The Best Restaurants Near Matsunoki, by the Record

The sushi counter faces an open kitchen inside Hotel Bellevue, with a panoramic terrace over the Adriatic as an alternative. This is a contemporary Japanese restaurant doing both classic sashimi and more creative takes, plus Wagyu for anyone who arrived by yacht and wants to make sure everyone knows it. The sake and Japanese whisky list is carefully chosen, which at a resort hotel on a Croatian island is either charming or surreal, possibly both.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A terrace above the bay of Čikat frames this Michelin-starred gourmet restaurant, where the view does a lot of the talking before the food even arrives. The kitchen leans on French technique and local Adriatic ingredients, with fish and seafood at the centre of a creative tasting menu that also comes in a shorter format if you'd rather not commit your entire evening to the cause. An à la carte option and a serious wine list round things out.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

Vines and olive trees press right up to the terrace of this Michelin-starred country house restaurant on the island of Pag, which doubles as a boutique hotel if you'd rather not leave. The kitchen runs tasting menus built around Adriatic fish, local lamb, and wild herbs gathered nearby, and the cellar belongs to the family winery, so the wine pairing is less an afterthought and more the whole point.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

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A large stone fireplace anchors the room at this rustic Istrian konoba, and it does double duty: atmosphere and actual cooking, including veal slow-roasted under an ember-covered bell. The menu leans heavily on meat, served in portions that assume you skipped lunch. The dessert list sneaks in a vanilla ice cream finished with dark chocolate and a pour of house olive oil, which sounds fussy until you try it. Michelin gave it a Bib Gourmand.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

A contemporary tasting menu restaurant inside a small hotel on the Kvarner Gulf, where the front tables look out over calm Adriatic water through a fringe of the property's own olive grove, the oil from which ends up on your plate. The kitchen runs four or seven course blind menus built around local Croatian ingredients, handled with enough creativity that the food earns its view rather than just borrowing it.

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The dining room sits so close to the water that the Adriatic becomes the wallpaper. This creative contemporary restaurant in Njivice pairs a nearly bare-bones interior with plates that go in the opposite direction, colorful and abundant with regional ingredients from both land and sea. The kitchen lets a French technique slip in now and then, while the bar turns out cocktails the team quietly suggests over the wine list. Lunch runs looser and simpler.

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A fireplace anchors the dining room in winter, while the shaded terrace faces the island of Krk when the weather turns warm. This is a regional restaurant in an old-school building just off the Adriatic coast, cooking Dalmatian-influenced dishes with enough seasonal polish to keep them feeling current. The kitchen leans into local produce without turning the menu into a heritage lecture, which takes more restraint than it sounds.

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