The food on Celebration was unremarkable. We had breakfast and lunch each day in the Lido
Deck's Wheelhouse Bar and Grill, an eyesore of a restaurant with very inconvenient and cramped
buffet lines. While menu selections were the same each day, we did enjoy our meals there.
Breakfast included eggs, french toast, croissants, cereal, bacon, and made-to-order omelets;
for lunch we had steak, fries, chicken breast, salad, and pasta. We attended several midnight
buffets, the best of which was the Mexican buffet the night we left Cozumel. The buffets were
not as crowded, and we enjoyed the opportunity to eat late at night.
Dinner in the dining room was always an experience, mostly due to our tablemates.
We were all placed together after requesting to be moved to main seating, and we met on the
second night. We ate in the dining room nearly every night, even though my husband does not
like to eat "normal" food - he is a cereal, burger, and pizza kind of guy, but he did try what
the menus had to offer. I had no complaints, but the food was nothing to write home about either.
The fish dishes and the soup WERE quite bad, but everything else was acceptable. The
after-dinner parades were a bit painful to watch; I am sure they are more of an "experience"
in the larger dining rooms on the newer ships. One additional comment - I have heard complaints
on the cruising newsgroups about people not dressing up for formal nights on Carnival; well,
that was not the case on our cruise. Nearly everyone dressed appropriately, and it was fun
getting dressed up for dinner and a show. On the second formal night, which was our last
night, we had decided to skip the formal dinner and have dinner on the Lido deck; however,
we discovered that there was NO casual dinner that night. We quickly returned to our cabin
to change, and we had a good time after all!
