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Best Of Reykjavík 2023: Best Bar to End the Night
Best Bar to End the Night Kiki Queer Bar Laugavegur 22, 101 Reykjavík No need to debate this one. Kiki received a unanimous vote on the best bar to end the night. Being the go-to queer club in Reykjavík, everyone is welcome…
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Anna Ásthildur’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Anna Ásthildur is a music professional, currently based in Berlin. “I work at Iceland Music Export marketing Icelandic music abroad, and at Ja Ja Ja Berlin showcasing new Nordic music,” she says, “and as a DJ called Sandra Bollocks, promoting myself, Sandra…
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Grapevine’s Best Of 2017: Best Place To Go Dancing
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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Grapevine’s Best Of 2017: Best Place To End 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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Happening Tonight: Intr0beatz’s Bumpy Sauna
When we interviewed Ársæll Þór Ingvason—AKA introbeatz—earlier this year, he was quick to give props to Paloma as “the only proper club in Reykjavík.” If you want a chance to see exactly what he meant by that, drop in tonight and tomorrow…
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Happening This Weekend: TAKTFAKT Pre-Party and After-Party
Can’t afford the steep price tag that accompanies the TAKTFAKT Festival? No worries, we’ve got you covered. The pre- and after-parties may not be inside a volcano, but the line-up of DJs and hip venues will bring the heat. Let Friday set…
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Benefit Concert For Asylum Seekers At Paloma Tonight
No Borders Iceland are putting on a benefit concert at Paloma tonight at 20:00 to support refugees and asylum seekers in Iceland. Amaba Dama, Bárujárn, Unnsteinn, Just Another Snake Cult and Rvk Soundsystem are set to perform and all staff and organisers…
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The Pink Street Boy’s Guide To Getting Shitfaced In Reykjavík
Getting drunk is great. I, for one, love getting drunk. In fact, I’m drunk right now. Whatever. Here are five places you can get hammered at in Reykjavík. Stop reading. Go get hammered. 1. Dillon Dillon is a good bar to start…
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News In Brief: Mid-July 2015
Icelanders’ persistence in hunting fin whales continues to enrage the outside world, most recently attracting the ire of a group of activists, a celebrity and, potentially, a ruthless world leader. Late June, activist group Hard To Port commenced direct action against whalers, kayaking…
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A Guide To All-Day Drinking In Reykjavík
I originally set out to make an overview of “cocktail culture” in my favourite city, Reykjavík. There is a bit of a beer revolution going on, with craft beers and microbrews becoming more readily available downtown. While cocktails are becoming more widely…
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Several Reykjavík Nightspots To Close For Tourism
The owners of buildings that house several nightclubs on a single block in downtown Reykjavík are planning to change the buildings over to serve the tourist industry primarily. Stundin reports that the property owners of Húrra, Gamla Gauknum, Palóma, Dubliners and Glaumbar…
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This Month In Food: May 2015
Iceland’s two most popular shawarma places have gone to war. Owners of shawarma joint Ali Baba are pressing charges against the owners of next-door kebab-slingers Mandí. The owners were formerly in business together but have now gone into competition with nothing but…
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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…
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Best Of Reykjavík 2014: Drinking & Nightlife
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…