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  • Best Of Reykjavík 2019: Best Smoking Area

    Best Of Reykjavík 2019: Best Smoking Area

    There is one thing abundantly clear from our very scientific drinking research: craft beers and gastropubs have arrived in force. You can’t throw a stone without hitting someone washing down a dry-aged chilli burger with a local IPA. After a few stable…

  • Best Of Reykjavík 2018: Best Smoking Area

    Best Of Reykjavík 2018: Best Smoking Area

    There is one thing abundantly clear from our very scientific drinking research, Hverfisgata is one hot little street right now. After getting massive internal road surgery a couple of years ago, it has come out thriving with a great bunch of watering…

  • Best Of Reykjavik: Outdoor Drinking In The Theoretical Sun

    Best Of Reykjavik: Outdoor Drinking In The Theoretical Sun

    The weather in Iceland can change drastically from day to day, and from moment to moment, so you have to grab any opportunity that presents itself to drink a beer in the sun. Pro-tip: even if the city is in the midst…

  • Making Love With Kría Brekkan

    Making Love With Kría Brekkan

    On November’s last Saturday night, Kría Brekkan manufactured romance to an audience of dance enthusiasts at Boston, ending the Reykjavík Dance Festival with a glowing passion. Their phantasmagorical incantations, emitted through drums, guitar and voice, made lovers of an unsuspecting crowd. Did…

  • Best Of Reykjavík 2014 (Photo Gallery)

    Best Of Reykjavík 2014 (Photo Gallery)

    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…

  • Best Of Reykjavík 2014: Drinking & Nightlife

    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…

  • A Guide To Watching The World Cup In Reykjavík

    A Guide To Watching The World Cup In Reykjavík

    World Cup season is finally upon us. Every four years, football fanaticism surges during a month-long period before reaching its apex in the tournament final, this year scheduled for July 13. The World Cup is the world’s most widely viewed sporting event,…

  • Icelandic Bar Life

    Icelandic Bar Life

    Sigríður “Sigga” Guðlaugsdóttir’s induction into the world of running bars began by chance. She was working part-time at a bar in Boston while she was studying film in the ‘80s when the owners suddenly fired the managers and asked her to take…

  • Life 101

    Life 101

    My existence in Reykjavík is almost entirely confined to 101, the downtown postal code where I live, work, eat, drink, sleep and hang out. It’s where I do practically everything except shop for non-edible items. Shopping in 101 is almost exclusively for…