On the Cardinal, there is no dinner or café car. Just a tiny food service area. So all the meals are pre-prepared and warmed up on board.

I was prepared for it to be lackluster. I was pleasantly surprised.

I had an Asian BBQ salmon on rice.

The salmon fillet was larger than it initially looked, and the meat was good quality. The mixture of tastes was just right. Better than my freshly prepared 3-egg omelet on the Southwest Chief at breakfast. I was quite pleased...

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Roxan's Chicken Alfredo was good, too; she gave it

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I'll talk in the morning about the differences in experience from the Superliner Roomette and this one on the Viewliner II rolling stock. A very early bedtime for me tonight; yesterday was nearly 24 hours and not very good sleep...it's bedtime for Bonzo as soon as dinner digests.