So over the weekend I was in Chicago at the Chicago Zine Fest. I was out for dinner with my friend K. and we decided that a future venture would be to open a Tiki bar + café in ReykjavÃk, Iceland.
The bar would be named Rumaki after the psudo-polynesian 1950’s party food which is traditionally made by wrapping bacon around water chestnuts and chicken livers
and marinated in a soy sauce + brown sugar mixture.
Food at Rumaki/ReykjavÃk
Of course rumaki will be on the menu, but with an Icelandic twist of using reindeer bacon. Additional small plates will include Buffalo puffin wings, lamb sliders, a variety of pickles, and shark fin fritters.
Drink at Rumaki/ReykjavÃc
A wide variety of traditional and not-so-traditional tike drinks and full bar service will be available.
The traditional volcano bowl gets updated with a mix of crowberry juice and Brennivin, then there’s the Sufferin’ Bjork, the Sigur Ros Sling, and the Blue Siglufjörour.
From all of us at Rumaki/ReykjavÃc I say
“Velkominn, vinur minn, við skulum fá sér à glas og fara brimbrettabrun!”