Glamorous, seasonal, moneyed, immaculate

Porto Cervo

The Aga Khan's invented Costa Smeralda capital, where starred kitchens cook for the summer yacht set.

Porto Cervo is the manufactured heart of the Costa Smeralda — a village conceived in the 1960s by the Aga Khan's consortium and built in a soft, invented Mediterranean style, all curved stucco, terracotta and bougainvillaea framing a yacht harbour. For ten weeks a summer it is among the most concentrated displays of wealth in Europe, and its dining reflects that: starred kitchens, Milanese restaurateurs gone seasonal, and tasting menus priced for the marina crowd. The cooking at its best marries Sardinian raw material — red prawns from the gulf, line-caught fish, Gallura herbs — to metropolitan technique. Come for the spectacle and the seafood; understand that the prices and the polish belong to the high season, not to the island's everyday life.

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Michelin-level kitchens around the Porto Vecchio marina Gulf red prawns and line-caught fish meeting metropolitan technique 1960s 'Aga Khan style' stucco-and-bougainvillaea village Yacht-set people-watching at the Piazzetta Sardinian raw material plated for a cosmopolitan crowd

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