Bæjarins Beztu Pylsur

by MattG, Thursday, June 11, 2026, 11:54 (1 day, 18 hours, 41 min. ago) @ Jay
edited by MattG, Thursday, June 11, 2026, 12:30

That is the hot dog place. It is a little hot dog stand and it absolutely rules. Get their weird remoulade.

I'm sure you're going to do the Golden Circle, right? You have to. The Thingvellir Natl Park, Geysir, and Gulfoss are mandatory.

In Reykjavik, the entire neighborhood walking (not south, it's NW) DOWN hill from the Hallgrimskirka and really the entirety of Laugavegur street is walkable, shops and restaurants and stuff. When you get down to the main road at the harbor end of it, that's where the Harpa concert hall is and right across that busy road is the hot dogs.

(Lebowski bar is on Laugavegur, this whole neighborhood is great. I remember a record shop and we were gonna buy a Bjork album but then we were like "how will we get this back".)

and also the Saga Museum is down at the harbors, which is kind of gimmicky and tells the story of Iceland BUT you get to put on, like, Chainmail and furs and carry a broadsword the entire time you're in the museum.

We also went to the Perlan Wonders of Iceland museum, which has a "glacier tunnel" you can take pics in (which is kind of like an "ice bar", it's just a very cold hallway they put ice on the walls). IIRC it was good but I wouldnt go too far out of my way, the view from the top was the primary driver.

We stayed out in Selfoss but I wish we'd had more time in the city.

Also - the Blue Lagoon is great, their restaurant LAVA was the best thing we had in Iceland. I've also heard good things about Sky Lagoon in Reykjavik but it's new and so we've never been.

Here's a restaurant rec (sort of! and not in Reykjavik!) - Friðheimar tomato farm. All of the food is veggie and most of it is tomatoes. But they somehow make most of the tomatoes that are eaten by Icelanders and it takes greenhouses with extra CO2 pumped in.

Another half-rec for food - at the Laugervatn Fontana you can do geothermal baking! You'll pack up bread dough in this saran wrap pot, and then take it out to the lake where you dig up yesterday's bread. Then you can eat it (it's kind of weird.)