Post by kickingfrog on Aug 28, 2013 9:46:13 GMT
Iceland (the country) Report
Posted by Karen on 28/8/2013
GF board
We had a great time in Iceland. The locals are extremely friendly and their English is superb.
Every restaurant that we contacted and/or went to understood about gluten free and could supply several nice gluten free choices. The meat and fish were of superb quality. They mainly do fish, lamb and chicken. You can find websites for many of the restaurants (you often can click on the flag to read it in English) and contact them via email - their English is excellent.
Kaffi Krus in Selfoss cooked our GF pasta for us and was very nice. The Rauda Husid (Red House) in Eyyrarbakki is a lovely lobster restaurant (and other dishes) and was great too. We also went to the Hofnin restaurant by the old harbour in Reyjavik and had a lovely meal.
We were mainly self catering. We took all our own bread and breakfast cereal. The supermarkets had some food that only had Icelandic labels and some food with various languages on the labels. Some brands like Uncle Bens good be found there. There are several supermarkets in Selfoss. We found Bonus to be the best for us. It's by the first roundabout into Selfoss and has a large pink pig on the sign. It had quite a large FreeFrom section and not as expensive as some. Beware that food is very expensive in Iceland and that you can only import 3KG of food per person. (I don't know if there would be an exception for coeliacs). Skyr (a kind of thick yogurt) is GF and is found in all supermarkets and many restaurants (although we thought that £10 per person for a dessert was a bit much so we ate dessert back at the accomodation).
We found Magnums at some of the tourist destinations.
Icelandair was not providing meals and only had snacks for sale so take your own packed lunch for the plane.
Posted by Karen on 28/8/2013
GF board
We had a great time in Iceland. The locals are extremely friendly and their English is superb.
Every restaurant that we contacted and/or went to understood about gluten free and could supply several nice gluten free choices. The meat and fish were of superb quality. They mainly do fish, lamb and chicken. You can find websites for many of the restaurants (you often can click on the flag to read it in English) and contact them via email - their English is excellent.
Kaffi Krus in Selfoss cooked our GF pasta for us and was very nice. The Rauda Husid (Red House) in Eyyrarbakki is a lovely lobster restaurant (and other dishes) and was great too. We also went to the Hofnin restaurant by the old harbour in Reyjavik and had a lovely meal.
We were mainly self catering. We took all our own bread and breakfast cereal. The supermarkets had some food that only had Icelandic labels and some food with various languages on the labels. Some brands like Uncle Bens good be found there. There are several supermarkets in Selfoss. We found Bonus to be the best for us. It's by the first roundabout into Selfoss and has a large pink pig on the sign. It had quite a large FreeFrom section and not as expensive as some. Beware that food is very expensive in Iceland and that you can only import 3KG of food per person. (I don't know if there would be an exception for coeliacs). Skyr (a kind of thick yogurt) is GF and is found in all supermarkets and many restaurants (although we thought that £10 per person for a dessert was a bit much so we ate dessert back at the accomodation).
We found Magnums at some of the tourist destinations.
Icelandair was not providing meals and only had snacks for sale so take your own packed lunch for the plane.