Best hotels in London (Culpeper)

The Independent

This is a proper pub – large windows (some arched), tiled walls, a beautiful curved bar on the ground floor festooned with hanging vintage-style lights – but it’s also home to five pared-back places to stay. The rooms are homely (potted plants, shelves with books) but also veer towards fun (Acapulco chairs) and hip, with reclaimed furniture and raw plaster walls.

Best rooftops restaurants in London (Culpeper)

Time Out

Why we like it: The famous rooftop garden bar attached to this excellent City gastropub-with-rooms has a green-fingered team nurturing and harvesting from the garden. Come spring it provides vital ingredients for the rooftop's bracingly seasonal menu.

The Buxton hotel review: a buzzy bistro with rooms on London’s Brick Lane

The Times

An ideal crash pad for foodies wanting to sample east London’s edge — without the big price tag

Best rooftop bars (Culpeper)

Vogue

Named after 17th-century herbalist Nicholas Culpeper, this Spitalfields pub and restaurant is a favourite east London hangout, popular for its Sunday roasts and rustic charm. The seasonal food menu is inspired by the ingredients grown on the rooftop, from pea shoots to micro herbs.

Best Sunday Roasts in London (Duke)

CN Traveller

We are all well-versed in the benefits of organic food these days but when The Duke of Cambridge opened in an Islington backstreet in 1998 with a Soil Association-certified kitchen, it was a much more niche concern. 24 years on and the food here is still the main attraction – seasonal, locally grown ingredients treated with love and respect – and the roasts are no exception.

‘How the Culpeper is changing the way the city eats’

LOTI

From an east London rooftop to an urban growing network If you had to list out three crops you’d think of growing in the UK, I’d wager shiso, agretti and watermelon would be quite far down the list, but these are just some of the plans that grower Jack Jeans is pointing out to me inside a greenhouse round the back of a residential street in Deptford. This unexpected oasis of abundance is the Culpeper Family’s Deptford Little Farm.