Restaurants in Oristano
Where to eat in Oristano: Cabras bottarga, merca, lagoon eel, and Vernaccia DOC.
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Eating in Oristano
Oristano lives around the Cabras lagoon, one of the richest fishing grounds in the Mediterranean: the cooking here is brackish-water fish.
The bottarga
Cabras is the capital of mullet bottarga: the roe is salted, pressed and sun-dried. It is eaten in slices with oil or grated over pasta.
The merca
Merca is mullet boiled in sea water and wrapped in zibba, a marsh herb that preserves and scents it. It is eaten cold, and it is found only here.
The other dishes
- Eel, roasted or stewed, from the lagoon;
- Fregola with clams, and malloreddus;
- Pane carasau and coccoi bread, hand-carved for feast days;
- Lamb and porceddu from inland.
In the glass
Vernaccia di Oristano DOC is an oxidative white aged under flor, like sherry: it resembles no other Italian wine, and it is drunk with bottarga.
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 The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date.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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