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( 0789 9 86 88; meals €15-25; daily)
Great-value home cooking means this rustic restaur-
ant is always booked solid.
Lorighittas
(ring-shaped pasta) in a porcini and lamb sauce is
a delicious lead-in to sea bass with rocket, fresh tomatoes and basil. La Vecchia Costa is
on the Arzachena-Porto Cervo road.
Spinnaker
( 0789 9 12 26;
www.ristorantespinnaker.com
; Liscia di Vacca; meals around €40; closed Wed low
season)
Fashionable Spinnaker attracts a buzzy crowd of yachties and socialites with its
stylish ambience and fabulous seafood. Choose a crisp Vermentino white wine to go with
sautéed calamari with fresh artichokes or rock lobster.
MODERN ITALIAN
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WORTH A TRIP
CANTINE SURRAU
Scenically surrounded by vineyards and mountains, the contemporary
Cantine Surrau
( 0789 8
29 33;
www.vignesurrau.it
; Località Chilvagghja; 10am-9pm Mon-Fri, 10.30am-10pm Sat,
10.30am-9pm Sun) takes a holistic approach to winemaking. Take a look around the cellar and admire
Sardinian art in the gallery before sniffing and swirling some of the region's crispest Vermentino
white and beefiest Cannonau red wines (€3.50 to €4.50 per glass). There are free 30-minute guided
tours of the cellar from 10am to noon and 3pm to 6pm. You'll find the winery on the Arzachena-Porto
Cervo road.
Getting There & Away
Between June and September,
Sun Lines
( 348 260 98 81)
operates buses from Olbia air-
port to the Costa Smeralda, stopping at Porto Cervo and various other points along the
coast. During the rest of the year, there's one daily bus between Porto Cervo and Olbia
(€3.50, 1½ hours).
For Arzachena there are regular year-round services to and from Olbia (€2.50, 45
minutes, 12 daily).
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