Best Of Reykjavík
The Reykjavík Grapevine’s “Best of Reykjavík” sister magazine gives out a set of awards each year to the very best restaurants, bars, shops, museums, music venues and more.
It’s the essential guide to the city, for locals and visitors alike.
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Line The Nest: Reykjavík Homeware Shops To Cosy Up Your Place
When there’s a fierce storm rattling the windows and the ten-minute walk to your favourite bar feels like a Frodo-esque mission, it’s sometimes nice to just bail on the world, close the curtains, turn up the radiators, and fire up Netflix. It’s…
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The Weekend Edit: 4 Things To Do In Reykjavík This Weekend
Reykjavík Cocktail Weekend 2nd-4th Feb. — Downtown Reykjavík In collaboration with bars and pubs in downtown Reykjavík, this year’s Cocktail Weekend gives much needed flavour to these otherwise stormy evenings. The actual Icelandic Cocktail Competition was hosted in GamlaBíó on Thursday, but…
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The Cocktail Crawl: Reykjavík’s Fanciest Happy Hours
Few words look better together in the English language than “cocktail happy hour,” especially in Reykjavík, where liquor comes at a premium. With an ever-growing cocktail culture, and a strong tradition of bars and restaurants having after-work (or during work, for that…
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Silja Glømmi’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík: Brunch, Cats, Cooking, Vinyl
Silja Glømmi is a DJ often found spinning atmospheric tunes at various top downtown bars. Here’s how she’d spend a perfect day in Reykjavík. First thing in the morning On my perfect day, I would wake up early so I would have…
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Steinunn Jónsdóttir’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Steinunn Jónsdóttir is a musician in Amabadama and RVKDTR. This is how she’d spend a perfect day in Reykjavík. First thing in the morning? I wake up early feeling fresh and rested. That’s not something that happens often because I tend to…
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Ice Queens: Reykjavík’s Most Elegant Ladies’ Winter Fashion
Whilst I skitter around in my slippery shoes and a coat that clashes with everything else I’m wearing, the angelic beings of Reykjavík trot effortlessly across the ice, draped in quality woollen finery and heels. Heels! So, if you’re sick to death…
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One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer: Bargain Boozing In Reykjavík
You hear it everywhere you go every single day: “Iceland is so expensive!” Especially in relation to alcohol. No one gave you the heads up to hit the airport duty-free store upon your arrival, so now you are faced with exorbitant beer…
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The Winter City: Enjoying Reykjavík In The Dark Months
‘Tis the season to… be jolly, sure, but also to clip snow cleats onto your shoes so you don’t slip and break a tibia as Reykjavík becomes a slippery ice sheet of death. But hey, as well as being potentially hazardous, it…
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Instant Classics: Grapevine’s Icelandic Albums Of The Year, 2012-2017
Every January for the past five years, Grapevine has assembled a panel to look back on the preceding year in Icelandic music and dish out the Grapevine Music Awards. The ‘Best Album’ category has often been the most hotly contested, but each…
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A Cheapskate’s Guide To Romance In Reykjavík
A romantic getaway in Reykjavík, oh wouldn’t it be heaven? But everything costs a fortune here and let’s face it, since your dad’s British Aerospace shares went kaput money has been tight. Romantic activities like bathing in the Blue Lagoon–as if you were Jon…
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Reykjavík Guide: Quick Food On The Move
Despite the wide range of places to go out for dinner in Reykjavík, finding good spots to eat when you’re in a hurry can be a daunting task. Lunch breaks are the worst, but even late nights snacks or a quick pick-me-up…
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Kaspars Bekeris’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík: Cake, Drag, Dancing
Reykjavík-based photographer Kaspars Bekeris has worked as a TV reporter and a writer in various media for more than ten years. He started making documentary photographs to accompany his own stories, and for the last nine months has become known for his…
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Allie Doersch’s Perfect Day in Reykjavík: Tea, Stick ‘n’ Pokes, Mario Kart
Allie Doersch is an artist, and the raging punk frontwoman of the band Tófa. She shared with us her perfect day, which starts with cats and ends with schadenfreude. First thing It‘s Saturday. After my cats, Mjágústa and Voffi Pizza Kistján, wake…
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Colm O’Herlihy’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Colm O’Herlihy is an Irishman living in Iceland, working as the manager of two top labels, Bedroom Community & Mengi Records. He’s often to be seen buzzing around downtown, typing away in the bars, venues and cafés of 101. Here he shares…
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Jóhanna Guðrún’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Jóhanna Guðrún is an Icelandic pop singer best known for her iconic 2008 Eurovision song ‘Is It True?’ To learn more about her, we sat down with the Hafnarfjörður resident to talk about her perfect day. If you relate to the musician,…
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Vinyl Fantasy VII: A Guide To Reykjavík Record Stores
Downtown Reykjavík has some great independent record stores, all of which sell LPs by Icelandic artists that you might not find elsewhere. So if—or more likely, when—you fall head over heels for some Icelandic band during Airwaves, here are the places where…
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City Guide: Reykjavík’s Best Pizza
Most visitors to Iceland understandably want to try some traditional Icelandic cuisine, which is mostly centred around lamb and fish dishes. But Reykjavík, small as it is, does have some capital city perks. Whether it’s a quick bite for lunch or an…
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Óli Dóri’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Óli Dóri is a Grapevine music columnist a downtown DJ. He’s operations manager at Bíó Paradís and a host of the Straumur radio show on x97. Read his Straumur columns here. First thing in the morning? I wake up around 9:30, and…
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Autumn Walks In Reykjavík
While you won’t find many crunchy leaves or pumpkin spiced treats in Reykjavík, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t a plethora of other ways to celebrate the upcoming fall season here. Our pick? A jaunt through the good ole’ outdoors. Heiðmörk Heiðmörk…
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Sturla Viðar Jakobsson’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Sturla Viðar Jakobsson is the leader of infamous black metal band Svartidauði. Here’s his perfect Reykjavík day. First thing in the morning? On my perfect day, I don’t get up because I have long since evolved past the biological need for sleep.…
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Jono Duffy’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Jono Duffy is Iceland’s premier gay Australian comedian—the only one actually. Here’s his perfect Reykjavík day. Breakfast? I used to live in Melbourne, which is the breakfast/brunch capital of the world, so this question puts me in a bit of a “Meryl…
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Best Of Iceland: Canyon, Restaurant, Hike
Canyon: Fjaðrárgljúfur This immense canyon, not far from Kirkjubæjarklaustur, is a sight to behold. The huge walls rear up vertically from the ground, with easy hiking trails from the car park to some high viewpoints. In recent years, the trails have been…
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Glódís Perla Viggósdóttir’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Glódís Perla Viggósdóttir is a 22 year old footballer, currently living in Malmö, Sweden, and playing professionally with FC Rosengård and the Icelandic national team. “I grew up in Kópavogur,” she says, “in the lovely Fossvogsdalur. I’m studying Psychology from a distance…