Updated: 26/11/2009 11:51 | By Abigail Hole, MSN Travel contributor
The world’s most extravagant restaurants

Ithaa, the Maldives



Ithaa Restaurant in the Maldives (Image © Hilton Hotels Corporation)
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Eat 5m below sea level at Ithaa, the world’s first underwater restaurant. Housed in an acrylic shell, it cost around $5 million (£32 million) to build. Diners descend to the 14-seat restaurant via a spiral staircase. The interior is an incredible tunnel of sea, surrounded on all sides by blue, shoals of fish, coral, rays and even sharks.

Cuisine is western with a Maldivian twist (yes, seafood does feature), and the tasting menu is 23 courses long (US$250). We only wonder what the fish make of it, looking in.

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