Dragon City

Dragon City — now trading as New Dragon City — is the Chinese takeaway that has sat on Tutbury's High Street for the better part of two decades, a few doors from the foot of the castle hill. It is the village standby in the straightforward sense: chicken chow mein, crispy chilli beef and the recognisable Cantonese-with-curry-sauce list, with the set-meal arithmetic that gets a family fed without much thought.

The signature dishes regulars name on local directories are the chow mein and the crispy chilli beef. Reviews on Restaurantji and Yelp pick up the generous portions and the friendly counter, with a few customers describing twenty-plus years of repeat ordering — a useful measure of stamina in a village this size. The shop holds a 4 food-hygiene rating from East Staffordshire on its most recent inspection. It trades evenings only and serves Tutbury, Hatton across the Dove valley and the surrounding hamlets out towards Rolleston-on-Dove. There is no dine-in; phone collection runs alongside online ordering through the usual aggregators.