The UK’s best restaurant has just launched a more affordable menu

When Time Out’s food editor Leonie Cooper visited Osip in at the end of last year, she lauded it as ‘heroically good’, a ‘field-to-table, foragers paradise’ and the best restaurant in the UK right now. As you’d expect, eating at such an exceptional place doesn’t come cheap. 

At the moment, if you want to dine at Osip, you’d be looking at spending £165-a-head on the 10-course dinner tasting menu. But now, the Michelin-starred spot in Somerset has launched a menu that costs less than half of that. From April, Osip will offer a three-course Table D'Hôte (‘Host’s Table’) menu for £75 per person. 

The daily-changing menu is, apparently, more ‘rustic inspired’ than Osip’s other offerings. In keeping with Osip’s sustainable ethos, the menu will make use of the surplus of the most abundant produce from the restaurant farm and will utilise off-cuts and different parts of the animal from its in-house butchery programme to minimise waste. 

Sample dishes from the Table D'Hôte menu include chilled asparagus soup with fennel and Dorset crab; grilled hogget, brassicas and lamb juices; cassoulet of white beans with wild garlic and lamb fat breadcrumbs (pictured below) and, for dessert, drunken honey tart with mead custard, bee pollen and whisky cream.  

Diners will also be treated to a selection of snacks and Osip’s house-made bread to kick off their meal, two sides to go with their mains and petit fours to finish.  

Head chef Merlin Labron-Johnson said: ‘In the spirit of the French auberge, we wanted to create a more accessible, rustic-inspired daily changing menu, that the local community can come back to again and again to enjoy.

‘We also wanted to give those further afield, who may not have been able to visit Osip previously, the opportunity to visit us. The Table d’Hôte menu will continue to showcase the breadth and quality of produce available on our farms, whilst offering a new, more relaxed way to experience our ingredient-led approach to cooking.’

To try Osip’s cheaper menu, you’ll have to book online in advance here. 

See the full list of Time Out’s 20 best restaurants in the UK here.

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