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Food Fridays - Reykjavik

Icelandic food is fresh, fun, creative, and...EXPENSIVE.  Usually, we're able to find some local cheap options, but not here.  We had to swallow the cost, along with the delicious food, and chalk it up to part of the experience of being in Iceland.  

WARNING: For those who are squeamish, DO NOT scroll to the end.  Stop after the pink cake (Glassenkaka).  There's a sheep's head that even I couldn't watch Jimmy eat.

Fried duck breast with hazelnut crumble, fig yuzu glaze, and ponzu marinated enoki mushrooms  

The Kaffivagnann fish pan - cod loin au gratin with shrimp and bernaise (best dish we had here)

Arctic char and scallops with celery root and potato purée  

Beef slider in a brioche bun

Gyoza pizza with goat cheese, beet root, pico de gallo, and truffle ponzu

Smoked lamb on rye, a delicious way to eat lamb

Lamb with pork and beef hot dog from the oldest hotdog chain in Reykjavik from 1937.  Get it with everything on it.

Icelandic meat soup

The label in the window said "Glassenkaka"

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WARNING - the following contains a less than appetizing scene of an traditional Icelandic sheep's head dish.  Viewer discretion is advised. 

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Icelandic sheep's head from the restaurant in Reykjavik's bus station