Sweet and sour: December 2015

Sweet and sour

Enjoying food in good company and beautiful surroundings is often made out as a given thing when dining out.
I am exploring what makes the experience.
What I search for is the taste of fresh ingredients, aroma that gets the juces flowing and a plate for the eye.
The location and staff with a passion help create the experience.
Leaving with a smile and longing to visit again is the key.

After rain and shine, good and bad, sweet and sour I cant but invite you to follow my journey on dining out in Reykjavík and maby even venturing out of the city into the smaller towns in Iceland.

Bring on the adventure!
Saja

Að njóta matar í góðum félagsskap og fallegu umhverfi er oft sett fram sem sjálfsagður hlutur þegar farið er út að borða. Ég velti fyrir mér hvað það er sem gerir upplifunina góða og hversvegna ég fer stundum af veitingahúsum full vonbrigða. Það sem ég sækist eftir er bragð af fersku hráefni, ilmandi mat sem fær munnvatnið til að renna, framreitt á fallegan hátt. Kurteist og skilvirkt þjónustufólk og umvefjandi umhverfi sem sýnir ástríðu þess starfsfólks sem rekur og starfar á staðnum.
Að borga brosandi og hlakka til að koma aftur er góðs viti.
Eftir skin og skúri, vont og gott, súrt og sætt get ég ekki orða bundist og verð að leyfa ykkur að vera með!

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Snaps Bistro

My hungry family arrived at Snaps Bistro on a snowy day joining the late lunchers. The lively and foiliaged dining area could be situated in any European city. Unformal waiters seat us in the otherwise full bustly restaurant.

We order a ceasar salad, club sandwich, a duck salad and refreshing icelandic water. The food arrives on big white plates nicely arranged and is placed by our cloth napkin and old style cutlery. The duck salad definitely the most exotic with pomegranate seeds, charred pears, sweet potato cubes and a warm fresh figue. A beautiful and tasty salad, so was the cesare salad with fresh romain leaves a well sized piece of roast chicken and delicious cheasy dressing topped with long flakes of parmigano. Big chunky club sandwich with fresh tomatoes and rich egg and bacon salad in toast and a huge pile of crisp french fries. A meal fit for a hungry viking any day! Two cups of coffe and dark chocolates filled with salty liquorice and soft caramel round off our meal gently.
The waiters were friendly and welcoming bringing delicious newly baked bread with butter for our baby. I cant wait to visit Snaps again for a casual “grown up´s only” time at the bar with a glass of wine or cocktail. We had a festive meal with loads of cozy atmo at Snaps today, just finishing off the year nicely.

4 stars for a warm atmosphere and food that tasted as good as it looked.

www.snaps.is

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

GLÓ - Fákafen

Lunch date in the biggest Gló restaurant in Reykjavík owned by veggie guru Solla Eiríks.
On offer was fastfood streetstyle were you design your own bowl of salad from a variaton of ingredients.
So what I chose was some green lettuce and quinoa, mixed root veggies and beetroot, some chicken and a cashew dressing with a topping of coconut flakes, chilly and cranberries.
Drinking pink rhubarb soda from the bottle was fresh and sparkly.

Digging in was fun, bringing out the colourful beetroot. Beets and chicken with the spicy chashew dressing tasted good and the coconut chilly topping really made the bowl tasty. What I missed was some fresh green herbs that make a plate come alive. But a nice luch I can reccomend.

The counter at Gló looked interesting and appertizing but the dining area was a little bare.

For a light lunch or afternoon snack I can give the "Bowl" at Gló *** stars!

www.glo.is