Lina Stores lines up seventh UK site

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Pasta focused restaurant brand Lina Stores will open its seventh London site this spring.

The group has taken on the former Le Pain Quotidien site on South Kensington’s Exhibition Road to open an all-day restaurant.

The menu will feature an early morning offer espressos and breakfast dishes such as a truffle scrambled eggs with toasted sourdough; followed by a selection of pasta dishes, such as ravioli con burrata; casarecce alla Calabrese; pappardelle with lamb Sausage ragù; and its 30-egg yolk tagliolini with black truffle.

The drinks menu will comprise an all-Italian wine list being as well as selection of Italian aperitivi and cocktails.

The restaurant will have a cocktail bar and an outdoor wraparound terrace for the warmer months.

Lina Stores currently operates five restaurants in the capital - in Soho, King’s Cross, the City, Marylebone, and Clapham as well as delicatessen, which is also in Soho. It also has a restaurant in Japan in Omotesando, Tokyo’s shopping and café hub.

The group recently opened Bar Lina, an aperitivo bar located beneath its Soho deli.