We heard so much about below average food in Iceland that we were preparing for the worst. I always choose my holiday destinations by the quality of the food so this was a necessary sacrifice to discover Iceland as its tourism explodes. net: low expectations. Even lower in terms of getting our daily vegetable fixes – I mean, what can possibly grow here??!
Suffice it to say that we are so positively surprised. And not just Reykjavík as per my previous post, but even on the road trip across the South and East of the island we come across fabulous little cafés serving delicious soups and vegetarian fibre filled creations, all beautifully presented. Apparently Iceland is Europe’s no 1 banana producing exporter (didn’t realize that there were any European bananas at all, let alone from Iceland), and maybe their big greenhouse culture explains why we get such yummy fruits everywhere.
Fiskfelagid in Reykjavík – good food, a bit too much sauce, too sweet but overall nicely presented and the staff is very friendly. The boys share a big sushi platter, Anjali has Arctic Char and scallops with beer foam and I have wolffish with bean ragù and hummus.
The next morning we head off down South, to the Vatnajökull glacier and national park. We have a good run around but then head onwards the next morning up East and North to Lake Myvatn. We stop in the fishing village Höfn which reminds me so much of my mom’s native seaside village of Tönning. Thanks to TripAdvisor I find a recommendation for a little restaurant that turns out to be a real highlight of the day: Otto Marie & Drykkur – simply delicious! The kids have vegetable cannelloni which I didn’t even get to photograph they disappeared so fast and Thierry and I have the menu of vegetable soup followed by mustard marinated cod on roasted vegetables and celeriac purée. So good.
