HOLIDAY APARTMENTS TO LET IN BOSA, NORTH WEST SARDINIA

EATING IN AND AROUND BOSA, NORTH WEST SARDINIA

Food in the region is wonderful. In Bosa there are many restaurants, from the smart and expensive Ristorante Corso 82, to the Margarita Pizzeria on via Parpaglia where the food is excellent and very inexpensive. Borgo Saint Ignazio is a very good and reasonable restaurant just down the street from the Lemon Tree House, large helpings of good food. Very friendly manageress speaks good English. The main hotel in town, Sa Pischedda, does good food let down by poor service. In Magomadas there is Trattoria da Ricardo, famed for its excellent food. Ricardo is passionate about his food, makes his own honey, grows his own vegetables, collects wild mushrooms and buys fresh fish off the boats early in the morning. Further afield there are great restaurants in many of the surrounding towns and an exceptional one in Cugliari, Desogus. Details of many places to eat are in the apartments. Take a chance, we have never had a bad meal yet, except at bars that serve 'Mister Food', '4 Padelle' or similar frozen instant meals, something to be wary of. With the help of our guests we are building up a guide to good eating places, and we are usually on hand to give you advice.

Please note: Lunch is generally served between 12:30 and 2pm, dinner from 7:30 / 8ish until late. Don't expect to get fed at 5pm!

Lunch is a bit difficult in Bosa, as the locals go home for lunch. A few bars do good light lunches, on Viale Giovanni XXIII, you can get fresh food at Cafe Baglioni who also make their own excellent ice creams, up at Piazza Carmine the bar 'Taverna' does fresh sandwiches, burgers etc, and Bar Palace on Via Lamarmora have opened a restaurant with a light lunch menu. On the Corso Emanuelle II there is a Gastronomeria that does home made food. Up at our end of the street a new trattoria, Biancospina, has just opened doing good food at a good price. Most restaurants generally do more serious lunches, and down at Bosa Marina you can have lunch or evening meal at Bar Ristorante Chelo where you can sit upstairs, looking out over the sea and be served excellent creative food. Not cheap, but a real treat that is well worth it. Borgo Saint Ignazio, Sa Pischedda, Corso 82 and Verdefiume also do lunch.

Borgo St. Ignazio excellent dinner or lunch

Lunch at Ristorante Chelo at Bosa Marina

Eating in, you have a well equipped kitchen at your apartment, and fantastic shops selling really fresh fruit, veg, fish and meat all year round. Many of the veg shops grow much of the produce they sell, and most of the rest is from Sardinia.

WINES

Excellent wines come from Bosa and Sardinia in general. Bosa is famous for its Malvasia di Bosa, a rich white wine that is very strong. Commercial Malvasia can be a bit like sherry, but Bar Zio Elio make their own (oppostite the Cathedral) and also the veg shop on Corso Vitt Emanuele ll. The wine from these people is far better and they will usually let you taste some. Also there are vinyards that sell direct, especially around Modolo and on the coastal road to Porto Alabe.

The local red wine is variable, again the shops mentioned above make their own and it is worth trying. The commercial red wine, Cannonau di Sardegna is strong, dry spicey and generally good. Monica di Sardegna is a little lighter, but also generally good. Of the commercial white wines the Vermentino is a generally delicious dry white which can be still or sparkling. Vermentino di Gallura is a particularly good DOC. Vernaccia is a strong sweeter white from near Oristano that can be a bit like sherry. There are many other lesser known whites produced all over Sardinia, with some excellent fizzy ones. Of particular note is the Torbato Brut from Sella & Mosca, and the wines from Santa Maria La Palma near Alghero. You can visit the vineyards of Sella & Mosca and also Santa Maria La Palma and do some sampling.