If you look at the restaurant options for the ships on the Regent web site, you'll see the description of the change for "Sette Mari at La Veranda". Starts in June.

While it sounds very nice, essentially an upgrade to what they've been doing for dinner in La Veranda, it removes or will make this harder to be a last minute decision. Our normal MO has been to review the menu for Compass Rose and decide which restaurant to eat in on any given evening when we didn't have servations elsewhere.

I'm guessing that one reason they are doing this is to provide more "reservation only" options so that all passengers will feel they have access whereas if they weren't paying attention they'd miss out on Prime 7 or Signatures (or maybe even both).

It'll be interesting to see if pre-cruise reservations are offered for Sette Mari. Since we'll be on Voyager starting 13 June, we'll either be the last cruise before the change or, perhaps, one of the first with it. Our access to dinner reservations open on 15 March so we'll see what shows up at that time and post if others haven't done so before then.