Make Your Own Pasta on Carnival Magic

One of the signature features of Carnival ships is the large variety of choices for dining.  On most of their ships they have an Italian speciality restaurant that charges $15/person.   For lunch that same restaurant is open with a more limited menu, but still delicious food and it is included.in your cruise fare.  Your are provided a menu when you enter which you fill out.  

You leave this at your table and your server takes it back to the kitchen.  

We tried a couple of different sauces.  The white clam  had some whole clams in a delicious garlicy and buttery sauce. I added Italian sausage, mushrooms and zucchini to the farfelle pasta. 

Also tried the Alfredo sauce with farfelle and shrimp.  

My favorite item was the meat lasagna.  I was expecting a decent lasagna but was so impressed. 

I thought it would be ground beef and perhaps some veggies.  Instead the delicate layers of pasta had some delicious braised short ribs along with a savory, chunky sauce.  It was better then the vegetable lasagna I had in the dining room the first night.  Surprisingly they don't serve lasagna in the dinner menu so this is a unique offering you can only get at the complimentary lunch.