Somerset, United Kingdom

Holm

Price per night from$214.62

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (GBP159.00), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Palate pleaser

Setting

(S)oak up Somerset

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Honey-hued Holm, the brainchild of Nicholas Balfe, who founded some of Brixton’s best-loved restaurants, has laid down roots in southern Somerset. Spruce yourself up in one of the seven mid-century-inspired rooms – all named after British trees (Holm is a type of oak after all) and some bear bedside egg-shaped bath tubs – before pining after the sensational seasonal cooking at the reason-you’re-probably-here restaurant. And with its walk-in wine cellar, suntrap terrace and tempting three-course breakfast, we expect epicureans will keep this stay evergreen.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

Seven.

Check–Out

10am. Earliest check-in, 3pm.

More details

Rates include a seasonal three-course breakfast; dishes typically comprise yoghurt with homemade granola and compote, a hot dish with smoked trout or thick-cut pork belly, and a sweet treat, plus tea or cafetière coffee.

Also

Unfortunately, this boutique bolthole is not suitable for guests with reduced mobility, but the restaurant is fit for all – it’s on the ground floor and has accessible bathrooms.

Hotel closed

Holm is open for stays from Wednesday night to Sunday morning; the restaurant serves until Sunday afternoon.

At the hotel

Kitchen garden, terrace and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, minibar, bathrobes and Haeckels bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Holm is a type of oak and the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree when it comes to the rooms – all seven are christened after a range of English shrubs. The mid-century-styled spaces are characterised by local and antique artwork, pared-down plaster walls and soft furnishings in burnt orange and ochre. Bookworms might like Osier’s selection of reads; families can book Rowan and Hornbeam to create a private top-floor stay, or leave the little Smiths behind and shack up in Elm (the double shower and prying eyes don’t pair well). Plus, the latter three rooms are adorned with egg-shaped freestanding bath tubs.

Packing tips

Swap hiking boots for Grenson ones, waterproofs for Wales Bonner – this is one soigné stay.

Also

The local artwork adorning the lime-plaster walls is available to buy, so if you like anything you see, you can take a piece (of) Holm with you. Come spring, you can book into the stay’s yoga and pilates programmes, plus a wild garlic foraging workshop.

Pet‐friendly

Well-behaved furry friends are welcome to stay in Elm for £50 each a stay. You’ll need to bring your own bed, bowls and food. See more pet-friendly hotels in Somerset.

Children

Welcome; cots for under-3s can be added to all rooms except Juniper (£25 a night including breakfast), and under-12s can sleep on a rollaway in Rowan, Hornbeam or Elm (£50 a night including breakfast). Over-12s will need their own room.

Sustainability efforts

Change begins at Holm – the hotel prides itself on its relationships with local farmers, growers and makers in a bid to reduce food miles; single-use plastics are being phased out of the kitchen; waste is recycled, composted or in the case of food, it’s transformed into innovative drinks and dishes at the restaurant.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Bag a seat at the counter for front-row kitchen action, otherwise sidle up on a pine-green banquette.

Dress Code

Take inspiration from the up-to-scratch interiors and don your best on-trend threads.

Hotel restaurant

Let’s be honest, if you’re staying at Holm, it’s probably for the food. And rightly so – style and substance coalesce in seasonal dishes showcasing the best of the county’s produce (smoked potato agnolotti with chicken jus and trout crudo with blood orange are among the firm favourites). The contemporary dining room subtly nods to the building’s former lives – the steak knives are made from reclaimed elm-wood beams from its merchant-house days, and the restaurant resides in the old vaults from when the space was more recently a bank (in case you were wondering why a cash point is shrouded behind a curtain). However you choose to work up an appetite between dinner and breakfast is up to you, but trust us you’ll want to be hungry for the morning’s three-course offering – homemade granola and compote, cured pork belly or smoked trout, tamari-glazed mushrooms and a flaky pastry is the real breakfast of champions.

Hotel bar

There’s no formal bar, but hole up in one of Holm’s drinking spots: the window-wrapped studio space has an honesty bar; sip a biodynamic wine by the fireplace in the restaurant’s snug, or settle in with a house Negroni on the garden-facing terrace. If you’re more of a visual learner, ditch the wine list and see the line-up for yourself in the walk-in cellar.

Last orders

Breakfast is 8am to 10am and lunch is noon to 2.30pm, both served Thursday to Sunday. Dine between 6pm and 9pm and drink in the bar until 11pm, Wednesday to Saturday.

Location

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Address
Holm
28 St James Street South Petherton
Somerset
TA13 5BW
United Kingdom

Holm resides in southern Somerset’s South Petherton, a sleepy village between Ilminster and Yeovil.

Planes

Exeter’s airport is a 45-minute drive from Holm; Bristol’s is just over an hour away by car, and Bournemouth’s is closer to a 90-minute drive.

Trains

South Western Railway runs services from London Waterloo and Exeter St David’s to Crewkerne station, which is a 20-minute cab ride from the hotel.

Automobiles

Holm is a three-hour drive from London; an hour’s drive from Exeter, or 90 minutes by car from Bristol. There is a small car park at the foot of the hotel’s garden; the larger Prigg Lane car park, which is a short walk from the hotel’s front door, is on the corner of St James Street and Prigg Lane. Free on-street parking is available throughout the village.

Worth getting out of bed for

In preparation for Holm’s multi-course meals, stretch your legs with an appetite-rousing ramble through Ham Hill Country Park; the sunsets from this verdant hilltop are rather spectacular. South Petherton is sandwiched between two National Trust manors – Barrington Court and Montacute House both boast manicured gardens and Tudor heritage. For cliff-top walks and wild swims, Dorset’s dramatic Jurassic Coast is under an hour’s drive away. Swap sea-air stomps for strolls around quaint market town Bridport or debonair Bruton; the latter is home to contemporary art gallery Hauser & Wirth Somerset, which has just-as-photogenic gardens.

Local restaurants

Family-run Brassica uses local produce to whip up fresh Mediterranean-inspired fare. Recreating the dishes at home wouldn’t be easy, but you can try with the interiors – the team has an equally colourful homeware shop opposite. Bruton’s bucket-list dining spots include Osip, a Michelin-starred farm-to-table restaurant with delicately arranged dishes, and At the Chapel, where wood-fired sourdough pizzas and small plates are delivered under the vaulted ceilings of a listed 18th-century church.

Local cafés

Farm and Field transforms ingredients from, well, its farm and fields into Australian-inspired brunches, with homemade sweet treats and freshly ground coffee. Also on a working farm, the Old Dairy Café impresses with hearty breakfasts and bowl-sized cappuccinos. 

Local bars

The Old Pharmacy is a homey wine bar in Bruton – come for organic wines and local ciders, stay for the seasonal small plates. The family running Isaac Cider has two things to be proud of: they’re related to Sir Isaac Newton and make crisp ciders from their orchard’s hand-picked apples.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this restaurant with rooms in Somerset and unpacked their Westcombe cheddar and local ciders, a full account of their gourmet break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Holm…

There’s no place like Holm, a spruced-up restaurant with rooms where out-of-towners after a palate-tempting pitstop en route for Devon and Cornwall and Somerset-based sojourners come together under one roof. Poised between bijou Bruton and Dorset’s distinctive coastline, Holm joins a host of refined eateries putting the county on the map for discerning diners and drinkers. The interiors are immaculate and the rooms are easy on the eye, but there’s no shying away from the star-of-the-show restaurant – you step straight into it from the street, after all. Cheesy chips after a few wines (in this case, biodynamic, organic and from the walk-in wine cellar) is often an irresistible idea, but even better when they’re crispy Westcombe cheddar croquettes topped with a pickled walnut, à la Holm. Relinquish all (self-)control and opt for the six-course tasting menu, but just make sure you’re ready to conquer breakfast’s seasonal spread come morning. This is an epicurean escape you’ll want to write Holm about…

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