THE RESTAURANTS
Here you will find information about the restaurants that offer products from the area on their menu. What would you like to taste?
Fresh food and experience
A family-run restaurant that offers variety of fresh food from quality ingredients directly from the farm or from the local area. Smoked meat, home-made cheeses, sausages, smoked trout or meat from the farm are a must try on the menu.
Look at the cows through the window over a good cup of coffee and a homemade slice of cake with whipped cream!
Vogafjós
Kiðagil has been using local foods in its cuisine for years. Wild trout from Lake Svartárvatn and herb-spiced lamb from Bárðardalur valley along with smoked trout are popular dishes on the menu. Icelandic vegetables from Hveravellir, homemade jams and homemade bread.
In Kiðagil, you can taste the local grass ale!
CLOSED during vinter.
Kiðagil
Have you tasted grass ale?
A great selection of family-friendly choices, including original Icelandic meat soup. The burger meat is from Vallakot Farm in Reykjadalur. During summer they serve fresh char from Lake Vestmannsvatn.
Delicious pizzas baked from scratch according to the house recipe.
Dalakofinn
Meat straight from the farm
Daddi's pizza is a small, family-run pizza place by lake Mývatn. Fresh ingredients from the area are used whenever possible, which results in exceptionally delicious pies. Have you ever tasted pizza with smoked trout, pine nuts and cream cheese?
Daddi's Pizza
Pizza with a local twist
The ice cream is handmade by Auður Filippusdóttir at Skútustaðir farm. She uses milk directly from the farm at Skútustaðir as well as quality ingredients from Italy. The ice cream shop opened in 2019 and has been very successful. 15 delicious flavors, which one do you like the most?
Skúta-ís on facebook
Skúta-ís
Ice cream from dairy farm Skútustaðir
Guests of the Nature Baths can sit down before or after the bath and enjoy light meals. Soup of the day along with freshly baked bread, freshly made sandwiches, fresh salad and local rye bread with smoked trout.
Kaffi Kvika
Light meals, always rye bread and smoked trout!
A modern restaurant with an emphasis on quality ingredients from the local area. Enjoy food and drinks in a comfortable atmosphere.
Breakfast, drinks and dinner are served at Mylla Restaurant along some bar snacks.
Mylla Restaurant
Local ingredients
Lamb and goat meat from Kálfaströnd farm. Beef from good neighbors in Gautlönd farm and wild trout from Lake Vestmannsvatn and Haukamýri. A varied menu made from premium ingredients with a unique view of Mývatn and surroundings. Meat soup and freshly baked bread every day.
Kaffi Borgir
Authentic Icelandic meat soup
At Fosshótel Mývatn you can find a great restaurant where the cuisine is characterized by Icelandic quality ingredients from the region.The large windows of the restaurant offer a unique view of Lake Mývatn and its surroundings.
Fosshótel Mývatn
A culinary experience with a view
A family-run place that seeks to create a homely atmosphere and connection to the surroundings. Variety of food is served such as trout and lamb from the region, ice cream from Skútaís and geysir bread with smoked trout from Skútustaðir Smoke House.
Famous crispy sourdough pizzas straight from the oven, burgers and light dishes as well as a fun children's menu.
Bistro-Sel
Skútustaðir
In Möðrudalur valley, emphasis is on good ingredients and the mainstay of the menu comes directly from the farm itself or from the surrounding area. During evening, lamb steaks, ham, trout, mountain grass milk, rhubarb pie and much more are served.
During the day, you can have meat soup with home-baked mountain grass bread or the world's best "happy marriage" cake, "love balls" and donuts with a cup of coffee.
Homemade and traditional
Fjallakaffi
At Eldey, quality and freshness are paramount and the emphasis is on cooking from top quality ingredients from nearby farmers.
The trout comes from Húsavík and the meat from the farms of Northeast Iceland.
Vegetables and fruits come from geothermal greenhouses in Hveravellir and Vallarnes in East Iceland, which is organically grown.
Eldey Restaurant
An evening to remember
Lamb meat from Stöng farm and unique pan-fried trout from the region. Fresh vegetables are grown at Stöng farm and Hveravellir.
Enjoy the food with a view of the beautiful countryside.
Meat and vegetables from own farm
Stöng
Goðafoss Café is a cozy café with a spectacular view.
Enjoy dining while watching one of the country's most magnificent waterfalls, Goðafoss.
Geysir bread with smoked trout from Svartárkot, the innermost farm in Bárðardalur Valley, always strikes a chord!
Café with a view
Goðafoss Café
Gamli Bærinn is as close as it gets to a country Tavern and is located next to Icelandair Hotel Mývatn. Pub style meals in a cozy environment.
Real icelandic countrypub