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Restaurants in Cagliari
Where to eat in Cagliari: fregola with clams, mullet bottarga, malloreddus, and burrida.
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Eating in Cagliari
Cagliari lies between lagoon and sea, and its cooking brings together lagoon fish and the semolina pasta of the interior.
The dishes
- Fregola with clams — toasted semolina pasta the size of a grain, cooked in clam broth;
- Malloreddus alla campidanese — Sardinian gnocchetti with sausage, tomato and saffron;
- Burrida a sa casteddaia — dogfish with a walnut and liver sauce, served cold after a day's rest;
- Spaghetti with sea urchins, in season, and fregola with wedge clams.
The bottarga
Mullet bottarga is grated over pasta or sliced thin with celery: salted, dried mullet roe is a lagoon product, and here it is at home.
The bread and the sweets
Pane carasau and civraxiu, the big bread of the Campidano. Among the sweets, ricotta pardulas and sebadas fried with honey.
In the glass
Cannonau di Sardegna DOC, Nuragus di Cagliari DOC, and Vernaccia a little further north: Monica and Carignano complete the list.
Opening hours and closing days change. The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date. Where a restaurant confirms tables with us, the availability you see is the real one.
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