The "Old Bakary"
The first bakary in Iceland was Bernhöftsbakarí. It was founded in Reykjavík in 1834. I already visited it on my "Reykjavík Food Walk".
The second bakary in Iceland followed in 1868 in Akureyri und the thiord one in 1871 Ísafjörður. This still exists and runs as "gamla bakaríið", literally meaning "the old bakary".
On the square in front of the store, you normally can see this beautiful old car advertising the bakary.
In addition to the salesroom, the bakary has a guest are, where you can sit and have breakfast, drink coffee and eat cake. But we didn't try it.
On one afternoon sduring our stay in Ísafjörður we took a look at the old bakary. Unfortunately we were quite late. Hence the choice of cake was manageable. And the young sales assistant seemed a bit clumsy, when she wrapped up our order. Anyhow, this did not bother us.
We bought following selection: rabarbarasnitta (rhubarb cake), skúffukaka (chocolate cake) and vínarbrauð (Vienna bread, here made with yeast dough).
I can recommend all three kinds of cake. Child no. 2 was deeply impressed by the Vienna bread.
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