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Grapevine Events: Octoberfest, Midgard & More
September started off with a bang this year, as we were treated to our first yellow-level storm in many months on the night of the 1st. Cool beans! With the new semester having also kicked off, everyone’s in the mood to mingle…
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Grapevine Events: Halldór Eldjárn, FLÆÐI’s Re-opening & Films by Iranian Female Directors
We know what you’re thinking: there’s nothing I’d love more than a weekend so jam packed with can’t-miss cultural and musical happenings that I barely have time to stop and sit. Well, pack your pockets with protein bars, grab a water bottle…
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Grapevine Events: Kvikindi Album Release, Deathfest And Post-dreifing Shenanigans
Here we are, in a room full of strangers, enjoying great music and the best bands of today! That’s what you’ll be saying to yourself when you head to any of these events happening this weekend. (Well, the room might not all…
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Grapevine Events: Prom, Christmas Rave, Skúli Sverrisson & Gustaf Ljunggren, And More!
Sure, Christmas is coming and all, but it’s far from being the only fun occasion on the cards this week. In fact, there’re so many things happening over the next few days that we didn’t have space to write about them all!…
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Grapevine Picks: DJ Silja Glømmi, Pop-Up Art and Saxy Jazz
Counter-covid measures, (details of which are available here), are still having an impact on Reykjavík’s cultural life. But around the edges of the dark pandemic behemoth, some light does shine. And there ARE things to get out and do. So get out…
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New Restaurant To Open At Hotel Holt, Run By KEX And Dill Chef
An intriguing new restaurant is under development at Hotel Holt. After the closure of long-running restaurant Gallery Holt, the Kex group have taken over the space, reports MBL. Peter Marteinsson, a former professional footballer turned sports pundit and businessman, is one of…
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Dans Í Dimmu: Where The Shy Can Let Loose In Total Darkness
Dans í dimmu (dance in the dark) is a dance event where music is played in a pitch black room for one hour so that everyone present can dance unhindered. It’s perfect for people who “don’t like to dance,” feel to shy,…
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‘Tis The Season: Ten Christmas Menus Worth Writing Home About
As Christmas approaches, it seems like every restaurant in Reykjavík is posting appetising Instagram pictures of their special seasonal menus. The most common approach is to compile updated versions of reassuring Icelandic Christmas food staples like smoked lamb, pickled herring, cabbage, rye…
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Best Of Reykjavík: Concert Venues
Reykjavík’s gig circuit has changed fast in recent years, with city-centre favourites like Faktóry and NASA being shuttered by property developers. But the music scene thrives regardless, and there are still a variety of venues to catch a show, each filling a…
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Pining for Pipes and Piping Hot Haggis? Look Nae Further: Scotland Comes To Kex
Kex holds an annual festival celebrating Scottish culture in all its tartan regalia (sans the Begbie pint glass throwing). This two-day event of organ meat, whistling skin bags, whisky, pale ale and other Northern European customs has grown into a delightful annual…
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Hold My Beer: Brews, Bros, Beards and Business at the Icelandic Beer Festival
“Well… we’re not losing money by coming here,” an ultra-friendly Australian craft brewer tells me above the din at the Icelandic Beer Festival. He works for Pirate Life, out of Adelaide, South Australia, and he’s just poured me their IPA, so pleasantly…
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Grapevine’s Best Of 2017: Best Family Meal
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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Women Steal The Show At The Reykjavík Folk Festival
Folk music is defined as music of the common people, which, in this day and age, is essentially all music…other than Queen Bey of course. This is why folk music is so difficult to describe, because its original definition has no relevance…
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Grapevine’s Best Of 2017: Best Place To Start The Night
Once again we come to the time in the year where we do the hard task of assessing which bars and clubs are worthy of a place in the limelight. Reykjavík’s bar culture is quite vast and diverse, ranging from the smallest…
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Preview: Different Strokes For Different Folks At Reykjavík Folk Festival
If you’ve recovered from Sónar and you’re aching for another three days of musical excellence—or if Sónar wasn’t really your thing and you prefer your music like your skyr (chilled)—then head down to KEX Hostel this weekend for the Reykjavík Folk Festival.…
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Grapevine’s Best Of 2017: Best Burger
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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Kexland X Airwaves X Your Hangover
Kex has got your back. Whether it’s an afternoon pick-me-up at the gastro pub, an into-the-evening off venue show, or literally the roof over your head at the end of the night, Kex is around you during Airwaves like a hug. This…
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Reykjavík Swing Syndicate At KEXJazz In Photos
The weekly KEXJazz show—held every Tuesday at 20:30—has been going strong since 2011, routinely filling KEX Hostel’s large bar area with the city’s cool cats. Organised by Sigurður Flosason, one of Iceland’s more decorated saxophone player, the series sees some 40 regular…
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Get A Head: The Icelandic Beer Festival Starts Pouring
For the last two nights, Kex Hostel’s cosy low-lit bar has been entertaining a slightly different crowd from usual. There have been more beards in the room, for a start; and those beards a bit bushier. There’s been a certain loucheness amongst…
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Bars & Beers & Food & Fun In February
There are plenty of fun, food-themed events going on in the latter half of February. On February 23-26 you can partake in the Reykjavík Bar Summit, a new addition to February’s orgy of food and drink festivals, thought to merge the European…
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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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Dancers In The Dark
A funky bassline is bumping out of KEX Hostel as I walk up to its patio. As I pass the window, I hear the horns and lyrics of Janelle Monáe’s “Tightrope.” I picture her smooth moves in the song’s music video and…
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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…