31 MAR 2017: For one night and one night only, ladies and gentlemen, the staff of Noordam’s premium restaurant Pinnacle performs an act of transformation, attempting to recreate the flavours and ambience of the classic Le Cirque restaurant.
Sirio Maccioni’s once-legendary New York restaurant has since been cloned to Las Vegas, but Holland America Line has now partnered with the company to do classic Le Cirque menus in its specialty restaurants on most of its 15 ships.
Getting a table for the only Le Cirque night on my 10-day cruise in the Mediterranean on Noordam meant making a reservation on-line well before the cruise and paying the hefty $39 per person cover charge, which is a premium over the $25 you pay for dining in Pinnacle — the same room with the same staff — on other evenings.