Saturday, August 8, 2015
Vegetarians in Iceland
Hello everyone! It's been awhile! I don't know why I'm so bad about updating my blog but I am. (Sorry!) This entry is going to go far back to March, of this year, when Nick and I took a trip to Iceland!
Iceland is truly one of the most beautiful places I have been to. The landscape is absolutely striking- volcanoes, hot springs, geysers, black sand beaches with stunning basalt columns in the facing cliffs, and glaciers- and we even saw the Northern Lights (I can check that off my bucket list)!
Knowing before we arrived that Icelandic cuisine is traditionally animal based, we stayed in a hotel that contained a small kitchen, in our room, just in case we had to cook our own food for the duration of our stay. However, we didn't really have any issue finding vegetarian friendly restaurants during our trip (which I didn't really think would be a problem, since we were staying in Reykjavik), so our in-room kitchen remained spotless! Oddly, there was a night we were going to head to a local grocery (Bónus) and make our own dinner but it had closed by 6:30pm! Since we would go gallivanting around Iceland all day, every day, we never made it back to the city in time to go the store, sadly. It's also good to keep in mind that many restaurants close by 7pm and some as early as 5pm. (The closing times may be different in the summer months, I don't know for sure.)
Reykjavik had quite a few really great places to eat, with veggie options, that I'll discuss more of below.
If you're looking for an eclectic, vegetarian/vegan friendly coffee house, check out Café Babalu. They're open late, filled with interesting knickknacks, board games and books to peruse, and they make a bangin vegetarian lasagna. (Nick had a delicious veggie chili.) They also give pretty generous portions.
C is for Cookie is another cute coffee house, not far from our hotel, where we ate a light lunch of sandwiches and hot beverages before heading out on the road for the day. They also serve soups, pastries and all the standard coffee joint stuff. Only downside? They close early (at around 5pm).
Having Iceland's first and oldest bakery, the Bernhoftsbakari Bakery, so near to our hotel was very dangerous. Obviously, we went here several times to load up on delicious Icelandic pastries. The prices are good, the staff were very friendly, and the pastries were out of this world! We just couldn't help ourselves!
Iceland in March is still pretty saturating-ly cold. Nothing beat the cold like the gigantic bowls of Thai veggie noodle soup we purchased from Noodle Station. The food was cheap, quick, and tasty.
Garðurinn is a pretty good veggie café with a limited menu (as in every day they serve two different items- a main course and a soup) but we still enjoyed our food. I had a vegetable curry and Nick had a chili.
We ate at Durum twice during our week stay in part because they're open late (and we kept getting back to the city late) and also because they make a mouth watering falafel wrap.
One of our last meals in Iceland was at Bakarí Sandholt which is a very popular bakery and coffee house. I had a big delicious coffee and a sandwich with goat cheese, lettuce, nuts, and honey, on homemade sourdough bread, while Nick had a light breakfast of Skyr, Icelandic yogurt. (We actually ate quite a few yogurts during our trip. They're so good!)
Iceland is truly one of the most beautiful places I have been to. The landscape is absolutely striking- volcanoes, hot springs, geysers, black sand beaches with stunning basalt columns in the facing cliffs, and glaciers- and we even saw the Northern Lights (I can check that off my bucket list)!
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| Black Church of Búdir |
Reykjavik had quite a few really great places to eat, with veggie options, that I'll discuss more of below.
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| A copy of Harry Potter, in Norwegian, found in Café Babalu |
If you're looking for an eclectic, vegetarian/vegan friendly coffee house, check out Café Babalu. They're open late, filled with interesting knickknacks, board games and books to peruse, and they make a bangin vegetarian lasagna. (Nick had a delicious veggie chili.) They also give pretty generous portions.
C is for Cookie is another cute coffee house, not far from our hotel, where we ate a light lunch of sandwiches and hot beverages before heading out on the road for the day. They also serve soups, pastries and all the standard coffee joint stuff. Only downside? They close early (at around 5pm).
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| 'Cool American' flavor Doritos found in Reykjavik |
Having Iceland's first and oldest bakery, the Bernhoftsbakari Bakery, so near to our hotel was very dangerous. Obviously, we went here several times to load up on delicious Icelandic pastries. The prices are good, the staff were very friendly, and the pastries were out of this world! We just couldn't help ourselves!
Iceland in March is still pretty saturating-ly cold. Nothing beat the cold like the gigantic bowls of Thai veggie noodle soup we purchased from Noodle Station. The food was cheap, quick, and tasty.
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| Delicious pastries from Bernhoftsbakari |
Garðurinn is a pretty good veggie café with a limited menu (as in every day they serve two different items- a main course and a soup) but we still enjoyed our food. I had a vegetable curry and Nick had a chili.
We ate at Durum twice during our week stay in part because they're open late (and we kept getting back to the city late) and also because they make a mouth watering falafel wrap.
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| Um... what?!?! |
One of our last meals in Iceland was at Bakarí Sandholt which is a very popular bakery and coffee house. I had a big delicious coffee and a sandwich with goat cheese, lettuce, nuts, and honey, on homemade sourdough bread, while Nick had a light breakfast of Skyr, Icelandic yogurt. (We actually ate quite a few yogurts during our trip. They're so good!)
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