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Reykjavik Food Walk: Explore Local Cuisine and City History
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Reykjavík
Embark on a mouthwatering journey through Reykjavik, tasting the best local cuisines and uncovering the city’s history. Join our food walk and indulge in authentic Icelandic dishes!
Embark on a mouthwatering journey through Reykjavik, tasting the best local cuisines and uncovering the city’s history. Join our food walk and indulge in authentic Icelandic dishes!
Duration:
3 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
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Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre - In our walking food, city & history tour, we explore all our favourite local highlights of Reykjavik. Our tour’s meeting location is the beautiful Harpa concert hall.
It’s ideal to arrive early and explore the building before the tour begins :) - Arnarholl Statue - In our walking food, city &…
- Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre - In our walking food, city & history tour, we explore all our favourite local highlights of Reykjavik. Our tour’s meeting location is the beautiful Harpa concert hall.
It’s ideal to arrive early and explore the building before the tour begins :)
- Arnarholl Statue - In our walking food, city & history tour, we explore all our favourite local highlights of Reykjavik. Among other places, we will walk on Arnarhóll hill and see the statue of Ingólfur Arnarson - the first settler of Iceland!
- Laugavegur - In our walking food, city & history tour, we explore all our favourite local highlights of Reykjavik. Among other places, we will stroll around both Laugavegur & Skólavörðustígur, the main shopping/dining streets in Reykjavik.
- Hallgrimskirkja - In our walking food, city & history tour, we explore all our favourite local highlights of Reykjavik. Among other places, we will walk by, explore and talk about Hallgrímskirkja church. One of Reykjavik’s most amazing landmarks.
- The Reykjavik Food Walk - Admission is free
What's Included
- Visit 4-6 local establishments from food trucks to fine dining restaurants
- 3 hour walking tour with a local guide
- Taste 8+ amazing & authentic Icelandic cuisine
- Visit 4-6 local establishments from food trucks to fine dining restaurants
- 3 hour walking tour with a local guide
- Taste 8+ amazing & authentic Icelandic cuisine
Additional Information
Explore Reykjavik’s culture, history, and local food scene.
Embark on Iceland’s most satisfying culinary journey, where we take you through the heart of Reykjavik whilst indulging in the country’s delicious and unique foods that you wouldn’t typically find on typical Icelandic itineraries! Let our entertaining and educated guide take you around the city…
Explore Reykjavik’s culture, history, and local food scene.
Embark on Iceland’s most satisfying culinary journey, where we take you through the heart of Reykjavik whilst indulging in the country’s delicious and unique foods that you wouldn’t typically find on typical Icelandic itineraries! Let our entertaining and educated guide take you around the city to 5-6 fantastic local eateries.
On our tours, you will have the opportunity to savor Iceland’s finest local dishes in every season, such as the succulent Icelandic lamb, homemade Icelandic ice cream produced from a confidential family formula, a genuine daily catch, a hot dog from the infamous Icelandic hot dog kiosk, and a lot more!
If you wish to experience Reykjavik, Icelandic customs, exotic cuisine, local dining spots, and meet new people, our Reykjavik Food Walk is a must-attend. Remember to come with an empty stomach!
- Got any food allergies or dietary needs? Don’t worry — we can accommodate almost everything! Just send us a quick message and we’ll make sure you’re taken care of.
Location
Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre
Austurbakki
We'll meet by the main entrance of Harpa Concert Hall. The guide will either be waiting inside the lobby or just outside, wearing a blue backpack! We look forward to seeing you there!
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Davidmr3960sq
Oct 27, 2025
Fun, tasty, entertaining, sometimes manic way to be introduced to Reykjavik & local food. Do it! - What a fun night led by Dave, whose manic, bubbly personality, sometimes dry humour and always enthusiastic style led a friendly actively participating group of people around some of the local eateries and bars of Reykjavik. We didn't even notice the initial blustery winds and rain as we launched straight into an entertaining tour eating mostly tasty foods (yep the Fermented Shark was one of those things you had to try - but lets not kid ourselves - NOT tasty guys. Thank goodness for the Brennivín -Burning wine shot to wash it down with!) Still trying to perfect that Viking noise though Dave! GGrrrr! This is the second time we've done the tour - both times great and while last time I enjoyed it, Paula was unwell on a stopover (unrelated to the Food tour) and couldn't enjoy it despite the her best efforts - so when we came back on another three week tour of the Ring Road and we did the food tour again and had a blast. Thank you Jenny for the first time and thank you Dave this time. Full Viking! 😁😉 .... and yes we know you do the Shark to %^&@ with the tourists - good one guys 🤣. Skoll!
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Realtravelprof
Oct 19, 2025
Fun and Delicious - This was a great tour. We did an early tour, starting at 10.30, and as other reviewers recommended, came hungry (we skipped breakfast). We started out at BakaBaka with tea/coffee and different pastries. We than went to Messinn where we enjoyed two fish dishes (panfried arctic char and Plokkfiskur) - both were wonderful. Next was Bæjarins Beztu Pylsur for the famous Icelandic hot dogs. At Íslenski Barinn we had lamb soup and for those who wanted, fermented shark. The tour ended with rye bread ice cream and tea/coffee at Café Loki. Rye bread ice cream sounds strange perhaps, if you have never had it, but it tasted good and the flavor was less strong then I had imagined (just Google it). The food we had at the different places was very good, I enjoyed it very much. There was also plenty of it. What I really liked is that we got to taste many different typical Icelandic dishes in a single tour. Your tour may go to different place and enjoy different dishes, but I am confident the food will be very good and interesting, and you will sample some typical dishes. Apart from the food, we has a great tour guide (Tómas Howser) who was very friendly, knew a lot about Iceland and seemed to enjoy being our guide. He provided information about the food we ate and on the way from one restaurant to another pointed our some famous buildings and landmarks in Reykjavik. He also had some great tips about places to visit in Iceland. Finally, we had a fun, friendly group of people from different countries. We do not typically do organized tours while on vacation, but I am glad we did.
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Nicole_d
Oct 4, 2025
Best food tour - We had the best time on this tour! Our guide Minty was fantastic and taught us a lot about Icelandic cuisine. We got to go to 5 different locations around the downtown area and try lots of traditional Icelandic cuisine. Wonderful tour if you are an adventurous eater!
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Amy
Sep 19, 2025
A fun dinner tour with “Day” - “Day” was a great tour guide! He gave us some history while walking around the city. The food was great and I would recommend it to everyone!
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Global47679448072
Aug 22, 2025
Reykjavík Food Walk - I’ve been to Iceland a few times, but had never visited most of the places featured in the tour. What an incredible collection of foods and restaurants. My trip was made better for it. Lenny was an excellent guide. I recommend this for anyone!
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Drews456
Aug 15, 2025
Lenny was amazing! - Had a food tour today and our host Lenny did an amazing job. He not only took us around to have delicious food at restaurants we wouldn’t have tried on our own, but also explained the history and context of each dish. He also explained different historical context of some buildings on our walk. Everything was set up when we arrived at each location. We simply sat down and enjoyed food, chatted, and went to the next location. Very smooth and fun experience. Highly recommend
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Neishtravels
Jul 10, 2025
Must do! - Our guide ‘Love’ was truly passionate about her town and the food. 4 great stops and thankfully saved the hotdog stop for another time. Which was welcoming as couldn’t have fit it in 😁 Highly recommend this tour.
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Msapo
Jun 29, 2025
Fantastic!!! - Great time on the Reykjavik food tour with our guide Tomás! He is extremely knowledgeable of the area (as a local), and was great to talk to and ask questions. This was the first food tour my family has done and we thought it was fantastic. Our 9 year old really enjoyed it. All of the stops were awesome, with different foods, and tasty! Enjoyed the group and meeting other travelers. 10 out of 10 stars!
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Brian_h
Jun 20, 2025
Great Experience - Dave was a fantastic tour guide. He was very funny and knowledgeable and waited for the slower members. The places we visited all had very good food offerings. A real taste of Reykjavik.
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Megan
Jun 29, 2025
Too long - We landed at 6am and went to the blue lagoon and then the food tour. By then we were all super hungry and tired. The guide was great, very friendly and informative. But we all left hungry. The portions for the food were so small. And the tour easily could have been 2 hours, not 3. It seemed to drag on. I would not suggest this tour going off of no sleep and an empty stomach.
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