Star Wars Day at Sea Dining Review

This past weekend Star Wars Celebration took place in Chicago and throughout the weekend live streams let those of us that weren’t there take part in the Star Wars love. During the celebration fans, including myself through live stream, got to look at the amazing Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge lands that are opening at Disneyland and Disney World in the next few months. We also learned the name of Episode IX (Rise of Skywalker), and got to see the trailer for it and the new season of Star Wars: Clone Wars that will be released on Disney+. With all of that I thought it would be fitting to carry on the Star Wars love with a continuation of our Star Wars Day at Sea post from two weeks ago with a review of all of the delicious food that we enjoyed during Star Wars Day aboard the Disney Fantasy.

We didn’t want to miss any of the action on Star Wars Day so we opted for a quick lunch from Flo’s Café on the pool deck. This worked out well for us for two reasons – we got to enjoy delicious, quick eats with a Star Wars theme, and the time and place that we picked to sit and eat allowed us to see Boba Fett, Stormtroopers, and Zam Wesell!

Every day throughout the cruise there are daily specials at the three quick service windows. On Stars Day the specials were:

·         Death Star Pizza (Pepperoni, Beans and Chili Flakes)

·         Boba Fett Pizza (Green Bell Peppers, Black Olives, Tomatoes, and Mozzarella Cheese)

·         Darth Vader Bantha Burger (Bacon Cheese Burger on a Sith Bun)

·         Gorba Melt Panini (Smoked Turkey, Tomato & American Cheese with Whole Grain Mustard)

·         Pulled Pork Sandwich (BBQ Pulled Pork on a Sweet Potato Biscuit with Coleslaw)

We tried both pizzas, the Darth Vader Bantha Burger and the Pulled Pork Sandwich.

We really enjoyed the Death Star Pizza. Pepperoni pizza with black beans that added a bit of natural sweet flavor and a bit of spice from chili flakes. We could have eaten a whole pizza!

The Boba Fett Pizza was a delicious veggie pizza with tomatoes, green bell peppers, black olives and mozzarella cheese. I’m not normally an olive fan, but they went well with the rest of the toppings. We really enjoyed this pizza as well.

The Darth Vader Bantha Burger was a bacon cheeseburger served on a Sith bun. What is a Sith bun you ask? It is a bun that, like the cloaks that the Sith wear, is black. We enjoyed the burger and topped with veggies and condiments from “toppings” selection a few steps away from the restaurant counters.

Lastly at lunch we tried the Pulled Pork Sandwich. Although it was not an especially Star Wars-y sandwich we went for it because we all really like pulled pork. The pork was tender and coated in a tangy barbecue sauce and served on sweet potato bun. The bun added another layer of flavor to the dish that made it more complex than a regular pulled pork sandwich.

After enjoying our meal and meeting some characters the Star Wars horn sounded! We also grabbed a Darth Vader Brownie from Cabanas to take back to our stateroom to enjoy a little bit later. The brownie was moist, chocolatey, and was topped with a chocolate Darth Vader head.

Dinner

All three dining rooms serve the same Star Wars menu at dinner on Star Wars Day at sea, and there are quite a lot of amazing and delicious things to choose from. Since there are so many choices we won’t list them all, but you can check out photos of the menus and the dishes that we ordered here.

We had done our research before our trip, so we knew going in that we would be eating A LOT on Star Wars Day. We shared three appetizers, two adult menu entrees, two kid’s menu entrees, and three desserts.

In true Star Wars Day fashion the menu items have fun Star Wars themed names.

We tried the Bantha Steak Empanadas – pockets of flaky dough filled with finely chopped beef that were served with a Chimichurri sauce that paired perfectly with the dish. They were quite tasty.

We also tried the Mos Espa Grand Arena Tailgate Sandwich which is the perfect for those waiting for a pod race to start. Country ham, a sweet and tangy orange cranberry marmalade, and a crunchy slaw fill buttery brioche buns. There are three per plate, but we could easily eaten ten of these.

The last appetizer we tried was the Padme Amidala Soufflé. If like cheese you’ll like this soft, pillowy double baked soufflé that is coated and surrounded by a creamy cheddar cheese sauce, and topped with a sweet apple compote. The main reason we ordered this one was because of the cheese, and because we like Padme. We were really glad that we did, though, and we could have easily eaten more than one of these as well.

For our main course we ordered Lord Vader’s Nerf Steak. We all remember when Leia called Han a nerf-herder, right? Well, nerfs were apparently furry cow-like creatures that were raised for their hide, meat, and milk. On this particular evening we enjoyed a Nerf Steak. The marinated and grilled Beef Rib-Eye Steak was tender, flavorful, and large. It was served with crispy, yet tender roasted fingerling potatoes, sweet baby carrots, collard greens, and a red wine truffle jus on the side. The all of the aspects of the dish paired quite nicely.  

Also from the Death Star we enjoyed the Stormtrooper Flatbread. A tender on the top, yet crisp on the bottom flatbread crust was topped with brie (one of my favorite cheeses), walnuts, caramelized red onions, spinach and peaches. The spinach and peaches were nicely baked, the cheese was melty and gooey. It was topped with a crisp olive oil dressed arugula. It was delicious

Christian enjoyed the kid’s Stormtrooper Cheese Pizza which was the standard kid’s menu cheese pizza, but there’s nothing wrong with that. He enjoyed it and the fries that he ordered with it.

The kid’s Skywalker’s Grilled Chicken Skewer was a tasty combination of grilled chicken, red bell peppers, and zucchini. Bella loved it. It came with steamed veggies, French fries, and roasted sweet potatoes.

We finished the meal with Cloud City Macarons. Half of the delicious cookie sandwich was lemon while the other half was raspberry – a tasty combination. It was filled with fresh raspberries and a raspberry cream, and served with a vanilla sauce, freeze-died raspberry bits and a piece of dark chocolate. It was a delicious, crisp yet chewy and fluffy combination.

We also enjoyed the Galactic Senator Bail Organa Flan. Creamy dark chocolate flan that was served with sweet and tangy mandarin and strawberry salad.

Christian finished his Star Wars dining experience with a Mickey ice cream bar.

After dinner we relaxed for a while, did some trivia, and then made our way to the Summon the Force deck party. As with all good late night deck parties, we also went to the Star Wars buffet following the fireworks. The buffet featured items like:

Sliders

Rice

Nachos

Fajitas

Fresh Fruit

Bread

Carved Meats

Desserts

We really enjoyed Star Wars Day at Sea as a whole and really enjoyed the Star Wars dining options as well. We highly recommend enjoy a Star Wars Day at Sea sailing for yourself! We can’t wait to do it again someday!

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