Arvia Restaurant Guide: Included Food and Specialty Dining

Arvia offers enough dining choice to build a good cruise without paying for every specialty venue.

On Arvia, let Meridian, Zenith, the Quays and Horizon cover the flexible core of the week.

Arvia dining at a glance

Reserve the paid venues only when their cuisine and service style create a meal your group cannot get from that included lineup.

P&O Cruises’ current Arvia dining page identifies The Quays, 6th Street Diner, Meridian, Zenith, Taste 360, and Horizon as included choices. The Olive Grove is also documented as included on Arvia, while Green & Co featuring Mizuhana, Epicurean, The Keel & Cow, The Beach House, Sindhu, The Glass House, Ripples, and The Limelight Club are paid experiences or individually priced outlets.

Freedom Dining at Meridian and Zenith describes how dinner seating works in the main restaurants; it is not another venue. Likewise, the your Holiday virtual queue is an access tool, not a reservation fee or a guarantee that every dining slot will be released before the cruise.

Included dining on Arvia

Meridian and Zenith

Meridian on Deck 6 and Zenith on Deck 7 are Arvia’s included Freedom Dining main restaurants. They provide the familiar multi-course dining-room format, with breakfast or dinner availability governed by the current daily program rather than by generic restaurant names copied from another P&O ship.

For dinner, join the virtual queue in your Holiday when the option is active or ask the host about a walk-up or pager. P&O says not all capacity is necessarily released before sailing, so a full-looking pre-cruise screen does not prove every onboard table is gone.

The Olive Grove

The Olive Grove is an included Mediterranean restaurant on Deck 6, with dishes and sharing plates built for a more relaxed meal than the main dining rooms. It is a physical restaurant, not a theme night inside Meridian or Zenith, and demand can make joining its queue early worthwhile.

Treat named dishes in sample menus as representative because recipes and availability can change. The current onboard menu is the final source for ingredients and any item-specific supplement that might appear.

6th Street Diner

6th Street Diner is an included American-style diner on Deck 6 serving breakfast, brunch-style food, dinner, and sweets according to the daily program. Fried chicken and waffles is a representative official example, not a promise that every sailing keeps an identical menu.

This venue is especially useful when a group wants a casual seated meal without moving up to the buffet. Check its meal-period hours because “diner” does not mean it stays open around the clock.

The Quays

The Quays is Arvia’s included food hall on Deck 8, with multiple counters and live cooking in one physical space. Official materials have used examples such as fish and chips, a Boardwalk-style diner counter, global dishes, and a Roast offering, but counter names and operating patterns can evolve.

Use The Quays for groups that want different foods without splitting up. Read current signage for which counters are open and which dishes are included instead of treating an older counter list as permanent inventory.

Horizon and Taste 360

Horizon Restaurant is the included buffet on Deck 16 and covers broad breakfast, lunch, and dinner needs. It offers the widest self-service choice, although individual stations can open and close on different schedules.

Taste 360 is an included, poolside street-food-style outlet on the Lido Deck. It is not an immersive tasting production and should not be confused with any similarly named experience on another cruise line.

Specialty restaurants and paid extras

Green & Co featuring Mizuhana

Green & Co featuring Mizuhana is a paid restaurant on Deck 8 that combines plant-focused cooking with a sushi bar. The two concepts share a venue identity, but plant-based plates and sushi remain distinct menu strands rather than evidence that every item is vegan.

The dining price guidance gives cover charges of £9.50–£35 GBP per person per occasion, while other venues charge by the dish; choose Sindhu for its Indian-British menu and quote the exact order rather than treating every restaurant as a fixed cover.

Epicurean

Epicurean on Deck 17 is Arvia’s modern British occasion restaurant; choose a leisurely evening when its more elaborate dishes and service appeal, rather than using it as a quick dinner before a show.

For a celebration dinner, consider the côte de boeuf when it is offered, and ask which dessert has a tableside finish; Arvia’s Epicurean sample menu is useful for choosing the style of meal, while the sailing’s menu settles the available dishes.

A December 2025 visit priced Arvia’s Epicurean dinner at £35 GBP per person excluding wine; use that as a budget benchmark and the My P&O Cruises total as the actual quote, including any menu supplements or booking-specific service charges.

The Keel & Cow and The Glass House

The Keel & Cow on Deck 8 is a paid gastropub where the official concept centers on dishes such as burgers and dry-aged steak. The Glass House on Deck 7 pairs individually priced or supplement-based small plates and meals with wine, making it both a dining venue and a drinks-focused space.

Neither should be folded into a generic dining package without current written terms. Wine pairings, drinks, and premium menu items can have separate pricing even when the food reservation itself is straightforward.

Sindhu and The Beach House

Sindhu on Deck 8 is P&O’s Indian-British fusion specialty restaurant. The Beach House operates on Deck 16 as a paid evening concept with Latin American and Caribbean influence, within the broader Horizon area rather than as a separate all-day buffet.

This physical-versus-meal-period distinction matters when navigating the ship. Check the schedule and booking system for when The Beach House takes over its designated space and what the current supplement covers.

The Limelight Club and Ripples

The Limelight Club on Deck 6 combines dinner with live entertainment and is generally presented as an adults-only evening experience. It should be evaluated as a dining-and-show booking, not compared directly with the price of a restaurant meal alone.

Ripples is a paid Snowflake Luxury Gelato outlet selling cones, sundaes, and other sweets. It is a counter purchase, not a steakhouse, not a supplement restaurant, and not a venue that needs a dinner reservation.

Booking with My P&O Cruises

P&O’s your Holiday guidance says guests can manage dining information and virtual queues onboard, while selected bookings can open in your P&O Cruises before departure. P&O advises that dining prebooking can begin from 14 days before the holiday, but availability and release timing vary.

Prioritize Epicurean, Green & Co, Sindhu, and The Limelight Club if any is central to your plans. Freedom Dining and included venues may use a virtual queue, while walk-up assistance and pagers remain relevant when the digital route is unavailable or unsuitable.

Price each desired extra separately: a Limelight dinner-and-show ticket, a Keel & Cow burger and a full Epicurean dinner buy different experiences, so a drinks package does not make the restaurants included.

Room service and delivery

P&O’s current room-service policy describes 24-hour service with a small supplement per item, while continental breakfast is included. On Arvia, a delivery charge also applies, so an included breakfast item does not necessarily mean the complete delivery costs nothing.

Room service is a cabin-delivery service, not another restaurant and not a substitute for checking venue hours. The current digital or in-room menu controls item availability, supplements, and delivery terms.

Restaurant locations and daily planning

Arvia’s dining route is Deck 6 for Meridian, Olive Grove, 6th Street Diner and Limelight; Deck 7 for Zenith and The Glass House; Deck 8 for The Quays, Sindhu, Keel & Cow and Green & Co; Deck 16 for Horizon, Taste 360 and Beach House; and Deck 17 for Epicurean beside Crow’s Nest.

That layout creates two dining zones: a lower-deck cluster for seated meals and an upper-deck cluster for poolside, buffet, and evening Beach House dining. Avoid scheduling a lower-deck specialty dinner immediately after a Deck 16 activity without leaving time to change and cross the ship.

On embarkation day, connect to the ship system, inspect queues, and confirm specialty reservations. On sea days, shift buffet and Quays meals away from peak times; on port days, verify reduced counter hours rather than assuming the sea-day pattern continues.

Dietary requirements and menu

Submit dietary information through P&O Cruises before departure and speak with the dining team onboard, especially for allergies or medical diets. P&O’s dietary-requirements guidance should be the starting point, while venue staff must confirm the exact ingredients and preparation controls for the dish served.

Plant-focused does not automatically mean allergen-free, and a buffet label cannot establish the absence of cross-contact. When needs are complex, consistent communication with the main dining team is safer than making assumptions at each counter.

If you are comparing fleets, your guides to Carnival Jubilee dining, MSC Seashore restaurants, and MSC World America dining show how differently ships divide included food from paid extras.

A practical Arvia dining plan

You can anchor breakfast and flexible meals around Horizon, The Quays, 6th Street Diner, and the two main dining rooms, then choose one or two paid venues for contrast. Green & Co is the most distinctive plant-and-sushi concept, while Epicurean or The Limelight Club better fits a planned occasion.

Fourteen days before departure, Check the booking portal, but Do not panic if an included venue showed no advance space. Onboard queues, released capacity, current menus, and host guidance complete the picture.

Quick answers

Is Taste 360 a paid immersive dinner? On Arvia it is an included poolside street-food outlet on the Lido Deck.

Is Ripples a restaurant? It is an individually priced gelato and sweets outlet, not a reserved specialty dinner.

Are specialty prices fixed online? Use the amount shown in your current booking portal or onboard menu because public brochure figures can become stale.

Practical final checks

Protect enough flexibility for port days and changing showtimes. A prepaid meal is poor value when it forces the group to rush back from shore or miss the entertainment everyone wanted to see.

Check whether a package covers the restaurant, meal period, gratuity, and premium selections you expect. Compare the final package price with the smaller number of meals you would actually reserve.

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