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Glad you have a good serving team on the cruise as this will make the next 18 days that much better! The mango soup sounds like a winner and I know I'd love it! Great start to you meal at Palo as I know it's such a favorite of yours. Looks like you have a good server in Nikola. It's interesting how he was sharing so much with you about his life! Your antipasto and both of your apps look very good and I'd enjoy them too!
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Glad you have a good serving team on the cruise as this will make the next 18 days that much better! The mango soup sounds like a winner and I know I'd love it! Great start to you meal at Palo as I know it's such a favorite of yours. Looks like you have a good server in Nikola. It's interesting how he was sharing so much with you about his life!
I found it very refreshing to learn so much about a Disney crew member. You don't usually get the chance to do that.
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Sunday 9 September – part ten: a new favourite at Palo!
Then it was on to the entrees at Palo. We did ask for a small helping of butternut agnolotti with sage brown butter topped with an amaretti and buffalo mozzarella. We’d enjoyed this on our last cruise, when we’d had an extra dish for the “community” and we loved it, but it was a bit much, which is why we wanted just a small amount. Oh my, this is so good! Apparently I didn’t get a photo of it though…
I tried the sea scallops, which I had eyed up before, but had never sampled. It comes with celery root puree, baby vegetables and crispy leeks served with a Prosecco and black truffle sauce. I used to have a favourite dish at Palo – the lobster ravioli and I was devastated when it was taken off, but now I have a new favourite here to finally replace it… yay! I cannot begin to tell you how wonderful this was, except that every single bite was perfect. I take it you get the idea from that?
Mark had the roasted lemon-rosemary chicken with roasted vegetables and potatoes, served with truffle chicken sauce on the side. Look at the size of his compared to mine!
By now, Nikola had asked what we wanted for dessert and did we want souffle? Hello… of course we do! I went for amaretto, while Mark got chocolate. I loved the way Nikola was happy to leave the pouring to us, now that’s a novelty.
Mark was also presented with this for his birthday just a few days earlier!
Nikola asked if we wanted some tea and I said that we’d left our PG Tips teabags back in the room. Oh boy, was I in for a surprise! He told me they had some in Cabanas. He then offered to go and look for them and came back with two. Wow, talk about service. That was definitely well above the call of duty!
During the course of the meal, a photographer came up and (spoiler! ) as we got a photo package, this was one of the shots I chose for it:
It really was a superb dinner and one of the best I think we’ve had at Palo. Now that’s saying something. Considering we had none of our previous old favourites, that’s even more impressive, but heck, I think we found some new favourites tonight.
By the time we left, it was about 9:30pm, so it had certainly been a wonderfully leisurely meal. We spotted another amazing stateroom door on the way back to our room…
… and this creation was waiting for us.
We lasted a bit longer before we headed off to bed. It had been a great first day on board.
The weather today was sunny with some cloud Today we walked 5.3 miles The best thing today was our dinner at Palo. The worst thing today was the waiting earlier on – we just wanted to get on board! The funniest thing today was Mari and the curling iron! Today we tried going to Palo for dinner on our first night on board. And the result was it was such a lovely thing to do, as it was so quiet and relaxed in there. The most magical moment today was seeing the Magic as we drove up to the cruise terminal at Dover.
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Your dinner at Palo's looks so good. I hate it when the change the menu. I never know if I'll find something I like on the new one.
Those doors are something else.
I got a little behind as we had a strong storm pass through yesterday and lost the internet. Luckily we still had electricity.
Liz
Now that's the way to start off a cruise. Wow, what a dinner! Nikola is a gem indeed.
Great photo of you two. Mark's tie is fantastic!
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What a wonderful day! Your meal was the absolute topper. Curious about the butternut agnolotti. I haven't tried that. Hmmmm.
The souffle...well what can be wrong with that dessert choice? Not a thing! My favorite of any dessert on board!
Sounds like things are off to a good start!
The photo of you and Mark is wonderful!
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The mango soup sounds like a winner and I know I'd love it! 
Great start to you meal at Palo as I know it's such a favorite of yours. Looks like you have a good server in Nikola. It's interesting how he was sharing so much with you about his life! 
Your antipasto and both of your apps look very good and I'd enjoy them too!
and we loved it, but it was a bit much, which is why we wanted just a small amount. Oh my, this is so good! 
Apparently I didn’t get a photo of it though… 
and black truffle sauce. I used to have a favourite dish at Palo – the lobster ravioli and I was devastated when it was taken off, but now I have a new favourite here to finally replace it… yay! 
I cannot begin to tell you how wonderful this was, except that every single bite was perfect. I take it you get the idea from that? 
I went for amaretto, while Mark got chocolate. I loved the way Nikola was happy to leave the pouring to us, now that’s a novelty. 
Wow, talk about service. That was definitely well above the call of duty! 
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