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Seychelles

Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries across Seychelles in the En Primeur Club guide.

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Seychelles luxury dining and travel destination

Our Seychelles guide holds 29 venues across 12 cities. Mahé has 10 of them, the largest city total, with further venues on Silhouette Island, Praslin, Desroches Island, and Fregate Island. Dining formats in the guide include fine dining, tasting menus, buffet service, and beachfront grills. Exceptional, sommelier-led wine programmes with extensive wine lists and World’s Best Wine Lists 3-Star awards sit at Cyann Restaurant in Port Launay and at Diva in Anse Kerlan. Diva also holds Star Wine List accreditation. Losean Restaurant in Baie Ste Anne keeps a wine programme with a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence and a Star Wine List award, both from 2026. Cyann also serves a tasting menu with à la carte and small plates. On Mahé, Aperçu des spécialités culinaires serves a tasting menu, set menu, and prix fixe around a 3D projection show. On Fregate Island, Anse Bambous Beach Bar & Restaurant pairs beachfront seafood and grill cooking with an extensive wine list, and craft cocktails.

Restaurants with serious wine programmes

These are the rooms where wine is part of the draw, with sommelier-led lists, programmes, and award recognition in the resort dining tier.

Cyann Restaurant
A fine dining restaurant in Port Launay with tasting menu, à la carte, and small plates service, Cyann Restaurant pairs modern French-Asian fusion with sushi and an exceptional wine programme. Its World’s Best Wine Lists 3-Star recognition places it among the Indian Ocean’s more seriously dining rooms.
Diva
Diva in Anse Kerlan serves Mediterranean fine dining à la carte in a resort setting, with an exceptional sommelier-led wine programme and an extensive wine list. The restaurant holds Star Wine List accreditation dated 2026 and World’s Best Wine Lists 3-Star awards, the latest dated 2025.
Losean Restaurant
In Baie Ste Anne, Losean Restaurant serves Seychelles seafood and international cooking, with à la carte service and buffet, including breakfast buffets and seafood dinners from a terrace with sea views. It holds a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence dated 2026 and Star Wine List White Star recognition.
Anse Bambous Beach Bar & Restaurant
Anse Bambous Beach Bar & Restaurant on Fregate Island is a beachfront bar and restaurant serving seafood and grill cooking à la carte, with light lunches and drinks on one of Fregate Island’s main beaches. The wine programme has an extensive wine list and craft cocktails.

Tasting menus and formal dining rooms

Seychelles has a small set of restaurants built around tasting menus or polished resort dining, with format and wine support that suit longer meals.

Cyann Restaurant
Cyann Restaurant in Port Launay runs tasting menu service alongside à la carte and small plates, all within a beachfront fine dining setting. The room’s artistic plating and strong wine programme place it at the formal end of Mahé’s dining scene in our guide.
Aperçu des spécialités culinaires
In Baie Lazare, Aperçu des spécialités culinaires presents immersive European fine dining through a tasting menu, set menu, and prix fixe formats. The 3D projection show defines the room, while the Seychelles resort context keeps the focus on how an international hotel audience experiences local cooking.
Claudine
Claudine on Desroches Island is a Mediterranean Riviera-inspired European restaurant at the Four Seasons resort on a remote private island in the Seychelles. The restaurant has ocean views. Service is all-day and poolside, with à la carte and buffet. The wine programme has an extensive wine list, craft cocktails, and zero-proof options.

Resort restaurants on the outer islands

These venues show how dining works on private islands, where remoteness, beach access, and hotel format shape the meal as much as the menu.

Ahi
Ahi on Desroches Island is a refined beachfront Japanese sushi and sake restaurant at Four Seasons Resort Seychelles at Desroches Island. Plates are served à la carte and as small plates. The drinks programme includes sake, craft cocktails, and zero-proof options.
Cafe Dauban
Cafe Dauban on Silhouette Island is a main resort buffet restaurant with themed dinners that change nightly and breakfast service over the Indian Ocean. It belongs to the island’s small dining circuit, where resort logistics and local sourcing shape the meal more than formal table theatre.
Aria
Aria on Silhouette Island is part of the island’s small dining circuit, offering Mediterranean-inspired cooking in a resort restaurant. Service is all-day and à la carte. The room is poolside, with an outlook over the Indian Ocean, and the wine programme is standard.

Resort bars and dining on Mahé and Platte Island

Bar et salon des planteurs in Baie Lazare serves craft cocktails and rum. Mango House Seychelles, LXR Hotels & Resorts in Anse Aux Poules Bleues, Baie Lazare has five dining venues, while Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Platte Island on Platte Island has six.

Bar et salon des planteurs
In Baie Lazare, Bar et salon des planteurs is a hotel bar and lounge at Kempinski Seychelles Resort. It serves craft cocktails and rum, including a tropical signature cocktail made with rum.
Mango House Seychelles, LXR Hotels & Resorts
Mango House Seychelles, LXR Hotels & Resorts in Anse Aux Poules Bleues, Baie Lazare is an oceanfront resort with five dining venues. The property has 41 rooms, three infinity pools, and the Anpe Spa overlooking the Indian Ocean.
Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Platte Island
Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Platte Island on Platte Island is a private island resort with six dining venues. Its 50 villas each have a private pool and beach access. The resort holds a Forbes Five-Star award dated 2026.

Planning FAQ

Which island has the strongest concentration of serious wine lists?

The serious wine lists are at Cyann Restaurant in Port Launay on Mahé, at Diva in Anse Kerlan on Praslin, and at Losean Restaurant in Baie Ste Anne. Cyann and Diva both carry exceptional, sommelier-led programmes with extensive wine lists and World’s Best Wine Lists 3-Star awards. Diva also holds Star Wine List accreditation. Losean keeps a wine programme with a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence and a Star Wine List award, both from 2026.

How many Michelin-starred restaurants are in Seychelles in your guide?

Seychelles has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Cyann Restaurant in Port Launay and Diva in Anse Kerlan have exceptional, sommelier-led wine programmes and extensive wine lists. Both hold World’s Best Wine Lists 3-Star awards. Losean Restaurant in Baie Ste Anne holds a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence dated 2026.

Where should I look for tasting menus?

Port Launay and Baie Lazare are the clearest places to start. Cyann Restaurant offers a tasting menu alongside à la carte and small plates, while Aperçu des spécialités culinaires in Baie Lazare runs tasting menu, set menu, and prix fixe formats.

Which venues hold Wine Spectator recognition?

Losean Restaurant in Baie Ste Anne holds Wine Spectator recognition in our Seychelles guide. The award is a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence dated 2026. The restaurant’s other wine award is a Star Wine List award, also dated 2026, for its wine list.

By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards

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Mahé, Seychelles

Cyann Restaurant

Located within the Constance Ephelia resort on Mahé, Cyann Restaurant holds a 3-Star accreditation from the World's Best Wine Lists, placing it among the Indian Ocean's more seriously curated dining rooms. The wine program earns its standing in a category where most resort restaurants settle for safe, import-heavy lists. Pair that with Mahé's position as the Seychelles' main culinary hub, and Cyann represents a meaningful step up from the archipelago's typical resort fare.

Mahé, Seychelles

Praslin, Seychelles

Diva

Located within the Constance Lemuria resort on Praslin, Diva holds Star Wine List accreditation and a 3-Star recognition from World of Fine Wine, credentials that place it in a narrow tier of resort dining in the Indian Ocean. The restaurant draws on the island's position at the edge of what reaches Seychelles, making provenance a defining editorial point rather than a footnote. See our full Praslin restaurants guide for broader context.

Praslin, Seychelles

Losean Restaurant

Losean Restaurant in Seychelles holds a White Star recognition from Star Wine List, placing it among the archipelago's more considered dining addresses. The kitchen operates within an island context where ingredient sourcing shapes everything, from the catch landed that morning to the produce grown in volcanic soil a short drive away. It is the kind of room that rewards those who arrive without a fixed agenda.

Praslin, Seychelles

Desroches Island, Seychelles

Ahi

Ahi brings the logic of island dining into sharp focus on Desroches Island: proximity matters, and seafood-led cooking makes sense when the surrounding water is the defining pantry. The draw is not trophy dining or chef mythology, but the way a remote Seychelles table can turn location, supply, and restraint into the central argument.

Desroches Island, Seychelles

Fregate Island, Seychelles

Anse Bambous Beach Bar & Restaurant

Anse Bambous Beach Bar & Restaurant belongs to Fregate Island’s shoreline dining tier, where the setting does much of the framing and ingredient choices matter more than formality. With little public detail on menu structure, pricing, chef, or awards, the useful reading is contextual: expect a beach-bar restaurant format shaped by Seychelles island logistics, seafood culture, and the limited-venue rhythm of a private-island stay.

Fregate Island, Seychelles

Mahé, Seychelles

Aperçu des spécialités culinaires

Aperçu des spécialités culinaires is better read as a Mahé resort-dining lens than as a chef-led destination table: the interest lies in how Seychelles cooking translates local fish, fruit, spice, and Creole habits for an international hotel audience. In Baie Lazare, that means island produce and coastal context matter more than ceremony, with the wider Mahé scene close enough for comparison.

Mahé, Seychelles

Silhouette Island, Seychelles

Aria

Aria sits in La Passe on Silhouette Island, where restaurant decisions are shaped less by street-by-street competition than by resort geography, boat access, and the Seychelles pantry. Read it as part of a small island dining circuit: seafood, tropical produce, imported technique, and the practical question of where each meal fits into a stay built around beaches, trails, and slow transfers.

Silhouette Island, Seychelles

Cafe Dauban

Cafe Dauban belongs to the small Silhouette Island dining circuit, where Creole habits, resort logistics, and island sourcing shape the meal more than urban restaurant theatre. Treat it as part of a broader Seychelles conversation: fish, fruit, spice, and the practical realities of feeding guests on a remote granitic island.

Silhouette Island, Seychelles

Mahé, Seychelles

Café Lazare

Café Lazare belongs to Mahé’s resort-dining circuit, where the useful question is not ceremony but sourcing: how island produce, seafood supply, and international hotel expectations meet on the plate. Its Baie Lazare setting makes it a practical choice for travellers already moving through the island’s southwest coast rather than diners chasing a trophy-table format.

Mahé, Seychelles

Desroches Island, Seychelles

Claudine

Claudine belongs to the small-island dining category where the setting does much of the framing, but the serious question is sourcing: what can be grown, landed, preserved, or flown into an outer-island kitchen with discipline. On Desroches Island, that makes the restaurant less about urban restaurant theatre and more about how a remote Seychelles table handles freshness, constraint, and resort-level consistency.

Desroches Island, Seychelles

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Félicité, Seychelles

Six Senses Zil Pasyon

Six Senses Zil Pasyon occupies all 652 acres of Félicité, a private island in the Seychelles whose ancient granite formations and coral-fringed beaches define its character as much as its 30 pool villas and 17 residences. Rated 94 points on La Liste Top Hotels 2026, the property sits in the upper tier of Indian Ocean private-island stays, with a conservation program that operates alongside the luxury rather than beneath it.

Félicité, Seychelles

Praslin, Seychelles

Constance Lemuria

On Praslin's northwest coast, Constance Lemuria occupies two of the island's leading beaches and holds the distinction of hosting the Seychelles' first championship golf course. A Leading Hotels of the World member with 105 rooms and villas positioned metres from the Indian Ocean, it operates at the unhurried pace that defines Praslin's upper tier, with rates available on request and a 10-night minimum over the festive period.

Praslin, Seychelles

Mahé, Seychelles

Cheval Blanc Seychelles

On Mahé's southern coast, Cheval Blanc Seychelles occupies one of the Indian Ocean's most dramatically positioned shorelines at Anse Intendance. The LVMH maison brings 52 villas, a Guerlain spa, and Jean-Michel Gathy's design language to a stretch of granite-framed beach where the architecture is as considered as the setting. Rates are available on request only.

Mahé, Seychelles

Denis Island, Seychelles

Denis Private Island Seychelles

One of fewer than a handful of private-island retreats in the Seychelles closed to the general public, Denis Private Island operates as both a 375-acre wildlife reserve and a 23-cottage luxury property. Colonial-style architecture, furnishings made in an on-site carpentry workshop, and semi-private beach access define the physical experience. Rates start at $1,744 per night.

Denis Island, Seychelles

Mahé, Seychelles

Four Seasons Resort Seychelles

Perched on the cliffs above Anse La Liberte bay on Mahé, Four Seasons Resort Seychelles comprises 67 standalone villas set into dense hillside forest, each with a private pool and ocean views. The property pairs Four Seasons service depth with an unusually wild natural setting, and rates from approximately $18,899 place it in the upper tier of Indian Ocean luxury.

Mahé, Seychelles

Desroches Island, Seychelles

Four Seasons Resort Seychelles at Desroches Island

The only property on a 933-acre coral island in the Amirantes group, Four Seasons Resort Seychelles at Desroches Island places 71 pool villas and bungalows across nearly 14 kilometres of shoreline. Rated 94 points by La Liste Top Hotels 2026, it offers 15 dive sites, a conservation tortoise sanctuary, and over 70 island activities within a format where genuine remoteness is the governing design principle.

Desroches Island, Seychelles

Platte Island, Seychelles

Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Platte Island

Reached by private transfer across the outer Indian Ocean, Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Platte Island operates as a single-resort island with 50 pool villas, six dining venues, and a Forbes Five-Star rating for 2025. The property sits on an island discovered in 1771, where the surrounding waters function as a marine nursery for hawksbill turtles, eagle rays, and blacktip sharks. La Liste ranked it at 98 points in its 2026 Top Hotels index.

Platte Island, Seychelles

Mahé, Seychelles

Anantara Maia Seychelles Villas

Selected by the Michelin Guide Hotels 2025, Anantara Maia Seychelles Villas occupies a private cove on Mahé's southwest coast, where the architecture works with the granite hillside rather than against it. All-villa format, full-butler service, and a location at Anse Louis place it in the small-footprint, high-privacy tier of Seychelles luxury.

Mahé, Seychelles

North Island, Seychelles

North Island

North Island, Seychelles, has held the World Travel Awards title of Indian Ocean's Leading Honeymoon Resort in 2025, a recognition that reflects both its physical isolation and the design rigour that defines the property. Eleven villa structures sit across a privately held island where conservation work and architectural intention are inseparable. For couples seeking genuine remove, it occupies a tier with few peers in the Indian Ocean.

North Island, Seychelles

Praslin, Seychelles

Raffles Seychelles

Raffles Seychelles occupies 14 hectares on Praslin's Anse Takamaka, with 87 private pool villas, six dining venues, and one of the largest spas in the archipelago. Rated 90 points by La Liste Top Hotels 2026, it sits within the upper tier of Indian Ocean resort properties. Access by helicopter, private boat, or island drive sets the tone before check-in.

Praslin, Seychelles

Mahé, Seychelles

Mango House Seychelles, LXR Hotels & Resorts

A 41-room boutique retreat on the southern shores of Mahé, Mango House Seychelles sits along Anse Aux Poules Bleues with five dining outlets, three pools, and the Anpe Spa. The property carries the creative legacy of photographer Gian Paolo Barbieri and operates under the LXR Hotels & Resorts banner, with a distinct emphasis on local artisanship, community, and active island experiences.

Mahé, Seychelles

L'Escale Resort Marina & Spa

Positioned between Mahé's Indian Ocean coastline and the flanks of Morne Seychellois, L'Escale Resort Marina & Spa draws its name from the rest stops of Ottoman seafarers, a framing that holds up. The resort pairs marina access with mountain-backed seclusion in a configuration that few properties on the island can match. It sits in Victoria, placing guests within reach of both the capital's rhythm and the water.

Mahé, Seychelles

Silhouette Island, Seychelles

Niva Labriz Seychelles

Niva Labriz Seychelles occupies one of the Indian Ocean's least-disturbed addresses: Silhouette Island, the third-largest island in the Seychelles and almost entirely a national park. Arrival alone signals the property's register, with helicopter transfers over primeval forest or boat access to Bel Ombrey Jetty. The resort's low-lying footprint leaves the surrounding landscape largely intact, positioning it in the smallest, most conservation-conscious tier of Seychelles luxury.

Silhouette Island, Seychelles

Anse Louis, Seychelles

Anantara Maia Seychelles Villas

Anantara Maia Seychelles Villas sits on Mahé's southwest coast at Anse Louis, a property of private pool villas carved into the granite hillside above the Indian Ocean. Winner of the 2025 World Travel Awards for Seychelles' Leading Villa Resort, it occupies the upper tier of the island's villa-only category, where seclusion and spatial design carry as much weight as service.

Anse Louis, Seychelles

Fregate Island, Seychelles

Fregate Island Private

Fregate Island Private occupies its own coral-granite island in the Seychelles, operating at the upper end of the Indian Ocean's private-island tier. La Liste awarded it 95.5 points in its 2026 Top Hotels ranking, placing it among the highest-rated properties in the region. Access is by light aircraft only, and the island's limited guest capacity ensures a ratio of space to visitor that most resort formats cannot replicate.

Fregate Island, Seychelles

Glacis, Seychelles

Hilton Seychelles Northolme Resort & Spa

Perched on the granite-boulder headland of Glacis on Mahé's northwest coast, Hilton Seychelles Northolme Resort & Spa holds the 2025 World Travel Awards title for Seychelles' Leading Boutique Hotel. The property occupies a site with one of the island's most storied coastal outlooks, offering a small-scale, design-conscious alternative to the archipelago's larger resort footprints.

Glacis, Seychelles

Mahé, Seychelles

Kempinski Seychelles Resort Baie Lazare

Kempinski Seychelles Resort Baie Lazare holds a rare triple award position on Mahé's southwest coast: Regional Winner for Luxury Sustainable Resort, Country Winner for Luxury Family Beach Resort, and Continent Winner for Luxury Beachfront Resort. The property sits where the Indian Ocean meets one of the island's quieter bays, placing it firmly in the upper tier of Seychelles beachfront hospitality with a service model built around anticipatory, personalised attention.

Mahé, Seychelles

Silhouette Island, Seychelles

La Belle Tortue

La Belle Tortue holds the Continent Winner award for Luxury Beachfront Hotel on Silhouette Island, one of the Seychelles' most remote and ecologically protected landmasses. Positioned at La Passe, the property sits within a category of Indian Ocean retreats defined by strict low-density access, granite-boulder terrain, and a near-complete absence of mass tourism infrastructure. For travellers comparing island-specific stays across the archipelago, it occupies a distinct position in the premium beachfront tier.

Silhouette Island, Seychelles

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Mahé, Seychelles

Bar et salon des planteurs

A lobby bar in Baie Lazare has a different job from an urban cocktail den: it sets the evening’s tempo before dinner, after the beach, and between long island transfers. Bar et salon des planteurs, inside Kempinski Seychelles Resort on Mahé, belongs to that resort-bar tradition, where comfort, pacing, and a calm room matter as much as the drink list.

Mahé, Seychelles

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Restaurants with serious wine programmes

Tasting menus and formal dining rooms

Resort restaurants on the outer islands

Resort bars and dining on Mahé and Platte Island

Planning FAQ

Cities in Seychelles

Mahé

Praslin

Silhouette Island

Fregate Island

Félicité

Platte Island

Desroches Island

North Island

Anse Louis

Anse Royale

Denis Island

Glacis

Port Glaud

Takamaka

Victoria

Where to eat in Seychelles

Cyann Restaurant

Diva

Losean Restaurant

Ahi

Anse Bambous Beach Bar & Restaurant

Aperçu des spécialités culinaires

Aria

Cafe Dauban

Café Lazare

Claudine

Where to stay in Seychelles

Six Senses Zil Pasyon

Constance Lemuria

Cheval Blanc Seychelles

Denis Private Island Seychelles

Four Seasons Resort Seychelles

Four Seasons Resort Seychelles at Desroches Island

Waldorf Astoria Seychelles Platte Island

Anantara Maia Seychelles Villas

North Island

Raffles Seychelles

Mango House Seychelles, LXR Hotels & Resorts

L'Escale Resort Marina & Spa

Niva Labriz Seychelles

Anantara Maia Seychelles Villas

Fregate Island Private

Hilton Seychelles Northolme Resort & Spa

Kempinski Seychelles Resort Baie Lazare

La Belle Tortue

Where to go for a drink in Seychelles

Bar et salon des planteurs

Which wineries to visit in Seychelles

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