Dine with the fishes at Hilton Maldives' underwater restaurant

(Credit: Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa)

What I really should be saying about this, just to tick off fellow Craver Mike Yamamoto, is that I wish this underwater restaurant were off the coast of Antarctica, so that I could go and see some penguins swim by. Alas, I don't know how well that could be accommodated with all the, you know, heating that'd have to be installed. But I digress. The Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa has recently opened the Ithaa Undersea restaurant, which is indeed underwater. A blogger at Table of Malcontents seemed rather disgusted at the prospect of dining in an establishment where there were fish swimming around everywhere, but personally I think it'd be pretty cool. The cuisine is described as "Maldivian-Western fusion," which sounds good to me as long as there's some tasty calamari on the menu.

I'm sure their prices are nice and reasonable, too. Ha ha ha.

[radiationman]

There's a cheaper and easier option

And it's been around a whole lot longer too..

The Coral Reef Restaurant in EPCOT's The Living Seas pavilion is part of the "largest inland saltwater environment ever built" From your table 85 different species of tropical fish can watch you dine... Or the other way around!

http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw/dining/diningDetail?id=CoralReefDiningPage

[JustAMuggle]

You might want to buy an atlas...

There is no Antartic Ocean...

[caroline.mccarthy]

Indeed there is not.

Thanks for pointing it out; correction made. I'll take that as an indicator that I should use Google Earth more.

[make_or_break]

Oh yes there is (or was)

As proof of sorts, search for the article 'Southern Ocean' over at Wikipedia; in it you'll find a reference to the unofficial name of 'Antarctic Ocean', which was dropped in favor of 'Southern Ocean' as designated in 2000 by, er...um...the "ocean designators"...the International Hydrographic Organization (don't ask me, I've never heard of them before either). However, I was aware that among many old time mariners the regions around Antarctica are often referred to as either the Antarctic Ocean or the Southern Ocean, even if the map and globe makers often see it otherwise.