Tjöruhúsið is an Icelandic seafood restaurant in
Ísafjörður, Iceland. Located in a house by the same name in
Neðstikaupstaður, the oldest cluster of houses in Iceland, it was originally operated as a
coffee shop during the summer months. In 2004, Magnús Hauksson took over the business at the behest of the town council and soon started to offer seafood menu and increased the opening time from
easter
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to October.
Visitors
In 2010, Tjöruhúsið was visited by British
celebrity chef
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Heston Blumenthal
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and in 2021 by Russian billionaire
Andrey Melnichenko.
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Ísafjörður
Restaurants in Iceland