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A first look at Burro, Covent Garden

Trullo’s Conor Gadd has taken over one of the former Petersham Nurseries sites in Covent Garden. It’s one of many new Italian restaurants in the capital. But would you take an Italian visitor, asks CODE founder Adam Hyman.

Good Food Guide

10 Questions with Hunan’s Michael Peng

The wine-loving owner of Hunan in Pimlico, one of London’s longest established restaurants, on green peppers, ‘LSE rice’ and the right way to run around Richmond Park. CODE members get 30% foof at Hunan on the CODE app.

CODE

Only a fool would sell the Drapers

Nick Gibson, landlord of the Drapers Arms in Islington, has quietly launched a Substack. Reasons to be cheerful may be thin on the ground, but this post is a timely reminder of why many choose choose the highs and lows of the hospitality over any other sector. “It’s a noble pursuit to put yourself in the service of other people’s special moments and the rewards are difficult to overstate.”

Substack

“What normal ought to be”: William Sitwell reviews Tiella, London

Behind the paywall, Telegraph critic William Sitwell swims against the tide in declaring Dara Klein’s Tiella not the launch of the year after all. “In fact, I found it to be simply, utterly, emphatically and resoundingly normal. Which is even more important.”

The Telegraph