Akureyri food tours are walks through the town centre from the Hof building by the water, two and a half to three hours on foot, and the food is the fare. You eat lunch or dinner as a string of tastings at local places, with a guide who lives here. They run from mid-May to September.
Two and a half hours on foot from the Hof building by the water, with lunch or dinner served as four or five tastings at local places and a local guide. Groups are capped at fifteen. Runs from mid-May to September.
From $140 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Three hours in the centre: about an hour of guided walking and an hour of eating, with food at two restaurants. It meets at the Hof building or at the cruise port, which suits a day off the ship.
From $131 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Five local restaurants in about three hours, tasting free-roaming lamb, fresh fish, Icelandic ice cream, the Icelandic hot dog and Icelandic beer in a small group. It starts at the Hof building and runs mid-May to September.
From $140 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Two and a half hours, lunch or dinner as four or five tastings, and a guide who lives here.
Check availabilityA food tour here is a guided walk with the meal built in. You meet at the Hof Cultural Centre on the harbour, walk the few streets of the centre, and stop at local places to eat a course at each. The longest menu names free-roaming lamb, fresh fish, Icelandic ice cream, the Icelandic hot dog and Icelandic beer, across five restaurants.
They are seasonal. The walks run from mid-May to September, the light months of the year. Outside those months there is no food tour to book, and the town’s own restaurants are the way to eat.
The fare is the food. Come hungry and you will not need lunch or dinner that day, which makes the price easier to read than it first looks.
Every walk comes with a local guide, who tells you what you are eating and why the town eats it. You also learn your way round the centre on foot.
Every walk begins at the Hof building on the water, where the whale boats tie up. Sail in the morning, eat in the afternoon, and never need a car.
The walk with four or five tastings caps its group at fifteen, and another is sold as a small-group walk.
You can eat well in Akureyri without a guide. Here is what the tour adds and what it does not.
| A food tour | Eating out on your own | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | $131 to $140 a person | Your own bill |
| How many places | Two to five, in one walk | Usually one |
| What you eat | Chosen for you: lamb, fish, ice cream, the hot dog | Your choice |
| A guide | Yes, a local one | No |
| When | Mid-May to September | All year |
| Time | 2.5 to 3 hours | As long as you like |
If you want to taste the local things in one go and learn the town at the same time, take the tour. If you already know what you like, or you are here outside the season, eat on your own: the paid doors and the free sights of the centre are on things to do in Akureyri.
What you get: the guide and the food. The shortest walk serves lunch or dinner as tastings at local places. The middle one gives you about an hour of walking and an hour of eating, with food at two restaurants. The longest visits five restaurants and includes beer with the tastings.
What you don’t get: transport, because you need none; every walk starts and ends in the centre. None of the listings names an extra you must pay on the day. If you have a dietary need, ask the operator before you book, since the menus are set by the places you visit.
Season. Mid-May to September. Book the date before you travel, because outside it there is nothing to book.
Price and time. From $131 to $140 a person, for two and a half to three hours.
Where it starts. The Hof building on the harbour, at Strandgata 12, where the tourist desk is. The walk with two restaurants also meets at the cruise port, which suits a ship day. Both are on the Akureyri map.
Pairing. A food walk fits round a morning whale sailing from the same harbour, or an evening at the lagoon. How the pieces fit together is in Akureyri tours compared.
Three hours, food at two restaurants, and a meeting point at the cruise port as well as the harbour.
Check availabilityNext: See how a walk fits a whole day in Akureyri tours compared, or plan a ship day in a cruise day in Akureyri. Every tour sits side by side on Akureyri Iceland Tours.