Where to drink well in Cagliari by the glass and the bottle: natural, classical, and worth the cab fare.
Wine bars in Cagliari. natural, classical, and the grower-focused rooms worth the cab fare.
INU Sardinian Wine Bar works Via Sassari in Cagliari as an island-only list, boards of pecorino and salumi built to whatever you are drinking.
Signature pour: Cannonau by the glass
Wine focus: Sardinian growers only
Food: Cheese and salumi boards
Order: Lardo with myrtle on warm bruschetta.
Tip: The boards are customisable, so ask for Sardinian cheeses only and let them pour a Cannonau or a Vermentino against them.
Sabores is a Marina bottega in Cagliari on Via Baylle, Sardinian cheese and cured meat sold by weight and cut into boards for the aperitivo.
Signature pour: Vermentino di Sardegna
Wine focus: Sardinian bottles from the shop shelves
Food: Taglieri, small and large
Order: The large tagliere of Sardinian cheese and salumi.
Tip: Two board sizes, small and large, and both come with wine by the glass; the shop shelves are the souvenir run.
Salsamenteria is a Cagliari bottega with a kitchen on Via Sonnino, cutting Sardinian cheese and cured meat to order for the counter and the tables.
Signature pour: Cannonau di Sardegna
Wine focus: Island labels beside the cheese counter
Food: Cheese and cured meat cut to order
Order: Su Cheese, the sushi-and-cheese play off the counter.
Tip: The Gambero Rosso 2026 guide lists it among the city's informal rooms; buy the cheese you liked on the way out.
Babeuf pairs tea, wine and slow reading on Via Giardini in Cagliari, a small Villanova room of cheese boards, tartare and shelves of magazines.
Signature pour: A glass off the natural list
Wine focus: Natural and low-intervention bottles
Food: Boards and tartare
Order: A tartare and a glass off the natural list.
Tip: It works better as a long early evening than a quick drink; the reading material on the shelves is there to be used.
Cronta Enoteca Winebar is a wine shop you can drink in on Viale Diaz in Cagliari, with boards of cheese and cured meat alongside the bottles.
Signature pour: Vermentino or Cannonau by the glass
Wine focus: Thousands of labels, Sardinian and Italian
Food: Cheese and salumi
Order: A Cannonau by the glass with a cheese board.
Tip: Closed Sunday and shut by 21:30 even at the weekend, so treat it as an early-evening stop rather than a late one.
CUCINA.eat in Cagliari is shop, kitchen shop and counter in one on Piazza Galilei, cooking Sardinian recipes for communal tables near San Benedetto.
Signature pour: Wine by the glass at the counter
Wine focus: Sardinian wines by the glass
Food: Counter cooking
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.