Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Noonu Atoll from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Noonu Atoll
The named restaurants and bar cover international homestyle food, French fine dining and cocktails. Athiri has an extensive wine list.
Athiri is the flagship waterfront restaurant in Velaa Private Island, serving an international homestyle menu prepared by a multinational kitchen team. Its extensive wine list and craft cocktails accompany à la carte and buffet formats.
Avi, in Noonu Atoll, moves from a pool bar during the day to a cocktail lounge at night. A mixologist, craft cocktails and a live DJ define the evening offering, with views over the Indian Ocean.
Cheval Blanc Randheli is a private island resort in Noonu Atoll with French fine dining. Its seven dining venues include the gastronomic Le 1947. The hotel has 46 villas and a standalone spa island.
The hotel selection includes Cheval Blanc Randheli, Soneva Jani and Velaa Private Island. Their distinctions include Michelin Keys and Forbes hotel awards.
Cheval Blanc Randheli, in Noonu Atoll, combines a private island hotel with French fine dining and the gastronomic Le 1947. Its hotel distinctions include Michelin 3 Keys and Forbes 5-Star awards, while Tatler included it among its Best Hotels Asia-Pacific.
Soneva Jani is an overwater resort in Noonu Atoll with private slides into the lagoon and retractable villa roofs for stargazing. Its hotel awards include Michelin 2 Keys and Forbes 5-Star recognition, alongside inclusion in the World's 50 Best Hotels.
Velaa Private Island is a private island resort in Noonu Atoll with villas, houses and residences, a personal butler program and a Wellbeing Village. Forbes awarded it 5-Star recognition, and World Travel Awards named it Indian Ocean's Leading Private Island Resort.
Athiri, in Velaa Private Island, has an extensive wine list. The waterfront restaurant serves an international homestyle menu, with à la carte and buffet formats. Craft cocktails also form part of its drinks offering.
There are no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide for Noonu Atoll. The guide includes 12 restaurants, with cuisines including Japanese teppanyaki fine dining, plant-based specialty dining and private wine cellar dining.
Noonu Atoll has one Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence and two Wine Spectator Awards of Excellence in our guide. These are atoll-wide totals for wine programs across the destination.
Cheval Blanc Randheli, in Noonu Atoll, offers French fine dining. The private island resort has 46 villas, a standalone spa island and seven distinct dining venues, including the gastronomic Le 1947.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Noonu Atoll
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Noonu Atoll, Maldives
Athiri belongs to the beach-dining side of Noonu Atoll, where setting and sourcing do much of the work. With no public awards, chef, cuisine label, or price band attached, it is better read as a casual coastal meal decision than a destination tasting-menu play: useful for travellers comparing resort-island restaurants by mood, access, and how much they want the sea to define the table.
Noonu Atoll
Selected entries from the current guide for Noonu Atoll.
Noonu Atoll, Maldives
Opened in 2013 as LVMH's second hotel venture, Cheval Blanc Randheli occupies a private island in the Noonu Atoll with 46 villas, a standalone spa island, and seven distinct dining venues including the gastronomic Le 1947. Rated 94 points by La Liste (2026) and featured in Tatler's Best Hotels Asia-Pacific 2025, it sits among the Maldives' most design-conscious luxury properties, with art commissions, bespoke fragrance, and resort-chic dress codes that distinguish it from barefoot-casual competitors.
Noonu Atoll, Maldives
Soneva Jani occupies Medhufaru Island in the Noonu Atoll, where 51 overwater and seven island residences, among the largest villa formats in the Maldives, sit above a lagoon accessed by seaplane from Malé. Ranked 36th on the World's 50 Best Hotels list in 2023 and awarded 95 points by La Liste in 2026, it positions Soneva's second Maldivian property firmly at the summit tier of Indian Ocean luxury.
Noonu Atoll, Maldives
Velaa Private Island sits in the Noonu Atoll, 187 kilometres north of Malé, reached by a 45-minute seaplane transfer. Across 45 villas, houses, and residences, it operates with a full personal butler programme, dual-spa Wellbeing Village, the Maldives' only Snow Room, and a 9-hole golf course designed by two-time Masters champion José María Olazábal. La Liste placed it at 94.5 points in 2026; World Travel Awards named it Indian Ocean's Leading Private Island Resort for 2025.
Noonu Atoll
Selected entries from the current guide for Noonu Atoll.
Noonu Atoll, Maldives
Noonu Atoll
Selected entries from the current guide for Noonu Atoll.
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