24/06/2026
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Plantan Doesn’t Know It’s An Institution
"Just down the street is a small vegan café quietly becoming [an institution], and I don’t think it has the faintest idea that’s what it is.
Plantan sits on the corner of Njálsgata and Barónsstígur, in a building that used to be Kiddabúð, one of the neighbourhood grocers from back when corners still had them. The original door was on the corner. At some point it was bricked over and moved to the side for an office nobody now remembers. When Plantan took the space, they opened the corner back up.
There are two Plantans now: the café on Njálsgata is the anchor; a bístró came later, in early 2025, the bet they made once the corner had taken hold. They did not put it on a busy stretch of the centre. They put it inside the Nordic House, out past Tjörnin overlooking the Vatnsmýri reserve, about the least tourist-trodden address a restaurant could have here."
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