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Matarkjallarinn

Restaurant in Reykjavík

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Matarkjallarinn

About Matarkjallarinn

A 160-year-old cellar under Aðalstræti, dim, stone-walled, with a piano played live from Thursday to Saturday. The kitchen cooks Icelandic ingredients in a classic register: pan-fried cod with duck-confit croquettes, lamb loin, scallops with cauliflower and hazelnuts, and a chef's tasting menu that changes with what came in. Grapevine's 2025 review called it a safe, atmospheric first-night choice with consistently sharp service, the sort of place where "you're not dining à la carte so much as navigating a culinary Rubik's Cube". Lunch on weekdays, dinner every night.

  • Tasting menu
  • Live music
  • Historic building
  • Fish
  • Icelandic
  • Fine dining
  • Lunch
  • Dinner

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