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🌴 Island guide

Restaurants
Maldives

The best tables in the Maldives, from authentic local cuisine to underwater fine dining.

⚠️ Timetables, opening hours, prices and access conditions may change without notice, for reasons beyond our control (season, weather, decisions by operators, venues or local authorities). Before every trip, check the information with the relevant authorities and service providers.

🐟Local Maldivian cuisine3 venues
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Seagull Café House
Malé · Maldives

A must-visit institution in Malé to discover authentic Maldivian cuisine: mas huni (shredded tuna, coconut and onion served with roshi, the local flatbread) at breakfast, and spicy fish curries at lunch.

Traditional mas huniTuna curryLocal prices
🌐Official pagefacebook.com→
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Malé fish market
Waterfront · Malé

The lively fish market on Malé's waterfront, open from dawn, is the perfect place to watch and buy the day's catch — skipjack tuna, snapper and swordfish.

Fresh tuna & snapperLocal atmosphereFrom 5 a.m.
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Shell Beans
Malé · Boduthakurufaanu Magu

Restaurant-café open for over 20 years in the Jazeera Building, opposite Malé harbour, with a wide menu (breakfast, Asian and Japanese cuisine, grills, pastries); open 7 am to 11 pm, Fridays from 2.30 pm.

MaléCafé
🌐Official pageshellbeans.com→
🍽️Resort fine-dining tables2 venues
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Subsix — Niyama Private Islands
Dhaalu Atoll · Maldives

A one-of-a-kind underwater restaurant, 6 metres below the lagoon surface. Fine dining surrounded by fish and coral through the glass walls.

Underwater restaurant6 m deepOne-of-a-kind experience
🌐Official websiteniyama.com→
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Romantic dinner on the beach
All atolls · Maldives

Almost every resort in the Maldives offers, on request, a private dinner on the beach or an isolated sandbank at sunset — a table set on the white sand.

Private dinner on white sandSunsetOn request at the resort
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