Jayasom
Wellness · Red Sea

Preparing your experience

What arrives at your table each day has been considered in the same way as what happens in the treatment room - shaped by the Wellness Advisor's consultation, grown where possible on the Farm Belt that runs the length of the resort, and prepared across eight venues that each carry their own character and their own story. One discipline holds them all: no alcohol anywhere on the property, nothing deep-fried, fourteen approved cooking methods. The standards are the same at every table. What changes is the food itself, and who you are when you sit down.

Philosophy of Nourishment

The kitchen runs on Six Core Values and five Cornerstones of Wellness Cuisine — not a philosophy displayed on a wall, but the actual logic behind what arrives at your table, where it came from, and what was done to it before it got there.

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Six Core Values

Wellness through nourishment, not denial, and a genuine local-region preference where the fit is real and not forced. Ingredients follow seasonal rhythms and are sourced honestly, with full knowledge of where they came from and how they were grown. Skill is in service of restoration, not display. The plate does not lecture. It teaches quietly, through how it makes you feel.

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Five Cornerstones of Wellness Cuisine

Whole food, plant-led, and mineral-aware. Cooked at the lowest temperature the dish requires, because heat beyond that works against the ingredient, not with it. Plated to the appetite that arrives at the table, not the menu's assumption of what it should be.

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What we do not serve

  1. No alcohol, anywhere on the property.

  2. No deep frying. Fourteen cooking methods only.

  3. All dishes gluten-free at Saratô and at Loumi Rue.

  4. Beef appears only at Chez Mitzuba (Wagyu).

  5. Salt, sugar, coffee, and gluten minimised across the kitchens.

  6. Water bottled in-house with only two international brands permitted; local spring water is optional.

The Eight Venues

Three on the adult side, three on the family side, two shared at the Health and Wellness Centre. Each venue carries its own story; each kitchen runs to the same standard.

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JAYANA • ADULTS side

Saratô

Three meals · Cove kitchen

Two herbs fell in love. Saranae (mint, in Thai) and Tia Tô (perilla, in Vietnamese) were found together so often that someone eventually gave them a shared name. The kitchen follows the same logic. Asian-rooted, hyper-fresh, built around what the herb garden and the sea can offer that morning. Three meals a day, adult side, on the cove. Your first meal of the week tends to happen here. It tends to be a good one.

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JAYANA • ADULTS speciality

Jiraka

Indian-Saudi spice route · Beef-free

Jiraka is the Sanskrit word for Jeera (Cumin) and Cumin has always known it belongs somewhere between India and Arabia. So does this kitchen. Adult specialty dining, Indian-influenced, Saudi-rooted, built on the Sattvic principle of pure and balanced ingredients. The spice work here is not decorating the plate; it is doing actual work on the body. If a craving beats your programme, don't hold back. Jiraka will hold you through it.

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JAYANA • ADULTS Adult side

Shay Waard

Tea lounge

Shay is Arabic for tea. Ward is Arabic for rose. A tea lounge where the ritual itself is the point; a precise balance between know-how and Arabic herbal tradition. Rosehip is among the signature blends. A tea cannot be rushed, and here, it isn't. Ceremony when it's wanted. Quiet when it's not.

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JAYELA • FAMILIES side

Loumi Rue

Three meals · Family kitchen

Loumi was a black lemon. Born into a family of citrus, different and easily misunderstood - earthy, smoky, faintly salty. Parsley knew that same feeling. Frequently confused for coriander, quietly extraordinary in its own right. The two of them found each other, and what they built together became the soul of this kitchen. Mediterranean flavours, Saudi and Lebanese roots — the family three-meal restaurant. Everyone belongs here.

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JAYELA • FAMILIES speciality

Chez Mitzuba

JAPANESE · FRENCH · WAGYU

Mitzuba is a delicate Japanese herb (a parsley, quiet and essential, used as garnish across Japanese cuisine). In the story behind this restaurant, Mitzuba was also a young chef in Japan with a poster of Auguste Escoffier (the father of modern French cuisine ) on his bedroom wall, dreaming of Paris from a country that had never sent him there. He spent his evenings reimagining French recipes through Japanese hands.

That is this kitchen. Dinner only, family side; Japanese plates built with French architecture. Plant-forward, precise, and the only restaurant on property that serves beef. If you've been eating well all week and you're considering Wagyu for the last night, you won’t regret it!

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JAYELA • FAMILIES side

Breezy Kale

Healthy deli

Kale arrived at the wellness table as an unlikely superstar - a cruciferous leaf that has quietly taken the culinary world by storm. Breezy Kale lets it be exactly that, without the lecture. A healthy deli on the family side, where the food is genuinely good and the wellness programme loosens its collar slightly. Feeling mischievous? We serve ice cream too…because we’re all about balance!

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Wellness Centre · Shared

Chia Bite

Healthy bar · Active pit stop

Chia comes from the Aztec word for oily - which is the seed's way of telling you exactly what it does for the body before you've even ordered. A healthy bar at the Health and Wellness Centre, shared by adults and families. A power juice, a small plate, a moment between sessions. No rush here. Think of it as the comma in the middle of a full day.

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Wellness Centre · Shared

Nakeha Studio

Cooking studio

Nakeha is the Arabic word for flavour - not just taste, but the specific quality in a dish that stays with you after the meal is over. In the studio, you cook alongside the chefs from each restaurant. Every kitchen on property is represented. Not a class, exactly. More a conversation you have with your hands. You leave with something you can actually make.

The brief in the kitchen

One discipline across eight kitchens

Eight dining venues run across the property: Saratô on three meals at Jayana, Jiraka as the Jayana speciality, Shay Waard as the tea house, Loumi Rue on three meals at Jayela, Chez Mitzuba as the Jayela speciality, Breezy Kale as a healthy deli, Chia Bite as the active pit stop, and Nakeha Studio as the cooking studio.

Hard standards run across every venue: no alcohol resort-wide, no deep frying, fourteen approved cooking methods, all dishes gluten-free at Saratô and Loumi Rue, beef available only at Chez Mitzuba, in-house water bottling and a Farm Belt growing terrace feeding the kitchens.

Culinary direction sits with the Director of Health and Wellness alongside the Executive Chef. Menus are reviewed against the nourishment approach: thorough, restorative and shaped to support what each retreat is asking the body to do.

THREE HEALING MENUS

Wellness Through Nutrition

Three dedicated healing menus run alongside the everyday kitchens. Each is built with our medical leads to support a specific outcome. The plates change with the season; the architecture does not.

Gut Healing and Cleansing

Built for guests who arrive heavy, slow, or carrying inflammation. Sequenced courses, fermented and bitter notes early in the day, fibre-led plates through the afternoon. Used inside As a Feather; available across the property on request.

Neuro Nourish

Built for focus and mental clarity — plates anchored to omega-three sources, polyphenol-rich produce, and a lower glycaemic curve through the day. Used inside As a Leader; available across the property on request.

Women's Hormonal Health

Built around cycle, peri-menopause, and post-menopause needs. Iron, magnesium, and protein rhythms run through the menus. Used inside As a Woman; available across the property on request.

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For families

Family Bonding at the Table

Loumi Rue holds the family meals. Nakeha Studio runs cook-together classes for adults and children, with adapted versions for the youngest guests.

"Peace is the Ultimate Restoration"

Jayasom AMAALA, kitchen brief

Sourcing partners

Farm Belt produce on the property. Two international water brands permitted alongside in-house bottling. Crockery from Kevala Customised, Churchill Raku, Rona Mode, and Riedel.

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

No. The property is alcohol-free across all eight venues, in-room, and at events.

Saratô and Loumi Rue run gluten-free across all dishes. Vegetarian, vegan, and pescatarian menus run across all venues. Allergens and condition-specific protocols are confirmed in the Wellness Advisor consultation.

Reviewed by Elodie Lefebvre, Director of Health and Wellness, Jayasom Wellness Resort AMAALA. Last reviewed 1 May 2026.

At the table

Begin your week at the kitchen

A Wellness Advisor sets your meals around the brief; reservations open across the eight venues.