A broke boy’s gastronomic odyssey through Akureyri and Mývatn Over the last decade, Iceland has undergone many transformations — but few as striking as the evolution of its culinary landscape. Quality ...

Welcome to The Haul, where we give you a peek into our shopping bag (or the shopping bag of someone far more interesting than us) and an idea of what’s worth browsing and buying in Reykjavík these ...

The Borealis Data Center is a nondescript building next to a horse farm on the outskirts of Blönduós, a town of 800 inhabitants in the north of Iceland. Entering the building, after you make it past ...

The Reykjavík Grapevine's "Best of Reykjavík" sister magazine recognises the very best restaurants, bars, shops, museums, music venues and more.

Mývatn isn’t the biggest lake in Iceland, nor the deepest. But it sits in a stunning, wild-feeling mass of terrain. Crumbling pseudocraters sprout from the land in several directions, glowering over ...

Everyone knows Spotify — the streaming behemoth that revolutionised the world’s listening habits. It’s a convenient, slick app that offers easy access to all kinds of music, with a sophisticated ...

On Friday, July 18, a group of convicted criminals rallied together to found the Shields of Iceland organisation — a collection of vigilantes who claim they are fed up with the lack of government ...

The climate upheaval of the 2020s should not surprise us. Scientists have long warned of accelerating climate change. What is shocking is the pace at which conditions have deteriorated. We have ...

All languages will have a few nonsensical phrases that are used completely seriously, and Icelandic is certainly no exception. We’ve covered these in the past, through a column called “Just Sayings.” ...

Iceland’s Minister of Education and Children’s Affairs, Ásthildur Lóa Þórsdóttir, resigned earlier this year amidst a scandal that made headlines here in Iceland and notably around the entire world.

None of this was supposed to happen. GusGus was just supposed to be a short film, not a band. And even when it became a band, and remained a band, it—in some ways—still felt like more than a band.

In the summer of 2004, a tragic accident happened on Iceland's most popular hiking trail. Ido Keinan passed away after getting trapped in a vicious storm.