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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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Best Of Reykjavík 2019: Best Happy Hour
There is one thing abundantly clear from our very scientific drinking research: craft beers and gastropubs have arrived in force. You can’t throw a stone without hitting someone washing down a dry-aged chilli burger with a local IPA. After a few stable…
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Grapevine’s Best Of 2017: Best Brunch
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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Grapevine’s Best Of 2017: Best Place For Cocktails
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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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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The Music Nerd’s Guide To Spending A Day In Reykjavík
Reykjavík Roasters Brautarholt 2 Start the day off with a cup of “Kaffismiðjan” and a croissant at Reykjavík Roasters. Pick a record to play and make your own latte art. You should be energized and ready for the day. Reykjavík Record Shop…
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Happening Today: International Jazz Day – Saturday, April 30th
This Saturday, Reykjavík is doing its fair share for the avid jazz fan in us all. What? Not an obsessive fan of Miles Davis and his ‘Blue Period’? No matter: with all the events in honour of the fifth International Jazz Day,…
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Searching For Reykjavík’s Best Old Fashioned
There’s no doubt that ‘Mad Men’—television auteur Matthew Weiner’s conflicted tribute to an America that was—left a great big legacy behind as the series came to a close this spring. Aside from inspiring countless water cooler conversation about racism, sexism and consumerism,…
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From The Trenches Of Reykjavík Bar Summit: Night One
There’s a tendency with Icelandic festivals to exaggerate the importance of foreign stars that are performing. Reykjavík Bar Summit seems to have gone the opposite route, since many of the bars that are being represented at the festival could rank among the…
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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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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…