JRE-Jeunes Restaurateurs announced partnership with Swan Hellenic to create Maris, a unique experience of exceptional dining and discovery through the senses, lived with the gourmet organisation’s world-famous chefs.

Maris brings a different JRE chefs aboard in a series of exclusive cultural expedition cruises on Swan Hellenic’s elegant designer ships SH Vega and SH Diana. The JRE chefs take guests on a parallel voyage of discovery, exploring the celebrated culinary creativity that has made their name, driven by a passion for tradition, sustainability and quality local ingredients.

Serving a different characteristically astonishing signature dish every night, the JRE chef builds to the climax of an extraordinary Gala Dinner created to showcase their creativity and skills. What’s more, the JRE chef also puts on a cooking show that reveals select secrets of their art and leads gastronomic excursions ashore to explore the local culinary traditions and specialities. Maris weaves the insights of the specialist lectures on board with shore excursions in which guests explore and savour local hunting and fishing, farming, foraging and culinary traditions and cultures in the company of world-famous chefs, benefiting from their expert perspective. And, of course, every Maris chef also mixes and socialises with guests throughout their voyage in the Swan Hellenic cultural expedition cruise tradition. It is this extraordinary combination that makes Maris an irresistible new experience in high-end cruise gastronomy.

The JRE-Jeunes Restaurateurs star chefs lined up for the first series of Maris sailings include, in order of sailing, Sabina Repovž from Slovenia (together with husband Grega, awarded Best Sommelier Slovenia 2021 by Gault & Millau – SH Diana), Edwin Soumang from the Netherlands (Michelin Star – SH Diana), Michael Ammon from Germany (also Michelin-starred – SH Diana), Andreas Hillejan from Germany (again Michelin-starred – SH Vega), Manfred Kofler from Italy (SH Vega), Manu Núñez from Spain (SH Vega), Arjan Kuipers from the Netherlands (SH Vega), Tomaž Bratovž from Slovenia (whose restaurant is his country’s first in The World's 50 Best Restaurants - SH Vega), Carles Ramon from Spain (SH Vega), Daniel Lehmann from Switzerland (SH Diana), Clément Bidard from France (Michelin-starred for 9 years – SH Diana), Borja Marrero from Spain (Michelin Green Star in 2023 – SH Diana) and Luca Marchini from Italy (also Michelin-starred – SH Diana).

Chef and sommelier pairing Sabina and Grega Repovž set Maris in motion on the 15th of April, when they boarded Swan Hellenic’s newest and largest purpose-designed ship, SH Diana, for the cultural expedition cruise Mysteries of Carthage and the Moors.

But the official launch will be celebrated with a sumptuous Gala Dinner aboard SH Diana as part of her Christening Ceremony Events in Amsterdam on Thursday the 4th of May. Three JRE-Jeunes Restaurateurs chefs will showcase the extraordinary creative variety of Maris gastronomy to mark the occasion: Edwin Soumang (Restaurant One, The Netherlands), Daniel Canzian (Ristorante Daniel Canzian, Italy), and Michael Ammon (Gasthof Jakob, Germany).