What We’re Reading

Love your local: inside Britain’s community pub revival

Despite the doom-and-gloom headlines, there’s plenty of good news across the pub sector. For community pubs, in particular, the outlook is bright: “a highly invested local following means these pubs have a much better long-term success rate than your average boozer, with 94% staying in business”.

The Good Food Guide

CODE Generations: Opeoluwa Odutayo meets Adejoké Bakare

In the first of a new series for CODE, chef Ope Odutayo, one of CODE Hospitality’s 30 Under 30, sat down with her friend and mentor, Joké Bakare, the first Black female chef in the UK to win a Michelin star, to chew the fat about running a restaurant in London. Read the interview at the link below or watch an extract on CODE’s Instagram.

CODE

How Instagram is destroying its own influencers

Everybody is talking about this op ed by Gizzi Erskine. She writes, with the candour we have come to expect of her, about how changes to the Instagram algorithm no longer serve content creators. This isn’t about spoilt influencers, it’s an essential read about “small business, creatives, food writers, artists, performers, and educators” who are seeing their audiences fall away.

The iPaper