Author: Ragnar Egilsson
The Ambitious Apótek: Racks Of Lamb And Painkiller Cocktails
Located at Austurstræti 16, Apótek is a historical building cum hotel and restaurant originally designed by Guðjón Samúelsson, Iceland’s state…
Wild Monkey Tapas: Makake Injects Some Japanese-Spanish Flavour Into Grandi
The Icelandic restaurant landscape is always shifting. These days, Reykjavík seems to be experiencing an injection of international cuisine. The…
The O.G: Hornið Celebrates 40 Years Of Slinging Pizza And Folding Calzones
Running a restaurant is an unforgiving business in which a ten-year run is considered noteable. Yet, it if you look…
Cook Fast, Die Young: Reykjavík’s Restaurants In Possible Crisis
It feels appropriate that Icelanders didn’t have much in the way of a summer from 2017 through 2019. During the…
Christmas Is Coming & We Are Getting Fat: A Festive Guide To Reykjavík Restaurants
by John Rogers, Shruthi Basappa, Ragnar Egilsson and Alexander Jean de Fontenay
After last year’s tour of easy-going downtown havens like Mat Bar, Snaps and Skál, we decided to broaden the net…
A Messi Eater: Fresh, Creamy Seafood In A Bucolic Setting At Messinn
Delicate or robust, white or pink, flat or oblong, from glistening swordfish to speckled flounder fillets—I’ve never met a fish…
Keep On Truckin’: Our Quest For The Best Street Food In Reykjavik
by Shruthi Basappa and Ragnar Egilsson
Reykjavik may not have been blessed with the best summer this year, but two very determined foolhardy people strode out…
A Marshful of Seafood: Wholesome Nordic Wholesomeness In The Accordion House
I am standing outside the accordion-shaped house tucked in the southern corner of Reykjavík and wondering how a building can…
Dining Under the Dead Gaze of Shipwrecked Sailors
Fáskrúðsfjörður is one of those towns which can be unfairly overlooked as Route 1 connecting the tourist beacons of the…
The Crafty Crustaceans of Höfn
“Langoustines Are the New Foie Gras,” exclaimed a recent Bon Appétit article, and langoustine certainly fits the bill as a…
Surf & Earth: Rosenberg Is Reborn As A Sanctuary For The restaurant Scene
Entering Rosenberg, I’m greeted with mannequin heads salvaged from the recently closed hair salon next door, which closed down last…
The Brunching Hour: Reykjavík’s Most Decadent Hangover Meals
by John Rogers, Hannah Jane Cohen and Ragnar Egilsson
If you made use of our guide to Reykjavík’s music venues on page 28, you might well need this one…
Ragnar’s Secret Solstice Hangover Diary Prt 2
Saturday: The second half of the madness In order to make sense of so much nonsense, I have broken this…
Ragnar’s Secret Solstice Hangover Diary
Thursday: The madness begins It’s that Solstice time again! Whoop whoop (family!) Thursday was as soft segway into a festival…
Thanks For All The Fish: A Reykjavík Foodie Tours Five Akureyri Fast Food Joints
Whether it’s Scottish “munchie boxes” or Canadian poutine, there’s something about cold northern climates that makes people embrace a grease-up…
Matartíminn Magical Mystery Meal: Dill & Solfin Tour The Arctic Island Palate
Matartíminn is a series of pop-up events orchestrated by Dill, Iceland’s first Michelin star restaurant, and Kex Hostel. Each event…
Burro: Crickets & Cocoa Puff Cocktails At The Latin Fusion Disco
Burro is a pan-Latin tapas place from the people who brought us Public House. My most recent visit happened to…
Matwerk Doesn’t Reinvent The Wheel… But It Werks
I dodge the diagonal raindrops of Rey-jah-vik’s spring through the glass front of the former hair salon turned upscale Nordic…
New Italian Reykjavík
Whether it’s Mario Batali and Oscar Farinetti kicking off an unstoppable food hall trend with Eataly or dumping a Berlusconi…
Pining for Pipes and Piping Hot Haggis? Look Nae Further: Scotland Comes To Kex
Kex holds an annual festival celebrating Scottish culture in all its tartan regalia (sans the Begbie pint glass throwing). This…
Restaurant Review: Borðið
Do we still call it gentrification even if the only people being displaced are oil tank security guards and struggling…
Rok Review: A Big-Ass Celery Near Everyone’s Favourite Church
Rok is a beautiful building. It’s understated and unobtrusive, and its architecture references the turf-roofed houses that once dominated Iceland,…
Get Outta Town: A Guide To Dining Outside Of Reykjavík
by Shruthi Basappa, Ragnar Egilsson and John Rogers
It used to be the case that good restaurants, after leaving the confines of Reykjavík, were pretty slim pickings. These…
Eating Ice: Why On Earth Do Icelanders Love An Al-Fresco Winter Cone?
Visitors to Iceland often remark on how, throughout Iceland’s frozen winter season, they’ll often see clusters of locals standing in…
Guide: So What Exactly Is New Nordic Cuisine?
Depending who you listen to, the New Nordic Cuisine culinary movement might be alive, dead, or both—but one thing’s for…