Kaffibarinn
A popular place to grab a drink after work, this daytime coffee joint roils with nighttime activity on weekends with live DJs. Parties often pound until dawn. Click on image
Center Hotel Arnahvoll
Appearances can be deeply deceptive. In the case of the exterior of the recently-opened Arnarhvoll, this is a welcome realisation as the outside is a mush of grey stone with [&hell
Café Loki
Just opened, Café Loki is a needed addition to Reykjavík’s restaurant scene. Since I got to Reykjavík, I have long been looking to sample traditional Icelandic cuisine, with n
The List
Top 5 things IcelandicTop 5 Spots In Iceland by Lucas Quesnel Keller Lucas is currently working as a chef at La Primavera and trying to finish up a four piece […]
Go to Greenland. Now!
There was an arctic fox hanging out on the porch of Hotel Kulusuk. He was just kind of lazing about; playfully jumping around as mountains larger than anything I’ve ever [&hellip
Lose Your Moral Boundaries and Get Shitfaced!
It might seem a bit crazy, even ludicrous, that one weekend a year, the preceding weekend to The Labour Day public holiday (one Monday), Icelanders simply go berserk. Innumerable,
Surtsey Makes The UNESCO List
Surtsey, an uninhabited volcanic island and the southernmost point of Iceland, is a spectacular ecological wonder to behold. The island was created by dramatic eruptions of underse
Getting Spooked
“We’ll see if the lights work when we’re inside the cave and out of the daylight,” the guide told us as we stood at the entrance to Gjábakkahellir cave in […]
Hot Springs and Mountans of Many Colours
It is an overcast, cold day when I arrive at the BSÍ bus terminal and board the mini bus along with 11 others for the early Sunday morning guided tour […]
A Necessary Evil
To a foreigner, the concept of a ‘Sveitaball’ can be confusing. The word “sveit” can be defined as “country” or “countryside”, and the word can literally be transla
Investigating The Icelander
Dublin-based artist Fergal McCarthy is currently staying in Reykjavík for a one-month artist residency. Grapevine met him at his studio, drank coffee and learnt about his two proj
Atomstation
The Grapevine gets a ‘sleazy thanks’ in the sleeve but we’ll not be influenced by such blatant arse kissing. Actually, no flattery is required because Exile Republic
Cortes
It was recently explained to me, when having dinner in a nice restaurant, that a ram’s testicle is best eaten “when in season”. I took this to mean that the [&hel
Hjálmar Go Wicked on the Drums
Hjálmar knows how to stir it up with drum-bumping moxie! The group best known for being the leading proponents of Icelandic reggae, performed a surprisingly pumpin’, highly rauc
Middle East Music Fest
A Palestine benefit concert in Iceland – not an obvious event for a Thursday night at Organ, but who cares when they mix and match some pretty decent music with […]
Stórsveit Nix Noltes
Whilst Gogol Bordello seem to have the international monopoly on high-energy folk, using what might be described as a cynical find-a-niche-and-play-up-to-it approach, Stórsveit Ni
Tommygun Preachers
With a name like a spaghetti Western and songs such as ‘Drifter’ and ‘Hillbilly Purgatory’, you’d imagine the Tommygun Preachers to come across sonica
The Dog Day King
Snorri Hergill Kristjánsson up for this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival in ReykjavíkQuirky Icelandic comedian Snorri Hergill Kristjánsson is here to conquer your funny bone lik
How to Survive a Recession
As seemingly amusing as it may be that people would need rescuing from a catastrophe taking place only in their minds, that is sometimes the case. When you think about […]
The Image of Iceland
Luckily most nations were named before the existence of nation-branding. If people would have been as business-minded in medieval times as now we would never have heard of Iceland.
Mundi
Mundi Vondi, fashion designer, visual artist and fairly nice guy, is most widely known for his role in the controversial artistic group MoMS (who have used their own urine as [&hel