I truly enjoy photographing food. I find it a lot more difficult to edit the photos afterwards. After a relatively short time, I’m usually salivating profusely and my stomach is grumbling loudly. Hardly ever fails. Doesn’t matter if I’ve just eaten a hearty meal.
And that’s exactly what happened when I was editing photos from Systrakaffi, my brother’s restaurant in Kirkjubæjarklaustur, which is on the southern part of Iceland. All I had to do was start editing a photo of a lamb-steak sandwich (I kid you not, you haven’t tasted really good lamb until you’ve had the Icelandic one) with béarnaise sauce and fries. I had eaten one this past summer at Systrakaffi, and man oh man, the memories (and the saliva) came flooding!
But enough about that. Although someone might get the idea that Systrakaffi is a run-of-the-mill small-town restaurant, I’ll tell you right now that it’s not. Sure, they have burgers and pizzas, which makes the place more family oriented (rather important in a village inhabited by about 120 people), but they also have things on their menu which you will not find in many other restaurants. For instance minke whale, among the juiciest steaks you’ll get. And cured wild goose (caught by my brother), similar to carpaccio. And you will also get smoked trout, caught in the Skaftá river. Oh, and I almost forgot the panfried trout and the lamb steak.
They’re open during the summer months, and if you ever travel to Iceland and have the chance to really see the country, Systrakaffi would be on your way from Reykjavík to the Glacier Lagoon (Jökulsárlón). And you would want to stop for a bite.
