Room With A View

Café Oliver

The Indian Chefs at Café Oliver have put together a menu with great selections onf indian cuisine. The menu also contains some other classic dishes the have been at Oliver for a long time. At lunch time Café Oliver offers a special 10 course menu with some great prices.

Café Oliver has live music on Thuedays and Thursdays and are open late on the weekends where a DJ starts playing at midnight.

Check out their menu at Café Oliver
Café Oliver is next door to Room With A View apartment hotel

Vegamót Bistro & Bar

Vegamót is an elegant but casual two floor Bistro, located in the heart of Reykjavik  city center.  The place is very famous for their “Fresh Fish Of The Day” served from lunch and onwards. Presentation of the dishes is very beautiful and the prices and portions are good. As night progresses the athmosphere changes and so does the crowd as the restaurant turns into a wild night club.

You can find the menu and more info on the Vegamót webpage.
Vegamót is less than 50m from Room With A View hotel

3 Frakkar is one of the finest seafood restaurants in Iceland. It was founded in 1989 by the master chef Úlfar Eysteinsson. Úlfar’s specialities have always been fish courses and the restaurant is best know for those dishes but they also offer seabirds, whale and more. The prices there are very good  for a restraurant of this quality and the service is great.

You can find the menu, winelist and more on the 3 Frakkar website
3 Frakkar is only 600m from Room With A View, apartment hotel

Here is what Wall Street Journal has to say about 3 Frakkar:

“Thrir Frakkar is where you want to go for Icelandic traditional food with a modest nontraditional spin. Chef Úlfar Eysteinsson’s puffin is cured and pungent, comes in purple strands, arrayed in a nouvelle starburst. If I could go back tomorrow, I think I would order the horse steak again. Here was meat with personality, plated modestly with potatoes, carrots and turnips. Lean and unforgettable.

As was the cunningly Icelandicized dessert, a crème brûlée based on skyr, the mildly sour, ubiquitous soft cheese that will remind first-timers of a thick yogurt. In the crème brûlée, its sourness countered the sweetness of the sugary sheet on top. And that’s not all. On the same plate was a big mound of whipped cream and a smear of light custard sauce rippling with red fruit jam — a dairy symphony. And for a touch of the sunbaked south, Chef Eysteinsson drops an orange Colombian physalis berry (Cape gooseberry) complete with papery ecru leaves, on top of the whipped cream.”

Smoked puffin breast with mustard sauce at Thrir Frakkar.

Star Chef Jamie Oliver and Friends Dining at 3 Frakkar

The Seafood Cellar

The Seafood Cellar opened august 14, 2003 and word of mouth quickly made this one of the most popular restaurants in the city.

The Seafood Cellar

The Seafood Cellar (Sjávarkjallarinn) opened august 14, 2003 and word of mouth quickly made this one of the most popular restaurants in the city.

Situated in the oldest cellar in Reykjavík, visitors enjoy Asian influenced Icelandic fusion cuisine in a casual but sophisticated environment, at par with the most cosmopolitan eateries of London or New York.

For their menu and more information visit the homepage of The Seafood Cellar
The Seafood Cellar is only 800m from Room With A View apartment hotel

Humarhúsið Restaurant

Humarhúsið is a very popular restaurant in Reykjavik’s city center. It’s been run since 1995 and gained very good reputation for it’s good food and romantic atmosphere. The house was built in 1838 and the owners have strived to keep it as close to the original look as possible.

The name of the restaurants translates to “House of Lobster” which gives an indication to their very famous lobster dish. Even though they are most famous for their lobster their menu offers a great variety to choose from.

For the menu and more information visit the homepage for Humarhúsið
Humarhúsið is about 400m from Room With a View