Best Tasting Menus in Cagliari
Restaurants on this list serve a tasting menu beside a la carte. ChiaroScuro, in Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, holds a Michelin Plate for 2026. Chef Marina Ravarotto cooks rare handmade Su Filindeu on the Le Radici tasting menu, with a sommelier-led Sardinian-forward list. Old Friend, in city center, holds a Bib Gourmand for 2026 and serves three distinct tasting menus. Its list includes natural wine. Seasonal menus cycle through meat, fish, and vegetarian dishes.
Josto, in Centro, serves contemporary Sardinian cooking with an extensive wine list. Chef Pierluigi Fais reworks frecola pasta, mullet, Saba dessert, and heritage pork. Amanõ, in Marina, also has an extensive list, and its Campania-born chef personally serves and explains handmade Sardinian-inspired dishes from an open kitchen.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants serving a tasting menu or omakase, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
Amanõ
A small, hand-decorated dining room on Via Sidney Sonnino where a Campanian chef works Sardinian ingredients into creative contemporary menus. The tilde in its name signals the strait between two culinary traditions, and the kitchen honours both.
Casa Clàt Restaurant
Casa Clàt Restaurant brings Cagliari’s ingredient conversation into a more architectural register: an open kitchen set beneath barrel vaults, with the city’s produce, seafood culture, and Sardinian pantry as the natural frame. Treat it as a contemporary Cagliari dining room rather than a rustic trattoria, especially for travelers comparing the capital’s hotel-adjacent restaurants with its seafood and regional specialists.
ChiaroScuro
At ChiaroScuro in Cagliari, Michelin-recognized chef Marina Ravarotto elevates Sardinian heritage—most famously the elusive Su Filindeu—through a refined Le Radici tasting menu, intimate service, and a Sardinian-forward wine program.
Da Marino al St Remy
A Michelin Plate-recognised address on the edge of Cagliari's Castello district, Da Marino al St Remy pairs Sardinian-inflected Mediterranean cooking with the kind of host-led hospitality that defines the city's older family-run tradition. Owned by Marino and his wife Silvana, who cooks, the restaurant sits at the €€ mid-range tier, accessible enough to visit more than once, consistent enough to reward return visits.
Duanima
On a quiet street in Cagliari's Villanova quarter, Duanima holds a 2025 Michelin Plate alongside, a pairing that signals consistent quality at a mid-range price point. The kitchen works in a contemporary register, reinterpreting Sardinian ingredients with modern technique. For the value tier it occupies, the recognition is notable.
Gli Uffici
Occupying the second floor of a 19th-century palazzo above the Bastioni di Saint Remy, Gli Uffici earns its 2025 Michelin Plate through chef Tommaso Sanguedolce's precise, Mediterranean-rooted cooking. The terrace frames Cagliari's roofline through statues of the four seasons, making it one of the city's more architecturally charged dining rooms. Sardinian ingredients meet southern Italian technique in a menu equally confident with fish and meat.
Josto
The menu reworks island staples, frecola pasta, mullet, Saba dessert, heritage pork, through a contemporary lens, served across two compact rooms where an open kitchen anchors the space.
Old Friend
A Michelin Bib Gourmand holder in 2024 and 2025, Old Friend sits away from Cagliari's main shopping corridors on Via Giuseppe Abba, where seasonal menus cycle through meat, fish, and vegetarian dishes in a room defined by relaxed energy and competent front-of-house work. Chef Matt Abé leads the kitchen, and the format allows both à la carte and three distinct tasting menus.
Planning tasting menus in Cagliari
- Which tasting-menu restaurants in Cagliari hold a Michelin Plate?
- Six restaurants on this list hold a Michelin Plate. ChiaroScuro, in Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, Da Marino al St Remy, near Bastione di Saint Remy, Amanõ, in Marina, Josto, in Centro, and Gli Uffici, in Castello, hold a Plate for 2026. Duanima, in Cagliari Centro, holds a Plate for 2025.
- Which tasting menus in Cagliari come with sommelier-led lists?
- ChiaroScuro, in Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, and Gli Uffici, in Castello, both have sommelier-led wine lists. Each restaurant has an extensive selection.
- Which tasting-menu restaurant in Cagliari holds a Bib Gourmand?
- Old Friend, in city center, is the restaurant on this list whose latest Michelin award is a Bib Gourmand for 2026, and the restaurant holds that award in earlier dated years as well. ChiaroScuro, in Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, holds a Bib Gourmand in earlier dated years, and its latest Michelin award is a Plate for 2026.
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