Review of #Dill Restaurant, Reykjavik, #Iceland

First night of the trip to #Reykjavik and i had booked this restaurant a few weeks before i traveled, the menu sounded very interesting and there were some great reviews on line of their offer

Well i have to say this was one of the best meals i have eaten this year (2014), i was lucky enough to sit at the bar counter, where the food is prepared right in front of you, if you go try and get one of the seats at the bar, really worth it

Service was really good with extra wine being poured a few times, attention to detail was very good but it should be for the price Kr 11.900 and Kr 11.900 for the wine. however i think it stacks up against the Michelin restaurants and i don't think it will be long before it is recognized globally.

I was very hungry nothing new there as it had been a long trip to get there so i opted for the whole 7 courses with a glass of wine per course, well it was not all wine some sherry, cider thrown in for good measure too. all dishes were perfect in size and the meal was very cleverly timed and not rushed in any way

I would rate this as a 9/10

The meal starts with 4 small taster courses to be enjoyed with a glass of champagne

Good evening 

01 Saltfish - dirt smoked lamb from Gylfi at Skutustooum and homemade mustard - tasted amazing although small this sets you up for what's coming

02 Fresh cheese - Christmas brew and ginger cake - amazing winter flavours was just like eating Christmas

03 Herring ice cream - pickled onions and rye bread - the absolute best dish of my trip, but then i am a huge herring fan and i have never had it like this before, this one dish should go down in this restaurants history books and always be on the menu

04 Barley pudding - smoked goose heart and burned butter - a real mix of flavours but surprisingly they all work together the goose heart was divine 

A novel was of serving bread that is cooked on site in large wood fired oven

Menu

01 Cod, apples, celeriac and jus from fried cod bones - raw cod had a lot of flavour and the jus / foam was amazing this dish was truly something different

02 Baked catfish, caramelised onions and Dill - again this was a great mix of flavours that all worked so well together who ever thought catfish could be so good

03 Red beets, raw, baked and juiced, cherry vinegar and crowberries - a little vegetarian thrown in, suppose you have to be good sometimes, despite this it did taste really good and was a clever mix of textures

A little crisp taster served mid-meal

04 Soft potatoes, dried auk, pickled onions, mustard seeds and Christmas tree - an extremely posh mashed potato, truly great with the dried auk on top and all those Christmas flavours

05 Salted and smoked pork fillet, crispy pork skin, Christmas spirit and rutabagas - water bath pork produced something amazing really tender falling apart with the simplest of pressure

06 Caramelised potatoes and red cabbage - more vegetarian but this one was almost as good as the herring ice cream but not quite, really clever to think out of the box and create this tempting dish

07 Mandarins, Christmas omnom and salted almonds - just has room for this and thank god it was so light