Reykjavík Grapevine - 15.07.2016, Page 59

BOOK YOUR FLIGHT OR
DAY TOUR AT AIRICELAND.IS
ÍSAFJÖRÐUR
ICELAND’S WESTFJORDS
ARE ONLY 40 MINUTES AWAY
Let’s fly
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Distance
from Rvk
146 km
Personal touch
It’s difficult to go from fancy-
ing oneself a seafaring Long John
Silver-type adventurer to appre-
ciating an intricate restaurant
experience—but sometimes, sac-
rifices must be made. The Slip-
purinn Eatery, open May to Sep-
tember, is a collaboration between
brother and sister Gísli Auðunsson
and Indíana Auðunsdóttir, who
introduced each dish of the tast-
ing menu at the table themselves.
We were served some of the sea-
son’s last guillemot eggs. They were
creamy and rich, served with lovage
in their pastel blue shells.
Each dish was paired with a
wine, and they kept coming. Kelp
flakes were followed by langous-
tine and sea truffles, topped with
white wine sauce, leeks and dill.
The whole-cooked lemon sole
bathed in caper vinaigrette was
entirely de-boned, so we shoveled
heaping forkfuls straight from
serving dish. We finished with
rhubarb confit on almond cake, its
tartness juxtaposed against a glob
of homemade ice cream.
The next morning, we took a
walk past the famed golf course
that runs along Heimaey’s wind-
blown western coast. Traipsing
straight over the holes amongst
steep green hills and block rocks,
we stood on the windblown, tide-
battered seashore. It could have
been Neverland, Scheria or Lilli-
put. I could have stood there for-
ever. But alas, the ferry back to
reality was waiting.
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