Why you should experience Lina Stores Omotesando in Tokyo, Japan.
Lina Stores Omotesando is a stylish Italian restaurant where Aoyama's fashion culture, London Soho heritage, Genovese roots and handmade-pasta craft converge inside the first international outpost of a delicatessen founded in 1944.
Set along a lane just off Aoyama-dori near Omotesando Crossing and just steps from Omotesando Station, the 300-square-meter restaurant and delicatessen occupies the ground floor of Spring Terrace Omotesando with an open theater kitchen, dedicated pasta workshop and street-facing terrace. Pistachio green and white carry the visual character of the original London business through striped awnings, banquettes and counters, giving the Tokyo dining room an immediate connection with Brewer Street. Eighty-six interior seats range across kitchen-counter positions, tables, booths and window seating, joined by 20 terrace places and a private dining room. The result is a polished Aoyama restaurant where London design, visible pasta production and Italian dining unfold within a format created specifically for the brand's first move beyond Britain.
What you should know about Lina Stores Omotesando.
Lina Stores Omotesando is best known for opening on July 30, 2021 as Lina Stores' first Japanese location and first flagship outside Britain, carrying a Soho institution founded by a Genoa-born woman named Lina into Tokyo through Takashimaya subsidiary R.T. Corporation. The original delicatessen opened at 18 Brewer Street in 1944 and became closely connected with Soho's Italian community, selling imported salumi, cheeses and antipasti alongside fresh pasta made on the premises. The rooms above Brewer Street developed a separate cultural history through West End auditions and rehearsals before publisher John Calder occupied them; Samuel Beckett visited Calder there and played his Bechstein piano, and customers downstairs across the decades included Roger Moore, Ava Gardner, Paul McCartney, Tony Curtis, Laurence Olivier and Alec Guinness. Lina Stores remained a delicatessen for more than seven decades before its first dedicated restaurant opened on Greek Street in May 2018, followed by a combined restaurant and deli at King's Cross in November 2019. Head chef Masha Rener guided the culinary program during the Japanese launch, presenting the country's respect for craftsmanship and seasonal ingredients as natural territory for a business built around traditional Italian pasta making. Omotesando opened with an integrated pasta workshop and delicatessen selling fresh pasta, prosciutto, cheeses, panini, dolci and coffee, making the Tokyo flagship a direct descendant of the retail-and-production model that began on Brewer Street 77 years earlier.
Fresh pasta gives the meal its governing rhythm, beginning with dough worked from Italian flour, eggs, water and olive oil before shaping turns the same foundational craft toward ribbons, short forms and filled pasta. Spinach and ricotta ravioli carries one of the oldest Lina Stores combinations into the restaurant, enclosing creamy cheese and greens inside tender pasta before butter, sage or tomato sauce adds richness. Stracciatella ravioli shifts the texture toward the creamy interior of burrata, with tomato and red chile providing acidity and heat against the dairy-rich center. Pappardelle broadens the progression through wide ribbons suited to substantial ragΓΉ, allowing sauce to cling across a larger surface before cannoli returns the table to crisp pastry and sweetened filling. Lina Stores Omotesando makes pasta production the connective element across dinner, carrying a craft practiced at Brewer Street since 1944 through changing shapes, fillings and sauces that reveal why the original delicatessen remained the foundation for the restaurants that followed.
How to fold Lina Stores Omotesando into your trip.
Lina Stores Omotesando works as the dining anchor within an Aoyama route connecting postwar Japanese architecture, contemporary art and one of Tokyo's most influential fashion buildings.
Begin at Spiral, opened in 1985 in a Fumihiko Maki building commissioned by Wacoal, bringing galleries, performance, retail and design together behind a street faΓ§ade whose internal ramp gave the complex its name. Continue to Nezu Museum, founded from industrialist Nezu KaichirΕ's collection and reopened in 2009 through Kengo Kuma's long-roofed museum building, where Japanese and East Asian art meets an expansive garden on the former Nezu residence. Conclude at Prada Aoyama, completed in 2003 by Herzog & de Meuron as a crystalline glass structure whose diamond-shaped faΓ§ade and bulging panes made architecture inseparable from the fashion house's Omotesando presence. Lina Stores Omotesando completes the progression through another international design culture, bringing a London-born Italian institution into the same Aoyama streets shaped by architecture, fashion and craft.
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