Reykjavik Food Tour Stops — What You Eat on Each Walk
Reykjavik food tour stops are downtown restaurants, cafés and bakeries that most operators don't name; they list the food instead. The widest named menu is Secret Food Tours.
Which tour serves…
Hot dog — named on 2 tours
- Key takeaways
- Operators name dishes, not venues; only Wake Up publishes a stop count (5).
- The hot dog and lamb soup appear on two walks each.
- Fermented shark is optional, only on the Food Lovers Tour.
- Rye-bread ice cream ends the CityWalk tour at Hallgrímskirkja.
- Start points are all within about 1.5 km downtown.
Reykjavik Food Tour Stops by Tour
Tick = named on the tour page; blank = not mentioned (it may still appear). The column you picked above is highlighted.
Wake Up's page also names lamb among its dishes. Source · date: highlights and descriptions on each GetYourGuide tour page, Oct 2026.
Reykjavik Food Tour Itinerary and Stops — a Typical 3-Hour Walk
The two walks that publish their route both run harbor or church to the shopping streets and back.
CityWalk
★4.84 · 28 · from €120- 1Old Harbor Houseoptional pre-drink
- 2Streets of the centertraditional classics and modern fish
- 3Hallgrímskirkjarye-bread ice cream in front of the church
Secret Food Tours
★4.79 · 23 · from €132- 1Kleinanear Hallgrímskirkja
- 2Rainbow Street and Laugavegurjams, chocolates, dried fish
- 3The hot dog
- 4Seafood soup
- 5Viking plattersmoked lamb and lamb soup
- 6Marriage Cake and the secret dishIcelandic Marriage Cake
The other walks don't publish an order of stops.
Traditional Icelandic Food at Reykjavik Food Tour Stops
Pylsa
noun · the hot dogA lamb-based blend with raw and crispy onion, sweet mustard, ketchup and remoulade. Bæjarins Beztu Pylsur has sold them since 1937, and Bill Clinton's mustard-only order in 2004 is known as "The Clinton".
Hákarl
noun · fermented sharkGreenland shark, poisonous when fresh, fermented for weeks and hung to dry for months; small cubes, traditionally with Brennivín.
Rúgbrauð
noun · rye breadDense and sweet; the hot-spring version is baked in the ground at Laugarvatn for about 24 hours.
Laufabrauð
noun · leaf breadPaper-thin Christmas bread, cut into patterns and fried — on the Christmas walks.
Kleina
noun · fried pastryA deep-fried, doughnut-like Icelandic pastry — first stop of Secret Food Tours and usually of Sweet Tooth.
Source · date: Guide to Iceland, Chowhound, Wikipedia, The Daily Meal, Afar, The Reykjavík Grapevine — checked Oct 2026.
Where Reykjavik Food Tours Start — the First Stops
Reykjavik Self Guided Food Tour Stops — a DIY Route
You can eat the classics on your own in an afternoon; what you lose is the guide's stories and the booked tables.
- 1A hot dog at Bæjarins Beztu Pylsurby the harbor
- 2Lamb soup or seafood soupat a downtown restaurant
- 3Kleina or a cinnamon bunat a bakery on or near Laugavegur
- 4Ice cream or Icelandic chocolateon the shopping streets
- 5Finish at Hallgrímskirkja
Prices vary by venue, so we don't estimate a DIY total.
The Wake Up Food Walk covers 5 eateries in 3 hours, ★4.92 from 2,109 reviews.
Check Wake Up dates · €131Book a Reykjavik Food Tour With the Stops Planned
Reykjavik Food Tour Stops FAQ
Answers come from the tour pages on GetYourGuide, checked Oct 2026.
See what each price level buys →Wake Up lists 5 eateries in 3 hours; the other operators don't publish a stop count, but a 3-hour walk usually means several tastings at different places.
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