The South American Delight at The Heart of Emerald Maldives

The Amazonico restaurant has a unique concept and an untouched cuisine in the Maldives. Emerald Maldives is the only resort in the Maldives that features a fully operational South American restaurant – delivering an experience beyond the food.

Featuring a live cooking station the restaurant stands out from the rest with the native charcoal grill that is used by the original south americans to cook the very dishes. The grill makes the flavors more charismatic and the food even more original and tastier. If we looked into Brazil, Chile or any other country in the heart of Amazona and look back to the restaurant we can see the reflection and the delivery of the experiences are pure and original.

“The South American cuisine that everybody can enjoy, where there is so many spices and mixed of all the flavored well balanced. And the dishes are cooked in front of the guests and served to give the best experience”

Chef Fernando

The experiences at the Dinner only restaurant is sensational- open every night the restaurant offers changing buffets for starters and desserts. However, for the main course the restaurant offers an Ala Carte set menu with the best dishes from the South American cuisine. 

In the evolving travel industry, travelers now explore unique and thrilling experiences which is out of their reach in their everyday life. The culinary experiences are becoming and is forecasted to be on of the main reasons for travelers to choose their destination in the future!

We sat down with Anand Fernando, the sous chef of the restaurant to talk about the dishes, the environment and his own past experiences in the Maldives. Chef Fernando started his culinary expertise in the Maldives in 2004 at Embudu Village, later working in Four Seasons Resorts Maldives at Kuda Hura, Atmosphere Kanifushi in a span of 13 years. Now working at the Amazonica restaurant chef Fernando specializes in poultry and meat cooking – with the South American cuisine’s vast usage of these the chef is confident to deliver an exceptional service to the guests.

Chef Fernando delivered two native dishes from the cuisine to us, The Red Quinoa – a Peruvian dish featuring corn, parsley, mint leaves, hard boiled eggs and bell pepper. And Amaranth Salad- A Mexican starter which delivers great relaxation to the taste buds.

Emerald Maldives opened their doors to the world on 01^st August 2019, and the Amazonico has witnessed fully occupied dinners at their 45-60 seating for every night since then, and according to Chef Fernando the most preferred main dish, both by him and the guests is the Beef Picanha- A Brazilian dish with packs of flavors and tender red meat. When asked about the most suited drink with the dish he insisted that the Red Wine would go perfectly with the red meat. Emerald Maldives offers a selection of world class wines for their guests.