Anthem of the Seas Restaurants: Menus, Best Dishes, and Prices
Use Café @ Two70 for an easy included lunch, keep the Main Dining Room as your dinner base, and choose one paid restaurant for the food or experience you really want.
Anthem of the Seas has enough casual options that you can stay flexible without buying a dining package, especially when SeaPlex or a show already has your attention.
Short version
Choose Café @ Two70, Sorrento’s, Dog House, the dining room, and Windjammer before buying several paid meals. Jamie’s suits sharing, Chops a steakhouse dinner, Wonderland theatrical dining, and Coastal Kitchen only guests with the right entitlement.
How dining works on Anthem of the Seas
Start with the included Main Dining Room and casual food on Anthem of the Seas, then add a specialty meal when its cuisine sounds appealing. Check the app for serving hours and the menu for charged upgrades before ordering.
Included does not mean every item is free, and specialty does not mean one universal cover price. Premium upgrades, alcohol, branded coffee, package supplements, and selected counter items can still appear on the check, while restaurant prices and promotions vary by sailing.
Choose the included dinners you want before buying a package. Read the Main Dining Room menus for the full sailing, identify the nights you actually want to replace, and reserve specialty dining around those nights rather than treating every paid restaurant as an automatic upgrade.
The included restaurants that form Anthem’s base
Café @ Two70 on Deck 5 aft is a useful lighter-lunch alternative, while Dog House in SeaPlex and Sorrento’s on the Esplanade handle quick, familiar food. Most of these casual locations do not require reservations, but daily opening hours can move with port calls, sea days, and local operating rules.
Main Dining Room: Decks 3 and 4; typically breakfast on selected days, lunch on sea days, and dinner. Expect rotating appetizers, soups, seafood, meat, pasta, vegan dishes, and desserts.
Windjammer: Deck 14 aft; typically breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Expect eggs, fruit, salads, carving dishes, Indian selections, international hot food, and desserts.
Café Promenade and Sorrento’s: the Royal Esplanade on Deck 4; typically snacks from morning into late night. Expect sandwiches and pastries at the café, plus cheese, pepperoni, and rotating pizzas by the slice.
Solarium Bistro: Deck 14 forward; typically breakfast and lunch, with dinner offered by the sailing schedule. Expect Mediterranean-style salads, grains, vegetables, fish, fruit, and lighter hot dishes.
Café @ Two70: Deck 5 aft beside Two70; typically breakfast and lunch. Expect breakfast items, roast beef, panini, wraps, salads, soup, and desserts.
SeaPlex Dog House: Deck 15 inside SeaPlex; typically lunch and afternoon hours. Expect beef hot dogs, chicken sausage, bratwurst, toppings, coleslaw, and potato salad.
Main Dining Room or Windjammer: the decision that shapes the day
The Main Dining Room is the better choice when service, allergy coordination, and a paced meal matter. Use it for dinner most nights, plus breakfast or sea-day lunch when you want table service and the schedule confirms service.
Windjammer wins when people want different cuisines or need to eat quickly, but the first visible station is not the whole buffet. Walk the room once before filling a plate, then focus on the Indian dishes, changing regional section, salad bar, carving station, or made-to-order breakfast instead of collecting everything at once.
Café @ Two70, Café Promenade, and Sorrento’s cover the awkward hours
Café @ Two70 is the strongest grab-and-go lunch because sandwiches, wraps, salads, soup, and desserts travel well to the aft seating. Café Promenade and Sorrento’s are more useful later, when a show, excursion, or long activity has made a normal meal time inconvenient.
Ask which pizza has just come from the oven and treat the café display as a rotating selection rather than a promise that every sandwich appears every day. These counters keep the plan flexible, which is more valuable than trying to make every meal an event.
Anthem specialty dining worth reserving
Anthem’s paid choices are Chops Grille, Jamie’s Italian, Wonderland, Izumi, Johnny Rockets, La Patisserie, and Chef’s Table. La Patisserie is a charged pastry and drink counter, not a Starbucks outlet and not a fixed-cover restaurant.
Chops Grille is the familiar premium choice
Royal Caribbean describes Chops Grille as its signature American steakhouse, with hand-cut steaks and steakhouse sides. Start with mushroom soup or black-pepper bacon, choose the filet or another preferred cut, and read the current menu before assuming lobster or an oversized cut is included in the restaurant charge.
Chops makes sense for a group that wants a steakhouse dinner. When only one paid dinner fits the budget, compare the steakhouse experience with Wonderland’s playful format or the cuisine at Jamie’s or Izumi before booking.
Jamie’s Italian
Choose Jamie’s for a group that wants familiar Italian flavors and sharing, starting with Ultimate Garlic Bread or a Meat Plank when offered. Look for Truffle Tagliatelle when rich pasta appeals, Prawn Linguine for a seafood choice, or Eggplant Parmigiana for a vegetable-centered main.
The Jamie’s sample menu gives useful examples; check the offered menu and supplements for your date.
Wonderland
Wonderland is the reservation for playful presentation and a server-guided meal built around contrasting elements and textures. Book it before Chops when theatrical dining is the goal, and choose Chops instead when the group wants a familiar steakhouse with clearer individual ordering.
Izumi and Johnny Rockets
Izumi handles sushi, sashimi, nigiri, rolls, gyoza, noodles, and other Japanese dishes in an à la carte format. Johnny Rockets is a casual burger-and-shake restaurant, useful when that exact diner meal sounds good but not a substitute for the included Dog House or Sorrento’s.
La Patisserie and Chef’s Table
La Patisserie sells pastries, sweets, coffee, and other drinks by item, so check the display price and ask which beverage-package rules apply to the drink being ordered. Chef’s Table is a small hosted multicourse meal with wine pairings.
Book it for that format and discuss dietary needs in advance rather than choosing it for a quick dinner.
Coastal Kitchen is a suite benefit, not a public specialty restaurant
Coastal Kitchen serves California and Mediterranean-influenced food for eligible suite guests, with access depending on suite class and meal period. Junior-suite dinner access and reservation priority can differ from higher suite tiers, so verify the booking entitlement before making it the center of the week’s plan.
A guest without the qualifying suite access cannot solve the problem by paying a normal restaurant cover. That makes Coastal Kitchen materially different from Chops, an Italian restaurant, or Izumi, even though all appear in discussions of premium dining.
Compare specialty prices before buying a package
Royal Caribbean’s current dining-package page says children ages 6 through 12 dine at specialty restaurants for $14.99 and children 5 and younger eat free, with precruise reservations adjusted onboard. The page also directs travelers to My Royal Cruise for the actual package price, so use the offer attached to your booking rather than a price from another ship or sale.
The Unlimited Dining Package covers dinner at participating specialty restaurants and lunch at specialty restaurants on sea days, but participating venues, food credits, supplements, and repeat-visit rules require the current purchase terms. A package is not permission to assume every lobster, large cut, wine pairing, or à la carte order has no limit.
Price the meals you genuinely plan to eat, add any displayed supplements, and compare that total with the package in the booking portal. Only count the meals you’d choose anyway when comparing the package saving.
Room service is a convenience fee, not another restaurant cover
Room service is available day and night with a $7.95 service charge per order plus the applicable gratuity. Check the final total on the cabin menu before ordering, and use the room-service policy to understand the delivery charge rather than assuming a remembered gratuity still applies.
The official examples include a Wagyu beef hamburger, Philly cheesesteak, and grilled salmon with cucumber-mint yogurt and roasted asparagus. Combine the cabin’s order when practical and use room service for the late arrival or exhausted evening it actually solves, not because it appears to be an all-inclusive meal plan.
A realistic Anthem dining plan
For embarkation lunch, check Café @ Two70 or Sorrento’s before carrying a tray around a crowded Windjammer. SeaPlex Dog House fits an activity-heavy afternoon, and Café Promenade is the practical recovery stop after a late theater or Two70 performance.
Reservation order
Reserve Wonderland or Chef’s Table first when that particular format is essential, then choose any other paid meal by cuisine and offered time. Treat Johnny Rockets and La Patisserie as casual purchases rather than scarce event reservations.
Book around major shows only after checking their actual times, and leave enough room for a leisurely specialty meal. A 5:30 p.m. reservation that creates a sprint from an excursion is not better simply because it was available first.
A simple seven-night framework
Embarkation: Choose a verified included café or counter, then learn the Main Dining Room pace at dinner.
First sea day: Try the Main Dining Room or specialty lunch if offered, keeping the evening open for a menu you want.
First port day: Use a fast included counter after returning aboard instead of timing the whole afternoon around lunch.
Signature dinner: Place the least-flexible specialty reservation on a night without a must-see Main Dining Room menu.
Late show: Use Café Promenade, Sorrento’s, or room service as the recovery plan.
Final sea day: Repeat the included venue that worked best instead of forcing one more paid meal for completeness.
Families, dietary needs, and meal pacing
For dietary needs, use the Main Dining Room team to discuss recurring service and upcoming menus, and confirm preparation of each dish. Contact Royal Caribbean before sailing for a significant restriction, then speak with the dining team onboard rather than assuming every separate galley can provide the same preparation.
Families can alternate longer dinners with pizza, sandwiches, sausages, buffet food, and other included quick service. A child price can help the budget, but a lower charge doesn’t make a long tasting or surprise menu enjoyable for every child.
A practical Anthem dining choice
Anthem has enough included variety that specialty dining should be selective, not defensive. Use Café @ Two70 or an offered Solarium Bistro meal when you’d like a change from the buffet, and choose a specialty meal for the cuisine or format you want.
The most important price is the one visible for the booked sailing, and the most useful reservation is the one that fits the actual show and port schedule. That approach produces a better week than chasing every venue simply because it appears on a checklist.
Fit dinner around the rest of the ship
Use the activity guide to give your preferred show a clear evening. The deck guide helps you pair a restaurant with the nearby lounge or theater, while Anthem tips cover the first-day checks.
How this guide was researched
The current Anthem restaurant roster and locations were checked with the official deck plans, operator menu examples, and published dining-package, Coastal Kitchen, and room-service policies. Sample dishes explain the venue style; menus, covers, supplements, and serving hours should be confirmed for the booked sailing.
