Best Of Reykjavík 2018: Best Sushi

Fiskmarkaðurinn

Aðalstræti 12

Hands down our panel’s favourite sushi restaurant in town, we suggest making a meal of the sashimi platter. It’s beautifully presented at the table, with a lot of flair, and deftly sliced fatty salmon and trout, and glistening scallop—left mercifully unadorned—with a sprinkle of roe here, and a delicious mound of wakame there. All of this beautiful food is only made better by the table-side grating of fresh, locally grown, Icelandic wasabi. Pair it with the wasabi cocktail and you have a delicious and refreshing meal.

Runner-Up:

Sushibarinn

Suðurlandsbraut 10

Housed in a beautiful old timber house in the heart of downtown, Sushibarinn offers a variety of sauce-laden sushi rolls—the local favourite—but we recommend sticking to their fresh sashimi platters and washing it down with something from their saké selection. Sakébarinn, located downstairs with an entrance on Laugavegur, offers window seats and takeout.

Runner-Up:

Sushi Social

Þingholtsstræti 5

Not for worshippers of ‘Jiro dreams of sushi’, Sushi Social is the evolution of Japanese dish on this island—aka ‘pylsu sushi’. Traditionalists may baulk, but the surf and turf rolls have a loyal following, and the exhaustive cocktail menu should help any sushi purists through the fusion-cooking trauma.

Previous Winners

2016-7: Fiskmarkaðurinn

2015: SuZushii

2014: Sushisamba

2013: Sakebarinn