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Icelandic Cuisine · The Nordic Food Savior Has Arrived 🐟
LilaLila
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This place have amazing food however as most comments mention, the customer service is lacking. We sat for 25 minutes and no one had come up and serve us. A caucasian couple who came maybe 10 minutes after us was served first. I’ve read a few comments from non-caucasians experiencing the same thing, so maybe it is a repeated behaviour and staff must be educated regarding this issue. On a much lighter note, the food was extraordinary! We started with the Lobster soup and it was devine. I closed my eyes when i slurping the soup and I can picture a whole lobster partying in my mouth! hahaha! It was amazing! We then ordered the Arctic Char and the Islandic Plokkfish and both were unbelievably good! I hated that my meal was ending! They provide really great portion and the quality of the fishes were just immaculate. We had the chocolate cake for dessert and maybe skip this one as it is quite a meh dish. The pistachio ice cream did not taste and look like a pistachio icecream and you can find better chocolate cake in the grocery store. If by any chance you are craving pistachio ice cream, the ice cream shop inside the Perlan museum has a really really good one! Overall, FOOD WAS INCREDIBLE but customer service was weak. I did noticed that they were understaffed and thought maybe that’s why the service was poor. However as i read through our people’s reviews, it seems like it is the usual service. It is also important to reserve a table! I saw a lot of people come in and get disappointed because the place was fully booked! You can easily book online and it was also easy modifing our reservation time! :)
Charlyn LegaspiCharlyn Legaspi
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We went to this restaurant as a part of our Reykjavik Food Walking Tour. It was a beautiful restaurant with delightful skylights to make the space seem super open. We had the Pan Fried Artic Char Cooked in Honey and Butter. It was very good! The skin was nice and crispy and the meat was tender. It was basically Artic Char cooked in Honey and Butter with Crispy Almonds, Ruccola, Potatoes, and Cherry Tomatoes added for texture and flavor profile complexity. The Lime was available to add a bit of citrus flare to the flavors. Would highly recommend this dish. We also had the Fish Stew (Plokkfiskur) which is basically Cod, mashed-ish Potatoes, Onion, Garlic and cooked in Butter, White Wine with Salt and Pepper and a Bernaise Sauce. This stew is one where I personally didn't mind but it wasn't my favorite because it was more of a mushier texture, which I wasn't a fan of but the flavor was good. We also had Icelandic Rye Bread and butter....the butter was perfectly creamy and the bread is thicker than a normal Rye and tastes more like the consistency of a dense chocolate cake. You will love this as well, so please try it! The staff was super friendly and the ambiance was charming. Overall, I would say this restaurant was amazing and would go back again.
Michelle MatheusMichelle Matheus
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The food is good, but you will find many other places with bigger portions and delicious flavours for this price in this city. The service is a DISASTER. We came 7 minutes before opening hours. They didn't let us in to sit and wait inside. I would add that the small group with a tour guide was let in. I quote "because it is a tour guide". For this amount of $ and class of restaurant you think that a complimentary snack is included - not here. Not even a slice of bread. The worst part was the stuff. 4 waitresses, we were the only customers, you wait 15 minutes until someone will take your order. And you need to wave. We have ordered 1 plaice and 3 wolfishes. We have got 1 frying pan of plaice and 1 bigger frying pan for 3 people with wolfish. They didn't inform us (until paying) that there are options of sizes. You can get separate plates or all-together. The waitress have decided for us... In the menu card there is also nothing about it. We wanted to divide the bill - 3 times, for 3 different waitresses I needed to repeat a list what we have ordered. Don't stick to the prices and menu on the webpage, inside the restaurant you will get higher prices. Lobster soup - I highly recommend to try it f.e. in Hofn. Here is a coloured water with one 1cm fragment of lobster. One more thing. If you look at the kitchen inside, what we have seen at the end, you will see how rusty and black of oil is the owen... no wonder sauce smell like burned butter. We expected good value for this amount of money, but I would never visit this place again. You don't want to enjoy the meal in a place when you have a feeling you disturb stuff with your presence and they NEED TO START WORKING.
Marta KoziołMarta Kozioł
00
The fact that we returned to Messinn, just a day after our first visit tells enough of how much we loved this place! The fish dishes are outstanding - we had the grilled shrimp (very delicious, could maybe be a bit more seasoned/grilled. They come with mushroom-barley side), seafood pasta (also super delicious, mild and the garlic bread that comes with it - perfection). Our two top favorites were the Artic char (amazing! It is with butter, almonds, cherry tomatos, fish perfectly seasoned...) and Atlantic Wolffish (exceptional - the creamy sauce, veggies, the tenderness of the fish...). I am sure anything on their menu is great. The service was super friendly - we would especially like to thank Natalia for her warm approach and great service. Also seeing the kitchen team working with so much skill and joy was another plus for Messinn! The atmosphere and vibe of the place is another thing we loved here - it feels like you are inside of an old ship, very nice decor. Very fair prices and generous portions. A huge recommendation from me! Next time i visit Reykjavik, I will definitelly come here. Especially to try thir Pflofiskurr (for sure i spell it wrong, sorry :D). But it is an Icelandic specialty that was out when we came back so.
Vienna InsiderVienna Insider
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Really glad I choose this place mostly due to the quality of the food. I ordered the lobster soup and the salmon entree and everything was absolutely delicious! The food came out extremely hot and very flavorful. The ONLY problem with this restaurant was the waitress. She was very un attentive. After taking our order and delivering our food, she never checked in with us to see if we needed anything else. When it came to the bill, we waited 10ish minutes for her to give us the bill (we saw her consistently walking past cleaning tables) the lack of awareness would’ve been okay if there was a line of people waiting to be seated; however there was NO one in line and no one came in. After about 20 minutes of waiting for the bill, I approached her and asked for the check which she printed immediately and checked us out. I find is extremely ridiculous that we had to wait almost 30 minutes for the bill. If I didn’t approach her, we probably would’ve waited over an hour.
Shalon JohnsonShalon Johnson
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4.6
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