Our introduction into the bar scene here in Reykjavik was a spot called Kaffibarinn. Bjork and members of Sigur ros are known frequenters, and cameras are prohibited. A woman at the bar somewhat gracefully slid out of her seat, and crawled towards the door before a guy she was with tried to help her up, to which she reacted in a sloppily belligerent sort of way. It was 11:30pm and most of the rest of the bar was sober. Partying here starts at midnight the earliest, and goes until bars close on the weekends, 6am. Icelanders are definitely loud and rowdy when they party, which is funny because normally they are pretty quiet and keep to themselves. It was a really good night out, lots of drinking, some dancing, many bars that even now it is hard to keep straight. From the bars we've been to so far we liked Kaffibarinn, Prikid, Bakkus. Olstofa has a special beer and a casual meet up with friends to chat happy hour atmosphere. Vegamot is more of a club, so is Oliver, but we haven't spent much time there. b5 is the big retail windowed dance club where all the college kids hang out (20-25). No covers anywhere makes it one of my favorite cities to go out in. Drinks are sort of expensive, but it's not outrageous.
Kaffibarinn does a promotion on Wednesday nights, where wine is 600ISK, and they have free bread, cheese, spreads and meats. I accidentally ate smoked horse, which was weird, not my favorite.
I'm proud that I've managed to stay out as long as I did, on the nights we've been out it is so bizarre stepping out of these dark bars into the daylight at 5 in the morning. Summers in Reykjavik are amazing. I'm usually pretty good at guessing the time, but the nearly 24 daylight here totally throws me off.
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