Restaurants in Carbonia
Where to eat in Carbonia: Carloforte tuna, Tabarkian cascà, Carignano del Sulcis, and bottarga.
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From the Bitebooker blog
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Eating in Carbonia
Carbonia is the capital of the Sulcis-Iglesiente: mining country, tuna traps, and a community that speaks a Ligurian dialect.
Carloforte and the tuna
On the island of San Pietro, in this province, lives a Tabarkian community that arrived from Genoa by way of Tunisia in the eighteenth century. From there come:
- Migrating tuna, worked in the tonnara: belly, tuna bottarga, mosciame;
- Cascà — the Tabarkian couscous, made only of vegetables and steamed;
- Farinata and pilau, other dishes of the same community.
The rest of the province
- Fregola and malloreddus with sausage;
- Porceddu and lamb from inland;
- Pane carasau, pecorino, and bitter strawberry-tree honey.
In the glass
Carignano del Sulcis DOC grows on ungrafted vines in the coastal sands: the red that identifies this part of the island.
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 The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date.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.
Other towns in the province of Sud Sardegna
For when dinner is a few kilometres away.