Mediterranean cuisine restaurants Sardinia

You have to come to this 4-star hotel for its restaurant, which is considered one of the best in Arbatax. It is located overlooking the harbour, in a street without charm. The restaurant, a bit chic, deserves a mention for its neat setting, its diligent service and its pleasant outdoor terrace overlooking the pool. The chef concocts an original Mediterranean cuisine. The yellowtail carpaccio is accompanied by strawberries, the tuna carpaccio is spiced up with spring onions. Grilled shrimps or crème brûlée are much more classic.

Sardinian and Italian cuisine in this restaurant with an air-conditioned room and a terrace with sea views. The menu offers all but the specialities are the fish, seafood spaghetti fregolla or in the antipasti, including octopus salad, marinated salmon or half-cooked tuna… the service is fast.

La Calanca is a good place to try the local specialities cooked according to the seasons and at low prices. The cuisine is simple and appetizing, marine and summery. The menu offers good grilled fish, tasty ravioli, pasta with poutargue, Sardinian desserts... The restaurant has been recently renovated and offers a very pleasant setting, both indoors and on the terraces. And for the terraces, you have a wide choice! Either the one on the other side of the street with only a few tables or the one upstairs, covered.

A pizzeria where you can also taste very good horse steaks. With musical animation in the room or in the garden.

One of the many pizzerias of. Beach. Very lively in the summer.

Slightly out of the way from the city centre, this restaurant can be spotted from afar with its blue façade. By the way, is it the one that gave its name to the restaurant? Or the other way round? A vast covered veranda welcomes gourmets to taste a cuisine of fish and seafood specialities. We suggest you try the antipasti del mare and the tagliatelle Azzura(vongole, bottarga and pomodoro). Wood-fired pizzas for the traditionalists. In high season, the outdoor seats are expensive and the restaurant is always full.

Beware! Don't go if you're in a hurry. We waited almost an hour before we had our pizza. There are many people, and… many disappointed too!

Simple but very economical.

In the heart of the historic centre, in the cellars of a former palace, this norcineria is the rendezvous of local gourmets. Red walls, granites, roundabouts… the atmosphere is authentic and refined. Revenues are exclusive to one of the oldest gastronomes families in the corner: she manages the institution very hard. Reared lambs locally, wild boar; meat is of first quality. Unique candied dishes and old cuisine. It is a profusion of flavours and fragrances that you absolutely need to discover if you go to the region.

This good address in Alghero is a little bit away from the centre and its animation. Here, there are no pizzas, but dishes turned towards the sea, worked with carefully selected and fresh products. The impeccable presentation of the plates and the sober setting set the tone: you are in a gastronomic bistro. The plates reveal an original bresaola of tuna bresaola with fennel, orange and liquorice or a delicate peach return with artichoke carpaccio and almonds. Don't miss the tiramisu for dessert, one of the chef's specialities.

La Musciarra may not offer the best value for money in the city, but the address is very pleasant. Located right next to La Calanca, at the end of the port of Stintino, the few tables on its terrace give directly onto it. One stops here to drink an espresso or a macchiato during the day, a cocktail or a glass of wine at aperitif time. The establishment makes coffee, bar and also proposes a simple and light restoration. The menu offers antipasti, pasta and some grilled meat or fish dishes.

This trattoria, located in a city centre lane, is a 2-storey restaurant, very popular with fish dishes. There are excellent specialities, such as prosciutto au or spaghetti to bottarga, and also good pizzas.

One of the few pizzerias in the city to serve at lunchtime. The choice is endless and it is sometimes difficult to decide between the simple margharita, the mozzarella di buffala pirata, or the calzone soufflée. They're delicious anyway.

Among the many restaurants along Palau's marina, this large pizzeria stands out. It offers a varied choice of pizzas served at lunchtime and in the evening. It's certainly not the best restaurant in town, but the service is friendly and quick, which is an advantage when waiting for a shuttle to La Maddalena. A small terrace on the street precedes the large room where square tables seating 4 line up one behind the other. The brightly coloured chairs add a touch of cheerfulness.

The Torre is a good location in the center of Oristano. Reasonable prices.

Located in the centre, next to the shopping street and the beach, this restaurant serves sandwiches and drinks on the ground floor and pizzas, small salads and grilled meats on the first floor. The prices are mild, and the sunny veranda on the floor gives on the square. A good place to take a break from 13 am, when all the shops in town are closing and the streets are empty.

This restaurant offers an appetizing choice of tapas of Italian rather than Spanish inspiration. We fell in love with the smoked sardines served with burrata and tomatoes: a delight! The setting of the room is very pleasant, with its large bay window and blackboards displaying the day's suggestions. We also liked the sofas laid out on the pavement, perfect for sipping a glass of wine, an aperitif or a digestive. The only downside is that the portions are not very large and you have to multiply them to satisfy your appetite. The bill goes up quickly.

In addition to the wide choice of pizzas with thin and crispy dough, you will find on the menu of this restaurant solid pasta dishes, charcuterie boards, grilled fish..., nothing but classic seaside resort food, but with a good quality-price ratio. The large dining room opens onto a terrace and is a little chic with its thick fabric tablecloths. In season, the terrace is literally taken by storm and it is better to book. Despite a high number of tables and a room that is always full, the service is friendly and efficient.

For over 20 years, this trattoria close to the sea prepares delicious regional fish dishes. Booking recommended in high season.

The place is defined as a boutique-restaurant, meaning a trendy place with a modern decor. The menu is a change from traditional restaurants and is perfect for a light and fresh lunch. Antipasti, pasta and salads compete with a limited choice of pizzas and vegetable side dishes. The menu may seem banal, but the choice of ingredients makes the difference. Thus a salad will be composed of radish, carrot, orange, fennel... but not salad. With its pleasant terrace, this address has it all.

A family restaurant where you can eat very well for perfectly correct prices.

While the restaurant also makes pizzeria, guests prefer to enjoy Sardinian-inspired dishes, such as crab fregola, or other dishes that combine local influences with exotic flavours, such as lamb chops with ras-el-hanout or octopus salad with a hint of wasabi. The terrace overlooking the main square is often crowded. The one on the street - closed to traffic - is quieter.

Nothing exceptional, but offers good value for money. A marine decor.

Pizzeria retransmits the games of La Azzurra and Cagliari. The palmiers can be found under the palm trees of the beautiful interior garden. Service smiling but not necessarily fast.

We eat pizza by the metre: 1/4 metre per person for solid stomachs. To try.

La Locanda dei Buoni e Cattivi is located on the ground floor of a beautiful villa. Its formulas allow you to discover the traditional Sardinian flavours. The creative cuisine is based above all on the quality of raw materials and local organic products. The tasty, delicate and refined result has been rewarded many times by the greatest gastronomic guides in Italy. We also love the relaxed and intimate setting and the enthusiastic team.

Halfway between the wine bar, the restaurant and the gourmet shop, Osteria Paradiso has become the HQ for gourmets. Specialties come from all over Italy, including succulent piadine, a fine selection of focaccias, pasta, stews, cold cuts and cheeses to accompany typical breads. Cocktails, wines and homemade beers are to be sipped in a warm wooded decor or on the terrace. For those who want to keep their figure, soups - mostly gluten-free - and beautiful salads are to be discovered.

A family restaurant that has been preparing Sardinian and marine cuisine for three generations. The card is attractive, including linguine to urchin, mussels and saffron eggs and a good choice of Sardinian wines.

A good pizza. But also some dishes like the risotto with seafood. Fast and smiling service.

For an evening under the stars of Costa Rei in a chic environment without being stuffy, this is the place to come. You'll appreciate the beautiful tree-lined terrace, the wide choice of dishes, from pasta to pizza, but also the many Sardinian specialities. There is even a dedicated menu, and the suckling pig roasted on the spit is available on pre-order. The large veranda room allows the terrace to be extended. Despite the impressive size of this restaurant, reservations are imperative in high season. It is always fully booked.

A family pizzeria with a wide choice of pizzas. Its specialities? Pizza della casa (Sardinian sausage, pancetta, tomato, mozzarella, lonza di maiale) and betta pizza (eggplant, tomato, pecorino, parmesan, mozzarella). This small pizza pizzeria is known as the place where you can taste the best pizza in Cagliari. The consideration for this success: the wait may be long.

At the southern end of the Poetto beach, a stone's throw from the Piccola Marina, the Otium stands out both for its tasty and generous cuisine and for its excellent value for money. A large wooded terrace decorated with white furniture allows you to enjoy a beautiful view of the sea. It extends towards the interior room closed by bay windows. In the kitchen, Sardinian specialities and seafood are the lion's share. Special mention for the traditional Sardinian fregola cooked in a hearty seafood stew. A delicacy!

This upscale restaurant located in the city centre hides behind an ochre facade and somewhat faded green shutters. In a studied décor, with organza curtains and fleece chairs, it serves a kitchen full of finesse. Its specialty: Sicilian street food. On the menu you can find involtini di carne, meat rolls covered with sauce, arancina siciliana, rice balls, or the famous and delicious pasta alla Norma, pasta prepared with aubergines, tomato and ricotta.

A trattoria attended by the premises which serves typical dishes of Sassari.

This slightly off-centre restaurant-pizzeria-spaghetteria is frequented by regulars. It is a few steps away from the city centre and close to the railway station. It is located in a large room with exposed beams and terracotta tiles on the floor. The inhabitants of Iglesias appreciate the establishment, less for its rustic character than for its wide variety of pizzas. There are 40 different kinds of pizza. But you can also enjoy pasta with clams, fried squid, a plate of marinated octopus or grilled fish and prawns.

The Pintus found the ideal location to open a restaurant outside the citadel. It is certainly along the road, in the new town, but the view of Castelsardo is breathtaking from the pleasant terrace. In addition to beautiful pizzas with a soft crust, the chef prepares pasta with seafood or generous prawns, plates of grilled vegetables for those who watch their line on holiday, grilled fish from the day's catch. The setting is simple and without fuss, but the quality of the plates and the view make it a good address.

Opposite the large car park in Piazza Mazzotti, Da Bruno is an institution in Sassari. It seems that the best pizzas of the city are eaten there on tables decorated with the colours of Italy. The tables are a bit tight, because you have to be able to accommodate the many regulars. The fish and meat dishes are not bad either, but if you are a pizza lover, don't procrastinate too much and order one with your eyes closed. No matter what the ingredients are, the crispy dough baked in the wood-fired oven is always a treat.

We are at the heart of Pula's main square, which was rocked by the allées and venues. A wide choice of good pizzas. The service is a little slow, but it doesn't matter, we're so good on this place.

This restaurant features a family cuisine that offers very refined traditional Sardinian dishes. On the menu, mussel soup, culurgiones di potato, maccarones, porcettu or roast lamb... This truly good grandmother's cuisine celebrates the rusticity of the Sardinian repertoire, turned towards the solid products of the land rather than the pelagic resources. In the evening, the restaurant also offers pizzas, but it would be a pity to miss Sardinian specialities. Expect some waiting time, as the address is very popular with the locals.

Halfway between the sea and the mountains, this restaurant is located on a roundabout at the exit of the town and faces a beautiful panorama. The shaded terrace will allow you to enjoy the blue of the sea and the green of the hills while tasting simple and good local specialities: homemade pasta, crispy pizzas, fish of the day (squid with honey, grilled tuna), local desserts (sorbet with myrtle). Playground for children, parking. Attentive service. Note its location near the aquarium of Cala Gonone.

On the ramparts of the old town of Alghero, Movida has its pleasant terrace facing the port. There is a good sea kitchen with a special mention for the seafood spaghetti and the seiche ink, a treat! In dessert, the gourmets can throw their hand on the famous Catalan cream. Welcome and attentive service from the boss. Note that prices are a little more expensive than average.

Offers Sardinian specialities as spaghetti in urchins, mussels soup and frying. The oil is made home, light and fruity.

Il Brigantino Grill rises from the ground, or rather from the embers, following the success of Brigantino. The concept is a little different, as the specialities are grilled meat and fish cooked over coals. The atmosphere in the dining room and on the terrace is relaxed and warm, as the owner emphasizes. The restaurant is very well located, in a lively district at the heart of Cagliari's "movida". Regulars to the Brigantino will not be disappointed, with the same quality products and, above all, the inimitable welcome and attention of the staff. A great address!

This freshly opened brasserie-restaurant, with its modern, industrial decor and view of the gleaming vats, won us over. It serves excellent pizzas, accompanied of course by the house beers brewed on site. The foams are almost organic, unfiltered and additive-free. But the cochonnailles served on a plank (as well as the cheeses) are truly succulent. Rubiu ("red" in Sardinian) is the story of three friends who are natives of the island, and they'll tell you the rest because they're so adorable.

Sa Piola is the whole of Sardinia summed up in one restaurant. Giuseppe, the chef, offers a menu that draws cheerfully from the traditional repertoire, of course, but he is especially careful to work with ultra-fresh, seasonal products, offered by his friends who are producers or fishermen. Thus, the bluefin tuna comes in carpaccio, the prawns are served raw, the lorighittas come from Morgongiori. Gabriele accompanies this pleasant cuisine with carefully selected bottles that flirt with the natural trend.

In this gourmet pizzeria, each pizza is the subject of a particular culinary research. The creativity of the young chef Sandro Cubeddu is expressed through the choice of top quality flours and fillings, with an unparalleled freshness. Worked with natural sourdough, we bite into gourmet pizzas with burrata, courgette flowers, raw ham, tuna and anchovies, not to mention shrimp and olives. A real culinary experience, accompanied by selected wines and exquisite homemade beers.

Le Futé has found you (we asked the local gastronomes) the best pasta restaurant in Orosei. Pasta & Pasta stands out for the quality of its fresh pasta made every morning and the side dishes, in short, ultra fresh products and as they say in Italy "km zero". A local cuisine very appreciated by the locals, so we advise you to reserve or come early because this restaurant is not very big. The specialty of the house is necessarily the culurgiones but the chef excels in other recipes of course. Nice selection of wines as a bonus.

A few steps from the Fertilia marina, Acquario is a nugget discovered by chance. The restaurant doesn't look like much from the outside, but what a treat when the dishes pass before your eyes! The chef offers local specialties but revisited with his personal touch. Some of the best pasta in the Alghero area! You will find more locals than tourists on the terrace or in the dining room. Well-stocked plates, festival of flavors and very attentive staff. We love this terrace under the arcades on summer evenings and we want to come back.

Its Musciara is the best table in the region. It pays tribute to the town's past as a tuna port with a menu dedicated to bluefin tuna in season. The Musciara was the name of the boat of Portoscuso's chief fisherman, who had a window under the keel that allowed him to see the catch live. Fresh products and simplicity form the winning duo of this elegant table that opens onto the sea. The speciality of the house? The spaghetti, the recipe for which can be found on the website. Will you be able to reproduce it identically?

This is a popular address for locals and it is always busy on summer evenings. On the large square or under the arcades with a view of the sea, you can sit down with your family or friends to enjoy delicious and copious pizzas, without forgetting the beautiful local specialities. William and his team are very attentive. The children can play freely on the square and leave a little respite to the adults. Finally, from the terrace, the sunsets on the Capo Testa are beautiful. A simple and affordable address that we recommend.