Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast, your weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hotschberg, and this is episode number 451.

You know, this week we're going to revisit the top five Royal Caribbean restaurants that I just can't get enough of.

Here we go.

I've done a lot of countdown episodes here on the Rollercoming blog podcast, and I thought it might make sense to revisit an episode we've done, which was episode 345, in which I count down the top five restaurants.

This was done during the pandemic, I'm pretty sure.

So during the cruise line shutdown. And a lot has changed.

There's been a couple new cruise ships that have come online. And I really thought to myself,

top five restaurants. Now, first of all, I didn't actually listen to this episode before I

started coming with my list because I didn't want to pigeonhole myself into a list that I've already had. I really wanted to come at this from a new angle. And also, as I'm looking at the title,

I was also thinking, was it specialty or not? And that's another question. So I really tried to come up with,

okay, what are five restaurants that I would absolutely go to every single time?

Now, initially, I started with specialty restaurants, and I started thinking about this more and more, and I'm like, no, let's make this five restaurants I would go to, whether it is complimentary or specialty.

What are the five restaurants that if I'm on a cruise ship, and this is an option,

I go to every single time for whatever reason.

And so I have my list of five.

I actually have six.

There's an honorable mention.

And I'm going to start with the honorable mention first because it's not on a cruise ship,

but I do go here every single time.

And I almost book the Cocoa Beach Club, specifically for this reason.

And that is the restaurant at the Cocoa Beach Club.

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