13th Meat Soup Day - Reykjavik 2015
Stamp it in your soup passport.
Next edition
The 2026 date isn't out yet
Usually held around late October.
Based on 14 past editions
Event Details
- Date & Time
- Saturday, October 24, 2015
- Location
- Skólavörðustígur, Reykjavík, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Price
- free
About This Event
Kjötsúpudagurinn, the Icelandic Meat Soup Day, began as a neighbourhood idea by two Skólavörðustígur shopkeepers and grew into a street party with chefs, farmers and thousands of visitors. Several restaurants run soup stations along the street, each with its own take on the lamb, root vegetable and rice soup, and the first bowl traditionally goes to the inmates of the old Hegningarhúsið prison. Soup is free and served in the early afternoon until it runs out, which it usually does. Queues are part of the fun, so go at the start.
More About This Event
Organizer
- Samtök kaupmanna á Skólavörðustígnum (Skólavörðustígur merchants' association)
Festival information may be incomplete, out of date or wrong. Always check with the organizer before travelling.
Are you the organizer of this event?
Run this festival? Claim the listing to keep dates, prices and details up to date.
Location
Skólavörðustígur, Reykjavík, Reykjavik, Iceland
The exact map location has not been verified yet. Confirm the venue with the organizer before travelling.
What's on
The 13th Meat Soup Day, organised by the street's merchants' association on the first day of winter, with master chefs from Ostabúðin, Þrír Frakkar, KOL, Café Loki and Sjávargrillið serving at five stations. Bolli Ófeigsson of the Ófeigur goldsmith's said the aim is a good atmosphere in the town centre and getting people to come downtown, and credited the idea to his late father's friend, musician Jóhann G. Jóhannsson, and his father Ófeigur Björnsson. As a tradition, the prisoners of Hegningarhúsið got the first portion the day before. The Facebook event drew 1,300 people marked as going.