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Best of Reykjavík:
+ Reykjavík’s best spicy meals P:18
+ A Beer Connoisseur P:24
+ A Guide To Reykjavík's Tea Houses P:26
+ From Meek Mill To The Macarena P:36
+ How To Fashionista in Reykjavík P:28
+ An Antiquarian Book Lover's Guide P:34
+ Keep Watching The Skies P:42
+ Go Forth And Get Inked P:44
DINING 8
DRINKING & NIGHTLIFE 20
SHOPPING 30
ACTIVITIES 38
The Reykjavík Grapevine is proud to
present: The Best Of Reykjavík 2016,
Issue 2! Starting this year, we’re pub-
lishing our Best Of magazines to help
you, our beloved readers, find the very
best places this little city has to offer.
If you’re visiting Reykjavík, you can
use the tips found in these pages to
plan your time here; if you’re a local,
perhaps you’ll find something fresh
or undiscovered.
Reykjavík is a small city, but that
doesn’t mean a walk down Laugave-
gur will immediately reveal all of its
secrets. Increased foot traffic over
recent years has encouraged many
new places to eat and drinkall over
the city’s downtown area and in
nearby neighbourhoods. Areas like
the formerly quite desolate street
of Hverfisgata, the picturesque Old
Harbour, and the Grandi area—once a
bleak fishing dock—are now thriving
with new bars, cafés, galleries, shops
and creative businesses. Reykjavík
is changing, and this quarterly Best
Of Reykjavík magazine aims to help
you ride that wave with a regularly
refreshed look at what’s going on in
the city.
The issue you’re now holding is
geared toward the autumn and winter
months, and features guides to help
you make the most of what the season
has to offer, whether it’s good places
to spot the aurora, or where to get a
hot and spicy meal on a cold evening.
So, enjoy it, and we hope you find it
useful. If this is the first publication
of ours you’ve seen, be sure to pick
up a copy of our regular magazine,
The Reykjavík Grapevine, around
town, and check us out online at
www.grapevine.is. JR
AN INTRODUCTION:
Welcome to Reykjavík
Grapevine’s Best Of
Reykjavík 2016!
BEST OF
REYKJAVIK
2016
Autumn/Winter
2016 Edition
by The
Reykjavík
Grapevine
Hafnarstræti 15, 101
Reykjavík
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Published by Fröken ehf.
Printed by Ísafold in
25,000 copies.
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PUBLISHER
Hilmar Steinn Grétarsson
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+354 540 3601
publisher@grapevine.is
BEST OF EDITOR
John Rogers
john@grapevine.is
ART DIRECTOR
Sveinbjörn Pálsson
sveinbjorn@grapevine.is
LAYOUT
Art Bicnick
art@grapevine.is
COVER ART
Siggi Odds -
siggiodds.com
Gabriel B. Bachmann -
gabrielbachmann.com
BEST OF DINING & BEST OF
SHOPPING COMPILED BY
York Underwood
york@grapevine.is
BEST OF DRINKING AND &
NIGHTLIFE COMPILED BY
Hrefna Björg Gylfadóttir
hrefna@grapevine.is
BEST OF ACTIVITIES
COMPILED BY
John Rogers
john@grapevine.is
PHOTO EDITOR
Art Bicnick
art@grapevine.is
PROOFREADING
Mark Asch
FACT CHECKING
Aðalsteinn Jörundsson
Helgi Þór Harðarson
EDITORIAL
+354 540 3600
editor@grapevine.is
ADVERTISING
+354 540 3605
+354 40 3610
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CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
Elijah Petzold
Hannah Jane Cohen
Hrefna Björg Gylfadóttir
Jóhanna Pétursdóttir
John Rogers
Kelley Rees
Parker Yamasaki
Sveinn Birkir Bjornsson
York Underwood
CONTRIBUTING
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Alísa Kalyanova
Anna Domnick
Ari Magg
Art Bicnick
Atli Árnason
Gúndi Vigfússon
Gunnlaugur Arnar
Sigurðsson
Hrefna Björg Gylfadóttir
Isaac Würmann
Jóndi
Julia Staples
Katie Steen
Maroesjka Lavigne
Nanna Dís
Sara Riel
BEST OF–PANELS OF
EXPERTS:
ACTIVITIES
John Rogers
Jóndi
Larissa Kyzer
Melina Rathjen
DRINKING & NIGHLIFE
Ásdís M. Viðarsdóttir
Hjalti Vigfússon
Davíð Roach Gunnarsson
SHOPPING
Atli Már Steinarsson
Björn Halldórsson
Krístin Mjöll
Ragnar Þorvaldsson
DINING
Ragnar Freyr
Elijah John
Shruthi Basappa
SALES DIRECTORS
Aðalsteinn Jörundsson
adalsteinn@grapevine.is
Helgi Þór Harðarson
helgi@grapevine.is
DISTRIBUTION
distribution@grapevine.is
GENERAL INQUIRIES
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