The Michelin-starred restaurant from chef Merlin Labron-Johnson – will launch 4 superbly appointed bedrooms located straight above the restaurant close to Bruton, Somerset.
‘The Rooms’ will additional Merlin’s imaginative and prescient of Osip as a holistic eating vacation spot, permitting visitors to immerse themselves within the restaurant’s field-to-plate philosophy, and discover new methods to work together with the encircling land all through their keep.
Designed by Johnny Smith (Inventive Director of Smith & Willis), the bedrooms will mix quiet minimalism with luxurious handcrafted finishes that join the visitor to the West Nation panorama – together with a neighbouring pine forest, grazing fields and farms – while remaining sympathetic to the heritage of the seventeenth century teaching inn. Every room is known as after a river in Somerset: Avon, Brue, Somer and Pitt.
As a continuation of Osip’s sustainable ethos – which noticed it awarded a Michelin Inexperienced star in 2023 – many of the supplies have been sourced and crafted domestically. All the rooms will see uncovered beams, oak flooring and impartial decor paired with handmade jute rugs, a rigorously curated choice of objet d’artwork and live-edge English Oak headboards and bedside tables, that are from bushes felled inside a ten mile radius.
Two duplex rooms – Avon and Brue – may have freestanding bathtub tubs, with sleeping, dwelling and bathing areas cut up throughout decrease and mezzanine areas. The second two – Somer and Pitt – will supply beneficiant walk-in showers with stone flooring – all of which will probably be complimented by unlacquered brass rest room {hardware} from Studio Ore, which is able to patina superbly over time.
L-R: A view of Avon, considered one of The Rooms at Osip; Osip close to Bruton, Somerset (David Watts)
As a part of their keep, visitors will probably be welcomed with a choice of refreshments from the kitchen together with freshly baked canelés, cider by Maison Osip – the restaurant’s personal bespoke product line – in addition to a carafe of cleaver water, apples and apple juice.
Toiletries will probably be from Maison Osip, made in collaboration with Harvest utilizing seasonally altering British botanicals and herbs, freshly picked flowers from the close by farm will probably be changed day by day, whereas a printed welcome be aware will accompany a hand-drawn map displaying native suggestions.
Eating will proceed to be an integral a part of the expertise with visitors given precedence restaurant reservations for the evening of their keep, alongside complimentary breakfast. Served within the restaurant and impressed by the breakfast providing of previous French auberges, breakfast will start with black cardamom buns, granola, yoghurt, honey from Osip’s bees and seasonal jams, all served on the desk on arrival.
Company can then assist themselves to a ramification together with hay smoked trout, honey roast ham, contemporary cheeses (together with native Westcombe Cheddar and Caerphilly), boiled eggs and a butter mountain. Drinks will embody tea, espresso and contemporary apple and sorrel juices.
L-R: Merlin Labron-Johnson; breakfast at Osip
The devoted Osip Concierge group will probably be available from the purpose of reserving to rearrange complimentary transfers to and from native transport hubs, in addition to reply any questions you might have forward of your keep from the purpose of reserving.
Having received acclaim upon launching London eating places Portland (1 Michelin star) and Clipstone, Merlin opened Osip in 2019, in its unique residence in central Bruton. Right here, Osip was awarded its first Michelin star in 2021, adopted by a Inexperienced Michelin star in 2023.
In 2024, Osip relocated to a bigger, freehold web site with its personal land, intensifying the groups capacity to immerse their visitors within the surrounding terroir. Right here, they create a way of place by championing the West Nation’s pure larder, with the overwhelming majority of the menu sourced from inside a 5 mile radius of the restaurant – together with at Osip’s personal two farms.
The Rooms at Osip will launch on tenth June 2025, with rooms priced from £240 per evening, together with breakfast. Bookings are actually stay HERE.
