When most people think of eco-friendly food, they picture sunny allotments and low-budget, nutritious food grown in their own back garden. Whilst not quite a ‘shed’ itself, its rustic interior charm aside, Notting Hill’s The Shed represents the next best thing. A proper family business, all food on offer is sourced from the owners’ younger brother’s farm, just 70 miles away in Nutborne, West Sussex. Whilst by no means a short walk from garden to kitchen, that’s not a bad return for a market saturated with frozen produce and cheap imports. Unsurprisingly, it tastes pretty good too.

If you’re after more high-end cuisine or a short stay in the capital with an eye on your carbon footprint, The Bingham Hotel and Restaurant take this garden to plate idea a step further. A short walk to a certain Kew Gardens, the Bingham team make use of a beautiful garden of their own, with many of their herbs and vegetables grown on site, truly minimising the distance from the ground to your plate.

Collaboration with local UK farmers is a popular growing trend for a restaurant sector with a growing interest in sustainability, occurring in places you may be surprised to find it. Feng Sushi offer excellent Japanese cuisine in a city obsessed with variety and all things global. Refusing to serve particular fish once stocks hit dangerously low levels, Feng Sushi offer sustainable food in more ways than one, with a number of its vegetable dishes produced with locally-sourced, British produce. They also offer a highly popular delivery service, but perhaps consider walking if you’re nearby…

This increasingly popular Peruvian bar & kitchen team now have four restaurants across London. Sustainability is at the very heart of what they do, with each team trained in sustainable practices and effort is made to use sustainable, local produce and minimise waste. Ceviche aim to do good in all they do, and that’s not just about their sumptuous food. Partnered with a charity in the Peruvian Andes, the team reinvest profits to help provide homes and schooling for disadvantaged children in their homeland.

With restaurants in South Kensington, Chelsea, and further north in Westfield, Bumpkin gives welcoming tradition and rustic simplicity a modern, sustainable slant. Locally sourced, organic food, is a feature very many of the capital’s restaurants seek to stake their claim to in light of a growing consumer collective conscience. Few establishments, however, carry the sustainable mantra right through to the furniture you sit on. Sourced predominantly from reclaimed and recycled materials, Bumpkin’s commitment to all things eco-friendly truly earns it its seat at the sustainability top table.