Since the country is an island nation and the island is located in the North Atlantic Ocean, Iceland's national cuisine is rich in all sorts of seafood: cod, shark, halibut, salmon, shrimp, scallops and other wildlife.
Smoked salmon with rye bread, pickled herring, whale steak, sea lion meat are almost universally offered. From fish dishes you should try hakarl. It is made of shark meat, which has been languishing in the ground for about two months. The earth in these parts is hot, thanks to geysers, so it makes a great oven.
Traditional dishes of Reykjavik are also prepared from meat, in which special preference is given to lamb. The main delicacy, by the way, is hrutspungur, a dish of marinated compressed ram's testicles.
The Icelanders' volcanic bread is especially delicious. The dough is placed in a special metal container and lowered into the ground for a day. After that, they take out the already baked loaf. As a dessert, you should try skyr, a dairy dish with fruit, ice cream, jam, berries, and whipped cream.
Icelanders mostly drink coffee. A guest at a cafe or restaurant only needs to pay for one cup of coffee, and all subsequent cups are served free of charge. The most popular alcoholic drink is the national drink made from cumin-flavored potatoes, brennivin. Spirits in the country are quite expensive, although there is a wide choice.
