An all-day family-run café and wine-bar that champions specialities from the city of Lecce in Puglia opens next week in Covent Garden. Capilungo’s co-founders, brother and sister Gianluca and Asia Capilungo, grew up in Lecce and are inspired by their uncle Luca Capilunga, who has run his own bakery there for more than 30 years. […]

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Next month will see Queen’s Park’s “lively” Puglian three-year-old Ostuni launch a second site in Highgate Village. The original, which opened in a converted Victorian workshop in 2013, found favour with Harden’s reporters for its “authentically Italian” decor and “great food at reasonable prices”. Its menu is dedicated to the cuisine and wines of Puglia, and its 95-cover sister venue […]

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