Best five vegan-friendly All-Inclusive Resorts in the Maldives.
Vegan is not a dietary requirement anymore. Its a lifestyle. The Maldives Possibly one of the most beautiful places on earth, with crystal clear waters, marine, white sand beaches and sunsets to die for. The Maldives is often a trip of a lifetime, perhaps for your honeymoon or to celebrate something special, or maybe just for an indulgent trip to paradise. Not all resorts in the Maldives are vegan friendly. We have identified five all-inclusive resorts that cater well for vegans.
Over the years we’ve been visiting, the Maldives has certainly embraced vegan travel growth, with veggie restaurants, vegan menus, and even a vegan restaurant now being available if you choose wisely. If you decide to book a vegan luxury escape to the Maldives, it’s best to contact them to tell them you are vegan. We’ve found that it’s useful to give people as much time as possible to prepare and make any special adjustments needed before you arrive in your tropical paradise.
Here is our choice for the Best five vegan-friendly All-Inclusive Resorts in the Maldives.
Light, texture, taste, memory… An exclusive dining experience involving all your senses.
It is located in the organic veggie garden and surrounded by nature, be prepared to enjoy culinary creations that stimulate all the senses. With a combination of colours, flavours and textures, Phat Chameleon is the first organic, vegan and vegetarian restaurant in the Maldives with à la carte and live cooking delights. It’s only open for Dinner.
Get ready to try this genuinely original culinary concept: a vegetarian restaurant for non-vegetarians!
Phat Chameleon by Pullman is an inspiring, innovative, gourmet cuisine. A genuinely atmospheric dining experience focused on long-term sustainability, ensuring that all ingredients are grown organically on the island and then turned into something magical in the kitchen.
Once you make your booking at Phat Chameleon, you will be invited to join the picking time. This culinary experience begins with a walk around the Chef’s garden to become familiar with the locally grown products and pick your own herbs and veggies for your meal.
At Pullman Maldives, fueling your performance becomes part of a more significant cycle. Never has done your bit for the environment been so delicious. Watch your feast come to fruition at the live cooking station, or have a moment of quiet contemplation in the garden.
2. Atmosphere Kanifushi Maldives
Atmosphere Kanifushi is a premium all-inclusive resort, and home to the first vegetarian restaurant in the Maldives called Just Veg. Expect towering tall palm trees, fine white sand, crystal clear turquoise ocean and superbly appointed villas with their own beach access. It’s hard not to love this place with the carefree vibes, flowing vegan food and drinks and a typical Maldivian picture-postcard landscape.
One of the things that we loved the most about Atmosphere Kanifushi was meeting so many people opting to eat in Just Veg despite being vegetarian or vegan. They were full of praise for the food they’d been served, and most of them went back for more – it’s great to hear that it wasn’t just us that thought this place was impressive!
The first thing to mention about the food and drink (which included wine and premium spirits that were vegan) is that it’s freely available everywhere as part of your ‘Platinum Plus Package’.
Breakfast is served buffet-style in the main restaurant ‘Spice’, there are plenty of vegan options from more traditional western cooked breakfasts, continental breakfasts (with amazing vegan bread) and a regular offering of spicy lentil dahl too.
Our favourite thing about breakfast, though, was the ‘fruit bar’ where one of the Atmosphere Kanifushi team awaits to freshly prepare your chosen fruit from the wide variety on offer, then expertly chops it upright in front of you before sending you off with a vast, healthy fruit plate.
There are a few different lunch options, with the DIY salad from the fresh salad bar in Spice being a great quick and healthy option.
3. Emerald Maldives Resort & Spa
As part of its deluxe all-inclusive offering resort has announced its new plant-based menus across all six F&B outlets, including award-winning restaurant Amazònico. Inspired by increasing guest appetite for healthy food options and the trend towards vegan dining, all the new recipes will be complemented by a creative list of mocktails.
Amazònico will now offer both vegan and vegetarian dishes, including the Jardin Quemado and Chilean Salads, while the resort’s Aqua Restaurant has created a new vegan pumpkin soup, made using fresh pumpkins from the hotel’s vegetable patch will be available.
Elsewhere, Le Asiatique has created a special vegan fried rice, and at the Beach Grill, guests can enjoy a cooling tomato gazpacho. Sweet treats include blueberry and orange cakes and Emerald Maldive’s healthy green tea crème brûlée.
For the ultimate take of plant-based luxury, the resort has also launched a vegan floating breakfast to be enjoyed in the privacy of guest’s own pools. Its the Maldives first Vegan floating Breakfast. Dishes include almond chia seed pudding, fresh bread, fruit salads, herbal teas and exotic fresh juices.
Emerald Maldives introduced the ‘Green Corner’ at Aqua restaurant in January in addition to the new menus. Guests will choose from various ingredients from which to prepare their own smoothies and juices, and these refreshing drinks will also be available at both the Sunrise and Sunset Pools Bars and new for 2021 – in the villa’s very own minibars.
Recognising the increased interest in alcohol-free beverages, the hotel is also launching a new mocktail menu for 2021, with drinks such as non-alcoholic Mango Mule or Passionfruit Daiquiri to look forward to.
At Heritance Aarah, guests are treated to a host of dining options from various world cuisines in a serene lagoon setting. Mealtimes are relaxed and informal, with a creative emphasis on our Dining by Design concept for an uninterrupted culinary experience in a location of the guest’s choice. Heritance Culinary team are the highest no of Culinary Olympic medal winners in the Maldives.
An enticingly light and airy coastal style pavilion offers a combination of the sumptuous buffet, live cooking stations, theme nights and a wide variety of Organic, Vegan and Vegetarian Options available in Ranba Restaurant. A comprehensive vegan menu is open in all 6 restaurants. Ambula contemporary Sri Lankan cuisine restaurant will offer a special vegan menu for Dinner.
Following on from the success of Just Veg at Atmosphere Kanifushi, Atmosphere Hotels and Resorts included Simply Vegas, one of the dining options at OBLU SELECT at Sangli. Simply Veg is a pure vegetarian restaurant with a stunning location and plenty of vegan options available. It’s not just the vegan food you’ll love here; the convenient place, the selection of beach or overwater villas and the ‘Premium All Inclusive’ concept make this a great choice in the Maldives.
Breakfast is served atThe Courtyard’ with the white sands and turquoise ocean as a backdrop. The buffet includes fruits, salads, bread, and cereals (with soya milk available), but the vegan Maldivian curry excited you. Light, fragrant with a subtle hint of chilli that worked so well with the creamy coconut milk we would happily eat for breakfast every day. Served with basmati rice and Maldivian Roshi it was very satisfying indeed. The Chef will help you navigate the buffet and make ‘off menu’ items for us that would be plant-based.