Manipulator of Flavours - Chef Hervé Rodriguez at Niyama


Maldives
PUBLISHED December 19, 2018

Natures Playground comes alive with bold flavours at Niyama Private Islands this festive season, as Michelin-starred chef Hervé Rodriguez jets in for ten days to take the Helm at the overwater restaurant, Edge.

This years festive season dazzles with French prodigy Hervé Rodriguez featuring at Edge 19 29 December. Known as the Manipulateur de saveurs or the Manipulator of Flavours, a name bestowed on him by no less than the director of the Michelin guide, Jean-François Mesplède, Chef Hervé is known for his celebrated restaurant MaSa, a must visit on the gastronomy scene situated in one of Pariss most exclusive suburbs. 

Chef Hervé knew from age five that he was destined to be a chef, such is his love of fine cuisine. And yet his path was an unconventional one after joining the Navy fresh out of hotelier school, Chef Herves first gig was in fact in the private residence of a Vice Admiral, serving as his personal chef. And yet signs of his stellar career to come could perhaps have been predicted when he has presented the opportunity to cook for Francois Mitterand and Laurent Fabius.

Leaving the navy, he joined the two-starred Hostellerie de Levernois by Jean Crotet in Bourgogne, then the three-starred Maison Lameloise. At the age of 24, he took over his first restaurant. It was then that he started to experiment with flavours and rediscovered his Spanish roots, fell in love with Japanese cuisine, and travelled through Vietnam, Morocco and Central America exploring their histories through gastronomy. Folding subtle flavours and techniques from his travels into his current repertoire, Chef Hervés creations are unique, playful and full of life.

For ten days only, Chef Hervé will be presenting tasting menus of seasonal creations, with the freshest ingredients sourced from the four corners of the globe and served up with his legendary panache.



Contemporary, audacious, complex, his creations inspire savouring and deconstruction, all against a dramatic backdrop of billowing sails and blazing sunsets reflected in the Indian Oceans surface.

With nine restaurants and bars dotted across two islands in a jungle setting by bonfire-light, high up in the trees, or 6m below the oceans surface surrounded by corals and shoals of angelfish Niyama Private Islands Maldives serves up culinary experiences of dreams.

Edge is Niyamas destination restaurant set 500m out to sea. Guests feast perched over the waves, as some of the worlds most celebrated chefs take up residence, their cuisine inspired to new heights by such an unrivalled setting. 

Boasting a 24-hour spa and the world's first underwater nightclub, the luxurious Niyama Private Islands Maldives is a tropical paradise which offers a quiet private beach and amber sunsets.

Spacious and modern, the studios at Niyama Private Islands Maldives are situated on the beach or over the crystal lagoon. Each villa has a secluded deck that offers pure privacy to luxuriate in al fresco rain showers, moonlit dips, or an intimate afternoon basking in the sun.

Niyama Private Islands is located in the Dhaalu Atoll, a 40-minute seaplane flight from Velana International Airport.
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