Category Archives: restaurants

Cheap and Chic Reykjavík Restaurants: Segurmo at Boston

Introducing a nice restaurant in Reykjavík where you can eat without actually breaking the bank.
Boston (Laugavegur 28, first floor, tel +354 517 7816) is what happened when Sirkus finally died. Owned by the same fiftysomething blondes and frequented by pretty much the same crowd (and now, occasionally, their children), it sort of looks and feels […]

19 May 2009 – 12:47 | By valgeir | Also posted in iceland, drinking, food, eating, segurmo, boston | Comments (3)

A User’s Guide to Reykjavík Restaurants: The Heavy Breakfast Edition

Like the smell of bacon in the morning? Here are three places to go to for a robust breakfast in Reykjavík.
Grái kötturinn on Hverfisgata 16a is a small basement place (café would obviously not be the right word here) opposite the Culture House. It’s run by Hulda Hákon and Jón Óskar who like all proper […]

15 January 2009 – 14:33 | By valgeir | Also posted in iceland, reykjavik, eating, breakfast, gráikötturinn, prikið, hamborgarabúllan | Comments (5)

A User’s Guide to Reykjavík Restaurants: The Vegetarian Edition

In this first instalment of our guide to Reykjavík eating we explain how being a vegetarian in Iceland is not so much a lifestyle as a constant struggle.
Abandon hope all ye vegetarians who enter here isn’t actually a sign in the arrivals hall, but until a few years ago it would have been a pretty […]