A large part of fine dining and experiencing exquisite cuisine is the setting and environment you’ve chosen to dine in. This is why so many of us really enjoy going out to eat: to indulge in the whole atmosphere. Many restaurants rely just as heavily on design and having a unique aroma as the taste and quality of the menu, because creating a unique patron experience is absolutely key to capturing a loyal niche market. Even the band Thievery Corporation was started as a result of Washington D.C. restaurant owners Rob Garza and Eric Hilton wanting to create a better, more interesting dining atmosphere at Eighteenth Street Lounge, and instead ended up capturing such a niche audience with their music that they ended up creating their own Eighteenth Street Lounge Music record label.
Now of course, this isn’t the goal of most restaurant owners, and dining atmospheres require a lot more than innovative soundscaping and audio experiences. Sometimes that excellent niche doesn’t necessarily capture a certain group or type of people, but rather a certain piece of everyone. Anantara Kihavah Villas in the Maldives provides just that experience that everyone would love to have at least once- underwater dining in the Indian Ocean in the most dispersed country in the world. The 1,190 coral islands are spread out over 90,000 square kilometers (one of the most epic views from a satellite dish), providing not only some of the best scuba diving and vacation spots in the world, but also a five star restaurant under the sea. The Anantara Kihavah Villas resort has a complete dining line up featuring a quartet of restaurants: Sea, Fire, Salt and Sky. Each restaurant has it’s own unique location, aroma, theme dishes and more.
Sea serves Mediterranean dishes and boasts an impressive underwater wine cellar, the total collection representing 14 different countries over 250 labels. A wall seat will feel more like a window seat of a submarine, where you can marvel at vibrant corals and colorful fish along the ocean floor. From an exquisite master chef to an alternative view of the Maldives, dining in the Sea restaurant of Anantara Kihava Villas is just the experience that will make food, company, and memories unforgettable.
