Rontgen is a bar in 101, Reykjavik.
Rontgen on Hverfisgata is a two-floor wine, beer and cocktail bar above Dill, a Reykjavik room of candles, art and curated low-intervention wines that won the Grapevine's best bar nod.
Food program: Bar menu from Hosilo
Tip: Bar menu from Hosilo runs Tuesday to Saturday until 21:00. Happy hour weekdays 16:00 to 20:00.
Address: Hverfisgata 12, 101 Reykjavik
Pablo Discobar on Veltusund pours tropical, mezcal-forward cocktails over two loud floors, a 70s-and-80s disco Reykjavik party bar with a huge mirrored ceiling.
Signature drink: Tropical disco cocktails
Food: None
Tip: Open from 17:00 daily, until 03:00 Friday and Saturday. Happy hour 16:00 to 18:00; karaoke later.
Skuli Craft Bar on Adalstraeti pours fourteen mostly Icelandic taps plus bottles, a focused Reykjavik beer bar named for an 18th-century town father.
Signature drink: Icelandic craft taps
Food: Snacks
Tip: Most taps are local, so it is a fast way to taste the Icelandic scene. Happy hour early in the evening.
Microbar on Laugavegur pours ten rotating taps and dozens of bottles, a Reykjavik craft-beer bar run by the founder of Gaedingur, Iceland's first craft brewery.
Signature drink: Icelandic and import taps
Food: None
Tip: Happy hour daily 15:00 to 18:00. Five-beer and ten-beer flights are the way to taste the Icelandic scene.
Kiki Queer Bar on Laugavegur is Reykjavik's main LGBTQ club, two colourful floors of pop and dance that fill up at weekends with a mixed, welcoming crowd.
Signature drink: Cocktails and dance floor
Food: None
Tip: The entrance is on the Klapparstigur side. Friday and Saturday are the big nights for the dance floor.
Lebowski Bar on Laugavegur runs a Big Lebowski theme with a wall of White Russians and burgers, a Reykjavik bar that turns into a dance floor late at night.
Signature drink: White Russians
Food: Burgers
Order: A White Russian, the bar's whole reason for being, with a burger.
Tip: Bowling memorabilia and film posters fill the room. Burgers by day, a louder dance scene after midnight.
Prikid on Bankastraeti is one of Reykjavik's oldest bars, a 1951 diner-cafe by day that becomes a hip-hop bar by night, famous for its hangover breakfast.
Signature drink: Beer and hip-hop nights
Food: Diner food and brunch
Order: The hangover breakfast by day, or a beer once the hip-hop starts.
Tip: Founded in 1951 and still central to the scene. The greasy breakfast is the morning-after institution.
Pablo Discobar on Veltusund pours tropical, mezcal-forward cocktails over two loud floors, a 70s-and-80s disco Reykjavik party bar with a huge mirrored ceiling.
Signature drink: Tropical disco cocktails
Food: None
Tip: Open from 17:00 daily, until 03:00 Friday and Saturday. Happy hour 16:00 to 18:00; karaoke later.
Skuli Craft Bar on Adalstraeti pours fourteen mostly Icelandic taps plus bottles, a focused Reykjavik beer bar named for an 18th-century town father.
Signature drink: Icelandic craft taps
Food: Snacks
Tip: Most taps are local, so it is a fast way to taste the Icelandic scene. Happy hour early in the evening.
Microbar on Laugavegur pours ten rotating taps and dozens of bottles, a Reykjavik craft-beer bar run by the founder of Gaedingur, Iceland's first craft brewery.
Signature drink: Icelandic and import taps
Food: None
Tip: Happy hour daily 15:00 to 18:00. Five-beer and ten-beer flights are the way to taste the Icelandic scene.
Kiki Queer Bar on Laugavegur is Reykjavik's main LGBTQ club, two colourful floors of pop and dance that fill up at weekends with a mixed, welcoming crowd.
Signature drink: Cocktails and dance floor
Food: None
Tip: The entrance is on the Klapparstigur side. Friday and Saturday are the big nights for the dance floor.
Lebowski Bar on Laugavegur runs a Big Lebowski theme with a wall of White Russians and burgers, a Reykjavik bar that turns into a dance floor late at night.
Signature drink: White Russians
Food: Burgers
Order: A White Russian, the bar's whole reason for being, with a burger.
Tip: Bowling memorabilia and film posters fill the room. Burgers by day, a louder dance scene after midnight.
Prikid on Bankastraeti is one of Reykjavik's oldest bars, a 1951 diner-cafe by day that becomes a hip-hop bar by night, famous for its hangover breakfast.
Signature drink: Beer and hip-hop nights
Food: Diner food and brunch
Order: The hangover breakfast by day, or a beer once the hip-hop starts.
Tip: Founded in 1951 and still central to the scene. The greasy breakfast is the morning-after institution.
