Dining Traditional 

Though Celebrity started out with a reputation for truly exceptional cuisine, today the dishes served in its main dining rooms are really more on par with mainstream peers Princess, Royal Caribbean, NCL, and Holland America. Dining service, however, remains excellent. Dinner menus are likely to feature entrees such as veal shank cooked in an aromatic tomato velouté with orange zest, served with risotto; broiled sliced tenderloin with béarnaise and Madeira sauces; and boneless chicken breast with bananas and ham, coated with coconut flakes and served with curry peanut sauce. At every meal, Celebrity also serves lighter "spa" fare with calorie, fat, cholesterol, and sodium breakdowns listed on the back of the menu. Vegetarian options are available at every meal. There's also a good wine list that includes a line of proprietary wines called Celebrity Cruises Cellarmaster Selection. 

In 2009, Celebrity joined the flexible dining club by launching Celebrity Select Dining, a program that allows guests to choose when they'd like to dine in the line's main dining rooms. It works like this: When you book your cruise, you'll decide whether you want to stick with traditional fixed-time dining or go with the Select option. If the latter, you can choose to dine either with just your travel companion(s) or with other guests on your cruise (for instance, family or friends who've booked the same sailing). You can also go online anytime up to 4 days before your cruise and make reservations for specific dining hours on a day-by-day basis -- 6pm one day, 7pm the next, 8pm the night after that, or any combination that suits your schedule. Reservations can also be made during your cruise with the main dining room's maitre d'. Note that if you do choose Celebrity Select, you're required to prepay gratuities before your cruise. 

Specialty Dining

Though its Millennium-class ships have long been known for their single specialty restaurants, the new Solstice class is where Celebrity really went whole-hog into alternative dining. Each of the Solstice ships has four specialty restaurants in addition to the main restaurant and buffet.

	The Tuscan Grille serves specialty steaks and pastas in a high-style atmosphere -- sort of Napa Valley meets Tuscany. The European-themed Murano serves elaborate, multicourse meals in the style of the Millennium-class specialty restaurants, featuring table-side cooking, carving, and flambé.
	Blu, a restaurant for the exclusive use of passengers booked in the ships' AquaClass staterooms (plus suite guests based on availability), serves cuisine that emphasizes healthful ingredients and preparation without sacrificing taste.
	On  Solstice and Equinox, the Asian Silk Harvest restaurant serves a mix of Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Chinese dishes. On Eclipse, Silk Harvest is replaced by Qsine, a playful, imaginatively designed space serving food from an eclectic international menu.
	Impeccable service, classic design, world-class cuisine and comfortable sophistication are celebrated to the utmost in Murano. Experience tableside lobster presentation, an expansive selection of artisanal cheeses from around the world, or the extensive American and French wine list. Charming and timeless, Murano transports you, through palate and décor, to a modern and sophisticated level of dining.
	Their newest restaurant, the Lawn Club Grill is available only on Celebrity Silhouette and Celebrity Reflection. The bright and modern Lawn Club Grill celebrates the flavorful joys of outdoor grilling. The highlight of dining at the Lawn Club Grill is the opportunity to serve as your party's "Grill Master," by being paired with a Celebrity chef to assist in preparing the menu for your table over custom-built, ventilated grills.
On the Millennium-class ships, cuisine, service, and ambience are the draw at Celebrity's original alternative restaurants, each of which carries a $30-per-person cover charge and seats just over 100 passengers. Presentation is paramount: Decor is centered around artifacts from the historic passenger vessels that give the restaurants their names; there often seems to be more waitstaff than diners; Caesar salads and zabaglione are prepared table-side; maitre D's carve passengers' meat dishes with the finesse of a concert pianist; and a selection of excellent French cheeses arrives at the end of the meal. In addition to these restaurants, each of the Millennium-class ships also has a Tuscan Grille in the style of the Solstice class. The older Century, meanwhile, has her own version of the Murano restaurant.Reservations for Celebrity's specialty restaurants can be made online up to 4 days before your cruise.

Casual -- Breakfast and lunch in the buffet restaurants are on par with those of lines such as Royal Caribbean and Princess, and include such features as a made-to-order pasta bar and a pizza station serving very tasty pies. On most nights, the buffet space is transformed into the Casual Dining Boulevard, with waiters serving entrees such as pasta, gourmet pizzas, and chicken between about 6 and 9:30pm. Reservations are recommended, though if there's space, walk-ins are accepted, too. During dinnertime, Celebrity also has a sushi bar in one section of the buffet restaurant, serving both appetizer-size portions and full meals.

The Solstice-class ships also feature Bistro on Five, a chic-casual restaurant with a menu of specialty crepes, sandwiches, soups, salads, and comfort-food entrees like baked ziti, quiche, and chicken pot pie. There's also the AquaSpa Café, where you can get low-cal treats for lunch or dinner from noon to 8pm, including raw veggie platters, poached salmon with asparagus tips, vegetarian sushi, and pretty salads with tuna or chicken. Spa breakfasts include items such as bagels and lox, fresh fruit, cereal, and boiled eggs. For the opposite of spa cuisine, outdoor grills on all ships serve burgers and the like.

Snacks & Extras 

For coffee-and-pastry breaks, the Solstice-class and the Millennium-class ships have Café al Bacio & Gelateria, an upscale coffeehouse serving specialty coffees, teas, fresh-baked pastries, traditional gelatos and Italian ices, and other desserts. The Century-class ships have the Cova Café, serving incredibly good croissants (for free) and specialty lattes and cappuccinos (not for free), plus other items. An "after-theater" menu at each of these coffee bars lists sandwiches, savories, tartlets, hot brochettes, canapes, artisan cheeses, fresh fruit, crackers, petit fours, and napoleons from 11pm to closing.

The line also has afternoon tea at least once per cruise fleetwide, with white-gloved waiters serving tea, finger sandwiches, scones, and desserts from rolling carts. There's also an elaborate brunch in the main dining room once per cruise, with the kind of over-the-top spreads and ice, fruit, and vegetable carvings that used to be featured at midnight buffets. Room service allows passengers to order off a limited menu 24 hours a day and also from the lunch and dinner menus during set meal hours. You can get tasty pizza delivered right to your cabin between 3 and 7pm and 10pm and 1am daily, in a box and pouch just like the ones used by your local pizzeria.

Service 

Along with sheer style, service is Celebrity's strongest suit, with staff uniformly polite, attentive, cheerful, knowledgeable, and professional. Stewards wear white gloves at embarkation as they escort passengers to their cabins. Waiters have a poised, upscale-hotel air about them, and their manner does much to create an elegant mood. There are very professional sommeliers in the dining room, and waiters are on hand in the Lido breakfast and lunch buffet restaurants to carry passengers' trays from the buffet line to a table of their choice. If you occupy a suite, you'll get a tuxedo-clad personal butler who serves afternoon tea, complimentary cappuccino and espresso, and complimentary pre-dinner hors d'oeuvres. If you ask, he'll also handle your laundry, shine your shoes, make sewing repairs, deliver messages, and even serve a full five-course dinner en suite or help you organize a cocktail party. (You foot the bill for food and drinks, of course.) Other hedonistic treats bestowed upon suite guests include a bottle of champagne on arrival, personalized stationery, terry robes, oversize bath towels, priority check-in and debarkation, express luggage delivery at embarkation, and so on. ConciergeClass staterooms -- a middle zone between regular cabins and suites -- provide some of the same perks but without the high price of actual suites (but no butler, sorry).

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