The Top 23 Places to Eat Near Maiori

A pizza restaurant inside Palazzo Doglio, a grand address in central Cagliari that sets expectations the kitchen mostly meets. The dough is the thing to pay attention to, light from long leavening and easier on the stomach than you'd expect. The menu flags allergens and offers a gluten-free option, the wine list is longer than average for a pizzeria, and the ingredients lean heavily on protected Italian designations.

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The tilde in the name nods to the sea between Campania and Sardinia, the chef's two homes, which tells you something about the ambition before you've sat down. This is a small, intimate restaurant with an open kitchen and handmade décor throughout, the name itself meaning "by hand." The cooking is creative and Sardinian at its core, with enough of a personal angle to feel distinct from the island's more traditional spots.

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A narrow, low-lit dining room on a quiet Cagliari street, where the menu moves between clean Italian classics and the occasional sharp pivot, like a tuna carpaccio that borrows Japanese teriyaki and anchors it with Sardinian tomato chutney. The kitchen reads as a contemporary Italian restaurant that knows when to stay traditional and when not to. Small, considered, and not trying to be anything other than what it is.

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Wine lines the shelves like wallpaper, and you're encouraged to just point and ask. This Cagliari restaurant holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and splits its energy between counter seats for the casual crowd and proper tables for those who've planned ahead. The kitchen moves between Sardinian tradition, Italian classics, and the occasional experimental combination that shouldn't work but does. Lunch skews simpler; evenings go deeper.

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Sardinia has a coastline that could make a postcard weep, but the island's cooking has always looked inland, toward slow-braised meat and hand-rolled pasta. This casual trattoria in Cagliari leans into that tradition hard, with simple dining rooms dressed in local touches and a menu of regional specialities that reads like a glossary of the dialect. Malloreddus, culurgiones, snails in tomato sauce, and the honey-fried sebadas dessert all make appearances.

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Cagliari's marina neighbourhood has no shortage of squares to sit around doing nothing, and Impasto overlooks one of the livelier ones. It's a pizzeria where the oven is in full view, so you can watch the dough work happen before the Neapolitan-style pizza lands on your table, properly leavened and not overloaded. Housemade pasta fills out the menu for anyone who arrives outvoted. The service moves quickly without feeling rushed.

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The visible oven anchors the room at this Sardinian pizza restaurant, its stone walls and warm wood making the whole thing feel less like a dining room and more like somewhere a craftsman actually works. The doughs go through long natural fermentation with carefully sourced flours, and the toppings lean hard into local Sardinian ingredients. It landed on the 50 Top Pizza Italy list, which tells you the technique here is no accident.

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A contemporary Neapolitan-style pizzeria in the Stampace neighborhood, where the dough is well hydrated and the crust has real structure. The mood is young and informal, the kind of place that loosens up fast. Creative toppings get the most thought here, with combinations that manage to be inventive without tipping into chaos. The drink list holds its own, and the desserts are stranger and better than you'd expect from a pizza place.

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School benches instead of chairs are the first clue that Sa Scolla is taking its name seriously. This casual Cagliari pizzeria grew out of a cooking academy, and the kitchen shows it: toppings lean on high-quality local ingredients with combinations that sound odd on paper and work on the plate. The menu runs wider than pizza alone, pulling from traditional Sardinian cooking. The staff moves fast without losing warmth, which is harder than it looks.

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The name means "cooking" in Sardinian, which doubles as a mission statement for this creative Sardinian restaurant parked right on Poetto beach, the long stretch where Cagliari locals have always gone to exhale. The kitchen describes its own cooking as "free-handed and at a human pace," and the open-air terrace with views toward Capo Sant'Elia gives you room to match. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand.

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A pizza shop in Quartu Sant'Elena, just outside Cagliari, that has planted a flag around a simple idea: Sardinian ingredients, full stop. The dough runs slightly crunchy and holds up under generous toppings without going soggy or stiff. Local cheeses, island sausage, and territorial produce do the heavy lifting on every pie. Prices are low enough that ordering a second pizza to compare becomes a reasonable decision rather than an act of defiance.

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A cabinet of fresh fish greets you at the door, which tells you most of what you need to know about this old-school Sardinian seafood restaurant on the road toward Capoterra. The menu runs from antipasti of tuna and mullet bottarga through grilled skewers, lobster, eel, and more sauces for pasta than you'll need a second visit to work through. Locals who know the bottarga from the burrida have been filling the tables here for generations.

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You walk a few hundred metres along a lagoon isthmus to reach this Michelin-starred fine dining room, which feels less like a destination and more like an arrival. The lagoon itself is managed by the restaurant, so fish pulled from it can appear on your plate that evening. A single tasting menu works through the catch and foraged herbs of the surrounding protected marine park, with Sardinian small-producer wines to match.

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