight from the oven.
Indulge in additional native specialties within the Grotto Tavern, which occupies a cave as soon as used as a bomb shelter in World War II. In this uncommon setting, visitors will watch the chef put together pastizzi – a flaky pastry full of ricotta cheese or curried peas – after which take pleasure in samples. As an accompaniment, native cheeses equivalent to gbejna and a particular tomato paste to slather on bread will probably be supplied. Maltese wines that will embrace a ruby-red melqart may also be served.
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