Ithaa The Maldives Underwater Restaurant

In 2005 the world’s first almost all-glass underwater restaurant was opened in Maldives by Conrad Maldives Rangali Resort. Ithaa Underwater restaurant was stunningly descended five meters into the breathtaking waters of the beautiful Maldives. Ithaa in Maldivian Dhivehi language means a pearl. As the name indicates, this inimitable, unique restaurant is like a pearl beneath the waves of the Indian Ocean.




Ithaa Underwater Restaurant is enclosed in a curved acrylic wall which provides the capacity of 14 diners with a 180-degree panoramic view. This gives the visitors the pleasure to enjoy a spectacular view of the beautiful lagoon’s underwater while relishing the contemporary European cuisine on a six-course set menu dinner. This is the first of its kind restaurant in the world where the visitors get the propitious opportunity to gaze into the clear lagoon and all the magnificent, colourful coral gardens, tropical fish and reef fish in it. As a result, Ithaa restaurant is being counted as one of the most beautiful restaurants in the world. This however has made the restaurant to be amongst the most expensive restaurants where you can dine in since this is one of the most high-class, elite places one can visit after all. It has already been appraised as “the most beautiful restaurant” by the New York Daily News in 2014.



Conrad Maldives Rangali has so far made various trends in the resort dining by providing the visitors with something exclusive such as offering fascinating surroundings. Being the first resort to open an underwater restaurant in the world, Conrad Maldives Rangali was also the first to build an underground wine cellar and the first to establish a cheese bar. It was also the first resort to invite world-class chefs and winemakers to its island. It is regarded as to offer the region’s largest wine list with around 20,000 bottles of approximately 1400 labels in the wine cellar. The resort has proved that the isolated location would not prevent a determined, luxurious resort from achieving continuous fineness or from setting the bar higher for other competitors.



Ithaa opens daily at 11:00 Hrs and closes at 00:00 Hrs, the dress code is smart or smart casual. Childen are welcome at lunch, there is an adult-only policy for dinner time as guests would want a quiet and memorable moment. Many guests from Conrad Maldives and visitors from other resorts often mark important events at this iconic dinner location. Children making unwanted noises could ruin the experience, so we are glad that Conrad keep this policy. Allowing children during lunch time means they can still enjoy the underwater world, they are not banned all together. Conrad Maldives Rangali also has 11 other restaurants and bars with distinctive and separate menus which also include the recently opened Ufaa by Jereme Leung, one of the most creative Asian pioneer of Modern Chinese Cuisines as well. All the restaurants in the resort could be rated among the finest restaurants in the world for its miscellany of cuisine and exceptional scenery.



There are many possibilities and options available at Ithaa undersea restaurant. You can book this outlet for a group lunch exclusively for your family or corporate team. Every year Maldives hosts several corporate travelers, many from China. They often hold business events such as awarding ceremony to recognise and reward best perfoming employees, usually done by some of the multinational corporations from China. This underwater restaurant would be an amazing place to hold such functions. Memorable ceremony talking place under the surface of the sea with different species of fish present to witness the occasion would be amazing and memorable for participants.

Other than group lunch the restaurant can also do private lunch for a couple. If you are doing a proposal to your girlfriend this would be a wonderful venue. You may want to decorate the underwater world with flowers and decorative pillars or Maldivian palm leaves. How you want to decorate is upto you to figure out or we can coordinate with the resort team and propose you a design for approval. If you want it to be simple and make it a surprice you could do a private underwater lunch in Ithaa without decorations so that the girl would not anticipate a proposal planned to take place. Private lunch will make her feel special as the whole outlet is for you both, it would certainly be some of the rare experiences in the world. Private dinner may be possible if there are no reservations made for the date. Guests visiting Conrad as well as other resorts often make reservations several months in advance.

After successful operation of world's first undersea restaurant for 13 years, in 2018 the resort introduced a private residence for underwater hotel experience that includes 2 additional bedrooms located above the surface along with other luxury facilities including kithcen, private pool and butler quarter. Despite proven technology there is a security officer who also monitor villa safety. Design of this undersea room is almost the same as Ithaa restaurant, the evelator is an addition and there is also a bathroom, this makes the structure slightly bigger. The acrylic glass used for arch-shaped roof has a thickness of 180mm, the same material used in their restaurant is slighly thinner at 125mm.



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