{"id":209351,"date":"2026-02-07T09:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209351"},"modified":"2026-02-07T09:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:24:12","slug":"could-dd-give-a-shot-in-the-arm-to-londons-hospitality-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209351","title":{"rendered":"Could D&#038;D give a shot in the arm to London\u2019s hospitality sector?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We visited a D&#038;D cafe transforming nightlife in an unloved corner of Elephant and Castle. Can Matt Kenyon slay the goblins facing hospitality? Burrowed within an almost cartoonishly dodgy corner of Elephant and Castle is a nerd\u2019s nirvana. Finance bros sweep in from the Square Mile to swap gilets for broadswords and elven ears&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/the-dd-cafe-giving-london-nightlife-a-shot-in-the-arm\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We visited a D&#038;D cafe transforming nightlife in an unloved corner of Elephant and Castle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209351-could-dd-give-a-shot-in-the-arm-to-londons-hospitality-sector.jpg",1200,800,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209351-could-dd-give-a-shot-in-the-arm-to-londons-hospitality-sector-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209351-could-dd-give-a-shot-in-the-arm-to-londons-hospitality-sector-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209351-could-dd-give-a-shot-in-the-arm-to-londons-hospitality-sector-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209351-could-dd-give-a-shot-in-the-arm-to-londons-hospitality-sector-1024x683.jpg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209351-could-dd-give-a-shot-in-the-arm-to-londons-hospitality-sector.jpg",1200,800,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209351-could-dd-give-a-shot-in-the-arm-to-londons-hospitality-sector.jpg",1200,800,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209351-could-dd-give-a-shot-in-the-arm-to-londons-hospitality-sector-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209351-could-dd-give-a-shot-in-the-arm-to-londons-hospitality-sector-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209351-could-dd-give-a-shot-in-the-arm-to-londons-hospitality-sector-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=26\" rel=\"category\">London Market<\/a>","tag_info":"London Market","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}