One of Fresno’s most popular restaurants is planning a second location.
Heirloom will open a location in Clovis, the owners confirmed Thursday. The restaurant will be in a yet-to-be built stand-alone building near Herndon and Fowler avenues, just east of the shopping center that’s home to Butterfish, Chipotle and Five Guys.
Heirloom is a “Fresno famous” restaurant at Friant Road at Fresno Street. People often line up outside the eatery waiting to get in, despite not being a full-service restaurant. Customers order at the counter and their food is brought to them.
But the farm-to-table menu is popular, with Heirloom ranking as No. 4 favorite restaurant among Bee readers.
Fans will have to wait for the new location. It hasn’t broken ground yet.
“It’s currently a dirt lot,” noted Brandon Smittcamp, who owns the restaurant with partners Rema and Kevin Koligian, and chef Justin Shannon.
Construction is expected to start in four or five months. They are shooting to open in late 2027 or early 2028, he said.
The partners are also behind other popular Fresno-area restaurants, including Saizon, Butterfish California Poke, Mayd Modern Mediterranean and Otherside Cafe.
Word of a second Heirloom has been circulating in the community for months. But until the deal was finalized, the owners didn’t want to share details.
“We finally have a signed lease on Heirloom, so that is a done deal,” Smittcamp told The Bee on Thursday.
The Clovis Heirloom
The new restaurant will have the same farm-driven menu and counter-style service as the existing location.
Although the menu changes with what’s in season, popular options include the tri-tip, the Santa Maria burger and the mushroom taquitos.
The new restaurant will have a patio. And it will have a walk-up window for online orders like the Fresno location.
Many of the other details are still being worked out in the design process.
But deciding to open Clovis was an easy choice, Rema Koligian said.
“As Clovis grows,” she said, “it was a natural fit to want to serve that community.”
Heirloom is a north Fresno restaurant serving seasonal, local farm-to-table food from one of the best chefs in town.
Diners at Heirloom enjoy lunch under swirling water vapors provided by misters in the restaurant’s patio in this file photo from 2020.
Heirloom’s bacon shrimp fried rice, photographed Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 in Fresno.
Heirloom’s butternut squash agnolotti, photographed Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 in Fresno.