Presenting Food & Beverage Aficionado Cruises

Explore your passion for the pleasures of the table with some of the world’s leading food and wine aficionados, including members of the Holland America Line Culinary Council®.

A journey for the senses

A Food & Beverage Aficionado cruise offers an ideal opportunity to explore your culinary interests—with cooking classes, a cocktail or wine-making demonstration, a wine tasting, a lavish dinner with wine pairings and a chance to meet the experts.

Culinary Aficionado Cruises

Each Culinary Aficionado Cruise will feature a member of our Holland America Line Culinary Council®, a diverse group of highly acclaimed chefs from different culinary traditions who help guide our cuisine and inspire our guests.

Sodamin was born in Austria and trained in France. The Master Chef recently released his latest culinary masterpiece, an art table book called “Food Faces” that features more than 150 images of edible creations that display a whimsical spectrum of human emotion. His innovative approach has made him the most decorated chef on the world’s oceans.

7 Day Eastern Caribbean - Nieuw Statendam - SAILED, roundtrip Fort Lauderdale, Florida

11 Day Ancient Empires - Koningsdam - Sep. 13, 2019, Citavecchia (Rome), Italy to Athens, Greece

A French-trained Master Chef and artisan chocolatier, Torres is a James Beard award winner. After rising to executive pastry chef at New York’s legendary Le Cirque, he opened a chocolate factory and stores throughout New York. Torres is co-hosting and head judge on the new Netflix culinary show “Nailed It” with Nicole Byer.

7 Day Glacier Discovery Southbound - Westerdam - Jun. 23, 2019, Seward (Anchorage), Alaska to Vancouver, Canada

7 Day Canada & New England Discovery - Veendam - Sep. 28, 2019, Montreal, Canada to Boston, Massachusetts

Burke is a restaurateur, cookbook author, inventor and consultant at ESquared Hospitality, which owns and operates the BLT restaurant brand. He has been featured on “Iron Chef America” and “Top Chef Masters.” He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and has worked with legendary chefs in France and New York.

7 Day Western Caribbean - Rotterdam - SAILED, roundtrip from Tampa, Florida

7 Day Canada & New England Discovery - Veendam - Sep 7, 2019, Boston to Quebec, Canada

The Japanese-born Matsuda is at the forefront of sushi trends and techniques. At Matsuda’s Sushi Chef Institute in Los Angeles, California, he teaches aspiring chefs and professionals about sushi and Japanese cuisine.

7 Day Eastern Caribbean - Nieuw Statendam - SAILED, roundtrip from Fort Lauderdale, Florida

7 Day Mexican Riviera - Eurodam - OCT 19, 2019, roundtrip from San Diego, California

With an impressive roster of highly acclaimed restaurants, Stowell has helped to change the face of the Seattle food scene. He was named one of the Best New Chefs in America by Food & Wine magazine in 2008 and chosen as one of the Best New Chef All-Stars in 2013.

7 Day Alaskan Explorer - Eurodam - SAILED, roundtrip from Seattle, Washington

7 Day Glacier Discovery - Noordam - July 21, 2019, Vancouver B.C. to Seward (Anchorage), Alaska

Mixologist Aficionado Cruises

Featured on the Mixologist Aficionado Cruise is our own “King Cocktail” Dale DeGroff, a James Beard award winner for Wine & Spirits and author of The Essential Cocktail. DeGroff’s cocktails are featured throughout our fleet.

7 Day Glacier Discovery Southbound

Aug 4 - 11, 2019 aboard the Westerdam

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