Zadar, Croatia
Foša
Ranked #430 in Europe by Opinionated About Dining in 2024 and holding a Michelin Plate, it represents the serious end of Zadar's restaurant scene under chef Saša Began. Open daily from noon until 1am at €€€ pricing.
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Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Zadar from the En Primeur Club guide.
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Traditional Dalmatian Seafood is the most common cuisine in our Zadar guide. Kitchens in our guide also cover Japanese sushi and Asian fusion, modern seafood, Mediterranean seafood, and Dalmatian Mediterranean cooking. Old Town holds 12 venues, the largest neighborhood count we publish, and the guide covers 26 restaurants citywide.
Four restaurants hold a Michelin Plate: Foša, Kaštel and Restaurant Labrax in Old Town, and Maguro in Zadar Old Town. Kaštel and Restaurant Labrax also serve a tasting menu. Kornat, in Zadar Seafront, serves North Dalmatian fine dining seafood a la carte and as a set menu, with a sommelier-led wine list and a Croatian wine selection. Kraljevski Vinogradi in Punta Skala is the winery in our guide, with a tasting room and wines including Pošip, Plavac Mali and Crljenak.
Michelin Plate restaurants in Old Town
Foša, Kaštel and Restaurant Labrax are in Old Town, and each holds a Michelin Plate. Kaštel and Restaurant Labrax also serve a tasting menu.
Foša
Foša is a Modern Seafood restaurant in Old Town, with a terrace on the sea and marina views. The wine program has an extensive wine list, and the kitchen is under chef Saša Began. Michelin awarded a Plate in 2026, and Opinionated About Dining included it in Top Restaurants in Europe Recommended the same year.
Kaštel
Kaštel serves Modern Dalmatian Mediterranean cooking in Old Town, in a 13th-century fortress tower with a terrace and sea views. It serves a la carte and a tasting menu, with an extensive wine list. The kitchen draws on Dalmatian coastal produce and a Mediterranean sharing-table tradition. Michelin awarded a Plate in 2025.
Restaurant Labrax
Restaurant Labrax is a Modern Seafood and Croatian fine dining restaurant in Old Town. The kitchen works seafood with techniques that include ike jime dry-aged sea bass. Meals are a la carte, a tasting menu and small plates. The wine program has an extensive wine list and regional wines. Michelin awarded a Plate in 2026.
Wine lists and the Zadar winery
Kornat in Zadar Seafront has a sommelier-led wine list, Kraljevski Vinogradi in Punta Skala is the winery, and Pet bunara Dine&Wine in Zadar Old Town serves Dalmatian Slow Food with an extensive wine list.
Kornat
Kornat serves North Dalmatian fine dining seafood in Zadar Seafront, on a waterfront terrace with harbor views. The room is 1920s-inspired. Meals are a la carte and a set menu. The wine list is sommelier-led and extensive, with a Croatian wine selection.
Kraljevski Vinogradi
Kraljevski Vinogradi is a winery in Punta Skala, with a konoba and tasting room. Indigenous Dalmatian wines are served with local dishes cooked under a peka. The wines are Pošip, Plavac Mali and Crljenak. Falstaff lists the winery for 2026. Decanter recognition includes a 93-point Crljenak from 2020.
Pet bunara Dine&Wine
Pet bunara Dine&Wine serves Dalmatian Slow Food in Zadar Old Town, with seasonal, organic Dalmatian cuisine prepared to a Slow Food philosophy. The restaurant has spent over 40 years in Zadar's dining scene. Service is a la carte, with an extensive wine list.
Planning FAQ
How many Michelin-starred restaurants does Zadar have?
In our guide, Zadar has no Michelin-starred restaurants citywide. Four restaurants hold a Michelin Plate: Foša, Kaštel and Restaurant Labrax in Old Town, and Maguro in Zadar Old Town. The most recent Plates date to 2026 for Foša, Maguro and Restaurant Labrax, and to 2025 for Kaštel.
Which neighborhood has the most venues?
Old Town has the most venues in our guide, with 12. Zadar Old Town has 7 venues. Foša, Kaštel, Restaurant Labrax and Bistro Pjat are all restaurants in Old Town.
Which restaurants serve a tasting menu?
Kaštel and Restaurant Labrax, both in Old Town, serve a tasting menu. Kaštel also offers a la carte, with Modern Dalmatian Mediterranean cooking. Restaurant Labrax pairs a tasting menu with a la carte and small plates, and serves Modern Seafood and Croatian fine dining.
What wine list styles are in Zadar?
Kornat in Zadar Seafront has a sommelier-led wine list with a Croatian selection. Pet bunara Dine&Wine in Zadar Old Town has an extensive wine list. Kraljevski Vinogradi in Punta Skala serves Pošip, Plavac Mali and Crljenak.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Restaurants
Selected entries from the current guide for Zadar.
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Kaštel
A Michelin Plate recipient in 2024 and 2025, Kaštel brings Mediterranean sharing-table tradition to Zadar's old town at the €€€ price tier. The kitchen draws from Dalmatian coastal produce and the communal meze culture that defines this stretch of the Adriatic.
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Maguro
Maguro sits on Borelli Street in Zadar's Old Town, positioning itself within a city that has quietly built one of the Adriatic's more considered mid-tier dining scenes. The name signals a Japanese reference point in a Croatian coastal setting, placing it in an increasingly common cross-regional bracket where Adriatic seafood traditions meet East Asian preparation techniques.
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Restaurant Labrax
Restaurant Labrax sits in the heart of Zadar's old town, where the Adriatic's fishing tradition meets a considered approach to what ends up on the plate. The name itself, labrax, the Latin for sea bass, signals a kitchen oriented around the Dalmatian coast's most closely watched catch. Among Zadar's mid-to-upper dining tier, it occupies a quieter register than the harbour-front crowd-pleasers.
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4kantuna
Positioned on Varoška ulica in Zadar's storied old town, 4kantuna occupies a corner of the city where Dalmatian neighbourhood dining meets the foot traffic of one of Croatia's most visited historic cores.
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A'mare POP
A'mare POP occupies a corner address on Ulica bana Josipa Jelačića in Zadar's old town, placing it inside the city's most concentrated corridor of serious dining. The name links it to a broader Croatian hospitality family, and its position in Zadar puts it alongside a growing tier of restaurants reinterpreting Dalmatian coastal cooking for a more international pace.
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Antiquus sushi@more POP
Zadar's sushi scene is small enough that a venue combining Japanese technique with Adriatic sourcing occupies its own tier. Antiquus sushi@more POP sits on Ul. Zadarskog Mira in a city better known for its Roman forum and Maraschino liqueur than raw fish. The premise raises a genuine question about ingredient provenance in a landlocked-cuisine tradition meeting one of Europe's most productive coastlines.
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Bistro Pjat
Bistro Pjat occupies a compact address on Stomorica, one of Zadar's most characterful old-town lanes, placing it squarely within the city's tradition of neighbourhood dining that draws more from local habit than tourist appetite. The kitchen works within a Dalmatian register that Zadar's best casual addresses have refined over decades: seasonal produce, Adriatic seafood, and technique that earns its keep without theatre.
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Bruschetta
On a quiet street in central Zadar, Bruschetta takes the city's habit of unhurried, produce-led eating and grounds it in a format that rewards patience. The menu anchors itself to Dalmatian ingredients handled without excess, and the pacing follows the rhythm of a city that eats late and lingers longer. A reliable address for those who want the meal to be the event.
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Butler Gourmet&Cocktails Garden
On Zadar's seafront promenade at Obala kralja Tomislava 1, Butler Gourmet&Cocktails Garden occupies one of the city's most visible waterfront positions, pairing a cocktail program with a kitchen that reaches beyond the standard Dalmatian coastal offer. Among Zadar's dining options, it targets the tier where food and drink are given equal billing rather than one serving the other.
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Corte
Set within Zadar's old town, Corte occupies a courtyard address at Ul. Braće Bersa 2 that places it inside the historic fabric of one of Dalmatia's most layered cities. The menu architecture reflects the Adriatic-meets-Mediterranean logic that defines the upper tier of Zadar dining, where local produce and seafood tradition anchor the kitchen's decisions. It sits comfortably alongside the city's more considered restaurants.
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Harbor Cookhouse
Harbor Cookhouse serves Mediterranean seafood and steakhouse cooking at Obala kneza Branimira 6A in Zadar, with waterfront views and dry-aged steak tartare, octopus, and sea bass on the menu.
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Kapric
Kapric occupies a corner address in Zadar's old town where Dalmatian sourcing traditions set the terms of the menu. The kitchen draws from the same Adriatic and hinterland supply chains that define the city's better dining rooms, placing it in a mid-to-upper tier alongside Foša and Kaštel. For visitors working through Zadar's restaurant scene, it represents a credible local option with clear regional roots.
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Kod Stipe
Kod Stipe occupies a residential address on Ul. Franka Lisice in Zadar, away from the old town tourist circuit, the kind of place that fills on local word of mouth rather than passing foot traffic. The cooking follows the Dalmatian konoba tradition: seafood and grilled meat anchored in the rhythms of the Adriatic coast. Plan ahead; tables here are not easily won at short notice.
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Konoba Dalmatina
A konoba in Zadar's old town that operates in the tradition of Dalmatian tavern cooking: direct preparations of local fish, grilled meats, and seasonal produce served in a stone-walled setting on Kovačka street. The format is honest and unhurried, pitched at visitors who want regional cooking rather than a polished dining production.
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Konoba Martinac
A konoba in the old-town fabric of Zadar, Konoba Martinac represents the stripped-back end of Dalmatian dining: shared tables, grilled fish, and regional wine in a format that predates the city's current restaurant boom. It occupies a different register from Zadar's more polished waterfront addresses, trading presentation for directness.
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Kornat
Kornat serves North Dalmatian fine dining seafood on a waterfront terrace with panoramic views, a leisurely pace, and a sommelier-led wine list.
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Mamma Mia
Located along the coastal road at Put Dikla 54, Mamma Mia sits in Zadar's quieter northern stretch, away from the Old Town's tourist circuit. The restaurant draws a local and returning visitor crowd looking for direct Croatian coastal cooking in a relaxed setting. Booking ahead is advisable during the summer months when Zadar's dining scene operates at full capacity.
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Niko
On Zadar's seafront at Obala kneza Domagoja 9, Niko occupies a position along the Adriatic promenade where the city's tradition of occasion dining meets the season's catch. The address places it within easy reach of the old town's stone lanes and the waterfront where locals and visitors alike mark the meals that matter most.
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Pet bunara Dine&Wine
Pet bunara Dine&Wine occupies a ground-floor terrace on Stratico ul. 1 in Zadar's old town, its Cor-Ten steel facade marking the space with a rust-warm presence that reads as deliberate rather than weathered. The terrace format places it firmly in Zadar's outdoor dining culture, where the line between street life and the meal itself is deliberately thin. For regulars, that permeability is precisely the point.
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Proto Food&More
On a quiet address in Zadar's old town, Proto Food&More occupies a space where the Adriatic's coastal larder sets the terms of a meal that builds deliberately from first course to last. The kitchen works Dalmatian ingredients through a format that rewards attention rather than rushing, placing it alongside the city's growing number of restaurants that take the progression of a meal seriously.
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Providur
Providur occupies a prominent address on Trg Petra Zoranića in Zadar's old town, positioning itself within a city that has become one of the Adriatic's most compelling dining destinations. Sit at the intersection of Dalmatian ingredient culture and contemporary technique, the restaurant draws on the region's extraordinary larder, Pag lamb, Zadar maraschino heritage, Adriatic fish, filtered through a modern European kitchen sensibility.
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Skoblar
Skoblar serves Traditional Dalmatian Seafood in a historic building on Trg Petra Zoranića 3, with black risotto and a leisurely pace.
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The Botanist
On a quiet street in Zadar's old town, The Botanist works within a broader shift in Dalmatian dining toward herb-led, foraged, and garden-sourced cooking. The address places it steps from the Roman Forum, inside a city whose restaurant scene has grown considerably more serious in recent years. For visitors tracking ingredient-driven cooking along the Croatian Adriatic, it warrants a place on the itinerary.
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Hotels
Selected entries from the current guide for Zadar.
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Almayer Art & Heritage Hotel and Dépendance
A MICHELIN Selected property occupying a converted heritage building in the heart of Zadar's old town, Almayer Art & Heritage Hotel and Dépendance places itself within a growing tier of Croatian hotels where architectural integrity and cultural identity do more work than resort amenity counts. The address on Ulica Brace Bersa puts guests within walking distance of the Roman Forum and the Sea Organ, two anchors of any serious Zadar visit.
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Bastion Heritage
A MICHELIN Selected property occupying a restored medieval bastion on the old city walls of Zadar, Bastion Heritage sits where Dalmatian stone architecture meets considered hospitality. Its address at Bedemi Zadarskih Pobuna 13 places guests within the fortified core of a city that rewards those who stay inside its walls rather than at its periphery.
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Hyatt Regency Zadar
Selected by the Michelin Hotels guide for 2025, Hyatt Regency Zadar occupies a prominent position on Zadar's waterfront promenade, placing guests within walking distance of the city's Roman forum, Sea Organ, and Old Town. The property brings international chain standards to a Croatian Adriatic city that has developed a credible luxury hotel tier over the past decade, sitting alongside both design-led independents and heritage properties.
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Bars
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Wineries
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Kraljevski Vinogradi
A vineyard-led konoba and tasting room outside Zadar, Kraljevski Vinogradi is built around Dalmatian varieties rather than generic resort wine tourism. The draw is the combination of Pošip, Plavac Mali and Crljenak with local cooking methods such as peka, backed by Decanter recognition including a 93-point Crljenak 2020.
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