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Port-Side Celebration
Gallery Port turns seven Jutting out from the facade on one of the busiest parts of Laugavegur, it’s hard to miss Gallery Port. The front and side walls are huge floor-to-ceiling windows through which whatever’s happening inside will catch your eye. Whether…
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Gauging the Icelandicness of Íslenski Barinn
We all have our go-to places. Neighbourhood spots where you know the menu by heart, where you salute the waiters by name and chest bump the chef. I’ll hazard a guess that Íslenski barinn is not that place for many Icelanders. But…
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ÓX Earns, Dill Maintains Michelin Star
The restaurant ÓX on Laugavegur received a Michelin star yesterday at an awards ceremony for Nordic countries in Stavanger, Norway. Dill, also located on Laugavegur, maintained the Michelin star it received two years ago, reports Vísir. [su_pullquote]The new Reykjavík Grapevine print issue…
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The Laugavegur Trail Diaries: A Tale Of Snow, Steam And Sunburns
Stretching 54 km between the geothermal hot pools of Landmannalaugar and the luscious Þórsmörk valley, the Laugavegur trail is something of a rite of passage for Icelanders. Complete it and you enter an elite class of hikers—at least that’s what we told…
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RVK Newscast #13: Laugavegur By Night
In this episode we take a stroll down the busy Laugavegur highstreet at 23:00 – the time bars and clubs are forced to close due to the current COVID-19 restricitions. Tune in to hear about Inspired By Iceland’s strange new campaign, the…
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Last Words: 101 Doom And Gloom
“Would you rather it be like a decade ago when half the storefronts were empty and run-down?” Over the course of my decade living in 101, I’ve heard or read some iteration of that rebuttal to any complaint made about the lack…
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Downtown Reykjavik Streets Pedestrian-And-Bicycle Only From Now Until October
For the eighth year running, several downtown streets will, in whole or in part, be closed to car traffic through the summer. In an announcement from the City of Reykjavík, city council details that the following streets will be open solely for…
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Reykjavik’s Main Street May Become Car-Free All Year Round
A new proposal put forward by the Reykjavík City Council majority would close Laugavegur to car traffic all year round, RÚV reports, as opposed to only during the summer time. The car-free area around Kvosin will also be expanded. UPDATE: Mayor Dagur…
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One Woman’s Quest for the Best Hummus in Reykjavík
Hummus is the elixir of life, especially for us vegans and vegetarians. This simple food made of chickpeas, tahini, olive oil, lemon juice, salt, and garlic has conquered the world, and there’s a lot of it around on this cold lava rock…
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Missing In Iceland: Vagina Museum
Iceland is proud to have been nominated as the most gender equal country in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index for nine years in a row. But let’s not get on our high horses, because there’s still work to do…
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Two Men Suspected Of Assaulting A Five Year Old
Two men in their twenties are currently in police custody, suspected of assaulting a five year oldn’ yesterday, reports Vísir. The boy and his mother were driving on Laugavegur when two intoxicated men approached their car. One of the men swung open…
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Finding Phono: Nothing Left To Lose
I’ve lost my wife, she took the goddamn kids–those brats–but maybe, just maybe, if I solve this Phono case, everything will be alright. Fuck, I haven’t slept or showered since that son-of-a-bitch gave me the slip on Laugavegur a week ago. My…
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Nat.Kitchen’s Inaugural Month Lives Up To Name
The health food craze is alive and well in the city of Reykjavík and Nat.Kitchen, which opened its doors on Laugavegur last month, is one of the city’s newest representatives of the cult of green. The restaurant was a collaborative project which…
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Puffins Gone Wild
Iceland is a must-visit place. Looking at the nature and the atmosphere of the country, we can see why that is. The weird thing is that something as unimportant as a puffin (no offense to pelagic seabirds) has become the country’s main…
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Rogue Merchants Opening Gates On Laugavegur
Some merchants on Laugavegur have been caught opening the gates intended to make Reykjavík’s main shopping street more pedestrian-oriented. While Reykjavík City Council recently passed a measure to close Laugavegur to car traffic for the holiday season, not everyone with a shop…
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Laugavegur To Be Closed To Cars For Holiday Season
A portion of Reykjavík’s main street will be closed to car traffic from December 18 until Christmas Eve. Kjarninn reports that while City Council passed a measure to close part of Laugavegur and Skólavörðustígur, the measure did not sail through without criticism.…
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Hundreds Of New Hotel Rooms Cropping Up
About 325 new hotel rooms are popping up on Reykjavík’s main street of Laugavegur. Kjarninn reports that the increase includes expanding three hotels and building two new ones, all along a single street in downtown Reykjavík. The three hotels being expanded are…
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3 Minutes: The Longest You Will Ever Walk From A Parking Garage To Laugavegur
It has been mathematically proven that car drivers would have little to worry about if Laugavegur were closed year-round. Kjarninn reports that PR specialist Björn Teitsson and architect Andri Gunnar Lyngberg calculated just how long it would take to walk from any…
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News In Brief: May 2015
It’s that time of year again: time to argue about whale hunting! An umbrella organisation of numerous whale-watching companies have criticised whale hunting just outside the Faxaflói Bay area, where a whole lot of whale-watching takes place. Their main argument is that…
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It’s Official: Laugavegur To Be Closed For Four Months
Reykjavík City Hall has reached a compromise, and downtown’s main drag will now be (virutally) car-free for four months. RÚV reports that after fierce opposition from opposition parties to the majority’s initial plan to close Laugavegur for five months, City Hall passed…
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City Hall Minority Objects To Closing Laugavegur
The opposition parties of Reykjavík City Hall contend five months is far too long to close Laugavegur from car traffic. RÚV reports that a proposal from the Planning and Environmental Council for the City of Reykjavík is being hotly contested in City…
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Objects To Closing Laugavegur For Five Months
A representative for some merchants on Reykjavík’s main shopping street objects to a proposal to close Laugavegur from May to October 1. Vísir reports that Hjálmar Sveinsson, chairperson of the Planning and Environmental Council for the City of Reykjavík, has proposed that…
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Holiday Opening Hours
If you are a tourist stranded in Iceland over the holiday season, you may find yourself hard pressed to come up with activities to engage in, as the country practically shuts down in late December (admittedly, this has been changing along with…