London’s beloved provider of pasta and Italian produce, Lina Stores, is going regional. Or so it hopes. The deli and restaurant has been feeding the capital since 1944 and has grown to boast six sites across the city. Now, it’s turning its focus to Manchester.
A new planning application has revealed that Lina Stores has its eyes set on the currently empty ground floor of the Quoin building on Quay Street.
The plans envision a restaurant accompanied by an intimate bar area with ‘provision for a high-quality entertainment use’, likely decked out in Lina’s signature mint-green colour palette. The application also says that the store would open from 7am to 2am Monday to Saturday and 7am to midnight on Sundays and bank holidays.
The store hasn’t been given the go ahead yet. A public consultation is due to happen on August 21 and a decision will be made from there.
If it gets approval, the Manchester site will be the first Lina Stores outpost outside of London. It would join branches of Lina Stores in Marylebone, Clapham, King’s Cross, Bloomberg Arcade, South Kensington, Greek Street in Soho, as well as the chain’s recently opened cocktail bar Bar Lina, below the Brewer Street deli.
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