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Antica Hostaria
Antica Hostaria is a warm and welcoming restaurant. Antique furnishings, walls crowded with pictures and attentive service give it a cosy ambience, which is complemented by classic Italian cooking. It's popular with local VIPs.
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Antico Caffè
The city's most elegant café is a gleaming, steaming affair of copper and brass. It serves up a little bit of everything - pastries, sweets, crêpes, salads, coffee and cocktails - and is open into the early hours of the morning.
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Caffè Svizzero
This Liberty-style place has been a stalwart of Cagliari café society since the early 20th century. Anything from English tea to cocktails is on offer in this elegantly frescoed locale, founded by a group of Swiss almost 100 years ago.
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Crackers
Crackers has a big cream-coloured vault beneath which you sit down to northern Italian specialities (the chef spent many years in Piedmont), including a variety of creamy risottos, mushrooms and even truffle dishes. It attracts an effortlessly stylish crowd.
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Da Lillicu
You'll have to elbow your way into this crowded trattoria - perhaps Cagliari's most famous eatery. The terrible acoustics are not helped by the volume of noise arising from wine-fuelled diners. It's a great place for a culinary adventure and certainly the place to try the burrida (dogfish marinated in a walnut and garlic sauce). There's also a solid selection of meat mains and great antipasti .
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Dal Corsaro
A classic of Cagliari's fine-dining scene, Dal Corsaro attracts the glad-rag scenesters who want to be seen. Stiff white tablecloths, silver wine buckets and elegant couples murmuring over floral arrangements set the scene for some outrageously good food, while white-smocked waiters provide impeccable service.
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Dulcis Caffè
A classy café, Dulcis doubles as a wine bar in the evening. It's frequented by slick business types and sophisticates who appreciate the well-stocked wine list. Situated at the bottom of the Viale Regina, it has a decked terrace with palm-fringed views over the bay.
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Il Buongustaio
A sensory overload comes with every meal at this spiffed-up trattoria. The menu changes according to the season. If available, try the handmade pasta with prawns and jumbo crab meat for a real tastebud treat.
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Isola del Gelato
You'll notice the nightly crowd on Piazza Yenne, all licking furiously away at ice creams. They get them from Isola del Gelato, which has an incredible 280 variations on the ice-cream theme, including several soya-based concoctions.
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La Vecchia Trattoria
Ignore the gaudy sea-themed décor - think hanging nets and fishing paraphernalia - and enjoy an excellent meal at this local favourite. It's located in a pretty spot in the shadow of the Chiesa di San Michele and specialises in Cagliaritani cuisine, combining the flavours of terra e mare (land and sea).
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Ristorante Flora
Marble fireplaces, handsome dressers and gold-framed pictures make Flora feel like a rather grand private dining room. Dishes are strictly seasonal, and the maître d' offers excellent recommendations paired with suitable wines. This is great service in elegant surroundings.
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Ristorante Italia
Across from the hotel of the same name, the Italia has the same dated atmosphere. It's divided into two parts: the so-called bistro, which serves up cheap meals, and the 1st-floor restaurant, which has pretensions to grandeur. It's well regarded locally, especially for its fish dishes - try the cassita de pisci (fish soup).
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Ristorante Quattro Mori
Here you can enjoy fine Sardinian dishes in one of the city's long-standing culinary bastions. It's regularly packed to the rafters with noisy, contented diners, so reservations are essential.
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Ristorante Royal
Tuck into a succulent Florentine steak or choose from a range of other meat and vegetable dishes from this window on Tuscany. There's not much fishy fare available, but there are plenty of lip-smacking desserts, including an exemplary seadas (light pastry filled with cheese and covered with honey).
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S'Apposentu
The new restaurant at the Teatro Lirico has proved a resounding success. And as there are only 10 tables, you'll need to make a reservation. With artist-chef Roberto Petza in the kitchen you can expect plates as pretty as any picture - try Carloforte tuna, lasagne dusted with San Gavino saffron or Cabras mullet cooked in fen grass. Bravo!
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Spinnaker
This is one place at Poetto where you'll be guaranteed a refined dining experience. It operates on two levels: a cheap and cheerful pizzeria downstairs, and a chic 1st-floor terrace restaurant overlooking the boats bobbing in the marina. It serves up all the local favourites alongside specialities like vegetable-and-prawn couscous.
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Vineria Sant'Efisio
This tiny, traditional vineria (wine bar, but not as you know it!) is tucked into the steep alleys of Stampace. It has a daily fish-only menu and on Wednesday it even offers sushi. The cosy cavelike interior provides an intimate setting and, as to be expected, there's a good selection of wine.
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