Author: Madeleine T
DILL REIGNS SUPREME
by Madeleine T
Madeleine T.: This is Grapevine’s annual best of, top of the pops issue. Now, I am not one for superlatives….
Welcome To The Neighbourhood
by Madeleine T
The wind must be blowing just right, as we could have walked blindfolded down Skólavörðustígur to find Sjávargrillið. The smell…
“Why should I return for a soggy potluck and some frozen fries?”
by Madeleine T
Since opening, I was apprehensive to do more than peek into the window of a downtown restaurant reduced to the…
“This establishment is truly a labour of love”
by Madeleine T
Only a handful of cities around the world can boast wearing the Nepalese jewel in their culinary crown, and Reykjavík…
“Baby Wipes? What Baby Wipes?”
by Madeleine T
A few weeks ago my partner and I began venturing on regular pram walks with our bouncing little bundle of…
“Breast feed with your right arm, slug down a cold one with the left”
by Madeleine T
In 2009 and 2010 a record number of babies, nearly ten thousand (5.026 in 2009, 4.907 in 2010), were born…
“This working man’s Thai is served in befitting behemoth proportions”
by Madeleine T
Night two of my weekend film festival: an older film from one of my favourite filmmakers, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s ‘Syndromes And…
Holy Basil, Ban Man!
by Madeleine T
Time for another one of my own miniature weekend film festivals. No, not a weekend of Pedro Almodóvar films, nor…
Here’s To The Revolution!
by Madeleine T
With revolt sweeping across the Middle East and Northern Africa, I have been singing the praise of revolution as of…
“It would be a pity for anyone to miss this”
by Madeleine T
I must have walked by this place a hundred times since it opened on Lækjargata in September, learning of its…
“For the best burger west of Vatnajökull…”
by Madeleine T
Since its television debut, Hamborgarafabrikkan has been all the rage in Reykjavík. With interminable waiting lists and queues out the…