Restaurant Kanslarinn

There is an inn attached to the restaurant, where we stayed on our first night in Iceland. The food seemed to be on the expensive side, given our first meal was at IKEA. HOWEVER, I felt it was totally worth it! We tried the shrimp dish and the horse steak fillet, and both are amazing. The shrimp dish comes with 8 shrimps in assorted flavours: coconut, cheese, Cajun, and almond with 2 dipping sauces. The horse steak first looked burnt from the outside, but don't be fooled! The inside is just the right amount of done-ness, very tender and flavourful! I unfortunately sat at a booth facing a small photograph on the wall, of two adorable Icelandic horses... oh why are they so cute and delicious!!! cue Homer Simpson eating pet...

Had the fish and chips which everybody raves about. And it did not disappoint. Beautifully moist pieces of fish in a light crispy batter. Chips were ok. A tad dry, perhaps, but altogether rather good still. But also had their special, which was labeled "Fried slices of lamb with fries and sauce". Now this was an incredible dish. I generally don't like lamb because of the strong gamey taste it tends to have (back where I'm from), but this lamb had absolutely no gamey taste at all. It had a delicious meaty flavor with a perfect char on its surface. Together with the sauce (which I couldn't quite place; was creamy and buttery and satisfying), the combination...

Can’t comment on the food as we only ordered coffee. However, what I would like to say is that the service that we were given here was excellent. We were here in the early morning to get out of the cold and rain, and it seemed that all the restaurant had to offer was the breakfast buffet (which we were not interested in as we had just had breakfast). However, the young waitress attending to us could see that we wanted a hot drink, and offered to make us fresh coffee even though the only coffee available onsite was the filtered coffee at the breakfast buffet. The coffee - we got an Americano and a Latte - was also excellent for...