Gullfoss Restaurants

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There are two parking lots by Gullfoss, one down by the waterfall and one by the main road on the hill. Gullfoss Café is up on the hill, just walk up the stairs from the first parking lot. There is a souvenir shop there as well. It is well worth stopping there after visiting the breathtaking waterfall Gullfoss and eating a good traditional Icelandic meat-soup which is their speciality.

It all started back in 1994 when Svavar, the owner of Gullfoss Café, sold Icelandic sweetmeat from a tent by Gullfoss :D He did so for several years until in year 2000 he opened the restaurant and 4 years later he extended it to 300 fm2. It is estimated that half a million tourists visit Gullfoss every year so business is lively and some days he sells tens of liters of soup per day!

Gullfoss Café is open all year round from 9-18 on workdays and 9-19 weekends.

Favorite Dish: Traditional Icelandic meat-soup/broth (Íslensk kjötsúpa). It is yummy, especially to us Icelanders who were raised on this soup. The traditional recipe is: soup-meat, either lamb or mutton, water, chopped onion, swede (turnip), carrots, white cabbage, rice, oat, salt and pepper. This is the traditional recipy but one can make other variations.