Reykjavík Restaurants

  1. b5

    With its barely-there name (standing for Bankastræti 5), supersleek interior, and sketchpads in case you're seized by artistic inspiration, you might suspect this new bistro-bar of great pretentiousness. Thankfully, you'd be wrong: customers loll on the huge leather sofa wolfing down light Scandinavian-style bistro meals without the slightest hint of snobbery. On Friday and Saturday night it becomes a laid-back bar playing ambient tunes. Wireless hotspot.

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  2. Café Ópera

    Soothing Café Opera, based upstairs in an old merchant's house, occasionally has a piano player tickling the ivories. The house speciality is the entertaining 'Hot Rock Fantasy' - sizzling meat or fish steaks that you get to 'cook' yourself on slabs of mountain granite.

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  3. Múlakaffi

    Múlakaffi has recently been renovated, but the shining-white walls and brand-new tables can't disguise its old-fashioned soul, and the clientele is still 100% working men. Hearty local meals such as meatballs, salt cod, roast pork and rye bread are dished up from the hotplate.

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  4. Ristorante Ítalía

    One of the better Italian options, this family-run place has a proper wood-fired pizza oven, and good pasta and secondi piatti (mains). It's a romantic option for a candle-lit dinner.

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