Under the Seafood

Last April, the Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa (now the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island) opened the first combination aquarium & dining experience -- the Ithaa Undersea Restaurant. Nice construction photos can be seen here.

To access the restaurant, diners cross a wooden walkway to a specially constructed deck and descend a spiral staircase into the curved dome dining area. Serving only 14 diners at a time, it offers up a pretty personalized experience. But how does it feel to order the fish of the day when his relatives could be watching you eat it? Is there a strange moral tug? Is it a little brazen? Could you chew your burger in a cattle field while Bessie chewed her cud?