More often they are found by accident, by following a recommendation scrawled on a napkin or passed across a table between friends. What follows is a small, deliberately partial tour of some that have lodged themselves in the memory, places that reward the curious and, in most cases, the early riser.

Few places embody that evolution quite like The Prince Arthur, an east London corner pub that has quietly become one of the area’s most compelling places to eat.

Discovering Hospitality’s Terry Young has rounded up the crème de la crème of Sunday roasts to suit every taste, whether your idea of indulgence is a hearty slab of meat or a plant-based masterpiece.