Turninn / The Tower is Iceland’s highest restaurant, located on the nineteenth floor in an office tower in Kópavogur, and what a view! You can see most of the greater capital area as well as the surrounding mountains and even a glacier!
Category Archives: Restaurant Review
Vegamót
Vegamót has for years managed to pull of a lunch by day, dinner by evening and a club by night. Maybe this combination and food is their key to success and long life?
Sushisamba
Sushisamba opened about two years ago in down town Reykjavík, Iceland and offers Japanese and South-American fusion cuisine in a fun and beautiful environment and they usually are booked up during dinner so we would advise you to make reservations.
MAR Restaurant
MAR Restaurant is a brand new restaurant that just opened by Reykjavík harbor, on December 7th 2012 to be exact! The interior was designed by HAF by Hafsteinn Júlíusson and the tableware by the ceramic artist Guðný Hafsteinsdóttir. Interestingly in the entrance of the restaurant there is a really neat and cosy design boutique, Mýrin that sells lovely icelandic design.
La Luna Pizzeria
La Luna Pizzeria opened its trattoria pizzeria in May 2011 in a building on Rauðarárstígur which used to house a soda factory and a brewery in the 1930’s up until 1967. Since then some of the interior from the brewery has been used for decorations, like part of the brew tanks, which combined with other decorations create a unique pizzeria dining experience.
VOX Restaurant
VOX Restaurant has been one of the top restaurants in Iceland last couple of years, it is located at the ground floor of Hilton Reykjavík Nordica. VOX is a restaurant that holds many prizes in the culinary arts for example is Sigurður Kristinn Laufdal Haraldsson the Chef of the year in Iceland 2011 and as well will be the next Icelandic Bocuse d‘Or candidate.
Osushi – The Train
Osushi originally opened in 2005 as one of the first sushi dedicated restaurants in Iceland. In 2008 Osushi opened a second restaurant in Reykjavík where both feature conveyor belt sushi also known as a sushi train.