The best Italian pizzerias and restaurants Sardinia

This is THE restaurant in Porto Torres, the one everyone in town knows and has tried at least once. Set back from the street, well hidden behind a hedge of trees, it's located just opposite the San Gavino basilica. On the menu, good pizzas in a friendly, chic atmosphere, with pretty white tablecloths covering the tables. The seafood pizza topped with mussels and the Neapolitan pizza are a treat. This is authentic, popular and fresh seafood cuisine: it's worth the detour and the prices are low.

This semi-gastronomic restaurant defines itself as a "modern trattoria". You sit in an original eclectic decor with walls in shades of orange and yellow, a chequered floor, and here and there, vintage or contemporary touches in the decor. The plates are refined and inventive: the portions are small, the presentation is meticulous and the cuisine is sophisticated. On the menu: octopus carpaccio, tuna tataki, revisited Gallurese soup... Nice choice of Sardinian wines to accompany an excellent meal.

"Renzo e Rita is a fine example of a reasonably priced pizzeria and restaurant in Sant'Antioco. With an elaborate menu of Sardinian dishes and a wide choice of pizzas, this address is sure to please. Visitors are seated in a long, air-conditioned dining room. It's best to sit at the back of the room or on the terrace, away from the pizza oven. The chef offers some forty varieties of pizza, all of which please the many regular customers. So much so, in fact, that it's best to make a reservation, as it's often fully booked.

This is a real traditional Neapolitan pizzeria. This means that the restaurant is only open in the evening, because the oven is on a wood fire, and the dough is thicker and softer than for other pizzas. The choice is endless, as it often is, and everything will depend on your desire of the moment: simplicity, vegetables, seafood, deli meats and even pizzas covered... with chips! The terrace on the first floor is quickly taken over and it is better to book. Otherwise, there is also an outdoor patio on the back of the building.

One of the best tables of Golfo Aranci is located on the main beach. You can come there at any time for a refreshment. But it would be a shame to miss the gastronomic table facing the sea, literally and figuratively. Salt-crusted sea bass, mussels in white wine, Catalan-style lobster or the unmistakable spaghetti alle vongole are among the house specialities. Ideal for a romantic dinner under the stars. The establishment manages the private beach just in front. Possibility of a light lunch.

You only have to look at the window boxes and the flower pots around the door to know that you have arrived at the right place. Lost in a small alley in the city centre, near the tourist office, this charming address looks like a mountain refuge with its granite facade and its small openings. This is the place to come to taste some of the best specialities of the region. The owners will be happy to guide you in your choice of dish. The restaurant is located on the first floor, under the roof.

This pleasant and recent trattoria located in the historic centre welcomes you in a cosy setting dressed in light tones contrasted by stone and wood. Here you can enjoy tasty Sardinian specialities made with fresh and local products, with a special mention for seafood and excellent grilled fish. Tuna and spaghetti alla bottarga are a must to discover. For dessert, the gourmands can enjoy a ricotta cheese cheesecake. A great discovery. Don't forget to book.

Al Tuguri is not only among the good tables of Alghero, it is probably one of the best tables in Sardinia. The chef, Benito Carbonella, a native of Nuoro, offers refined and original Catalan cuisine, combining spices, perfumes, aromatic herbs and seafood. The establishment, opened in 1973, consists of two small rooms with a rustic and intimate decor. We recommend the seafood tasting menu, a real marvel. The prices are not excessive for a restaurant of this kind.

A small room with a refined decoration is hidden in an alleyway in the old town. The owner promises a real cuisine made with fresh ingredients and small local production. The delicatessen or cheese tasting platters are very popular with the regulars and accompany a glass of wine at aperitif time. In the evening, generous 50 cm pizzas come out of the oven over a wood fire. The menu changes regularly and the suggestions of the day are posted on the slate. The real plus of this little star is its upstairs terrace. This is a good address!

The gastronomic restaurant of the Hotel Gabbiano Azzuro puts the small dishes in the big ones to make you discover, and reinvent, the Sardinian specialities. The products are carefully selected like this fregula blackened with coal according to a very old and artisanal process. The menu is essentially seafood, and the fish comes from the Neapolitan community that has been living in Golfo Aranci for over a century. The chef offers a delicate and delicious cuisine that is well worth a stop.

Between two ice-cream parlours, a gym and the cafés of the busy Monsignor Virgilio street, this address is not so obvious. Six rows of tables are set up in front of the restaurant, sheltered under white parasols. Once inside, one realizes the success of this unpretentious and soulless address. A large tent has been set up in the courtyard of the house to serve as a dining room. And it is often full. A wooden structure and tables covered with tablecloths make you forget the prefabricated character of the setting. The long menu of soft pizzas too.

Bithia is a chic restaurant nestled in an enchanting setting. Away from the road and the hustle and bustle of the beaches, the beautiful round room and its large veranda look out onto a spotless garden framed by hills. In addition to a typical Sardinian menu combining products from the land and the sea, the restaurant also offers pizzas. The limited selection of products is fresh and of high quality. The pizzas are available in "red" or "white" versions, with or without tomato sauce. Don't forget to book if you want to enjoy a table on the terrace.

Here you are in one of the oldest restaurants in the Sardinian capital, opened in 1852. At that time it was an inn equipped with stables where the Sardinians came down from the mountains on horseback. The current owners have gentrified the setting with tablecloths, red taffeta chairs and solid parquet flooring. The menu reveals a selection of classic, well-toned dishes (chateaubriand, Milanese escalope), some Sardinian specialities, including malloreddus, or exceptional products such as sea urchins, white truffle or lobster.

From outside you can see the large and beautiful terrace which is quickly taken over in the evening. Inside, the atmosphere of this neighbourhood canteen is provided by a regular clientele. The tempting smell of its semi-open kitchen and the small, simple, long and unadorned room make this trattoria one of the institutions of the lower town. If the weather is nice, take advantage of the terrace and you will be a little more quiet. Good Sardinian specialities based on whole fish or meat, homemade lasagne, pasta and seafood.

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.

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.