With its trailing vines, brightly-coloured flowers, and wooden tables, this greenhouse café hidden in the heart of Reykjavík’s Botanical Gardens is always warm and summery, even on a cloudy day. It’s peaceful place to while away an afternoon munching on open-face sandwiches, savoury soups, or rich desserts—we particularly recommend the fantastic homemade sourdough bread and beetroot hummus. The café is only open during the summer and early fall, but reopens to serve up a special Icelandic Christmas buffet (Jólahlaðborð) in December.

2013: Lunch Beat
2012: Café Flora

Photo by Gulli