Cucina del Capitano: Carnival Cruise Line’s Italian restaurant

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

This is a information to what you’ll be able to anticipate while you dine there, together with what’s on the menu, how a lot it’s going to price you and an inventory of ships the place you’ll find 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 dwelling. From there, the Cucina del Capitano menu was born.

The restaurant provides scrumptious meals choices for cruisers who’re hungry for conventional Italian dishes like pasta, hen Parmesan and tiramisu that they’ll 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 photographs from the fleet’s captains on the wall. You may 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 comfy alcove that makes the expertise really feel extra such as you’ve stepped into an Italian household’s eating room for a giant meal.

On most ships, the restaurant capabilities like a typical specialty restaurant. Nonetheless, on Excel Class ships, the venue was designed as an overflow restaurant to take a number of the stress 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.

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

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

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

A collection of wine (purple, white and rose) and beer prices additional until you may have a drink bundle that covers your beverage alternative.

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

A youngsters’s menu is obtainable for youths 11 and youthful. Alternatives embrace spaghetti with meatballs, fish sticks, hen fingers, and macaroni and cheese, with a alternative 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 alternative of linguini, penne or farfalle, in addition to sauces like tomato, Alfredo, white clam and meat sauce, in addition to butter. Extra mix-ins embrace Italian sausage, hen strips and a plethora of greens. Need one thing extra hearty? You may as well select lasagna, and remember to toss in a aspect of Caesar salad or bread.

Observe: 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 in line with 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. Extra 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 can share the identical pricing as Carnival Celebration and Mardi Gras.

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

Alternatives from the menu’s steakhouse part will incur a price of $23 per merchandise. Alcohol prices additional until you may have a beverage package that covers it. An 18% gratuity can 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.