The Culpeper, east London: hotel review

This establishment is a pub, a great restaurant and now a fairly priced hotel (with a rooftop terrace in the offing) – and each element is handled with panache

The Culpeper is the gift that keeps on giving: on its ground floor, a pub; a restaurant on the first; skyline views from its reopening-for-the-summer rooftop terrace; and now, on the second floor, five en suite bedrooms at £120 a night B&B. It is an endeavour where succeeding at every level could be tricky, but team Culpeper manages it all with panache.

It is late afternoon when I check in and the bar is already full, causing drinkers – a mix of London’s young and zestful, City workers and craft-ale fans – to mill around the doors of the pub at the corner of Commercial Street and Wentworth Street.