Where to brunch in Cagliari: morning spots worth the queue.
Where to brunch in Cagliari. The morning rooms worth the queue, and the kitchens still doing it right at noon.
Caffè dell'Arte on Via Caprera is the specialty coffee bar of Cagliari, pouring V60 and cold brew from beans roasted on the floor above since 2020.
Order: A V60 of the current single origin.
Tip: Andrea Pettinari started serving specialty here in 2016 and the roaster sits on the first floor above the bar.
Antico Caffè has traded on Piazza Costituzione in Cagliari since 1838, a protected historic room under the Bastione with pastries from 07:00.
Order: An espresso and a pastry at the marble counter.
Tip: Italy's culture ministry lists the room as protected; tables outside face the Bastione di Saint Remy and run until 02:00.
Caffe Svizzero sits on Largo Carlo Felice in Cagliari, a traditional cafe under a vaulted ceiling, the kind of room the city has kept rather than remodelled.
Order: Morning coffee and a pastry under the vault.
Tip: The vaulted room is the reason to stop rather than the menu; it works for a coffee and a pastry standing at the counter.
Bistrot 100 on Via Tuveri is the Villanova bistrot Cagliari uses for a proper weekday lunch, short menu, wine by the glass, service both sittings.
Order: The lunch plate of the day with a glass of Vermentino.
Tip: Sunday is lunch only and Monday the room is dark. The Gambero Rosso 2026 guide lists it among the city's informal rooms.
CUCINA.eat in Cagliari is shop, kitchen shop and counter in one on Piazza Galilei, cooking Sardinian recipes for communal tables near San Benedetto.
Order: Whatever is chalked up that day at the counter.
Tip: Counter seats beat the tables for solo lunch; wine by the glass and craft beer make it work as an aperitivo stop too.
Impasto works Piazzetta Savoia in Cagliari's Marina as pasta laboratory, pizzeria and bakery at once, rolling fresh pasta and baking bread daily.
Order: Fresh pasta from the counter, then a slice of the day's bread.
Tip: Named a Pizzeria Eccellente by 50 Top Pizza in 2026; the tables on the piazzetta are first come, first served in summer.
Ditrizio Pasticceria bakes just below the Bastione on Via Crispi in Cagliari, turning out pastries and pizzette sfoglia from seven in the morning.
Order: A pizzetta sfoglia, tomato and oregano.
Tip: Gambero Rosso gave it the top Sardinian score of the Due Torte pasticcerie; Monday is the rest day, and the Ditrizio LAB counter is on Via Ottone Bacaredda 18.
Libarium Nostrum drinks on the medieval ramparts of Castello in Cagliari, a terrace over the rooftops serving cocktails, antipasti and thin pizza.
Order: The Alligatore, calvados and Drambuie.
Tip: Danilo Argiolas opened it in 1993 and the terrace still fills at sunset; get there before 19:00 for a rampart table.