The best restaurants Sassari

Welcome to Vito's, the very family restaurant located at the entrance of Sennori. It is an institution, not to be missed. Vito welcomes you in his beautiful house with a large dining room opening onto the terrace. The view is exceptional: you can see the island of Asinara in front of you and the tip of Stintino. It serves traditional Sardinian and home-made cuisine. The menu is made according to the availability of the food: oysters, octopus, sardines, spaghetti with cockles, fresh vegetables... Trust Vito, you will not be disappointed and the bill is not expensive.

Let's get the suspense out of the way right away: Gianluca is a couturier of taste buds, and an evening at Liberty is a fabulous gastronomic voyage. He's equally at home with seafood and mountain produce: the octopus is to die for, and the meats are perfectly cooked. The finesse of the dishes reflects the setting - Liberty means Art Nouveau - and the staff. The wines are delicious, and you'll be advised by a real sommelier. Everything is beautiful and elegant! We spent a wonderful evening in a truly atypical and enchanting place.

A pretty terrace and a room with a Sardinian decor and warm colours make you want to go through the door of this trattoria right away. The restaurant Le 2 Lanterne offers all the best specialities of the region, perfectly cooked. In particular, you will find the snails that the inhabitants of Sassari love, a food tradition that dates back to the Romans, it seems. The à la carte menu is complete and the menus are very interesting. The ravioli alla Gallurese and the fregolas con arselle are the specialities of the house not to be missed.

Here, only one option, the lazy (pronounced fa-i-né)! The various toppings will inevitably make you find something to your taste. This Sassari speciality is close to the socca niçoise and is only eaten during the winter season according to purists. It was formerly served in the streets of the city, where the lazy man pushed his cart equipped with a brazier. The carts have disappeared and you now have to sit down at the Fainé Sassu to crunch this delicious cake of chickpea flour, served hot.

This is THE restaurant for traditional Sardinian cuisine: we couldn't pass up this city institution. It's fresh, it's hearty, it's full of sauce and, above all, it's very good! We come here to eat lumachelles (snails), porchetto (suckling pig), rosemary potatoes, and all that is traditional and enchanting about Sardinia. The service is efficient, the staff are really friendly and the terrace in the garden is a real treat. No cheating, this is authentic.

Ideal for enjoying, on its lovely terrace, a fine dish of fish that is refined to your taste (white wine, salt crust…). Also serves pizzas.

This pizzeria, which doesn't look like much, borders the pretty Piazza Efisio and Pasquale Tola in the historic centre. As a terrace, the restaurant (like the neighbours) sets up its long tables on the street, in the Italian style. In the dining room, the walls display the passion of the owner with scarves, jerseys and rugby balls. On the menu, about forty pizzas are offered at very low prices and there is something for everyone. Try the Facebook, the Tola, the Special one or the Sarda. A useful address for a little hunger.

In this vaulted room, fresh as an English garden, very good classic cuisine is served. The fish from the day's catch wait on a bed of ice on the side table, the meats are seared at the right time and the primi piatti, or pasta, are served in several ways: with cuttlefish ink, clams, stuffed ravioli... The very cordial atmosphere and the pleasant service make it a good address to share.

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.

If you are starting to saturate with Sardinian flavours and are looking for an interesting and cheap option other than pizza, this restaurant is for you. The reason the prices are so good is that you only eat there on the go. Quiches, lasagna, pizza, kebabs, couscous... You will find everything in the small restaurant of Youssouph, a French-speaking Senegalese who has been living in Sardinia for 30 years. Not to be missed, if only to remake the world with Youssouph by tasting fataia, a Senegalese speciality of course.

This small, unpretentious restaurant is located in the lively Piazza Tola on summer evenings. It offers Mediterranean and Sardinian cuisine, above all, which is distinguished by traditions that are still very much alive. Regulars refer to it as "grandmother's cuisine". The dishes are offered in portions or half portions, ideal for satisfying all appetites without spoiling anything. The setting also seems to have remained unchanged for two generations. The beautiful old tiles, worn out over the years, set the tone - burgundy - of the decoration.

A stone's throw from the Church of the Rosario, welcome to Montecristo, a pretty little address in the heart of Sassari. Here you can eat very good pasta and tasty pizzas. The fish also gets the honours of the menu and is available in refreshing tartars, crunchy fritters or pan-fried steaks. A wide choice of wines is available to accompany these dishes. You can sit down in a beautiful vaulted room or on the terrace stuck in a narrow alley behind the building. Save a small place for one of the beautiful homemade desserts.

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.

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.

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.