DESCENDING INTO FOOD-A-GEDDON
At Xmas, we stuff ourselves good ‘n’ bloated... The children were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of sugarplums danced in their heads. And their teeny-tiny bellie
Icelandic Christmas Buffet at Skrúður
Skrúður at Hótel SagaSkrúður is an institution in family-friendly Christmas buffets. There are fancier buffets, there are more innovative buffets, but I was interested in this
Have Yourself A Sexy Little Christmas
Dirty little chocolate secretsChocolate. Oh heavenly Chocolate! The Aztecs—early converts to the cause—believed that it was a gift from the gods, and that it could even bestow
What Icelanders Eat For The Holidays
Look, intrepid traveller! Here is a primer on the usual suspects and new additions to the ever-popular Icelandic Christmas buffets, found at various restaurants around the country.
All You Need Is Love. And Icelandic Gourmet Chocolate
Starting as a late-night experiment, Om Nom is an Icelandic success storyImagine an abandoned gas station office. A few things might spring to mind. An empty room with peeling wall
As Icelandic As The Wind And Rain
Café LokiIs there any Icelandic culinary tradition to speak of? This is a question I’ve often struggled with. Some of our more “traditional” dishes might be rooted in Nordic
Gothic Wolffish Cheeks in JaJaJaland
Emiliana Torrini and Chef Antto Melasniemi (formerly of HIM) made us dinnerA relentlessly cheerful Icelandic pop musician and a brooding Finnish wunderkind of the Nordic food scene
Party Fuel: Your Late Night Eating Guide!
It’s Friday, 2:52 in the morning, you’re stumbling out of Hafnarhús after dancing your ass off to The Knife’s last show, and that means you have worked up a crazy […]
A Bucolic Brew
Visiting Iceland's third-largest microbreweryWhile the drive through the north of Iceland may not offer as diverse an array of neck-craning scenery as the south, its serenity is un
Soup And Salad, Lunch Not Dinner
‘Kryddlegin hjörtu’ is the Icelandic translation of the title of Laura Esquivel’s novel ‘Como agua para chocolate’ or, as it is known in English-speaking countries, ‘L
Everybody Loves Ramen
This spring, Tsering Gyal and Kun Sung opened Ramen Momo, Iceland’s first Tibetan restaurant (although it should be noted that it’s not Iceland’s first Himalayan restaura
Rural Evolution
Conversation between Ragnar Egilsson and Ólafur Örn ÓlafssonThis summer saw the birth of two food markets. One of them, a fully fledged outdoor market in Fógetagarðurinn where
Everyone’s A Chef
Fine Icelandic cuisine made simple at Salt EldhúsI walk into Salt Eldhús (“Salt Kitchen”) on a rainy summer afternoon that feels chilly enough to be fall. Shaking off
WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN’ GOING ON
Get Grapevine's fancy new app!After damn near revolutionizing Reykjavík drinking culture via the beloved Appy Hour app, The Reykjavík Grapevine team has created a new thingamajig
A Turkish Taste At Last
When thinking of Mediterranean cuisine in Iceland, not much comes to mind save for the Italian restaurants that have for so long been a constant in the Reykjavík landscape. There
Don Donuttio DiMaggio Of The County Fair
Just as the infinitely self-deprecating Don of the Springfield mafia couldn’t resist a tiny bicycle trick, I’m a gal who can’t deny the appeal of a mini doughnut (or donut, [
Selling Like Hot (Crab) Cakes
Located further afield than most of Reykjavík’s new brigade of food trucks, Walk the Plank—specializing in crab cake sliders from locally caught Atlantic rock crab—seems rig
Mystic (anonymous) Pizza
Hverfisgata 12, 101 ReykjavíkMuch like the version of himself Ted Danson portrayed in the cult TV hit show ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’—in which Mr. Danson donated handsomely, and
Alvar Would Have Been Proud
One of Reykjavík’s more impressive architectural achievements–the Alvar Aalto-designed Nordic House–became host to new restaurant this spring, named in honour of the Finnish
New Nordic Cuisine Is Dead
With Chef Esben Holmboe Bang of Maaemo at DillMy lifelong hatred of dill makes me a terrible champion of New Nordic cuisine. At age seven I swore to my mom […]
The Icelandic Restaurant Name Listicle
Before you can name your child in Iceland, you have to run the name by the highly conservative Icelandic Naming Committee. But that’s where the micromanaging stops. You can name