Places to eat in Caribbean and Central America

Celebrity Cruises such as the Horizon offers casual dining service each day.

Each day a casual Breakfast Buffet is offered. It includes choice of juices, toast, muffins, bagels, rolls, all kinds of eggs, bacon, sausage, ham, cereals (both hot and cold), custom-made omelets, coffee, tea, milk, and yogurt.

I personally liked being able to eat in my room, so the night before, I would fill out a form, marking everything I wished to have for breakfast. The butler would deliver it to my room, where I would sit at the small table in front of the window and eat breakfast as I enjoyed the ocean view.

There was also a casual lunch buffet each day or you could eat a sit-down lunch. We were usually on shore with an activity so only once did we have the lunch buffet, and once we had the sit-down lunch. Sandwiches, soup, salads of all kinds, desserts, coffee, tea, leamonade, cola, or milk. Many, many choices.

Each night, if you did not wish to eat in the formal Starlight Dining Room, you could have a casual sit-down dinner in the Coral Seas Cafe. There is something for everyone.

The casual breafast and lunch buffets were served in the Coral Seas Cafe.

Favorite Dish: Each afternoon about 4:00 pm, they had homemade pizza (thin), which was delicious. In addition, ice cream was offered in the afternoon.

Afternoon snacks came in handy for us since we had the late dinner seating (8:00 pm)

Midnight either brought a midnight buffet or small tidbits on silver trays brought to you in all public areas. It was delightful.

On a hot, humid day in the Caribbean, what could taste better than ice cream!

At one point while shopping in Grand Cayman we felt as though we might melt...but just in the nick of time we rounded a corner and spied the Haagen Dazs ice cream shop!

I can't say the servers were pleasant or even friendly, but they did serve up a wonderfully creamy cone on a sweltering day

Seating outside the shop gave us a chance to sit for a few moments before venturing into the stores again. Although at mid-day, they were out of some of the more popular flavors it surely was a welcome treat!

As we walked the colorful streets of Cozumel to our tour bus, we passed Carlos and Charley's, a well-known restaurant chain.

We didn't have time to stop for a meal, but I hear it's a hoppin' place in the evenings for singles or couples. Inside, visitors will find a basketball court, ping pong and pool tables.

It was early afternoon and patrons were just dropping by for lunch. The cheery decor, upbeat atmosphere and open dining area made it an appealing place to sit and people watch.

This popular restaurant seemed to have several locations in the Caribbean--Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville. We saw this chain in Montego Bay, Jamaica, George Town, Grand Cayman and Cozumel, Mexico.

This picture is of the Grand Cayman Magaritaville, which is fairly new and overlooks Georgetown Harbor. There is a swim-up bar, waterslide and pool, as well as, nightclub and restaurant.

Lovely shades of pastel color the building that houses this bar/restaurant. We didn't have the time to stop by, but plenty of people do.

I guess when you're feeding massive amounts of passengers on a budget, you get what you get! The food here was pretty good considering this. Had a yummy lobster tail one night and a really good chicken dish on another. However, our waiter, who served us for the entirity of the trip was so rude! He'd try to rush us out, snap back answers at us, misunderstand our questions and get flustered that he didn't understand us and all but throw things at us.

Favorite Dish: Some chicken dish with stuffing. Very flavorful.

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The Summit's main dining room is the Cosmopolitan. It's got two levels and grand staircase which our tables were near and I'm so very happy I never had to walk down them! Our waiter for the week, Menino, was very friendly and attentive and remembered our likes, etc. We also had our own cocktail waitress and sommelier. Dinners consist of 3 courses plus dessert. A new nightly menu was presented nightly with a standing one as well. You can mix and match and order as many of anything that you like. It's indulgence at its greatest.

Favorite Dish: Most of the dishes were good. Some were very good and a couple were kind of bad. All in all there was so much food on the boat that you could never ever say that you went hungry. If you don't like one entree, appetizer, etc. you can just send it back and get another one. Mangia.

On our last night aboard The Summit we ate at their fine dining restaurant, The Normandy. It was designed to look like the dining room of a classic trans-Atlantic ship. The service was impeccable. In general I was impressed with the service level on this ship but the one in the Normandy surpassed of that. We felt very pampered...

Favorite Dish: I had escargot tortellini, a lovely salad, the festive fish dish pictured here, and I honestly can't remember what I had for dessert. Additionally, they brought out a dessert sampler dish. We rolled out of that dining room in a bona fide food coma.

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The Waterfall is where you get your breakfast, lunch (if you're on the boat), and snacks, up to a certain time. I mainly had breakfast only here. It has a great back deck which is a lovely spot to sit if you can find a table there!

Favorite Dish: They had a great selection of stations for all kinds of breakfasts. The most popular ones had several locations. Selections included American breakfast, English specialties, sandwiches, Asian delights, and pasta stations. The wait at either station was never long and the trick is to not stop at the ones right by the entrance. Move on, you'll find more food with less folks waiting elsewhere!