Travel Blog

Reykjavík is one of the most surprising food cities in Europe — a capital of only 130,000 people that punches so far above its weight in the quality, variety, and creativity of its food and café culture that visitors regularly describe it as one of the finest small city eating experiences on the continent. The combination of extraordinary raw ingredients — the cold North Atlantic waters producing seafood of incomparable freshness and quality, the free-roaming Icelandic lamb producing meat of extraordinary flavour, the geothermal greenhouses producing vegetables year-round at this sub-Arctic latitude — with a café culture of genuine warmth and genuine craft creates a dining city of remarkable depth. This is the complete honest guide to where to eat and drink in Reykjavík — the cafés worth seeking out, the restaurants that deliver what they promise, and the food experiences that no visitor to Iceland's capital should miss.