Dining at Perlan is always an uplifting experience, if not only for the fact that the restaurant is located near the top of a grand structure, providing an excellent view of Reykjavík. The floor even revolves at a slow and steady pace.…

The recently established Indian Mango, located on a Laugavegur side street, is probably the best addition to the Icelandic restaurant landscape in recent years. The owner, George Holmes, comes from the Goa region in India, and the menu is inspired by his…

Rossopomodoro is a chain restaurant with a difference. There may be more than one of them around the world, actually most are in Italy itself, but the cuisine on offer is of a notably higher class than one generally expects from a…

The town of Reykjavík has been waiting for this for years, so there has been a certain amount of giddiness sweeping over reviewers having found a sushi shop where rolls and sashimi are, believe it or not, affordable. How affordable? A modest…

When reviewing a restaurant for the first time it’s hard to know what to expect. In the case of Café Ópera, which has been a fixture of the downtown dining circuit for years, it felt odd to have never ventured inside before.…

It’s a bit odd to write a restaurant review about a place you have been frequenting for over a decade, so this isn’t going to be a walk through an evening of exploring a strange menu and assessing the decor. No, we…

Ah, Hótel Holt. A fancy hotel with an even fancier restaurant and home to what must be the fanciest art gallery this side of Fancyland. This reviewer has fond childhood memories of running up his grandparents’ credit card bills by ordering cheese…

Shalimar is a restaurant that several members of the Grapevine staff like to frequent, and its friendly service and authentic South Asian cuisine once earned it our Bezt í Heimi award (you can still see the article posted in their window). Not…

Situated in one of the older buildings in downtown Reykjavík (built in 1834), Lækjarbrekka has been a celebrated institution of fine dining since the location was extensively renovated in the early eighties. On an interesting historical side note, the house was originally…

One of the problems you run into when trying to write a restaurant review is the fact that the best places can often leave you with very little to say that doesn’t sound like some kind of advertisement. Such is the case…

Legend has it that the first submarine sandwich was the creation of Dominic Conti, an Italian immigrant to the US, who brought his favourite sandwich recipe with him all the way to New York. The traditional sub is created from a 12-inch…

It’s hard to review a kebab house (or, in this case, the Kebab House). It is not the choice for connoisseurs of haute cuisine, nor for those in search of something with low carbs, low cals or other statistics that might ease…

Now, then. To finish the reviews, quite shortly: There was the bagel place. It does serve fine bagels, in a bagel-like environment, the standard one – the bagel industry seems to have found its line and now works incrementally on spreading it…