![]() Breakfast is served on the shore, alongside the likes of freshly squeezed watermelon juice and green smoothies. An ode to Aegean food, Helios’ Turkish chef team serves up hot and cold mezze, featuring divine menemem eggs with onions, peppers and spices baked halloumi with pomegranate molasses and golden honeycomb draped with thick creamy kaimek, all scooped up onto freshly baked sesame simit. Its diversity is so impressive that guests from the nearby hotels are popping over to take advantage.īeachfront breakfasts reign supreme at Helios in the island’s north. Not so at Patina, where the 12 restaurants sprawled across this small sand stretch cook up an extensive range of cuisines. Stuck on an island for a week with the same two restaurants soon becomes boring and bland. Simply put, Patina’s restaurants have raised the bar for Maldivian resort food and done away with one of the biggest problems travellers face here: the captive audience conundrum. (Image credit: Georg Roske) Eating and drinking The crowning glory is James Turrell’s Amarta, a huge edifice artwork designed to frame the sky and manipulate its moving canvas with coloured lights. Sculptures, tapestries and photographs decorate both outdoor and indoor spaces. Arriving at the spa, we’re offered a gummy vitamin, 3-D printed and tailored to promote inner peace. The spa is a host of immersion tanks, yoga studios, private pool rooms and massage suites, and is kitted out by organic British brand Haeckels that’s doing sensational things with seaweed and other sustainable natural resources. The resort also hides a wealth of activities and art. Formed primarily from a beautiful grey wood that looks weather-washed despite its newness, you could believe Patina has always been here. Brazilian architect Marcio Kogan designed the resort so that it blends into the palms, never peeking over the highest trees and with each room always just out of view from the sinuous sand avenues. On land, the suites, rooms and restaurants seem to organically appear from the undergrowth. (Image credit: Georg Roske) Art and wellness
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