Southwest London restaurateur Rebecca Mascarenhas is crowdfunding towards the launch next month of a second branch of her Putney restaurant Home SW15 in her home village of Barnes.

Supporters are being asked to ‘buy a brick’ for £100 to be displayed at Home SW13, in return for an invitation to the soft launch in early September. £500 buys a standard yellow brick and a voucher of the same value to spend in the restaurant, while £1,000 buys a ruby red brick and a voucher to spend in either branch. As of Friday, £41,000 had been raised towards the target of £50,000.

No details have yet been announced on the location of the new restaurant, but one likely candidate is the former premises of Annie’s on White Hart Lane, where The Farmer’s Mistress closed recently after less than a year in operation. A number of other venues are also vacant in the area.

Rebecca made her name with Sonny’s Kitchen at the other end of Barnes, which she opened in 1986, living in the flat above; its success earned her the title of ‘queen of neighbourhood restaurants’. After more than 30 years she re-launched Sonny’s as Church Road in 2019 with her business partner the Barnes-based chef Phil Howard.

The pair began their association with the opening of Kitchen W8 in Kensington 15 years ago, and also own high-flying Elystan Street in Chelsea together. Home SW15, an all-day modern European restaurant, is a solo project, and Rebecca also owns the Flour + Water pizzeria in Putney, which started out as a delivery service during lockdown.