Welcome to Iceland Guest - Your Online Travel Guide.

Iceland Guest is an information website for your travel to Iceland. On this site you can get all the tourist information you need for your vacation in Iceland. We hope that you will find this online travel guide useful in planning your holidays in Iceland.

About Iceland
Iceland is a refreshingly unconventional travel destination. The Icelandic nature is unspoilt, exotic and mystical with its spouting geysers, active volcanoes, tumbling waterfalls, towering mountains, vast lava plains and magical lakes. Iceland’s fjords, glaciers and highland plains present visitors with some of the most beautiful and enchanting places they will ever see, as well as a rare feeling of utter tranquillity.

For travelers on a quest for action, Iceland’s pristine nature offers great potential for outdoor activities such as snowmobiling, horse riding, cave exploring, hiking, swimming, skiing, river rafting, kayaking and mountain safaris on modified four-wheel drives, to name but a few. Iceland supports a surprisingly diverse Nordic flora and fauna and is an ideal place for ornithology enthusiasts, while also offering some of the world’s best whale watching destinations.

About Reykjavik
Reykjavík sometimes feels like a cosmopolitan capital and a tiny seaside village - all wrapped up in one. But Reykjavík has the best of both worlds; the qualities of a modern, forward-looking society complemented by a close connection to Iceland‚s beautiful and unspoilt nature.

Reykjavík’s legendary nightlife is bolstered by plentiful cultural and social happenings in addition to an abundance of first-class restaurants. The size of Reykjavik city centre is also limited enough to allow for easy navigation by foot. Reykjavík has been described as a young and daring city that is characterized by strong contrasts. Conveniently small, clean and safe, it is more or less free from the major problems that haunt many other capitals. Big city events are frequent, the winter lights festival finished recently with thousands of participants and more tourist at this time of the year than we are used to.

Oriental Cuisine

Galbi - Barónsstígur 2-4 Reykjavik, Tel. 544 4448

	After dining out at Galbi my attitude to Korean food is completely different and has no similarity at all to cheap Chinese and Thai take away as it has been introduced in most western countries. Galbi is an exotic steakhouse in comfortable surroundings with relaxing Oriental dinner music in the background.
Opening hours: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 18:00 - 21:00, Sundays and Thursdays from 18:00 - 22:00 and Fridays and Saturdays from 18:00 - 23:00.

Asian Express - Smáralind shopping mall Kópavogur

Take your taste buds on an adventurous trip around Asia. Asian Express offers Asian fast food at its best. Fabulous menu with all the most popular specialities from Thailand, China, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Laos and Malaysia. Seats 30 people.

Austur Indíafélagið - Hverfisgata 56 Reykjavik Tel. 552 1630

The Indian food adventure. Mughalai, Tandoori, north and south Indian food at affordable prices. A unique combination of Icelandic seafood prepared to perfection by Indian master chefs. Guests can relax and enjoy the atmosphere of the northern-most Indian restaurant in the world.
Opening Hours: Open daily for dinner.

China House - Lækjargata 8 Reykjavik Tel. 551 1014

Enjoy the midtown hustle and bustle while dining in an original Chinese restaurant. Cozy and comfortable, specialising in Cantonese, Szechuan and Peking dishes. Special lunch offer.
Opening Hours: Open daily for lunch and dinner.

Indian Mango - Frakkastígur 12 Reykjavik, Tel. 551 7722

The dishes are prepared authentically, as in Indian homes, and no short cuts are taken. Dishes are made from the freshest ingredients and healthy methods of cooking. Tasty food and also a sight to behold and enjoy.

Indókína - Laugavegur 19 Reykjavik, Tel. 552 2399

Opening hours: Open Mon - Thu 11:30 - 22:00, Fri - Sat 11:30 - 23:00 and Sun 17:00 - 22:00

Maru - Aðalstræti 12 Reykjavik, Tel. 511 4440

Maru is a Japanese restaurant in the heart of Reykjavík. Though Maru cuisine is diverse, sushi is at centre-stage, placing the restaurant in a class by itself in Iceland. In addition to sushi, the menu includes a selection of miso soups, Japanese salads and noodle and grill dishes, not to mention Thai curries - yellow, red and green - made solely from vegetables and spices. A big bonus about the restaurant is that it is non-smoking, but downstairs is a bar and comfortable sofas where you can relax between courses and have a drink, and a smoke if you want to. Maru also puts emphasis on take-away orders for very manageable prices.
Opening Hours: All days of the week from 17:30-23:30. Cuisine is open to 22:00 Sundays through Thursdays and to 23:00 on Fridays and Saturdays.

Nings - Suðurlandsbraut 6 - Hlíðasmári 12 Kópavogur, tel. 588 9899

At Nings the main focus is on that all material that is used in all the courses is fresh, i.e. meat, fish, spices, vegetable and above all is the cooking.

Núðluhúsið - Vitastigur 10 Reykjavik, Tel. 552 2400

In a friendly locale at Vitastígur 10, only a few steps from the shopping street Laugavegur, is the restaurant Núðluhúsið. It specializes in oriental cuisine and the diverse menu offers all kinds of great and flavorful dishes. The noodle dishes are especially tasty and the portions are really generous considering the price, because a dinner at Núðluhúsið is quite inexpensive. Only the freshest ingredients are used in the cuisine and the emphasis is on making the customers gratified every time. They even offer a take-away service if you want to eat your dinner or lunch at home and offer various types of wines.
Opening Hours: From 11:30-21:00 on weekdays and from 17:00- 21:00 on weekends.

Shalimar - Austurstræti Reykjavik, Tel. 551 0292

Shalimar is an Indian/Pakistani restaurant located in Austurstræti 4 right by Ingólfstorg in the centre of Reykjavík. It is inexpensive to dine there and the dishes are really tasty. There you can get spicy Indian food, their famous freshly baked Nan-bread, rice and yogurt sauces and eat it in a homey, Indian surrounding with Indian music playing in the background. The menu offers a variety of beef, chicken, rice, vegetarian, fish, and prawn courses and if you are with a group of friends it is ideal to order a couple of courses and share them all together so you get a multiform taste. They also offer special lunch and dinner menu where you get stuffed dishes for only Isk.990 at lunchtime and for Isk.1.190 at dinnertime.
Opening Hours: Monday and Tuesday from 17:00-22:00, Wednesday and Thursday from 11:30-22:00, Friday from 11:30-22:30, Saturday from 17:00-22:30 and Sunday from 17:00-22:00.

Sjanghæ - Laugavegur 28 Reykjavik Tel. 517 3131

Established in 1985, making it the oldest Chinese restaurant in town, it is well known for its quality cuisine and classic Chinese environment. Great food and friendly atmosphere makes SJANGHÆ a perfect place to start the night in downtown Reykjavik. Remember the reasonably priced and tasty lunch buffet. If you're in a hurry you simply take the food with you! Chinese chefs take pride in preparing a wide variety of genuine Peking, Szechwan and Canton dishes.