Spectrum of the Seas is the Royal Caribbean ship built for China, and the question we’re asked most about her is simple: what’s the food actually like, and what does it cost?
So here’s every menu we photographed on our sailing from Shanghai to Okinawa in October 2025: the included restaurants, the speciality dining (including a few you won’t find on any other Royal Caribbean ship), the bars and cafés, and even the room service card. Tap any photo to see it full size.
Good to know: prices are as printed on board, in US dollars, even on a China sailing. Some lists print the number without a symbol. An 18% gratuity is added to drinks and speciality dining. Menus and prices change, so use this as a guide; we’re back on Spectrum in November 2026 and will update this page afterwards.
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Spectrum of the Seas drinks prices at a glance
| Drink | Where | Price (US$) |
|---|---|---|
| Bubble milk tea | Leaf & Bean | $3.50 |
| Mocktail | Jamie’s Italian | $4.50 |
| Alcohol-free cocktail | Pool bars | $6 |
| Heineken (330ml) | Pool bars | $6.50 |
| Osmanthus Lotus cocktail | Pool bars | $9 |
| Aperol Spritz | Jamie’s Italian | $11 |
| Cocktails | Izumi | $12 |
| Shanghai Sling | Pool bars | $12 |
| Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc | Main Dining Room | $12 a glass, $54 a bottle |
| Cocktails | Wonderland | $13 |
| Espresso Martini | Jamie’s Italian | $14 |
| Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label | Vintages | $24 a glass, $96 a bottle |
Included dining on Spectrum of the Seas
Main Dining Room menu
Our last night’s dinner menu was headed “Bon Voyage”, and it’s a lovely snapshot of how Spectrum blends East and West. Baked French onion soup sits next to Shanghai-style deep-fried shrimp, pecan-crusted salmon shares a page with Beijing minced pork noodles, and there’s crema catalana for pudding. Steamed white rice is always available.
A Premium Selections panel lists the dishes you pay extra for:
- Seafood Tower: $99
- Seafood Platter: $35
- Surf & Turf: $35
- Maine Lobster: $29
- Filet Mignon: $18
The wine list runs from Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc (12 a glass, 54 a bottle) up to Perrier-Jouët Belle Époque at 177. Chinese liquor is on there too, with Moutai Yingbin at 172 a bottle, which tells you exactly which market this ship was built for.
Premium selections, Bon Voyage dinner and wine list
The Key embarkation lunch
Bought The Key? You skip the embarkation-day scrum in the Windjammer for a sit-down lunch in the Main Dining Room: Caesar salad, wild mushroom soup or colossal shrimp cocktail to start; a Chops dry-aged steak burger, Angus filet mignon or grilled salmon; then Royal Chocolate Cake, New York cheesecake or ice cream. It’s included in The Key, so there are no prices. We had the shrimp cocktail and steak frites, and we’d do exactly the same again.
Embarkation lunch menu
Windjammer
The buffet has an International Flavours section and a showcase table of the speciality restaurants, with sample dishes and menus: a handy way to decide where to splurge. Look out for the Chinese liquor board, something you won’t see on a Caribbean sailing: Moutai Yingbin (500ml) $172, Wuliangchun (500ml) $38 and Star Blue (150ml) $11.
Speciality showcase and Chinese liquor board
The Café @ Two70
A grab-and-go spot with pita pockets, parcels, a Royal Egg Muffin, a New York bagel station and a breakfast burrito. Perfect for a quiet breakfast with a view through Two70’s enormous glass wall.
Menu boards
Speciality dining on Spectrum of the Seas
Speciality restaurants carry a cover charge or à la carte prices, and the prices change from sailing to sailing, so we haven’t printed them for Wonderland or Chef’s Table. Check the price for your sailing in your Cruise Planner before you go. Eating at several? Look at the Unlimited Dining Package; our full guide is on the way.
Wonderland menu
Royal Caribbean’s “imaginative cuisine” restaurant, where the menu is the first course: it arrives completely blank and you paint it with water to reveal the dishes. Ours was a five-course journey through the elements:
- Fire: Mad Hatter’s Purple Potted Shrimp
- Sun, Ice and Fire: Baby Vegetables in the Garden (the famous edible soil), Crispy Crab Cones and Deviled Eggs
- Fire: Wonton Soup
- Sea or Earth: Seafood Cooked in Clear Paper, or The Short Ribs
- Dream: The World, or The Forbidden Apple
Cocktails were $13 each, including the White Rabbit-rita, the Cheshire Cat Cosmo (poured over raspberry candyfloss at the table), Down the Rabbit Hole (red pill or blue pill) and Smoke Rings, a rye cocktail smoked at your table.
Menu and cocktails
Izumi Teppanyaki menu
Dinner and a show: eggs flipped, an onion volcano set alight and a wind-up chick sent across the grill. Green salad with ginger dressing, miso soup and vegetable fried rice are included. Then you choose a Teppan Classic (chicken, beef or shrimp) or a Teppan Premier Combo (Samurai, Origami, Geisha, or Izumi with scallops and lobster). Dessert was sesame balls or mochi ice cream.
Appetisers are extra:
- Jumbo Spring Roll: $8
- Crispy Octopus Takoyaki: $9 (don’t miss these)
- Softshell Crab Steamed Bun: $12
- Crispy Philly Roll: $13
- Shrimp Crunch Roll: $13
Drinks: all cocktails $12, sake 10 a glass (hot or cold), Choya Umeshu 13 a glass or 29 a bottle, Asahi and Kirin Ichiban 7, genmai brown rice tea 2.95.
Food, cocktails, sake and wine
Sichuan Red menu (only on Spectrum)
Sichuan Red is exclusive to Spectrum of the Seas, and it’s one of the best reasons to sail her. It also runs a late-night menu from 9pm to 10:30pm, priced per dish:
- Fried Chicken with Chilli Peppers: $16
- Kung Pao Prawns: $17
- Green Pepper Chicken: $13
- Kao Yu Simmer Pot (fried fish over tofu and vegetables in a spicy broth): $35
- Tender Beef in Chilli and Pepper Sauce with Bean Curd: $15
- Pickled Radish and Duck Soup: $6
- Hot and Sour Soup, Chengdu style: $6
- Poached Wontons in Chilli Oil: $4
- Garlic Broccoli: $4
Late-night menu and dinner menu
Jamie’s Italian menu
Jamie Oliver’s restaurant serves a Pranzo (lunch) menu of antipasti, pasta, secondi and contorni, including a truffle burrata with honey, hazelnuts and toast, and the Straight Up Lasagne. The bilingual drinks list had Aperol Spritz $11, Espresso Martini $14, Birra Moretti $6.99, all mocktails $4.50, and Ruffino Prosecco and Bertani Pinot Grigio at $11 and $12 a glass.
Lunch, drinks and wine
Star & Sky Dining lunch menu (suites only)
Star & Sky is Spectrum’s suite-only restaurant, her version of Coastal Kitchen (Spectrum doesn’t have a Coastal Kitchen). We’re staying in a suite on our next Spectrum sailing, so we’ll add more then.
We had lunch here on our last sea day. Starters included Nanjing-style duck and a scallop crudo with caviar and yuzu gel; mains were roasted cod with honey barbecue sauce or a grilled tenderloin steak sandwich on ciabatta; and pudding was a warm apple crumble with Tahitian vanilla ice cream.
Starters, mains and desserts
Chef’s Table menu with wine pairings
The most special meal of our trip: a private room beside Chops Grille, six courses and a wine for every one.
| Course | Dish | Paired with |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scallop carpaccio, yuzu vinaigrette, crispy quinoa | Château Ste. Michelle Riesling |
| 2 | Smoked tomato soup, focaccia croutôns, parmesan | Whispering Angel Rosé |
| 3 | Maine lobster salad, hearts of palm, pineapple, vanilla dressing | Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc |
| 4 | Roasted branzino, courgette, peppers, lemon confit, pesto | La Crema Chardonnay |
| 5 | Grilled filet mignon, truffle potato purée, asparagus, bordelaise | Decoy Cabernet Sauvignon |
| 6 | The World: peanut butter ganache, Valrhona chocolate mousse, salted caramel gelato | Salted caramel espresso martini |
Tasting menu
Bars and cafés on Spectrum of the Seas
Pool bar drinks menu
The main drinks list mixes the classics with Chinese touches:
- Osmanthus Lotus: 9
- Shanghai Sling and Appletini: 12
- Peach Margarita: 10
- Beefeater: 9, Patrón Añejo: 12
- Snow beer (330ml): 6.99, Heineken (330ml): 6.50
- Tsingtao (600ml): 9.25, marked “not included in the beverage package”
- Alcohol-free cocktails such as Beijing to Shanghai and Lychee Bayberry Tea: 6
- Coca-Cola 3.25, Wang Lao Ji herbal tea 3, 500ml water 2
Drinks menu, all pages
Vintages wine bar
The quiet, grown-up alternative to a pub. Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label 24 a glass or 96 a bottle, Chandon Brut 11 / 55, Whispering Angel 14 / 55, Cloudy Bay Pinot Noir 18 / 72, and Opus One at 499 a bottle if it’s that kind of night.
Wine list
Leaf & Bean café and bubble tea
This is where Spectrum feels most like Shanghai. Bubble milk tea was $3.50 in original, cantaloupe, matcha and taro. The boards cover espresso, sparkling fruit drinks, fruit teas and cheese teas: a Sparkling Green Grape was $3 and a Dragonfruit Cheese Tea $5.50. Japanese snacks were $3.75. An 18% gratuity is added.
Bubble tea, drinks boards and snacks
Room service breakfast menu
Hang the card on your door before bed and tick a delivery slot between 6am and 11am. The continental breakfast is free: juices, pastries, cereals, fruit and yoghurt. The American breakfast (eggs, omelettes, pancakes and sides) costs $7.95 per delivery, plus 18% gratuity, and mimosas and Bloody Marys are charged at bar prices. Our omelette arrived bang on time for the 7:30 slot.
Breakfast card
Before you sail: Shanghai and Okinawa
Starbucks Reserve Roastery, Shanghai
A must on your last morning before boarding. Prices are in RMB: a Yunnan coffee flight 128, Shanghai-exclusive drinks such as “789 West NJ Rd” (52) and “The Bund Mist” (62), a Very Pistachio oat latte 58, coffee craft beer 68, and Bar Mixato cocktails from 78 to 118. The rest of that morning is in our boarding Spectrum from Shanghai guide.
Starbucks Reserve Roastery Shanghai, October 2025
Okinawa: Suitenrou awamori tasting
Our Ryukyu lunch on Kokusai-dōri came with a six-glass tasting of awamori, Okinawa’s own spirit (not sake, as we’d been calling it), including one with a habu snake in the bottle. The full day is in cruising to Okinawa with Royal Caribbean.
Suitenrou, Naha, October 2025
Spectrum of the Seas menu FAQs
Are prices on Spectrum of the Seas in US dollars?
Yes. Even on China sailings, the menus we saw were priced in US dollars. Some lists print the number without a symbol.
Is there a gratuity on drinks and speciality dining?
Yes. The menus note that an 18% gratuity is added.
Is Sichuan Red on other Royal Caribbean ships?
No. Sichuan Red is exclusive to Spectrum of the Seas.
Is room service free on Spectrum of the Seas?
The continental breakfast is. The American breakfast carries a $7.95 service fee per delivery, plus an 18% gratuity.
Is Tsingtao included in the drinks package?
Not on our sailing: the 600ml Tsingtao was marked as not included in the beverage package.
Can I get familiar Western food on board?
Absolutely. We had bacon and beans for breakfast and French onion soup at dinner. The Main Dining Room and the Windjammer always have Western options alongside the Chinese dishes.
Sail Spectrum of the Seas with us
We’re back on Spectrum of the Seas in November 2026, and in March 2027 we’re hosting our own group, Shanghai to Sakura: four nights in Shanghai, then eight nights on Spectrum to Kobe and Tokyo, with flights from the UK and us looking after everything.