Icelandic Food: What to Eat & Drink in Iceland

Heading to Reykjavik or other parts of Iceland and wondering what you are going to eat and drink in Iceland? Well here we go through some of the more popular dishes and treats you will eat, drink and enjoy in Iceland. From various fish, lamb, Icelandic yogurt skyr, to the beers, fermented shark, whale or puffin there are many foods for you to eat in Iceland. So if you are flying Wow air for a stop over in Iceland you now know what to eat and what they eat in Iceland.
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[MultiOranuch]

Following you every where and today just see the previous video by you about ICELAND.. So I visited this Woderland in June 2024 for 3 days... we drove Southeast of country. Wow!! Lots of natural wonder so we eat SKYR every morning.
Fantastic! 👍Thank you - Best Wishes from STOCKHOLM - SWEDEN 🍀☘🌿🌷🌼🌺🌲🌲🌲

[gislisnbjornsson]

I'm from Iceland and you actually to things right - not something you see a lot. Nice overview of what to try in Iceland

Nice work.

[wellerson]

I'm from Brazil and your channel is so good to practice my listening skill

[TheRocknrolla]

The world is beautiful....infact it is heaven.

[majikslim]

I lived in Iceland for a couple years. I'm from Oklahoma. The hotdogs... amazing. Icelandic hotdogs are awesome. The shark and brenivin/snapps (must try, terrible). They have a salt cured ham with potatoes in a sweet wheat sauce, it is one of the greatest things I have ever eaten. Great place to visit. Word of advice for single men. Do not get married there lol. I recommend visits in peak summer and new years.

[FFKRTips]

Been searching through so many travel channels, and I think yours is by far my favourite! Great advice and information without being pretension.

Great work ! :)

[ColorHeartCarlie]

I'm traveling to Iceland this year, so thank you.

[landseverywhere]

such a beautiful place
definite on the bucket list
fish and lamb 2 of my favorites

[ritaharris]

We loved the food when we were there. It was amazing.

[roudaboat]

i am so ready to visit iceland after watching this video!!! Thanks a bunch!!!

[ChristiernAlbertson]

Excellent glimpses of Iceland. I was born and raised in Reykjavík and spent a couple of summers on a farm, north of there. The Reykjavîk you filmed is a far cry from the city of my childhood—a great improvement. BTW, I cannot stand fish (love lobster, however) and I think that's a result of overexposure as a child. I have eaten whale, but it has a fishy. taste that turns me off. Lamb is quite another matter and I have yet to find any that can compare with the Icelandic. You did not mention hangikjöt, which is delicious smoked lamb. Skyr, which we used to buy in dairies, right out of a tub, can now be had in some of NYC's supermarkets, but it is expensive. It might interest you to know that beer (and owning a TV set) was illegal in Iceland when I lived there and hard liquor was only sold in state stores, but one could call a cab company at night and ask for a "fluid drive". I still speak and write Icelandic (though a bit rusty), but my mother was Danish, so I do very well in that area. I am a writer/author, but I write (mostly about jazz and blues) in English. Thank you for taking me back to the country of my birth.

[sos]

Went in mar 2017. tasted the ginger soda at an Indian restaurant which I enjoyed. also had a seafood bisque. I might be crazy but once I stepped out of the airport I noticed how fresh and clean the air smelled. Great country for my first trip abroad.

[bjornsigm]

The red mayonnaise you were talking about is called kokteilsósa. It is super simple to make at home and tastes amazing! All it is is you mix ketchup and mayonnaise together. Put mayonnaise in a bowl and then add ketchup and the just blend it together. (Use more mayonnaise than ketchup) The more ketchup you use the more kind of stinging taste you get, a stronger taste. I personally use just a tiny amount more of mayonnaise than ketchup, maybe like a spoon or so. Hope this helps to make your very own kokteilsósu and enjoy it with every meal!

[fuducker]

This makes me miss Iceland so much. I spent a week there about 3 years ago and I also spent 2 months living in Stockholm, 1 month in Copenhagen, and a week in Tromsø, Norway. Scandinavia and the entire Nordic region have been calling for me since I first started teaching myself about Iceland in high school. I think I mat move there permanently one day.

[lazu]

Your sons are sooo cute. I love seeing the videos with your whole family getting stuck in! Jocelyn is such a trouper for sampling the shark!

[mikaelorsteinsson]

we have over 100 types of icelandic beers.. not just a few brands :) but yeah.. the skyr is the main thing to try.. we have every tastes you can dream of.. from all fruits you can think of, up to créme brulée and strawberry cheescake, caramel, chocolate, liquorice.. just name it. The fish, lamb and the water is world class.

[Bubble_Fett]

the fish is what I'm looking forward to the most for eating! I absolutely love seafood in general. *2 weeks until Iceland!*

[dukegunthar]

I have a friend who is a famous cookbook author and she told us about using dried fish kind of like bread when she was young. One of the common snacks in Iceland is buttered dried fish. It sounds awful but I absolutely loved it and would usually make that as a snack at the end of the day. But then I also didn't mind hakkarl, so maybe I'm just weird.

[HF]

Great advice! We were in Iceland in September. The fish is fantastic! Another general note is that going out to eat is VERY expensive...even just like a pizzeria ran the two of us up $50 canadian with one beer, coke and couple slices of pizza. We grocery shopped at Bonus and ate 60-70% of the time from those, and allowed ourselves one meal out a day. Also the coffee..very expensive - for the equivalent of a small here it was approx.$5-7 canadian.

[boomsing]

I'm taking my daughter to Iceland in April for 8 days.Can't wait to get there.