When God closes a door…The recent closures in the Icelandic restaurant scene — Slippurinn, Brút, Nebraska — have been shocking, and I feel for the people trying to make something interesting and decent in the Icelandic restaurant world. “The recent closures in the Icelandic restaurant scene — Slippurinn, Brút, Nebraska — have been shocking, and I feel for the people trying to make something interesting and decent in the Icelandic restaurant world.”But the fact remains: I write for the readers. Icelandic cuisine, already critically endangered, now risks extinction in the wild. If this is all pantomime for tourists, what does that mean for Icelandic restaurant culture and Icelandic cuisine as a whole? When tourists ask me where to get real Icelandic cuisine, I don’t know what to tell them.