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Icelandic Cocktail Bar Mentioned On The 50 Best Discovery Website
According to Vísir, 50 Best Discovery web site has mentioned Icelandic cocktail bar Jungle on their list of 50 additional bars and restaurants that people should visit. This is the first time an Icelandic bar has been added to the list. [su_pullquote]You…
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New In Town: Pünk Restaurant
Don’t be fooled. Nothing about the interior of this place is punk. The pink plush bar stools, the multicoloured lights in the hanging foliage, the menus of artisan tacos and fruity drinks, the playlist with house pop remixes, all give more of…
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Reykjavík In Eight Drinks: A Pub Crawl For The Debonair Souse
We’re back to the dead leaves and pumpkins month, so it’s time for me to rattle my ossified ass out of the house and go haunt some cocktails. Follow in my footsteps with this shambolic cocktail pub crawl that takes you from…
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The Weekend Edit: 4 Things To Do In Reykjavík This Weekend
Reykjavík Cocktail Weekend 2nd-4th Feb. — Downtown Reykjavík In collaboration with bars and pubs in downtown Reykjavík, this year’s Cocktail Weekend gives much needed flavour to these otherwise stormy evenings. The actual Icelandic Cocktail Competition was hosted in GamlaBíó on Thursday, but…
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The Cocktail Crawl: Reykjavík’s Fanciest Happy Hours
Few words look better together in the English language than “cocktail happy hour,” especially in Reykjavík, where liquor comes at a premium. With an ever-growing cocktail culture, and a strong tradition of bars and restaurants having after-work (or during work, for that…
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Dark & Glittering Sips: Gaukurinn’s Vegan Cocktail Menu Impresses
While there are many options for vegan munchies around the city, it’s a bit more complicated for animal lovers to get their fix of good ol’ alcohol. Thankfully local alt-haunt Gaukurinn is stepping up to the plate. Along with the opening of…
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Hour Of The Wolf: Daníel Hlynur Michaelsson’s Precision For Taste
Chatting with Daníel Hlynur Michaelsson—the manager extraordinaire of local bohème-haunt Bar Ananas—feels more like chatting to a yoga guru. With a demeanor so sunny, relaxed, and positive, he seems more fitted to Burning Man than downtown Reykjavík. “There’s something about [working nights]…
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Stay Classy: Where To Find Reykjavík’s Best Cocktails
Just a few years ago, drinking culture in Reykjavík was a lot more bleak than it is today. Asking for a cocktail in a regular downtown drinking hole would most probably result in a spirit and mixer, with a slice of lime…
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Grapevine’s Best Of 2016: Best Place For Cocktails
Reykjavík is a relatively small city, but even so, sometimes you need a bit of local advice to find what you’re looking for, whether it’s a good people-watching spot, somewhere to see some contemporary art, or the best place to catch an…
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THEY’RE COMING! Reykjavík’s Very Own Tivoli
Upon my return to Reykjavík last weekend from Denmark, I was pretty surprised to be greeted by a decidedly Danish addition to the downtown bar scene in the form of Tivoli Bar. If you’ve ever been to Copenhagen, you’ll know Tivoli Gardens…
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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…