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Bruton has long drawn a creative crowd, a Somerset town whose Georgian houses, art foundations and rolling hills have lured aesthetes and urban escapees alike. Into this quietly radical setting comes Osip, the Michelin-starred field-to-fork restaurant from Merlin Labron-Johnson, which in June 2025 extended its vision into a place to stay: The Rooms at Osip.
Set above the restaurant in a 17th-century coaching inn, the four bedrooms have been shaped with the same ethos that guides the kitchen: rooted in place, pared back yet full of craft. Designed by Johnny Smith of Smith & Willis, interiors lean on tactile simplicity: exposed beams, oak floors, live-edge English oak headboards cut from trees within a ten-mile radius, and jute rugs woven by hand. Each room is named after a Somerset river – Avon, Brue, Somer and Pitt – echoing the landscape that threads through both Osip’s menu and its design.
Two duplex rooms (Avon and Brue) come with freestanding bathtubs tucked into mezzanine levels, while Somer and Pitt offer generous stone-floored showers, all fitted with unlacquered brassware by Studio Ore designed to patinate with use. Details are deliberate: a Bill Amberg leather pouch for the key, fresh flowers from the farm, and toiletries from Maison Osip, the restaurant’s own line created in collaboration with Harvest Skincare.
Hospitality here is not an afterthought but a continuation of the Osip table. Guests are welcomed with cider pressed by the restaurant, canelés from the kitchen, and breakfast that recalls old French auberges: black cardamom buns, hay-smoked trout, local Caerphilly, boiled eggs and a “butter mountain” served in generous style.
The restaurant itself, which won its first Michelin star in 2021 and a Green star in 2023, relocated in 2024 to a freehold site outside Bruton, complete with its own land and farms. It is here that Merlin Labron-Johnson refines his terroir-led cooking, with ingredients sourced almost entirely within a five-mile radius.
Osip, now in partnership with Smith & Willis, operates as a full destination: part fine dining, part agrarian experiment, part Somerset stayover. In a region where Hauser & Wirth has already reframed rural Somerset as a cultural stage, Osip builds its own narrative: a holistic retreat where land, plate and room flow seamlessly together.
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