Where to eat in Cagliari: iconic restaurants and prices

Prices in Cagliari restaurants vary significantly. In budget eateries and beach bars, you can enjoy tasty hot meals for 25–35 EUR per person. Sometimes this amount covers a buffet-style lunch. In Cagliari cafés, prices are comparable: breakfast with coffee, a pastry, and a glass of mineral water costs around 4–6 EUR.

In more refined restaurants, such as Lord Nelson, expect to spend 80–90 EUR per person. However, guests are treated to exquisite dishes made with fish, seafood, meat, pasta, and delicious desserts that make it hard to choose just one.

When visiting Ristorante Martinelli's, you can confidently leave the choice of dishes to the staff. After sampling mixed seafood appetizers and fresh hot meals, tourists are usually thrilled. The portions here are also impressively large!

The most popular restaurants in Cagliari require reservations in advance (e.g. Antica Hostaria, Flora, Convento San Giuseppe). In Cagliari cafes and restaurants it is customary to tip the waiter about 10% of the bill.

Often the tip is already included, but waiters do not stress this fact to their customers. Some establishments include a service charge on the bill. This is added to each bill, which means that customers who make two separate orders pay twice for service.