The 30-second answer
Book Wonderland first, and book it before you board. At 7.9 it's the highest-scoring paid room on the ship, and only three of the five Quantum-Class ships still have it — Ovation's became a teppanyaki room in her 2026 refit. It's the one dinner here you can't approximate anywhere else on board.
Then eat free at Café @ Two70, which scores 8.0 — higher than anything you'd pay for on this ship. After that it's Izumi at 7.6 for sushi and Chops Grille at 7.5 if someone at the table wants a steak. Jamie's Italian at 6.8 is the paid room to drop if your budget is finite, and Anthem is the one ship in this class where we can tell you what it costs: roughly $54–55 at dinner as of July 2026.
Two things that trip people up. There is no teppanyaki room on Anthem — Izumi here is sushi, full stop. And Johnny Rockets is aboard, which sounds minor until you notice it's the last one in Quantum Class: Quantum's was replaced in 2015 and Ovation never had one.
Anthem is Quantum's twin, never amplified. She launched in 2015 with her sister's roster and she still runs it — Wonderland and Jamie's both intact, the four-room Main Dining Complex unchanged, Izumi sushi-only. Nothing has been added and, crucially, nothing has been taken away. That matters more than it sounds: Ovation spent a refit in 2026 and came out of it without Wonderland or Jamie's. Anthem, Ovation and Quantum finish level at 8.1 and we deliberately don't break that tie — the three are separated by hundredths, and ranking them would invent a distinction the evidence won't carry. What separates Anthem isn't quality, it's a chrome diner: she is the only ship in the class that kept Johnny Rockets.
This class is very hard to price honestly, so we publish only figures we can date. Four appear on this page and each carries its date: Jamie's Italian at roughly $24–26 lunch and $54–55 dinner (July 2026), which is Anthem's own and the only ship-specific price anywhere in this class; Johnny Rockets at $12.99–14.99 plus 18% (March 2026, fleet-wide); Chef's Table's $49.99 package surcharge; and room service at about $7.95 plus gratuity, both fleet-wide. For everything else — Wonderland, Chops, Izumi — we say "cover charge, check your Cruise Planner", because inventing a number would be worse than admitting we don't have one. The calculator in section 12 takes your figures instead of ours.
The Seabound Dining Scorecard
Eight categories, one rubric — the same one used on every ship Seabound scores. Anthem finishes at 8.1/10, level with Quantum and Ovation.
Anthem's Seabound Dining Score is 8.1 / 10 — the weighted result of the eight categories below, each judged on its own merits rather than averaged up from the 17 venue scores.
Seven venues cost nothing extra, and the highest-scoring room on the entire ship is one of them. Level with Quantum and Ovation; behind Odyssey and Spectrum, who both carry free counters Anthem doesn't have.
Four scored paid sit-down rooms — Wonderland, Izumi, Chops and Jamie's. Fewer than Odyssey's five or Spectrum's seven, but she's one of only two ships in the class still running Wonderland and Jamie's together.
Eighteen venues with a deep paid-casual layer — a pub, a wine bar, a patisserie and Johnny Rockets sitting on top of the specialty rooms. That breadth is what lifts her a tenth clear of Quantum's 8.5.
Wonderland at 7.9 plus Chef's Table sets the top of her range. No 8.4-class destination restaurant, but the theatrical room her class was designed around is still aboard and still working.
A tenth behind Quantum, Odyssey and Spectrum, who all sit at 7.9. Johnny Rockets and the pub both charge for food you can get free elsewhere on the ship, which is a real cost against an otherwise deep complimentary tier.
Café @ Two70, Café Promenade, Sorrento's past midnight, the SeaPlex Dog House and the only Johnny Rockets left in the class. Wide, fast, and mostly — though not entirely — free.
Wonderland and Chef's Table, both intact. That puts her half a point clear of Ovation, who spent a 2026 refit and came out of it without Wonderland.
Coastal Kitchen at 7.6, the standard Royal arrangement — the same 7.5 as Quantum, Ovation and Odyssey. Spectrum is the class outlier here, not the benchmark.
Read the shape, not just the total. Her 8.6 on Variety is the third-highest in the class and comes almost entirely from the paid-casual layer — a pub, a wine bar, a patisserie and a diner, sitting on top of four specialty rooms. That same layer is what pulls her Value down to 7.8, because several of those rooms charge you for food the ship gives away elsewhere. The rubric counts breadth and it counts price, and on Anthem those two pull in opposite directions.
Where she's genuinely strong is the free tier's ceiling. The highest-scoring venue on this ship isn't Wonderland at 7.9 — it's Café @ Two70 at 8.0, and it's included. Section 04 covers why that keeps happening on Quantum-Class ships.
All 18 dining venues, explored
Every venue aboard, filterable and sortable. Seventeen carry a score; Chef's Table doesn't, and the reason is in its card.
Every restaurant on Anthem of the Seas
Filter by what you'd pay and how you'd eat. Scores are the locked Seabound venue scores.
No venues match that filter.
You'll notice the locations above are areas rather than deck numbers. That's deliberate. Our sources don't agree on where several of Anthem's venues sit, and a confident-looking deck digit that turns out to be wrong is worse for you than an honest "check your deck plan". The areas we do give — the Royal Esplanade, the Solarium, the SeaPlex, the pool deck, Two70 — are ones we're confident about. The ship's own deck plan and the app will get you the rest, and they'll be current for your sailing in a way this page can't be.
What's already included in your fare
Seven venues cost nothing beyond what you've already paid — and the best-scoring room on the entire ship is one of them.
Café @ Two70 scores 8.0, and that is the highest venue score on Anthem. Higher than Wonderland. Higher than Chops. Higher than Izumi. It's made-to-order salads, pressed sandwiches and soups, served inside Two70 — the room with the two-deck window over the wake, and comfortably the best space on the ship. Royal's own dining pages file it under specialty dining, which it plainly isn't. If you take one thing from this page, take that: the best meal on Anthem is free, and Royal has miscategorised it.
The rest of the free tier is the fleet standard done properly. The Main Dining Complex is four named rooms — American Icon Grill, Chic, Silk and The Grande — sharing one rotating dining programme. Four atmospheres, one main-dining product; we score it as the single venue it is, not as four. Solarium Bistro gives you a lighter, quieter table-service alternative to the buffet in the adults-only Solarium. Café Promenade runs sandwiches and free coffee more or less around the clock, SeaPlex Dog House does hot dogs at the sports complex, and Sorrento's is open past midnight.
Sorrento's is free, and it stayed free on purpose. Royal surveyed guests in 2023 about charging for it, roughly four in five objected, and it remained complimentary fleet-wide. It's the lowest-scoring venue on the ship at 5.4 and it is still exactly the right answer at 1am.
The Windjammer Marketplace rounds it out at 6.8 — broad, busy, and materially better at breakfast than at dinner. Anthem's is the ordinary Western-market buffet rather than the larger Asian-slanted version Spectrum runs.
Best included dining, ranked
If you spent nothing extra all week, this is the order we'd eat in — and it's a better week than that sounds.
Casual & à la carte
The middle tier — you pay per item rather than per cover, and on Anthem it's unusually deep.
The pub at 7.2 is the pick, and it's the room you'll end up in without planning to. Pub food, a long beer list, live music most evenings, and a seat on the Royal Esplanade where the whole ship walks past. Johnny Rockets at 6.2 is the other one worth knowing about, for reasons that have nothing to do with the burgers: it's the last Johnny Rockets in Quantum Class, and section 16 explains why that's the only thing genuinely separating Anthem from her twin.
La Patisserie at 7.1 does pastries, cakes and specialty coffee on the same Esplanade; the coffee is both the reason you'd go and the reason it charges. Vintages at 6.8 is a wine bar with small plates, and we'd flag that our evidence for its current operation on this hull is thinner than we'd like — expect it rather than count on it.
Room service at 6.3 works the way it does across the fleet: continental breakfast is free, and every other order carries a fee of about $7.95 plus gratuity before you've chosen a single item. That's a fleet-wide figure, not an Anthem one.
You will see this room called two different things, and we can't settle it for you. Three sources call it Brass & Bock; three still call it Michael's Genuine Pub, the original name it carried across the class before Royal renamed all four of them. We publish it as the deck-4 pub — Brass & Bock, formerly Michael's Genuine — and we lean toward Brass & Bock without claiming the question is closed. Practically it changes nothing: there is one pub, in one place, and the beer list is the same whichever sign is over the door. But if you're searching the app on board and Brass & Bock returns nothing, try the old name.
Specialty restaurants, ranked
Four paid sit-down rooms carry a score. That's the same count as Quantum, against Odyssey's five and Spectrum's seven.
Wonderland is the one to book, and it isn't close. At 7.9 it's the top paid room aboard, and it's a genuinely theatrical evening rather than a good meal with a gimmick attached — the menu is arranged by element, the presentation is the point, and it's the room this whole class was designed around. Only three of the five ships still have it. If Anthem's dining has one signature, this is it.
Izumi at 7.6 is sushi, and only sushi. À la carte rather than a cover, which makes it easier to eat lightly at than the cover-charge rooms. Read the note below before you book anything expecting a knife show.
Chops Grille at 7.5 is the fleet-standard steakhouse and the most-booked specialty room on every ship in this class — reserve it before you board or take what's left. Jamie's Italian at 6.8 is the skip if something has to go. It's the weakest paid room aboard, Royal has been retiring the concept fleet-wide, and Ovation has already lost hers. Book it while it's there if you want it, but don't spend your one big night on it — especially at roughly $54–55 for dinner as of July 2026.
We publish Anthem's Izumi as sushi-only, with no teppanyaki room aboard — but you deserve to know how solid that is. Cruise Critic's dedicated Izumi article sorts Anthem into the sushi-only group, and that's the most specific source we have. Two aggregator sites claim she also runs hibachi. We've gone with sushi-only because a dedicated article beats a database row, but we have not verified it firsthand and we're not going to pretend otherwise. What we're confident about is the class picture: Spectrum, Odyssey and post-refit Ovation have separate teppanyaki rooms with separate bookings; Quantum and Anthem don't. If a teppanyaki dinner is the reason you're booking, confirm it with Royal before you pay for the sailing — and note that where teppanyaki does exist, it carries a per-visit surcharge on top of a dining package, and Royal's own FAQ quotes two different figures for that surcharge on the same page.
Dining if you're in a suite
One restaurant, scoring 7.6, and what you get from it depends entirely on which suite tier you actually booked.
Anthem has Coastal Kitchen, the standard Royal suite restaurant — Mediterranean-leaning, quiet, table service, and a materially calmer room than anything else you can eat in on this ship. It's the same arrangement four of the five Quantum-Class ships use, and it earns the same 7.5 category score on Anthem, Quantum, Ovation and Odyssey.
Check your tier before you plan around it. Star Class and Sky Class get breakfast, lunch and dinner. Sea Class is dinner-only, and subject to availability — which on a full sailing genuinely means you may not get in. Pinnacle Club members are seated when space allows. If Coastal Kitchen is part of why you booked the suite, know which of those three sentences applies to you.
What this is not is a purpose-built suite enclave with its own sun deck and private restaurant complex. That's an Oasis-Class concept and it doesn't exist here. Coastal Kitchen is one good restaurant with a door policy, and that's the honest description.
The one ship in this class that does it differently is Spectrum, whose suite dining is built around Silver and Gold Dining rather than the Coastal Kitchen model — two restaurants stratified by tier, where Anthem has one. That's why Spectrum posts a 9.3 in this category and Anthem posts a 7.5. It isn't a knock on Coastal Kitchen; Spectrum is the outlier, not the benchmark.
Find your fit
Three questions, and a plan for the sailing you're actually on.
What should you actually book on Anthem?
Answer all three and we'll name the rooms, in order, with what to skip.
Where I'd spend my dining money
Four paid sit-down rooms, so the order is short and the choices are real. Your sailing length matters here more than usual.
First: Wonderland. It's the highest-scoring paid room on the ship at 7.9, it's an evening rather than a meal, and it's disappearing from this class — Ovation lost hers in 2026. On a 7-night Alaska week, if you buy one paid dinner, buy this one.
Second: Izumi. At 7.6 it's the better-value paid room, because it's à la carte. You can order two rolls and a beer for far less than a cover charge, or you can order properly and spend like a specialty dinner. That flexibility is worth something on a longer sailing.
Third: Chops Grille, at 7.5, and only if a steak is genuinely what someone wants. It's good and it's identical on every ship in the class.
What we'd skip: Jamie's Italian. At 6.8 it's the weakest paid room aboard, and Anthem is the one ship where we can put a figure on the trade — roughly $54–55 for dinner as of July 2026, against a free Main Dining Complex at 7.5 and a free Café @ Two70 at 8.0. That's not a close call.
Where you should spend nothing at all: your first sea-day lunch. Go to Café @ Two70, sit by the window, and see whether you still feel like buying dinner somewhere.
The dining package math
We won't publish cover charges for Anthem's specialty rooms, so this calculator asks for yours. More work — and a great deal more accurate than a figure we made up.
First, the thing most package advice gets wrong. Sailing length changes how many specialty meals you can realistically use, but it does not automatically make the Unlimited Dining Package better value — Royal prices it for the whole cruise, so the package total grows with the sailing too. What decides it is the total package price, plus surcharges, against the à la carte cost of the meals you would genuinely book.
Anthem has four scored sit-down specialty rooms. That's the number that actually constrains you: on a longer sailing you may start repeating restaurants long before you stop paying for package nights. Four rooms is enough for a week if you'd happily revisit one; it's thin for eleven nights unless you would.
Should you buy the Unlimited Dining Package?
Enter the two figures your own Cruise Planner is showing you. Everything else is arithmetic.
What this deliberately leaves out. Chef's Table isn't modelled — it's unscored, and it carries a $49.99 surcharge on top of the package anyway. Johnny Rockets and the pub aren't modelled either, since they're per-item rooms rather than cover-charge ones. Every omission makes the package look better than it is, so this errs against buying.
Anthem has four scored paid sit-down rooms, and one of them is the weakest room aboard. A package that shines on Spectrum's seven restaurants has less to work with here — by night four you may be repeating Chops, or eating at Jamie's because it's covered rather than because you want to. Run the numbers above, then ask yourself the real question: would you eat that many specialty dinners if nobody had pre-sold them to you?
What I wouldn't prioritize
Three things on this ship take money or attention better spent elsewhere aboard.
Jamie's Italian. At 6.8 it's the weakest paid room on Anthem, Royal has been retiring the concept across the fleet, and dinner ran roughly $54–55 in July 2026. If you've always wanted to try it, do — it may not be there next year. But it should not be your one big night.
Johnny Rockets, if you're going for the food. It scores 6.2 and you're paying $12.99–14.99 plus 18% (March 2026, fleet-wide) for a burger the Windjammer will give you for nothing. Go if the chrome and the milkshakes are the point, or go because it's the last one in Quantum Class and that's a small piece of history. Don't go hungry and thrifty.
Any plan that assumes a teppanyaki table. There isn't one here, and booking "Izumi" expecting a knife show is the single most common way people are disappointed by this ship's dining. Section 07 has the full picture, including what we couldn't verify.
Dietary needs & eating with kids
Both are straightforward here, and one of them has an answer no sister ship can give you.
Dietary requirements run through the Main Dining Room, which is the reliable route on any Royal ship. Flag anything serious before you sail so the request is documented early, and speak with the dining team once you're aboard. Anthem's four rooms share one main-dining programme, so the unusual architecture shouldn't change Royal's normal dietary process.
The Windjammer labels allergens but it's a buffet, with all the cross-contact that implies. If the requirement is medical rather than preferential, eat in the dining rooms.
With kids, Anthem is easy. The free tier is fast and everywhere: Sorrento's for pizza past bedtime, the SeaPlex Dog House at the sports complex, Café Promenade for sandwiches, and the Windjammer when you need everyone fed in fifteen minutes. And then there's Johnny Rockets — genuinely the ship's family trump card, and the only one in Quantum Class. It isn't good value and it doesn't score well, but a milkshake and a jukebox will buy you a peaceful hour, and no sister ship can sell you that.
For a paid room with children, Wonderland is a better bet than it sounds. The theatre works on kids in a way a steakhouse doesn't — though it's a long, slow dinner, so judge your own table.
What to book first
Four paid rooms means a short booking list, but the order still matters — two of the four fill up and two don't.
Wonderland, before you board. It's a small room, it runs a slower service pattern than a steakhouse, and it's the one dinner on this ship you can't substitute. Use the Cruise Planner rather than the desk on day one.
Chops Grille next. It's the most-booked specialty room on every ship in this class, and the tables that survive to embarkation day are the ones nobody wanted — 5:30pm or 9:15pm.
Izumi and Jamie's can usually wait. Izumi is à la carte, which makes walking in far more practical, and Jamie's rarely fills. Both are reasonable day-one decisions made on board.
If you're in a suite, sort Coastal Kitchen on embarkation day — especially in Sea Class, where dinner is subject to availability and the good slots go to people who asked first. And if you want Chef's Table, book it early: it seats one table, not a room, and it carries a $49.99 surcharge even if you've bought the unlimited package.
How Anthem compares with her class
She finishes level with Quantum and Ovation at 8.1 — and the way she got there is different from both.
Anthem is Quantum's twin, never amplified. She launched a year after the original with essentially the same roster and has kept it: Wonderland, Jamie's Italian, sushi-only Izumi, Chops, the four-room Main Dining Complex, Coastal Kitchen for suites. Where Ovation spent a 2026 refit gaining Giovanni's and a teppanyaki room while losing Wonderland and Jamie's, Anthem changed nothing. Whether that's conservatism or good sense depends on which room you'd rather have.
Her one genuine distinction inside the class is Johnny Rockets. Quantum's was replaced in 2015; Ovation, Odyssey and Spectrum never had one. That makes Anthem's the last in Quantum Class — and honestly, it's a 6.2-scoring burger counter, not a reason to choose a ship. But it's real, it's hers alone, and this class shares only 10 of its 34 venues, so single-ship rooms carry more weight here than they would on Oasis Class.
The three-way tie at 8.1 is deliberate and we're not breaking it. Anthem and Ovation land on precisely the same weighted figure and Quantum sits fifteen thousandths back. Ranking them third, fourth and fifth would manufacture a distinction the evidence doesn't support. Above them, Odyssey at 8.3 is the westernised Quantum Ultra — the modern specialty mix without a market-specific roster — and Spectrum at 8.7 is the class outlier, built for the Asian market rather than cloned from this template.
The class thesis, if you want it in one line: on Quantum Class, the market shaped the menu more than the hull did — and with Ovation's 2026 refit, refits are starting to reshape it again. Anthem is the control group in that experiment.
The Quantum Class dining guide compares all five ships across every category, with a head-to-head tool for any two of them. Her nearest comparison is Quantum, and the ship most readers should consider instead is Odyssey.
Seabound Showdown
All five Quantum-Class ships on one scale.
Three ships finish level at 8.1 and we don't break the tie. Anthem and Ovation land on the same weighted figure; Quantum is fifteen thousandths behind, which is noise, not a ranking. What separates them is character rather than quality: Quantum is the least-changed, Ovation is the most-changed, and Anthem is Quantum's twin, still in near-original configuration — and the only ship in the class that kept Johnny Rockets. Ovation's refit changed what she is without changing how good she is, which is the single most interesting result in this class.
Quick answers
Does Anthem of the Seas have teppanyaki?
We publish Anthem's Izumi as sushi-only, with no separate teppanyaki room aboard — but you should know how confident we are. Cruise Critic's dedicated Izumi article sorts Anthem into the sushi-only group, which is the most specific evidence we have; two aggregator sites claim she also runs hibachi. We've gone with sushi-only because a dedicated article beats a database row, but we have not verified it firsthand. Across the class, Spectrum, Odyssey and post-refit Ovation have separate teppanyaki rooms; Quantum and Anthem don't. If teppanyaki is the reason you're booking, confirm it with Royal first.
What is the pub on Anthem called — Brass & Bock or Michael's Genuine?
We publish it as the deck-4 pub, Brass & Bock, formerly Michael's Genuine Pub — and we lean toward Brass & Bock without treating the question as closed. Three sources say each. Royal renamed the Michael's Genuine pubs across this class, giving the four ships four different names, and coverage hasn't caught up consistently. It changes nothing practical: one pub, one location on the Royal Esplanade, same beer list. If the onboard app doesn't find one name, search the other.
What's the best meal on Anthem that costs nothing extra?
Café @ Two70, at 8.0 — and that's the highest venue score on the ship, above Wonderland, Chops and Izumi. Made-to-order salads, pressed sandwiches and soups inside the best room aboard. Royal's own dining pages miscategorise it as specialty dining, which it isn't. After that, the Main Dining Complex at 7.5 and Solarium Bistro at 7.5, and Sorrento's past midnight because nothing else is open.
Is the Main Dining Room on Anthem really four restaurants?
No — it's one restaurant with four rooms. American Icon Grill, Chic, Silk and The Grande share a single rotating menu and a single kitchen, so what you get is four atmospheres rather than four menus. We score it as one venue at 7.5 for that reason. Quantum has the same arrangement, the four rooms are expected to have survived Ovation's 2026 refit, and Spectrum and Odyssey use single large dining rooms instead.
Does Anthem still have Johnny Rockets?
Yes, and she's the only ship in Quantum Class that does. Quantum's was replaced in 2015 and Ovation, Odyssey and Spectrum never had one. It scores 6.2, because you're paying about $12.99–14.99 plus 18% as of March 2026 — a fleet-wide figure — for burgers the Windjammer serves free. Worth it for the milkshakes and the room, not for the value.
What does specialty dining cost on Anthem?
For most rooms we won't tell you, because we can't date a figure we'd stand behind — check your Cruise Planner for Wonderland, Chops and Izumi. The exceptions: Jamie's Italian ran roughly $24–26 at lunch and $54–55 at dinner as of July 2026, which is the only ship-specific price published anywhere in this class and it happens to be Anthem's; Johnny Rockets was $12.99–14.99 plus 18% in March 2026, fleet-wide; and Chef's Table carries a $49.99 surcharge on top of an unlimited dining package, also fleet-wide. The calculator in section 12 runs on your numbers, not ours.
Should I buy the Unlimited Dining Package on Anthem?
Run the calculator in section 12 with your own figures, but go in skeptical. Anthem has four scored paid sit-down rooms, and the weakest of them is Jamie's Italian at 6.8. A package that pays off across Spectrum's seven restaurants has less to work with here, and by mid-week you may find yourself repeating Chops or eating somewhere because it's covered rather than because you want to. Note too that Chef's Table costs $49.99 extra even with the package.
Where is Anthem of the Seas sailing?
She's running 7-night Alaska itineraries from Seattle, and repositions to Sydney on 30 October 2026 for 3- to 11-night South Pacific and New Zealand sailings. That night range matters, but not in the direction people assume. A three-night sailing can work well if the package price is low and you plan to eat specialty every night; an eleven-night sailing can work badly if you only want four or five specialty meals. Run the total package price against the meals you'd actually buy, in section 12.
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