Those of us who live in North America are north-south driven. Check out our winter escape habits…West Coasters head for California or Arizona, mid-Westerners go to Texas, and Easterners seek the sun of Florida.
Once on a while, somebody crosses over, but the distance and time (changes) are deterrents.
It seems restaurateurs have a similar compass.
Like Geoffrey Zakarian.
Last summer, Norwegian announced that the celebrity chef would create and oversee 
Ocean Blue, the luxury seafood dining experience on the Breakaway, the new ship that will arrive in New York City in about three months. Norwegian's boss, Kevin Sheehan, paid tribute to Zakarian's "deep roots in New York City."
Everything about the Breakaway, to be permanently based in The Big Apple, has a New York motif.
Fast forward.
This week, Norwegian announced that Zakarian would do essentially the same thing on the Getaway, the new and sister ship that will arrive next February. Another Ocean Blue restaurant, another Ocean Blue on the Waterfront (more casual), and another seafood eatery known as The Raw Bar.
Did we mention that the Getaway will be permanently based in Miami?
Zakarian is basically a northerner, who was born in Massachusetts and who first became an acclaimed chef in New York, where the New York Times once proclaimed he "seems to have his finger on the pulse of Manhattan." That was 15 years ago.
By then, the Food Network and Iron Chef celebrity had already been an executive chef in South Beach, at a Miami restaurant called Blue Door. And this week's announcement was made at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival, to which Geoffrey invited 100 of his chef and celebrity buddies.
So while his Miami roots don't run as deep as his New York roots, there is at least a connection.
It's that north-south thing again.
Carnival Sensation
4 nights
May 5, 2013
Port Canaveral (return): Freeport, Nassau
Inside: $249
Cost per day: $62
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