Not a good time for London’s lovers of Scandinavian cuisine. News of the closure of Islington’s Swedish restaurant, Upper Glas, reaches us just a couple of weeks after we reported the closure of top Danish destination, Lundum’s.

The Islington restaurant’s intriguing first-floor setting – above an antiques market – has always struck us as rather ‘tricky’ from a restaurateur’s point of view, and it’s reported by the Evening Standard’s Food Spy that the closure results from the landlord’s wish to redevelop the entire site.

Formerly called Glas, the establishment had earlier moved from Borough because of the threatened redevelopment of its site there. When we last looked, though, it hadn’t been.