Garden Cafe on Norwegian Epic

In comparing with previous cruises, food choice not great . Queues for wine and sift drinks, understaffed however , staff very pleasant and helpful in the venue

Great food, most days there was a seat available, but they also had seating available at La Cuchina during breakfast and lunch.

Well done.

Buffet was very average

Always had good options and we never went hungry. Was good food and we sometimes ate dinner there because we enjoyed the options.

There was always a good variety. No complaints. Loved you have hard served ice cream in different flavours! As for staff, on last sea day, we had a late lunch and was finishing our drinks and started to play cards. As we saw others around us doing the same thing. This is about 2pm, buffet closes at 3. Some head person came to us and told us to leave, that we can't play cards in the buffet, that people need seats to eat food. Meanwhile, there were 6 empty tables around us, and others playing cards. Plus, we were still drinking coffee and our juice. We were taken aback, as we've never had that happen before.

Poor selection Many dishes were tasteless Juices were watered down

Surprisingly good food. Somewhat crowded, but always found a seat.

Very small selection available even during peak dining times. And a lot of the food looked like it had been sitting for a very long time. Alot of the food was no longer warm due to sitting so long and the hotdog buns snapped in half from being so stale.

The buffet was ok, I suppose, as far as the breadth of the selection is concerned. The food did, however, lack in quality: the "burger" was not beef, it was a mix of various meats and breadcrumbs. "Hot dogs" were luke warm, pizza had low quality "cheese" on it and the daily specials were either tiny pieces of overcooked meat or big pieces they cut off a piece for you that looked like they were cooked to 120°F max. There were a few Asian dishes as well. Quality varied from very good to just ok. There are lots of sauces to spice things up, which I would recommend using if you cannot cancel the cruise anymore and have to come eat here and are lucky enough to find it open, which it isn't most of the time.