La Spigola Enters the Michelin Guide

We had realized that chef Roberto Pisano was a true champion since our first visit, so much so that we awarded his beach club, La Spigola in Golfo Aranci in Sardinia, the title of best restaurant in the entire region. A recognition that was not only confirmed with the Cà Maiol Award 2025 during the current season, but also qualified by its inclusion in the top five best in Italy, where La Spigola didn’t win because another champion prevailed, Giancarlo Perbellini, with his Locanda Perbellini al Mare on the other major island, Sicily.

All this to announce the news that matters, which was communicated through Instagram: La Spigola has finally entered the Michelin Guide. A well-deserved recognition of chef Pisano’s qualities, of the entire restaurant team (with special mention for Johannda Erasmus, Roberto’s wife and extraordinary wine selector) and of the beach club managed by parents Marco and Simonetta. With a touch of pride, we can claim to have immediately understood the talent present in this establishment, which was then noticed by the leading restaurant guides, culminating with the “red” queen, Michelin. And who knows if the inclusion will come with a normal mention or if there will be room for some more prestigious recognition… We’ll see in a couple of months, when the presentation ceremony takes place in Parma on November 19th.

La Spigola’s strength, in terms of cuisine, is undoubtedly the selection and processing of seafood, with “aging” just like what’s done for red meat. To think that until the early 2000s, this was a restaurant-pizzeria with tobacco sales and a few beach umbrellas for support. The arrival of the Pisano family, directly from Piedmont, represented the turning point towards sustainability. After all, we’re by the sea, with posidonia forests stationed just a few meters from the shoreline. And a place like this called for cuisine based on “no waste” principles, where the strictly fresh catch is used entirely, as chef Pisano has established.