That was the closest guests came to seafood: dinner was a savory rib-eye steak, sliced over a bed of rice.
Ruby Princess and some other ships in the line also have a new Salty Dog gastropub featuring the savory rib-eye burgers, beef short ribs and wild mushroom saute of Ernesto Uchimura, chef of Los Angeles' Plan Check Kitchen and Bar.
They're a persuasive edible argument against Frenched lamb chops, which sacrifice the succulent, savory inter-rib meat showcased here for a tidy appearance.
We made a savory braised short rib stew (kalbi ggim), glass noodles (japchae), radish kimchi, and a hearty stovetop rice with kabocha squash (danhobak bab).
The savory baby back ribs here don't fall apart but don't need to be pulled from the bone, either, and the long French fries that accompany them are crisp and crusty.
It began with a heritage tomato salad, progressed to the savory entrée of Short Rib Grand Mere and finished with a divine dessert of charlotte of fresh summer peaches with rosemary coulis.
The "brisket moist" and the pork spareribs are especially savory, and the beef ribs are huge and pink and plead for unseemly gnawing.
A big hunk of free-range chicken came festooned with peas, cuts of asparagus and lovely waxy potatoes; mild smokiness added lingering interest to a lean Berkshire pork chop with brussels sprouts and butternut squash; and savory braised beef short ribs all but melted into a wreath of pur? potatoes.
One of the final savory courses, slices of short rib that are cooked sous vide for 48 hours before being deep-fried, was a miracle of tender-crisp contrast one night and a letdown of leathery-crisp redundancy on another.
Other entrees are shell steak, filet mignon, a combination platter of short ribs, sweet sausage, savory blood sausages and chewy sweetbreads and veal stuffed with hard-boiled eggs.
This puzzled me, because Korean savory barbecued meats -- short ribs, grilled marinated beef -- should be widely appealing to an American palate which never met a barbecue recipe it didn't like.
