Restaurants Overview

Restaurants in Iceland are small and diverse. You can expect superb seafood and lamb, and the fresh fish is not to be missed -- surely some of the best you'll ever have. Besides native cuisine, eateries offer everything from Asian and Indian to French and Italian. Pizzas, hamburgers, ice cream, and a tasty local version of the hot dog, with fried onions, are widely available. Most restaurants accept major credit cards.

Perhaps the best way to save substantially on meal costs (besides choosing from the specials of the day) is to forego alcohol, the price of which essentially doubles from liquor store (where it isn't cheap to begin with) to restaurant table.