Gamla Pósthúsið

About Gamla Pósthúsið

In the small Westfjords village of Súðavík, Gamla Pósthúsið goes by a name that means 'the old post office'. The listing carries no cuisine tags, so it is best described plainly as a village eatery rather than pinned to any one style of cooking — and in a corner of Iceland this remote, a dependable place to eat matters more than the label.

The Westfjords reward the effort of getting there but demand planning around where to eat, and Súðavík sits on the coast road just short of Ísafjörður, the region's hub. Distances out here turn a missed meal into a real problem, so this is a place to build deliberately into a Westfjords day — one leg's lunch, or the evening stop before the next.