Celebrity Cruises will launch a new dining venue that puts the focus on "playful," small-plate food presentations, where guests can, for example, order items like spring rolls, which will be placed in little upright springs.
The restaurant, called Qsine, will debut on the Celebrity Eclipse, which launches from Southampton, England, in April.
Celebrity said the eatery was the brainchild of the line's vice president of culinary operations, Jacques Van Staden, who explained the concept during a webinar on Wednesday.
"The biggest focus is how do we present this [food], how do we make this interactive to our guests," Van Staden said. "Everything is uniquely unordinary."
The unordinary starts with the menu, which Celebrity said will be a "large, backlit square filled with words and phrases designed to engage guests in the experience," and ends with the dessert menu, designed as a foldable cube. Guests can order wine from touch-screen Apple iPod Touch devices at their tables.
The menu itself consists of familiar dishes and comfort food combined with unusual presentations. One of the examples Staden gave include "crunchy munchies:" french fries, tater tots, sweet potato fries and leek fries, served in paper cones in a vertical display.
There will also be a meatball trilogy, "sushi lollipops" and lobster escargot; rectangular tacos in a three-tier stand; make-your-own guacamole using a mortar and pestle at the table; and filet mignon served in a painter's palette-style dish.
Qsine will have a $30 per person charge.
CORRECTION: Guests may use Apple iPod Touches to order wine at their tables. An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that the devices would be iPads.
