Gandhi primarily serves cuisine from Kerala in South India. It “is nutty both in the sense that it uses coconuts with wild abandon and in that its influences are maddeningly diverse as the region boasts a reasonably large (mostly) non-vegetarian Christian and Muslim community, while the surrounding regions are mostly Hindu and/or vegetarian,” as our food critic explained last time we paid Gandhi an official visit. “As much as I agree with Gordon Ramsey about the simple two page menus, it simply doesn’t apply here. No one in their right mind goes to India for minimalism,” he noted before going on to praise the delicious food and the diversity it brings to Reykjavík’s restaurant scene. Note: Its price range is somewhere between Shalimar (a Pakistani place, which gets an honourable mention) and Austur-Indíafjelagið (a North Indian place, which we have deemed an institution and is thus not in the running for an award).

2013: Austurlandahraðlestin
2012: Ghandi
2011: Austurlandahraðlestin
2010: Shalimar
2009: Austur-Indíafjelagið