The Top 11 Restaurants Near Locanda Sa Matracca

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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1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

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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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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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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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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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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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