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Echoes Of Heritage In Tálknafjörður
One of the oldest buildings in the Westfjords continues to thrive as a vibrant cultural hub With its large rainbow-coloured chimney, Cafe Dunhagi stands out against the grey and foggy landscape of Tálknafjörður, a fishing village in the southern Westfjords nicknamed Tálknó…
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New In Town: SONO matseljur, An All New Kind Of Veggie Cafe
Are you tired of the same old generic vegan or vegetarian food? Sick of tasting the same plant-based whatever that you know (and we know) will eventually revolutionise the way the world eats? Well we have news for you! SONO matseljur is…
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Reykjavik’s First Worker-Run Café Hopes To Open Soon
The worker’s cooperative FRAKTAL has their sights set on opening Reykjavík’s first ever worker-run vegan café, and have launched a fundraiser to help make that dream a reality. “We are basically a workplace run by its workers. We are all equal members…
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Last Words: To The Nazi In The Café
Thank you for so publicly displaying your hate in the form of a sizeable decal on your otherwise standard issue MacBook. Standing behind you in line, you spoke with such congeniality to the barista (who is most certainly not Nordic… why didn’t…
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Icelandic Cafe Starts “Pay As You Feel” Offer
A cafe in Hafnarfjörður has started a novel offer: for four hours a day, customers are able to pay what they think is fair, rather than a set price. Pallett, a cafe in Hafnarfjörður that has been a consistent Grapevine favourite, has…
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Iceland’s First Cat Café Now Open
Your wait for a cat café in Iceland is officially over. Last September, we reported that cat cafés were one of the many things that are unfortunately missing in Iceland. Little did we know that the wheels of change were already set…
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Pets Now Allowed In Icelandic Restaurants
I have a dream that one day I can walk into a coffeeshop where all the baristas are corgis. I have a dream that a Mexican restaurant will open up on Laugavegur where all the servers are Norwegian Forest cats. I have…
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New In Town: CupCake Café
Only three weeks old, the CupCake Café is a family owned business located at Mýrargata 26. Baker Egill Björgvinsson and his wife Elísabet Guðmundsdóttir offer a variety of decadent cupcake flavors such as KitKat, vanilla, chocolate, and more. Egill is hoping to…
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New In Town: Café Bismút
Reykjavík can never have too many coffee shops—in recent years, coffee geekery has become something of a national pastime. Café Bismút is a welcome new addition to the city’s café culture—located on Hverfisgata and run by three coffee, art and design enthusiasts,…
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Grapevine’s Best Of 2017: Best Coffeehouse
One of the most-asked questions by visitors to Iceland is: “Where do we eat?” It’s a tough question to answer, as Reykjavík has restaurants catering to many different palettes, and on top of that, it seems like they’re always rising and falling…
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Made With Love: Pallett Might Just Be Iceland’s Best Café
Set back from the harbour road in Hafnarfjörður—the first suburb that people pass through on the way into Reykjavík—is an unassuming café called Pallett. Its single large, airy room has a calm, domestic feel, lined by avocado, coffee and olive plants, and…
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Kaffihús Vesturbæjar: Out Of The City And Into The Heart Of 107
Walking from downtown over to Vesturbær, the westernmost district of Reykjavík, things quickly become residential. Souvenir shops are swapped out for apartments, restaurants replaced by backyards with children on trampolines, and soon enough, you’re almost at the oceanfront. You might be surprised,…
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STEP INTO THE LIGHT: 2014
A Shit Sandwich Of Gloom Lorded over by the most bumblingly inefficient government in recent memory, people found it increasingly harder to feed themselves. For instance: at the start of 2015, Icelanders saw rising food prices, along with a tiny drop in…
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Kigali Needs Fine-Tuning
Kigali is a recently opened café named after the capital and largest city of the war-ridden African country of Rwanda. It serves all the conventional westernized versions of Italian Coffee, the only difference being that their Americano is called an “Africano.” A…