The Food & Fun Festival 2015

The Food & Fun Festival is an event that combines outstanding culinary skills, fresh natural ingredients, Icelandic outdoor adventure and the world-famous Reykjavik nightlife to create the ultimate recipe for fun.

The Food & Fun Festival is an event that combines outstanding culinary skills, fresh natural ingredients, Icelandic outdoor adventure and the world-famous Reykjavik nightlife to create the ultimate recipe for fun.

The core element of the festival involves world renowned chefs who collaborate with Reykjavik's best restaurants. Each chef is assigned to one of the participating restaurants, where they prepare a special menu made out of Icelandic ingredients only. The menu is presented at all the restaurants for an entire week. In addition, the chefs themselves are on site for the three nights during the festival week.

The second element of the festival is the chef competition, which takes place on the last day of the festival. The chefs compete by making three courses, made out of Icelandic ingredients only. The competition is unique because all the chefs possess exceptional culinary skills, but have not worked with Icelandic ingredients before.

The chefs come from all over the world but mainly from America, Europe and Scandinavia and one of them will be crowned the "Food & Fun Chef of the Year" which is an honour that has become very respected in the culinary world since the famous Rene Redzepi, owner of Noma Restaurant in Copenhagen, won the award back in 2004.

The festival plays an important role in introducing and promoting Icelandic ingredients to foreign chefs, media and tourists. The festival has had substantial coverage in the foreign media during the years and over 200 foreign journalists and reporters have visited Food & Fun from the beginning. The respected National Geographic magazine chose the festival as one of the best culinary festivals in the world for the year 2011 and other global food magazines like US Food & Wine, the French Les Echos, Danish Gastro Magazine and the Spanish Canibales Magazine have all visited the festival.

The festival is sponsored by its co-founder Icelandair, The City of Reykjavik and Iceland Naturally, which is a cooperative marketing organization of top Iceland brands that promotes the tourism, services, products and culture of Iceland to the North American audience.

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