ristorazione — Alghero · Sardegna
In Alghero, where the Catalan walls descend to the sea, Via Santa Barbara holds an address best discovered after dark: Mabrouk, a fish restaurant with a single fixed menu built around the day's catch.
The entrance on Via Santa Barbara, in the heart of Alghero's old town, opens onto a restaurant that has chosen simplicity as a form of rigour: no menu card, no variations, only the fish of the day shaped into a journey that changes with the seasons and with the sea.
The family-run spirit shows in the details: the staff know every course, guide with discretion, and know how to adapt — as they did when a guest flagged an allergy at the table, resolving it by adjusting the single course without changing the bill. It is the service of people who chose to do one thing, and do it well.
From the kitchen come ravioli al nero di seppia (squid-ink pasta parcels) filled with grouper and smoked ricotta, paccheri with tuna, fregola with clams: fresh pasta made in-house, each dish built on the day's catch. The raw materials — red prawns, sea bream, lobster, gattuccio all'algherese (a local dogfish preparation) — arrive fresh every evening, and it shows on the plate, in texture and in flavour, without mediation.
Fifty-five euros for a complete journey: five starters, a duo of first courses, a duo of mains, dessert, wine and coffee. The page tells the rest.
