Thelma and Louise: Le Petit Chef

**Importante! Please read the following in your best French accent. If you are unwilling or unable to do so, I urge you to just click through. I apologize profusiamente that I cannot be in all of your living rooms to do this for you. Merci.**

Do you remember that adorable chef, Alfredo Linguini, from Ratoutille? The kind hearted, bumbling maker of award winning cuisine with the help of Remy the rat? He made our dinner the other night! Well, maybe it was his French counterpart, but still! The ship has two dining choices that you might classify as under the all inclusive part of cruising - the main dining room and the Oceanview Cafe. Some Celebrity boats work differently, but this one has an additional 4-5 restaurants that you can make reservations at. We made reservations at Qsine, with Le Petit Chef.

Le Petit Chef is a tiny, animated, French chef who makes your dinner right in front of you! Like Alfredo Linguini, he is a little comical, and encounters some setbacks along the way, and is downright fun to watch.

Before our very eyes he grew and and harvested a garden, battled a mole, and made us burrata salads. I don't think I can get videos to load on ship wifi, so you will have to use your imagination and the stills I took. Below you can see on the left where he is under the inside fork, and a butterfly has landed on the plate.

Course number two was bouillabaisse. The chef went fishing off our plates before briefly becoming entangled with an octopus. He cut off the tentacles of said octopus to save himself, and those tentacles were in our soup! Well, let's get real, they were in Louise's soup. Thelma obviously wasn't going to eat bouillabaisse!

It's masterful coding and animation projected onto a white table. The coasters for beverages are rather fixed to the table, and you have to make sure your plate aligns with the projected circle.

The "show" was so fun, but it was also amazing how much the animation matched the dish that you were given! The menu is fixed to fit the animation. You can order something else, like I did for course number two, but it's not as awesome because it doesn't fit the show you just watched. For the main course our little chef went on a submarine adventure to find a lobster. He ended up having to wrangle it like a cowboy to get it on the plate. And boy was it delicious!

For the final course, our tables turned to a snowy scene where ice cream was rolled up like snowmen, and the whipped cream was shot out of a snow plow. Little chocolate footprints were the final mark of this Little Chef.