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Restaurants in Sassari
Where to eat in Sassari: fainé, Gallura soup, snails, and Vermentino di Gallura DOCG.
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Eating in Sassari
Sassari has a city kitchen with two things found nowhere else in Sardinia: a Genoese chickpea cake and a soup that is not a soup at all.
The fainé
Fainé sassarese is chickpea farinata, brought by the Genoese: baked in a pan in a wood oven and eaten by the slice, with sausage, onions or mushrooms. Sassari has its historic fainé houses.
The Gallura soup
Suppa cuatta is layered stale bread with fresh cheese and mutton broth, baked until it gratinates: you do not spoon it, you cut it. It comes from the Gallura, in this province.
The other dishes
- Monzette — stewed snails, the Sassari dish par excellence;
- Porceddu on the spit with myrtle;
- Favata in winter, with dried broad beans and pork;
- Pecorino Sardo DOP and Fiore Sardo DOP.
The sweets
Papassini, sospiri di Ozieri, and seadas with bitter strawberry-tree honey.
In the glass
Vermentino di Gallura DOCG is Sardinia's only DOCG; beside it, Cannonau and Moscato di Sorso-Sennori.
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