Your Friend in Reykjavik · Ingolfstorg, old town
The same local company as the traditional tasting tour, but with a guide for your group alone, dinner and drinks included, and pickup from downtown hotels. Pick it for a family, a birthday or anyone who wants to set the pace.
This is the private version of Your Friend in Reykjavik's food tour. Only your group takes part, and the operator offers pickup from hotels within its downtown radius. If you stay further out, you meet the guide outside Hlollabatar on Ingolfstorg square. The tour runs for about three hours and ends back at the meeting point.
Dinner and alcoholic drinks are included. The itinerary lists five stops, among them Baejarins Beztu Pylsur (the hot dog stand) and Kolaportid market. The listing mentions fermented shark and smoked puffin, and guests write about smoked lamb tartare, crowberry jam and the hot dog. Puffin is not everyday Icelandic food, so tell the guide if you'd rather skip it; our Icelandic food guide explains why.
The price, from $236 per person, is the highest on this site. For a couple that's about $90 a head more than the Food Walk. For a family it buys a guide who adjusts to the kids: one guest wrote that the guide "answered all the random questions the kids had".
Pickup from a downtown hotel, or meet outside Hlollabatar on Ingolfstorg. The guide wears a light blue jacket.
A first restaurant in the old centre.
Baejarins Beztu Pylsur.
A quick tasting on the way.
The harbour flea market and its food stalls, then back to the start.
★★★★★The tastings covered a broad range, from the fermented shark that I will never forget to the Icelandic hot dog that turned out to be my favorite thing all day. Every restaurant was expecting us and had things ready [...]
★★★★★We had a very nice variety of traditional Icelandic foods with our guide, Kristin. She would tell us some history of the food and Iceland as we tried each one.
★★★★★Bo made sure the various venues knew it was my wife’s birthday making the tour that much more special. We would definitely recommend the private tour with Bo.
★★★★★Bjarni was informative and answered all the random questions the kids had. Lovely food and got to visit lots of places
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From $236 per person on Viator, with dinner and drinks included. Children 5 to 12 pay less, about $108.
Yes, from hotels inside the operator's downtown radius. Further out, you meet at Ingolfstorg square.
The listing mentions smoked puffin. You can ask to skip it: puffin and whale are not everyday Icelandic food.
Yes, on the operator's own site only: 18,900 ISK per guest plus an 87,500 ISK private fee. See our Food Walk tickets guide.
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