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The Spice Is Right: Himalayan Spice Pulls No Punches
The Icelandic palate has been known to struggle with spicy food. It’s a common beef among 101 foodies that restaurants will tone down the heat for the local audience, for many of whom, a pinch of white pepper is reason enough to…
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New In Town: Kastrup
[su_pullquote]What are the Icelandic classics that just stay on the market despite the ever changing world around them? We made a discount box with Icelandic products that have survived through the decades! Take a look![/su_pullquote] After testing two pop-up restaurants, Kastrup RVK…
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City Guide: Vegan Iceland – An Ethical Day In Reykjavík
Just a few years ago, it was pretty hard to be a vegetarian in Iceland, never mind a vegan. But thanks in part to the increasingly popular Veganuary—when people go vegan for January, and sometimes stick with it for longer—and due to…
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Go To The Bar And Give It A Smakk
I remember vividly the revelation of reading Anthony Bourdain’s ‘Kitchen Confidential’, and how those “Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly” are easily relatable in almost any sort of urban environment around the globe. The “cursed” address, for example, where a “cloud of failure”…
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Let Them Eat Fish: Messinn, Matur og Drykkur and Icelandic Fish and Chips
Believe it or not, fish restaurants are relatively new in Iceland. Cod was sold from Iceland to the rest of the world, but wasn’t available to the average Icelander. It was, like everything here, too expensive. Of course cheaper fish was a…
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Icelanders Finding It Harder To Get A Table At Restaurants, Blame Tourists
Over half of Icelanders living in the capital area have found it harder to get tables at cafés and restaurants since the start of the tourism boom, reports RÚV. According to a new survey, 10% of those asked said that it was…