Style

Fine dine and recline

Setting

Bruton's verdant border

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Revered Somerset restaurant Osip has added four farmhouse-style bedrooms to its already well-strung bow. With two Michelin accolades, it's starry in many senses: the open kitchen is the stage and cow-dotted fields are its backdrop, with chef Merlin Labron-Johnson and his team in an effortless production of crafting seasonal produce from Osip’s farms into mod-British tasting menus. Fireside digestifs or petits fours in the meadow garden are your curtain call, and you’ll be left wanting an encore. 

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

Four.

Check–Out

11am. Earliest check-in, 4pm.

Also

Unfortunately, this former 17th-century pub isn’t suitable if you have limited mobility.

At the hotel

Free WiFi throughout. In rooms: radio, tea-making kit, free bottled water and bespoke bath products.

Our favourite rooms

The cosy-and-contemporary rooms at Osip are named after rivers in Somerset. You’ll find your flow in any of the four: each flaunt locally felled oak furnishings, beamed ceilings and a butter-hued palette, plus house cider, apple juice and homemade canelés are moreish arrival treats. We’re bedding down in Avon, a duplex suite with views over the neighbouring field and an egg-shaped bath tub on its mezzanine; Brue’s set up is the inverse, if you’d rather loftier sleeps.

Packing tips

Some reverence: Osip frequently finds itself at the top of many culinary (bucket-)lists, thanks to its sustainable practices, warm-but-expert service and very, very good food.

Also

You’re expected to dine at Osip's starred restaurant at least once during your stay — an obligation we’ll happily abide by.

Pet‐friendly

Dogs aren’t allowed at Osip. See more pet-friendly hotels in Somerset.

Children

Over-nines are welcome, but this fine-dining stay is better suited to grown-ups, as there’s no specific kit and they'll be expected to dine from the same menu at Osip.

Sustainability efforts

At Osip, ‘field-to-fork' isn’t a buzzword, it’s a natural way of life. Its two regenerative, biodynamic farms are at its heart, supplying most of the seasonal menus with fresh produce, and any organic waste is composted and returned to the ground; the restaurant with rooms has garnered a Michelin Green Star for its Earth-kind approach. You won’t find any single-use plastics within these 17th-century walls, and oak headboards and bedside tables throughout have been crafted from locally felled trees.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Each table in the dining room is positioned so you can admire Merlin and his team at work. To get even closer to the action, request the chef’s table for two, set at one of the kitchen counters.

Dress Code

The team and atmosphere at Osip are more relaxed than your usual fine-dining haunt, but both lunch and dinnertime are equally deserving of something special (preferably with a forgiving waistband).

Hotel restaurant

Osip’s Michelin-starred (one normal, one green) restaurant may need little introduction, but here’s ours anyway: helmed by accoladed chef Merlin Labron-Johnson, Osip is a thoughtful expression of produce-led, Somerset-rooted dining. A field-to-fork concept (depending on the time of year, 70 to 90 per cent of ingredients come from Osip’s two farms) is its anchor, but culinary creations shift with the seasons. A take on a taco, farm crudité plate and wild game pithivier are tasting-menu signatures, but their elements will vary depending on what’s growing at the time.  

Its innovative, indulgent courses are made extra special by friendly, knowledgeable service and the setting — you’ll take your apéritif in the fire-warmed living area, before moving to the dining room with an open-kitchen that’s backdropped by cow-grazed fields, and in summer, you can take your petits fours in the meadow garden. 

If you’re staying the night at Osip, you’ll need to dine at least once — a very welcome expectation. 

Hotel bar

The sitting room is the go-to, fire-warmed space for a welcome drink, pre-prandial tipple and post-dinner digestif. 

Last orders

Breakfast is served from 8am to 9.30am. Lunch is served between noon and 2.30pm, Thursday to Sunday; and dinner is from 6pm to 9.30pm, Tuesday to Sunday. The restaurant is closed on Mondays.

Location

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Address
Osip
25 Kingsettle Hill Hardway Bruton
Somerset
BA10 0LN
United Kingdom

Osip sits between country lanes and verdant fields in Somerset, less than a 10-minute drive from bijou Bruton.

Planes

Bristol Airport is your closest option, under an hour away by car from Osip. If you’re touching down at London Heathrow, it’s a two-hour drive; staff can help arrange taxis.

Trains

From London, connecting routes call at Bruton station, which is under 10 minutes’ drive from Osip, or direct trains arrive at Castle Cary, a 15-minute taxi ride away.

Automobiles

If you need help working up an appetite ahead of dinner at Osip, wheels come in handy for heading to Bruton for a mooch or Stourhead for a stroll. There’s free parking at the restaurant.

Worth getting out of bed for

Dining and digesting seems to be the order of play at Osip. Your hosts have the former more than covered, but for help with the latter, head into Bruton for a wander along it’s well-heeled high street, popping into independent boutiques, then an exhibition or garden tour at Hauser & Wirth’s Somerset outpost. If your preferences lean more country than cosmopolitan, strolls around Stourhead’s 1,000-acre estate or up Alfred’s Tower are particularly appetite-rousing. If you can’t wait until dinner, tuck into the stellar, local dining scene in a polished pub or down-from-London restaurant.

Local restaurants

At Smith-approved Number One Bruton, Briar had some big boots to fill: the space was once Osip’s home. It’s duly risen to the challenge under chef Sam Lomas’ stead, with prettily plated dishes of Somerset’s fine produce, such as Westcombe cheddar and local apples. Next door on Bruton’s high street, The Old Pharmacy is Merlin’s other local success — a relaxed wine bar with seriously good Italian-inspired fare. Come for sommelier-suggested glasses of wine, and end up staying for cosy, candelit dinners. Margot Henderson’s The Three Horseshoes in Batcombe is worth fitting into your culinary itinerary: it's warm in spirit and service, and modern and British in its approach to wholesome, seasonal ingredients. 

Local cafés

At the Chapel has long been a local favourite for artisanal loaves of bread, flaky pastries and to-go cuppas. 

Local bars

You’ll find quirky Roth Bar within Hauser & Wirth’s artistic embrace, shaking up classic cocktails alongside freshly poured pints of Somerset cider and pale ales from Bristol.

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 polished restaurant with rooms near Bruton and unpacked their local apples, house cider and fresh juice (if they haven’t tucked into them already), a full account of their fine-dining break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Osip in Somerset… 

Osip is a feast for all the senses. Naturally, taste is where this four-key stay thrives: its Michelin-starred restaurant delights with seasonally changing, Somerset-inspired courses, conceived by acclaimed chef Merlin Labron-Johnson. 

On arrival, you’ll smell the smoky fire pit outside Osip’s front door — a warm welcome, as your hosts put it. The sound of crackling logs mixes with the popping of corks or stirring of cocktails in the sitting room, a space that doubles as reception and a drinks lounge.  

You’ll eat with your eyes with the interiors: this restored 17th-century pub pairs reclaimed oak furnishings with artworks from nearby creatives, many of which are Labron-Johnson’s friends. The floor-to-ceiling windows in the open kitchen frame the fields behind — a bucolic reminder of Osip’s farm-to-plate ethos. 

And for the final sense, perhaps it’s more about the way you’ll feel leaving Osip: touched, by kind service, local details and food that leaves a lasting impression. 

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