Downtown Reykjavík is a treasure trove of eclectic restaurants. From fine dining to street food, the pride of Iceland’s fare is the freshness and purity of its ingredients. The cold seas of the north and the island’s vast stretches of sweet grasslands provide Icelanders with some of the world’s highest-grade seafood, meat and dairy. Top chefs around the world import Icelandic lamb, lobster, whitefish, butter and skyr (an Icelandic dairy original), the same items the locals keep in their fridge at home. Make sure to sample the local fare and if you’ve got an iron stomach, finish it off with a bite of putrid shark and wash it down with a shot of brennivín, loving dubbed “bottled black death” by the locals.