Restaurants - Reykjavik, Iceland - 5 of 5

For a city of 200,000+ people, Reykjavik seems to have a wide variety of restaurants.  Of course they have a lot of fish on the menu... but they do love their hamburgers.  Following are the restaurants we tried over four days...

The Laundromat Cafe  American style breakfasts, burgers, sandwiches, salads, etc. in a fun atmosphere.  Downstairs is an actual laundromat with a play area for kids and tables for dining. I would have loved a place like this when the girls were little. 

A whole in the wall place to take a break from the wind and rain one afternoon...

Elder & Is Crepes another reason for a break... the kids loved watching their nutella and banana crepes being made in the front window.  They also have savory crepes and ice cream. All good!

In a desperate attempt to make everyone (our girls) happy we tried Casa Grande, a great find and total win, win, located on the water in the old harbor by the whale watching ticket offices/boats.  The kids were happy with pizza while we sat at our end of the table trying more traditional Icelandic dishes.  This is where I tried puffin and minke whale... both are a lot like tender red meat. It was good but I won't be developing a craving for it. 

sweet potato filled spring roll with mushroom barley

Islenski Barinn/Icelandic Bar is a funky little restaurant with really good food.  They have jars of pickled items that Gordon, Jayne and Richard enjoyed.  The fish and chips were especially good!

jars... filled with picked things like herring, shrimp, whale... and if you are really brave fermented shark (even Gordon was never brave enough to order that local delicacy)

fish and chips

dogless hot dogs

Baejarins Beztu Pylsur, in business since 1937, a Reykjavik institution. Hot dogs come with ketchup, sweet mustard, fried onion, raw onion and remoulade.  Order on with 'the works'.  Located by the water, across the street from the Radisson Blu 1919 Hotel.  

Sushi Samba, Asian style tapas, not exactly what the kids were expecting from sushi restaurant but they tried and liked new things.

We stayed in one night and found Krua Thai offering delivery, placed the order - 15 minutes, an hour and a half later dinner arrived.  It was good, traditional Thai take away.