Welcome to the Royal Caribbean blog podcast, a weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 83.

This week, let's sample the very best food that Italy has to offer as we take a virtual visit

to Royal Caribbean specialty restaurant of Giovanni's table.

We'll discuss the restaurant's background, talk about what the menu offers, and why you might want to book a reservation here on your next cruise.

I'll then jump back into the email bag to answer more of your messages, so here we go.

Giovanni's table is quickly becoming one of Royal Caribbean's more widespread restaurants across the fleet,

and it's interesting because it's a fairly new restaurant.

It first debuted back in the Oasis class of ships on Oasis of the Seas.

And obviously, it was also included on the lure of the seas.

And in recent years, actually, you've seen Giovanni's tables spread to other ships in the fleet during renovations,

usually replacing the old Italian restaurant aboard Royal Caribbean, which was Portofino's that is still available on a couple ships, but it's on its way out being replaced by, again, Giovanni's table.

So what is Giovanni's table?

Well, it's like the name implies it's an Italian restaurant.

It's something that is an idea that based on the fact that Italian dining should be more about a family style setting than maybe Portofino's, which was more about, had a more formal setting to it.

And Giovanni's table, again, it's kind of different on different ships.

On the Oasis class ship, it's located in Central Park.

It's kind of a more of, it almost feels like you were walking into someone's kitchen whereas on the other ships

I've had as an example navigator to the seas it doesn't have that feel necessarily but it's

just like any other specialty restaurant you've been to on a rural Caribbean ship and in either case

what it's really about again is that family style serving of of great Italian food and a lot of

people ask me you know Matt what's the difference between Giovanni's

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