Wahaca, the Mexican street food brand co-founded by Thomasina Miers and Mark Selby, is to further strengthen its presence in London, after securing a site above Kentish Town tube station, M&C Report understands.

The company, which earlier this confirmed it will open a site in the City near Liverpool Street, has secured the former T-shirt printing factory in Kentish Town Road for an opening later this summer.

The group is also set to open a second D/F Mexico site later this summer in Derwent’s Tottenham Court Walk.

Earlier this week, the group confirmed that it had secured a new site at 1-3 Widegate Street and 112-114 Middlesex Street for an opening later this summer.

This site and the opening in Kentish Town will take its London estate of restaurants under its core brand to 14.

The company, which operates sites in Bluewater and Cardiff, has recently been strengthening its regional openings pipeline.

It has secured sites in Bristol, Manchester and Southampton for openings over the coming two years and is also believed to be in talks on a site in Watford. The Bristol site will open this summer.

Cushman & Wakefield acted on the Kentish Town and Bristol deals.