Dining

The resort’s restaurants are well-catered to eating and drinking pleasures. Dr. Ali’s leads the restaurant selection with three distinctive living rooms that focus on fine cuisine from the Indian Ocean, the South China Sea and the Arabian Gulf. For quality café dining during the day and refined Western fare in the evening, Javvu will delight guests. And if you seek an exceptional Maldives dining experience, find it as you lunch aboard a luxury yacht while cruising on the equator.

Dine by Design

Discover new dining experiences in some of the resort’s most secret locations. Be it a torch lit dinner under the banyan trees of the resort’s jungle, a spa dinner in the privacy of a meditation pavilion overlooking the ocean, a romantic in-villa evening or a dinner of local ingredients freshly prepared in the Chef’s Garden, our culinary team will help create a memorable experience.

View the resort's Dine by Design brochure  

Shangri-La’s Villingili Resort & Spa has four exceptional bars and lounges, offering a choice of atmospheric milieu for chilling out or being invigorated. 

Executive Chef 

Irish Executive Chef Brian Porteus has more than 20 years of international culinary experience as a classically French-trained chef who received training in some of the world's most exclusive restaurants, including the Michelin-starred restaurants 90 Park Lane at Grosvenor House Hotel, London and the Le Manoir Aux Quat’Saisons restaurant in Great Milton (England). He was also chef instructor at the Castle Leslie Cookery School in Glaslough, Ireland.

Chef Brian’s cooking style is based on traditional French techniques imbued with modern and mature fusion cuisine, emphasising simplicity, freshness and natural textures with cultural influences. He inspires imagination in the kitchen while sourcing ingredients locally when possible, always at their freshest. Chef Brian’s goal at Shangri-La’s Villingili Resort and Spa is to create not just great dishes but memorable experiences.