The best restaurants Cagliari

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.

One of the largest gelaterie in the city, a few hundred metres from Poetto Beach.

It is the oldest gelateria in Cagliari, in the area of stadiums and sports facilities, and among the cheapest. It offers ice creams with perfectly original scents such as basil, myrtle and ricotta. His whipped cream is to taste absolutely!

A restaurant-pizzeria at affordable prices, offering excellent local dishes, including al spaghetti or Une D d'Oro con funghi porcini.

To our knowledge, the only yogurteria of the city. To change gelati!

Right on the beautiful Piazza Yenne, Down Town is a must stop for a lively evening in Cagliari. The beautiful room with its exposed stones is only dethroned by the large and pleasant terrace, always crowded on summer evenings. Here you can enjoy delicious pizzas baked over a wood fire and creamy pasta specialities. The atmosphere between regulars and novices is very friendly. One of the restaurant managers, Alessio, speaks fluent French and will give you lots of tips on how to visit the city.

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.

A concept: a Chinese pizzeria! The result is not quite convincing, but the prices are correct. To try.

Chinese cuisine.

Chinese cuisine.

A "antique" frame with small rooms arched at the low ceiling. The walls are decorated with Roman frescoes. But it's a bit of a sense of paying more decor than the content of the plate. However, some local dishes deserve to be tested: tappadas, snails or brace lamb, and especially flambés desserts, ideal to finish the meal.

Among the oldest Chinese restaurants in the city and the excellent value for money.

Brazilian cuisine and music in the city centre. Meat specialities.

A stylish restaurant and pizzeria where you can continue your evening in the adjoining nightclub.

A compulsory stop for the Cagliaritaines during their walks on the via Dante, with a wide choice of perfumes.

The name is explicit… Breton Walk.

Mexican cuisine and decor, with dance and music shows.

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 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.

This restaurant, which also holds its outdoor terrace, is renowned for its fine pizza. In the heart of the Marina's pedestrian area, it is best to book if you want to dine outside. Inside, a fairly modern decoration combines graphic tables. The map offers a wide range of pizzas and «ethnic» options that revisit traditional Indian, Chinese, Moroccan or Libyan classics. However, most of the clientele prefer to choose the charms of Italian cuisine, which are well controlled.

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!

The chef's creativity follows the rhythm of the seasons and coordinates the freshness of the products he selects with the specialities of Sardinian and Mediterranean tradition. Slimming menu, vegetarian or tasting menu, the proposals prove to be tempting. The chef has a clear preference for seafood and gives pride of place to fish caught off the coast of Cagliari. The plates are subtly accompanied by a fine selection of wines from the island and other Italian hillsides. All this is served in a resolutely modern but slightly cold setting.

At a stone's throw from the piazza Yenne, Coccodi is a little bit the little canteen with a few tables, on the terrace or inside, ideal to recover on the thumb (it changes sandwiches) or to make a sweet break. Here the concept is simple: first choose between two sizes of plates (small or large) offered at two different prices and select the topping in the window (meat, fish, vegetables, specialties…). The staff were very friendly and helpful. The staff were very helpful and helpful.

The staff were friendly and helpful. Here you need to taste burrida, unless you choose fregola con arselle or culurgioni.

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!

The success of this Sardinian "hamburger shop" has not wavered despite the passing years. Fabrizio Muscas has been able to seduce a demanding clientele with his gourmet hamburgers, which are essentially made of products from Sardinia. Pecorino cheese replaces cheddar cheese, mutton replaces ground beef, country ham replaces bacon... The sandwiches are composed like real architectural works in which seasonal products and homemade sauces are piled up in layers. The kitchen is located in the heart of a high vaulted room made of blonde stone.

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.

At Mari Mannu, the sea is no joke. We only serve fish and shellfish, so forget the meat! You choose your own fish on the advice of our friendly staff. Prepare your taste buds! You'll only taste fish from the Cabras and Marceddi fisheries on the west coast. One of the restaurant's specialties is fried whole octopus, and Le Futé recommends the antipasti mix as a starter. The interior decor features objects brought in from the sea or washed up on the beach. A fine address.

Fish restaurants are similar and sometimes equal. We are rarely disappointed in Cagliari but Il Malandrino seduced us by the happiness that emanates from the atmosphere and the welcome. The staff is really professional, very attentive and the owner is a darling. In the plate, it is generous, well presented and delicious. We like the terrace in the pedestrian street and the atmosphere at the end of the day. Our favorite is the octopus which, in this restaurant, is cooked in a thousand ways according to the chef's mood. Everything is extra fresh and we love it.

For many Cagliaritans it is the best pizzeria in town. Always crowded, the atmosphere is noisy and cheerful. But the fun stops at the kitchen doors. The pizzaiolo takes great care in selecting the products. The pizza dough here is rigorously prepared with mother leaven, as for the dough flour, it is chosen for its digestive qualities. Taste the "transhumance" pizza made with soft mozzarella, smoked mullet, cherry tomatoes and Sardinian pecorino cheese, not found elsewhere!

Feeling peckish? Then go to the very lively Piazza Yenne, the famous square in Cagliari where the statue of Carlo Felice, King of Sardinia from 1821 to 1831, stands. There, in the Stampace district, there is a small shop that treats locals and tourists alike. We prefer to warn you, the portions are generous! At Farina's, your heart is set on pizzas, focacce and schiacciate. One thing is sure, everything is well-stocked. You can choose between ham, mozzarella, rocket, mortadella, pistachio pesto... Yummy!

Designed as a typical inn, the Ammentos restaurant takes you to the mountains of Barbagia for a meal. Copper pots and wicker baskets transform the room into a Sardinian farmhouse scullery. The dishes are served on large wooden boards placed on the table, ready to be shared. They are garnished with grilled vegetables, the best cured meats and delicious cheeses, fregola and ravioli, roast suckling pig and grilled sausages. To finish the meal, a glass of muscatel wine is brought along with small biscuits.