Ecstasy Heart Garden - Vegan
Ecstasy Heart Garden - Vegan
Situated on Klapparstígur in the heart of the city centre, our little cafe offers tasty vegetarian and vegan dishes and treats.
Review
As a vegan in travelling to Iceland, you’ll find your options few and far between. This amazing little cafe has a set menu on a week by week basis and the food is 90% vegan. I think I saw one day out of 7 where there wasn’t a vegan main meal. Today, we had eggplant/aubergine curry with rice and lettuce. Absolutely perfect. We finished with a vegan snickers dessert which was amazing. I’ll definitely be paying them another visit while I’m here.
Review
Finding a good vegetarian restaurant in a country as carnivorous as Iceland can be a daunting task. Imagine our delight, then, when our Lonely Planet guidebook steered us to Cafe Gardurinn, near the heart of Reykjavik. Upon entering, a number of things seemed oddly familiar–the sky blue walls, the soft, barely audible music, the posters in the window for meditation classes.
When we noticed “Neatloaf” on the menu, we put it all together. “Meatloaf” has long been our favourite menu item at Jyoti Bihanga, a very nice vegetarian restaurant run by followers of the late Sri Chinmoy in our home city of San Diego.
It turns out that Cafe Gardurinn in Reykjavik is also run by followers of Sri Chinmoy, a couple of whom spent time at the San Diego site and brought the Meatloaf recipe with them! Small world . . . Needless to say, if you like Jyoti Bihanga in San Diego, you’ll love Cafe Gardurinn in Reykjavik–same polite service, same reasonable prices, and some delicious, homemade food. If you are there on a day when the Meatloaf is on the menu, be sure to order it!