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Babalú
More inviting than your own living room, this new café is übercute (if smoky). It only sells tea, coffee, hot chocolate and the odd crêpe, but once you've settled into one of its snug corners you won't want to move. In summer there's occasional live music.
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Café Konditori Copenhagen
For pure cake porn, head to this café near the city hostel - Danish-influenced delicacies flaunt glazed strawberries, curls of chocolate and dribbled cream. It also does more prosaic sandwiches and good coffee, which you can consume from supercomfy leather seats. There's a branch at the Kringlan shopping centre.
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Café Paris
This old favourite has undergone a recent refit and is now better than ever - leather-upholstered chairs provide a level of bum-comfort previously missing. Although there's a selection of light meals - sandwiches, crêpes, tacos - people come here for coffee and cakes, and to check out the crowds.
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Café Victor
Victor is a scruffy beery-smelling bar-bistro reminiscent of an English pub (there's even an old red telephone box and premiership footy matches). British families gravitate here for lunch or early-evening meals - English breakfast, burgers, nachos and pizza, or more substantial spare ribs and seafood. At weekends its large spaces fill with drinkers and it turns into a big, loud club.
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Grái Kötturinn
This tiny six-table café looks like a cross between an eccentric bookshop and a lopsided art gallery - quite charming! Opening hours are odd, but it serves breakfast from weekdays and weekends - toast, bagels, American pancakes, or bacon and eggs served on thick, buttery slabs of freshly baked bread.
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Kaffi Hljómalind
This commendable organic and Fair Trade café is run on a not-for-profit basis. It looks like a 1950s home with 1970s flourishes (prayer flags, patterned chairs, hand-painted cups and saucers), and is a meeting-place for Reykjavík's radicals. Wireless hotspot.
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Kaffi Mokka
Reykjavík's oldest coffee shop is an acquired taste. Its décor hasn't changed since the 1950s, and its original mosaic pillars and copper lights either look retro-cool or dead tatty, depending on your mood! It has a very mixed clientele - from older folk to tourists to trendy young artists - and a selection of sandwiches, cakes and giant waffles.
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Kaffitár
Another of the modern breed of coffee shops, Kaffitár has opted for barristas, flavoured syrups, merchandised mugs and Italian biscuits by the till. The service is personal, and there's even a small play area for toddlers. It's a wireless hotspot, and there's a branch at the Kringlan shopping centre.
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Kofi Tómasar Frænda
Subterranean Koffin has a studenty feel. Relax with magazines and a snack (nachos, lasagne, sandwiches, cakes or chocolate-coated marzipan) and watch disconnected feet scurry along Laugavegur. At night the place turns into a candle-lit bar with DJs. It's a wireless hotspot.
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Ömmu Kaffi
Friendly faces greet you at this cosy nonsmoking coffee shop. A short list of edibles includes soup, lasagne, cakes and Icelandic doughnuts, and there are some unusual coffees on offer. Grab a paper or zone out to the mellifluous sound of live jazz (Thursday).
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Svarta Kaffið
Order thick homemade soup (one meat and one veg option daily at this quirky cavelike café - it's served piping hot in fantastic bread bowls. Other light lunches include nachos, burritos, toasted sarnies and lasagne. It's also a whimsical nightspot, with African masks and dim lighting adding a certain frisson.
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Té og Kaffi
A Starbucks-style café, complete with barristas and a huge coffee menu (including Baileys and Swiss chocolate flavours). There are plenty of yummy cakes, quiches, salads and soups too. It's popular with families, footsore Saturday shoppers and LP readers.
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