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.

Seafood

Vín & Skel - Laugavegur 55 Reykjavik, Tel. 534 4700

Vín og Skel (Wine & Shell), is a new restaurant in Reykjavik, specializing in shellfish. It is situated in one of the back houses by Laugavegur. There you can have Wine and Shell!

	Icelanders are very proud of their precious and unspoiled fishing grounds around the country. Delicious dishes made of fresh fish are the hallmark of the Icelandic cuisine. One of the most renowned seafood restaurants in Iceland is simply named Tveir Fiskar (Two Fishes).
Opening hours: From 17:00 all days of the week

3 Frakkar - Baldursgata 14 Reykjavik, Tel. 552 3939

The Icelandic fish is one of the world’s best ingredients and the restaurant Þrír Frakkar specialises in making the best out of it. It is a family business with a great atmosphere located in downtown Reykjavík (Baldursgata 14) and run by master chef Úlfar Eysteinsson. Together the owners incredible selections of fish dishes, which they have become quite famous for, like salted cod, grilled catfish, fried fish-chins and the famous Icelandic speciality, hashed fish with black bread. But they also offer vegetable and meet courses for those who so prefer, and the whale pepper steak is probably one of the best you can get. Don’t miss out on that!
Opening Hours: Monday through Friday from 11:30-14:30 and 18:00-22:00. On Saturdays and Sundays the restaurant is open between 18:00 and 23:00.

Lobster House - Amtmannsstíg 1 Reykjavik, Tel. 561 3303

The Lobster House Restaurant has earned it's reputation as one of Iceland's best restaurants. Our menu consists of variety of meat and fish dishes, and lobster is our specialty.

Sjávarkjallarinn - Aðalstræti 2 Reykjavik Tel. 511 1212

Located in the oldest cellar in Reykjavík is Sjávarkjallarinn, one of the city’s newest and most trendy restaurants. It is an Icelandic seafood restaurant with oriental influences, which offers various seafood dishes as well as meat and vegetarian courses, where the main emphasis is on fusion cooking. The whole look of the restaurant is especially successful where old artefacts meet the newest in modern style decorations. Ambition defines the cuisine as well as the service, and as a result the Condé Nast Traveller chose Sjávarkjallarinn as one of the 66 best new restaurants in the world. Lárus Gunnar Jónasson, the head chef of Sjávarkjallarinn, won the Icelandic Chef of the Year competition in 2004, which gives the restaurant even more inspirations for making new, creative and delicious courses.
Opening Hours: Mondays through Saturdays from 11:30-23:30 and Sundays from 17:00- 23:30.

Við Tjörnina - Templarsund 3 Reykjavik, Tel. 551 8666

Located right by the pond, downtown Reykjavík, at Templarasund 3 which is one of Reykjavík’s most famous landmarks, Við Tjörnina is a charming restaurant, which specializes in all kinds of seafood dishes. The building is warm and cozy with a kind and comfortable atmosphere. The cuisine is Icelandic and offers also traditional Icelandic lamb fillet, fermented shark and skyr. If you want to have a superb Icelandic dinner in an Icelandic surrounding you should get a table at the restaurant Við Tjörnina. After the meal it is ideal to stroll around the city centre and maybe feed the ducks at the pond.
Opening Hours: All evenings from 18:00 and Thursdays and Fridays also during lunchtime from 12:00