Icelandic food culture has evolved from being under influences of European and American food culture to a culture of its own. Access to fresh seafood gives Icelandic chefs unfair advantages when it comes to seafood gourmet.

Restaurants specializing in Icelandic seafood are many and on the menu of almost all quality restaurants is Icelandic seafood. There is nothing that beats newly fished catch correctly prepared and cooked.

The Icelandic salt fish is also a good material for a gourmet meal. Frankly, I have a hard time writing this because my mind slips again and again to the small restaurant in the Westfjords where I got the best pan-fried fresh sole I have ever tasted. The restaurant is only open during summer and is located in 300 year old house that is almost in its original state. Tourists coming to Iceland can buy fast food from famous fast food chains, but a trip to Iceland without having a gourmet fish meal is a mission unaccomplished.