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When we cruised onboard the Carnival Celebration in February 2023, we aimed to try most of the specialty restaurants as many of them were free during our cruise. While we did not make it to all of the specialty restaurants, we did have to try the BBQ restaurant. Actually, this is not any BBQ restaurant, this is Guy Fieri’s Pitmaster BBQ restaurant. Below is a full review of Guy Fieri’s PitMaster BBQ onboard Carnival Celebration.

Overall Review:

Pros:

• Decor: Really cool, dark, bar-ish, Texas-Americana
• Multi-functional: Bar, restaurant & hangout spot! 1/2 the room is BBQ joint (with stage for live music) and other half has picnic tables, foosball tables, shuffleboard, ice-cream machines, veterans center & TVs with sports playing.
• Live music many evenings
• During our cruise, this “specialty restaurant” was free, so we definitely wanted to try it out because on many other cruises, this restaurant has a fee for dinner

Cons:

• The tables are seated pretty close to each other (not a lot of space or privacy)
• Pretty informal – given a paper menu and asked to check off what items you want to order
• The wait to get our food was VERY LONG, but it was also very busy when we went

Food Review:

Would Recommend:

• Pulled Pork = good
• Chicken = good seasoning, but dry
• Sausage = good, very juicy
• Mac & Cheese = majority of people liked it
• Fries = good, had good seasoning
• Crispy onion straws = very good
• Apple cobbler = said it was fine. It was hot. If it had vanilla ice-cream, would have been great.
• Mud Pie = Dense, chocolatey, good.
• Banana Pie = good

Would NOT Recommend:

• Brisket = not good, not tender, very dry
• Green beans = not good, no seasoning
• Baked beans = not good, not typical BBQ Beans we are used to
• The Backyard Brownie = If you are allergic to NUTS, do not order this!! On the menu, there is no indication that nuts will be on & IN the brownie, but low and behold, they are EVERYWHERE! HUNDREDS OF NUTS! NO BUENO!

Sauces:

Since with every great BBQ, you need a great sauce, below are our thoughts on the sauces:

• Carolina Style = very good
• Kansas City = Very good, not too sweet, red tomato based
• Brown Sugar = wicked sweet
• Siracha = did not try as we don’t like that spicey

Sorry, there are not a lot of pictures, I guess we were enjoying the scrumptious meal too much!

Happy Traveling!

xoxo

Megan & Sean