Reykjavík, Iceland

The kiosk at Tryggvagata 1, ten paces from Reykjavík's old harbour. Jón Sveinsson opened the first stand on Austurstræti in 1937; it moved two streets north to the current spot in the 1960s and has not moved since. Five square metres, one window, one picnic bench, and the line that has stood there in every weather Iceland can produce. The lamb-pork-beef sausages come from SS — the South Iceland co-op that produces about 80 percent of the country's pylsa — and the stand is what set the standard order across the island: 'eina með öllu', one with everything. Jón's granddaughter Guðrún Björk Kristmundsdóttir ran the business until her death in September 2025; her son Baldur Ingi Halldórsson is now the fourth-generation owner. Bill Clinton ordered one with mustard only in 2004 and the order has been called a 'Clinton' ever since. Anthony Bourdain called it 'good drunk food' on No Reservations. The Guardian named it the best hot-dog stand in Europe in 2006.