8 editor picks across Iceland.
8 nordic restaurants worth the trip across Iceland, editor-ranked. All cuisines in Iceland.
Ox is a 17-seat restaurant at Laugavegur 28 where Chef Thrainn Freyr Vigfusson serves a multi course tasting menu of modern Icelandic cooking.
OrderThe multi course tasting menu, a modern rendition of traditional Icelandic cuisine.
TipÓX is open for dinner Tuesdays through Saturdays with the addition of lunch on Saturdays, and reservations are accepted 90 days in advance.
Fish Company is in the old Zimsen building, built in the 19th century, serving gourmet cuisine seasonally influenced with ingredients from land and sea.
OrderFive-course seafood menu
TipTakeaway is available: grab your favorite dish and enjoy it at home.
Grillmarkaðurinn at Lækjargata 2A cooks Icelandic produce over fire, smoke, wood and coal, buying most of its main produce straight from the farm.
OrderAle-fed beef from Hvammur, with the cut chosen daily, or the lightly smoked Arctic char.
TipThe chefs recommend the tasting menu, and groups of 10 or more must choose one of the group menus.
Matur og Drykkur at Mýrargata 31 takes its name from a book by Helga Sigurðardóttir and cooks with local ingredients, wild herbs and seaweed.
OrderThe menu, which changes constantly so the freshest and best ingredients are served each time.
TipIt cannot offer vegan, gluten-free or lactose-free menus, so contact the restaurant in advance if you have any food allergies.
ROK is an Icelandic fine casual restaurant at Frakkastigur 26a in Reykjavik, focusing on serving high quality food in a friendly relaxed environment.
TipIt opens at 11:30 on weekdays and at 12:00 on Saturdays and Sundays, and stays open until 23:00.
Tides at Austurbakki 2 in The Reykjavik EDITION hotel celebrates seafood from the pristine waters of Iceland, cooked on a Josper Charcoal Grill.
OrderThe evening tasting menu: 1,000-day aged Feykir cheese, Nordic salmon, North Icelandic lamb.
TipMichelin notes unfussy breakfasts and lunches followed by an evening tasting menu built around a core of Icelandic produce.
Höfnin is a homely family restaurant at Geirsgata 7c by the small boat harbour in Reykjavik, serving classic Icelandic food with a view over the old harbour.
OrderThe fish soup, which a guest says won the restaurant a medal in 2012.
TipA guest advises asking for a window seat, since the restaurant is right on the harbour.
Saeta Svinid is an Icelandic gastropub at Hafnarstraeti 1-3, 101 Reykjavik.
OrderFermented shark (6 pcs.) and dried fish with Icelandic butter, with a shot of Brennivín.
TipA glass of house white or red wine is 1.290 kr., and you can add a shot of the infamous Icelandic Brennivín.
