Cucina del Capitano: Carnival Cruise Line's Italian restaurant

Cucina del Capitano, Carnival Cruise Line‘s Italian restaurant, is a cruiser favourite. It affords a pleasant, cozy spot to collect over a scrumptious meal, and there is one thing for nearly everybody — from the largest foodie to the pickiest eater — on the menu.

Here is a information to what you may count on while you dine there, together with what’s on the menu, how a lot it’s going to value you and a listing of ships the place you will discover this eatery.

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What’s Cucina del Capitano on Carnival cruise ships?

Caprese salad from Cucina del Capitano on Carnival Jubilee. ASHLEY KOSCIOLEK/THE POINTS GUY

Cucina del Capitano, which interprets to “Captain’s Kitchen” in English, is the Italian restaurant discovered on almost one-third of Carnival’s ships. It first rolled out on Carnival Magic in 2011, after the road determined to ballot its Italian captains for his or her favourite recipes from house. From there, the Cucina del Capitano menu was born.

The restaurant affords scrumptious meals choices for cruisers who’re hungry for conventional Italian dishes like pasta, hen Parmesan and tiramisu that they will chase with a post-dinner limoncello.

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Whereas the decor and atmosphere can range from vessel to vessel, the eating places really feel cozy, with household images from the fleet’s captains on the wall. You will both be seated at a desk with a red-and-white checkered tablecloth that makes you are feeling such as you’re sitting all the way down to a yard cookout or in a comfortable alcove that makes the expertise really feel extra such as you’ve stepped into an Italian household’s eating room for an enormous meal.

On most ships, the restaurant features like a typical specialty restaurant. Nevertheless, on Excel Class ships, the venue was designed as an overflow restaurant to take a number of the strain off of the principle eating rooms throughout peak occasions. The restaurant is open to everybody, however solely passengers with Your Time Dining — which permits cruisers to dine anytime they need between 5 and 9 p.m. — can have dinner at Cucina del Capitano anytime throughout opening hours. Cruisers with set-seating eating are solely allowed to eat there after 7:45 p.m.

Reservations are beneficial.

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Cucina del Capitano menu

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A part of the menu from Carnival Cruise Line’s Cucina del Capitano. (Use the arrows to maneuver between pages of the menu.) CARNIVAL CRUISE LINE

Meals at Cucina del Capitano are damaged into 4 classes or programs: starters, soups and salads; mains and pastas; sides; and desserts. Captain-recommended favorites are famous on the menu.

You may select to start out with cured tuna, meatballs, deep-fried shrimp, minestrone soup or a caprese salad. On your essential course, attempt linguine with clams, spaghetti carbonara, grilled fish, veal marsala, a pork chop or captain-favorite hen Parmesan. You may also go for steakhouse fare — together with filet mignon, surf ‘n’ turf or a grilled lamb chop — for a $23 surcharge.

On your sides, choose from roasted broccoli and cauliflower, lentils, spinach or crispy potatoes.

When you nonetheless have room for dessert, choices embody an apple pastry, frozen lemon tarte, baba (Italian rum cake) or tiramisu, a captain favourite. You may also order specialty coffees and digestifs, together with limoncello, amaretto, sambuca, grappa and extra.

A choice of wine (pink, white and rose) and beer prices additional except you will have a drink package deal that covers your beverage selection.

The youngsters’s menu at Carnival Cruise Line’s Cucina del Capitano. CARNIVAL CRUISE LINE

A youngsters’s menu is out there for youths 11 and youthful. Picks embody spaghetti with meatballs, fish sticks, hen fingers, and macaroni and cheese, with a selection of both cannoli or lemon sherbet for dessert.

Moreover, six of the 11 ships which have Cucina del Capitano characteristic a free Captain’s Pasta Bar choice for lunch. The menu features a selection of linguini, penne or farfalle, in addition to sauces like tomato, Alfredo, white clam and meat sauce, in addition to butter. Further mix-ins embody Italian sausage, hen strips and a plethora of greens. Need one thing extra hearty? You may also select lasagna, and remember to toss in a aspect of Caesar salad or bread.

Be aware: Menu examples had been correct on the time of publication, however they’re topic to alter with out discover.

Cucina del Capitano costs

Spaghetti carbonara from Cucina del Capitano on Carnival Jubilee. ASHLEY KOSCIOLEK/THE POINTS GUY

Pricing is a bit complicated, because it varies based on ship.

On the road’s latest Excel Class ships, Cucina del Capitano is free for all passengers throughout their first go to to the restaurant. Further visits are $8 per particular person. The one exception is Carnival Jubilee; each go to is free in the course of the ship’s inaugural season. After that, it would share the identical pricing as Carnival Celebration and Mardi Gras.

On the opposite eight ships which have the restaurant (see beneath), the fee is $24 per grownup. Children 11 and youthful can dine for $11 from the kids’s menu.

Picks from the menu’s steakhouse part will incur a price of $23 per merchandise. Alcohol prices additional except you will have a beverage package that covers it. An 18% gratuity will probably be added (besides to free meals), and a $5 surcharge will apply for each essential course after the primary two per particular person.

The Captain’s Pasta Bar, which is obtainable for lunch solely on choose ships, is complimentary.