MSC Cruises will welcome three celebrity Chefs on board MSC Poesia during the second leg of her 2024 World Cruise
Guests currently travelling on board MSC Poesia will visit 52 destinations across 31 countries. To enrich their experience, MSC Cruises has invited three Celebrity Chefs to join the adventure, allowing guests to discover the world through their palatte, thanks to an enriched culinary programme available on board.
On top of the high-quality, international dining options that MSC Cruises’ guests have come to expect, those sailing the 2024 World Cruise can experience something extra special with menus crafted by a line-up of award-winning chefs. These chefs are joining the world cruise at different intervals to prepare a complete menu from three to four courses, each showcasing the very best of their respective cuisines from around the world.
- South African celebrity chef, Restaurateur and Media Personality Reuben Riffel will serve a menu inspired by local flavours and guests will have a chance to taste authentic cape spiced pickled fish, peppered Karoo lamb and malva pudding.
- Veteran Brazilian Chef and Restauranteur Allan Vila Espejo will serve a menu including authentic Manioc soup, Bahia-style fish stew with vegetables and coconut milk and a traditional Brazilian chocolate coconut cake.
- Michelin-starred Swedish chef, TV personality and author Niklas Ekstedt will serve dishes inspired by natural ingredients and his farm-to-ocean ethos including dishes such as poached lobster and confit salmon.
- If that wasn’t enough, the chefs will also be on hand to greet guests in person as they taste their delicacies in the ship’s main restaurants.
On board, guests will enter a refined world of comfort with elegant design. There’s so much to delight in from the spectacular foyer waterfall to the Zen Garden, an authentic Japanese Sushi bar and opulent MSC Aurea Spa wellness centre with steam room, sauna with a tempting range of treatments. For the more active, there is a basketball and tennis court, shuffleboard, state-of-the-art gym and mini golf area. Plus 3 swimming pools, 4 whirlpools and a giant poolside cinema screen, to name only some of the features of MSC Poesia.