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Old Iceland Restaurant's specialities include the meat soups that are the stuff of Vikings, but its dessert selection is equally enticing, putting an Icelandic spin on European sweets - try the rhubarb cake with skyr cream, creme brulee with wild bilberries, and affogato with Bjork birch liqueur, washed down with coffee spiked with Brennivin 'black death' schnapps.

Cafe Loki is one of Reykjavik's most convenient venues for tasting hakarl, Iceland's infamous dish of fermented shark; it has the potent flavour of ammonia but is surely edible, chased with a shot of Brennivin, a local schnapps nicknamed Black Death. End on a sweet, palate-cleansing note with a cake layered with skyr, Iceland's version of yogurt. This post first appeared on eatdrinkkl.com

Reykjavik's favourite grill specialist does great work with domestic meat, prepared through recipes that complement classical breeding and hunting with contemporary cooking - horse tenderloin steaks, smoked puffin with pickled blueberries, as well as chicken and pork ribs from local Icelandic farms.