The neighbourhood-style restaurant will eschew the delicatessen element that has become a hallmark of Lina Stores’s other central London sites, but retain the trademark design combining notes of green with marble tables, Bentwood chairs and aged leather banquettes.
Split over two floors, it will hold 80 covers and serve a menu combining the group’s ‘signature’ antipasti, pasta dishes and dolci.
“We are incredibly excited to bring Lina Stores to Clapham Common this June for our first restaurant south of the river,” says Masha Rener, head chef of Lina Stores.
“With its tight-knit local community, Clapham is the perfect neighbourhood for our first restaurant in south London, and we’re thrilled to welcome patrons old and new to our new home.”
Restaurant reported back in 2021 that Lina Stores was planning to open in Clapham.
At the time it was understood that the group was to take over the premises once home to Robin Gill's The Dairy and Counter Culture restaurants, having put in a license application to Lambeth Council for the sites on 15 and 16 The Pavement.
However, the group subsequently signed for a site further along the street on the corner of The Pavement and Bromell’s Road, on the site previously occupied by seafood restaurant St Clair.
Alongside its daytime menu, the Clapham restaurant will see Lina Stores introduce its first breakfast offering, which will feature slow-roasted porchetta and salsa verde panino; truffle scrambled eggs on toasted sourdough; and maple roasted granola with yoghurt and berries.
Lina Stores started out life as a deli on Brewer Street in Soho back in 1944, and only moved into the restaurant space in 2018 after securing finances from venture capital business White Rabbit Projects and appointing Rener to help develop the menu.
It now operates restaurants in Soho, Kings Cross, the City and Marylebone.
In 2021, the group launched its first overseas location in Tokyo, and now has two restaurants in the Japanese capital.