Vikings Invade Whole Foods
Matvörur. That’s Icelandic for food, and that’s what you’ll get from today until Sunday if you stop by any of the area Whole Foods Markets from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. or a host of swanky D.C. restaurants in the evenings. In promotion of its annual Food and Fun festival, Icelandic chefs are visiting the shores of the Potomac. DCist is always on the lookout for cheap flights to Reykjavik, but we’re ecstatic it has decided to come to us. We hope its chefs have brought their homeland’s geothermal pools with them.

During the day, the chefs will ply their trade and offer up goodies like free-range (as mandated by the Icelandic government) lamb, North Atlantic seafood, Icelandic dairy, chocolates and something called Skyr -— which appears to be some sort of cheese/yogurt/milk dessert. In the evenings, restaurants such as DC Coast, Vidalia, Galileo, 1789 and Saint-Ex will present Icelandic menus for a more complete taste of what the island nation — and home of the world’s oldest parliament -— has to offer.