If you're booking Norwegian Bliss and wondering whether Cagney's Steakhouse is worth the specialty dining cost, this honest review is for you. After spending weeks dining at Princess Cruises' Crown Grill steakhouse, we put Norwegian Cruise Line's flagship steakhouse to the ultimate test. Four entrées. Four opinions. One winner. Is Cagney's Steakhouse on the Norwegian Bliss really worth the specialty dining cover charge? Or does Princess Crown Grill still reign supreme? We're giving you the unfiltered truth in this Cagney's Steakhouse review. Join us (and our friends Allison & Craig) for a full walkthrough of the Cagney's Steakhouse menu, atmosphere, service, and final score — including the BEST French onion soup we've ever had at sea, and where this Norwegian Bliss specialty restaurant fell short. 🚢 CRUISE DINING INFO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍽️ Restaurant: Cagney's Steakhouse 🛳️ Ship: Norwegian Bliss 🌊 Cruise Line: Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) 🏔️ Itinerary: Alaska Cruise 💵 Approx. Cost: ~$60 per person (without specialty dining package) What We Ordered: • Ribeye Steak (medium rare) • Prime Rib (medium rare) • French Onion Soup • Iceberg Wedge Salad with Anchovies • Maryland Crab Cake • Shrimp Cocktail • Truffle Mashed Potatoes • Garlic Mushrooms • Creamed Spinach • Berry Crème Brûlée • Butterscotch Cheesecake ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ TOP TIPS FROM OUR CAGNEY'S REVIEW ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Order the French Onion Soup — it's the BEST at sea ✅ Don't skip the Maryland Crab Cake — truly impressive ✅ Order steaks ONE doneness rarer than you want ✅ Ask for blue cheese with your ribeye (it's not automatic) ✅ The truffle mashed potatoes are a must-try side ✅ Skip the bread — it comes out cold (unlike Princess) ✅ Book your Cagney's reservation EARLY on sea days ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 ABOUT BRIDGING THE POND ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ We're Del & Leslie — a British-American couple sharing honest travel, cruise, hotel, and restaurant reviews across the US and Europe. From luxury Alaska cruises to hidden gems in Italy, we bridge two worlds, one experience at a time. 🔔 Subscribe for new honest travel & cruise reviews every week 💬 LET'S CHAT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👉 Have YOU dined at Cagney's Steakhouse on Norwegian Bliss? 👉 Do you agree — Princess Crown Grill is better than NCL Cagney's? 👉 Drop your honest opinion below — we read EVERY comment! If this Cagney's review helped you, smash that LIKE button, SUBSCRIBE for more honest cruise reviews, and SHARE with a friend who's cruising soon! 🛳️ #NorwegianBliss #CagneysSteakhouse #AlaskaCruise #NCL #CruiseReview #CruiseFood #NorwegianCruiseLine #SpecialtyDining #CruiseDining #CrownGrill #PrincessVsNorwegian #BridgingThePond #CruiseTips #SteakhouseReview #AlaskaCruise2025
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finally someone telling the truth, we have been on the Bliss twice first Cagneys experience not good, gave it a try again as I saw so many rave reviews well I was worse than the first time. Sides were mediocre and the steaks weren't even as good as Outback not a fan of that just using it as an example. for that much of an uncharge I should be much much better, HAL and Carnival were both better steak houses looking forward to our first princess cruise in august. thanks for an excellent review.