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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Best Of Reykjavík 2014: Activities & Fun-Times
Once a year, we like to take a step back and celebrate our little city. It’s not that Reykjavík is a city without problems, or that it’s a place that doesn’t have plenty of ways in which it could improve. This probably…
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Best Of Reykjavík 2014: Reykjavík Institutions
Through compiling our second annual best of list back when, we reached the conclusion that some of these places are so firmly established as local favourites that naming them “best of” anything is sort of redundant. Furthermore, we thought having to compete…
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Best Of Reykjavík 2014: Dining & Grubbing
Once a year, we like to take a step back and celebrate our little city. It’s not that Reykjavík is a city without problems, or that it’s a place that doesn’t have plenty of ways in which it could improve. This probably…
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Best Of Reykjavík 2014: Drinking & Nightlife
Once a year, we like to take a step back and celebrate our little city. It’s not that Reykjavík is a city without problems, or that it’s a place that doesn’t have plenty of ways in which it could improve. This probably…
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Best of Reykjavík 2013: Dining and Grubbing
We can hear your stomach grumbling from our third-floor office. Go on, get grubbing! Best Burger: Vitabar Bergflórugata 21 It was only a matter of time until Vitabar would take our ‘BEST BURGER’ prize. After all, those guys have been serving up…
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Best of Reykjavík 2013: Shopping and Commerce
Best Place to Shop for Touristy Stuff: Geysir Skólavörðustígur 16 There are polar bears and puffins in every other store window in Reykjavík, but is that what you want? Stuffed polar bears and puffins? What are you going to do with them…
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The Best of Reykjavík 2013: Activities and Fun-Times
Best Pool: Laugardalslaug Sundlaugavegur 30 Oh, we know, we know! Everyone has such strong opinions about their local pool and fights for their sundlaug to the death, so people generally furious and defensive about this category. Through all the myriad opinions and…
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Best of Reykjavík 2013: Drinking and Nightlife
Best Mainstreamer Bar: The English Pub Austurstræti 12 If you’re wondering what we mean by ‘mainstream,’ a lot of us did as well! We agreed that this is neither a positive or negative qualifier, but a neutral catch-all; a place where you…
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The Best of Reykjavík 2012: Activities and Fun-Times
Best pool: Laugardalslaug Swimming is a favourite pastime in Iceland. Most towns around the country have a swimming pool and Reykjavík has seven of them. They do in fact all have their charm, but we think it’s safe to call Laugardalslaug the…
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The Best of Reykjavík 2012: Institutions
Through compiling our second annual best of list back when, we reached the conclusion that some of these places are so firmly established as local favourites that naming them “best of” anything is sort of redundant. Furthermore, we thought having to compete…
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The Best of Reykjavík 2012: Dining and Grub
Best burger: Grillmarket Hamborgarabúlla Tómasar has won this category ever since we started compiling our BEST OF list back in aught nine, and for good reason: they make delicious burgers. While Búllan is still a popular choice among Reykjavík’s burger lovers, there’s…
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The Best of Reykjavík 2012: Drinking and Nightlife
Best place to drink like a pro: Anywhere on Frakkastígur If your plan is getting shitfaced by yourself and forgetting all about the outside world and its various pressures by drowning yourself in watery beer, you need look no further than Frakkastígur.…
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The Best of Reykjavík 2012: Shopping and Commerce
Best place to shop for touristy stuff: Geysir Downtown Reykjavík is starting to feel like some sort of Disneyland puffin mall, what with all the numerous new stores that cater exclusively to tourists in dire need of puffin or volcano related souvenirs.…
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THE BEST OF REYKJAVÍK 2011
Our annual BEST OF REYKJAVÍK LIST, 2K11 EDITION is finally here in all it’s listy listness. For the third year in a row, we’ve spent countless hours of what was supposed to be our free time compiling the thing [via your suggestions,…
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BEST OF REYKJAVÍK 2010 – SHOPPING AND COMMERCE EDITION
Oh, us. We spent all that time compiling a nifty BEST OF REYKJAVÍK 2010 list for our last issue. We put a lot of work into it, compiling letters, interviewing folks and throwing meetings and elections. We then detailed our massive findings…
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Best Of Reykjavík: Shopping And Commerce
We just published our second annual Best Of Reykjavík guide today, full of favourite things as selected by our esteemed panel of colleagues and your suggestions. Something weird happened when we went to print though and the section about shopping and commerce…
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Your Essential Guide: The Best of Reykjavík 2009
We love the great city of Reykjavík. We really do. In fact, we love it so much, we named our paper after it – and most of us choose to live here for extended periods at a time. It really is an…