This country is absolutely heaving with incredible places to eat. Yet one restaurant stands head and shoulders above the rest. Time Out’s noble critics have just named the best restaurant in the UK for 2025… and it’s Osip in Somerset.
The field-to-table tasting menu spot opened in 2019 and two years later was awarded a Michelin star. Last year, head chef and founder Merlin Labron-Johnson moved the restaurant from its cosy corner location on Bruton high street to a 16th century inn about 10 minutes drive away from the artsy village.
Our recent visit to the new location blew us away, with an incredible and super seasonal tasting menu that dished up the best of British autumnal produce. Our review praised the ‘harvest festival-adjacent offering’, which was ‘heavy on mushrooms, game and murky, earthy textures and flavours’.
The menu at Osip plays with conventions of the traditional tasting menu. In our review, we wrote: ‘Sure, some of the dishes are dainty, good-looking offerings dotted with sunset-shaded nasturtium, but others are simply weird; there’s a shimmering gateau made with layers of celeriac and scallop which is unlike anything I’ve ever seen or tasted before’.
Other dishes included a medieval-feeling venison and quail pithivier, as well as a beetroot taco, grilled maitake mushroom with cep marmalade and crunchy roasted yeast, and a fried parsnip slice topped with black garlic and togarashi. The cheese course consisted of a giant wedge of Bath soft cheese on a slice of toasted malt loaf.
Dinner at Osip costs £150 a head, with a lunch version at £95. Newly introduced is a slightly fancier signature menu, which adds a couple of extra dishes for £190. As of this summer, you can also stay overnight at the restaurant, with four hotel rooms having newly opened in the property. Read Time Out’s full five star Osip review here.
Our list of the top 20 restaurants in the UK also includes must-visits like Lyla in Edinburgh, Skof in Manchester and Bokman in Bristol.
Osip, Kingsettle Hill, Hardway, Bruton, Somerset, BA10 0LN.
The full list of Time Out’s 20 best restaurants in the UK.
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