Our Top Restaurants to Visit in Somerset This Autumn

The Clockspire

Historically built as a school in the area of Milborne Port, The Clockspire restaurant features striking exteriors and a seasonal locally sourced menu. Guests can sip on pre dinner cocktails in the separate bar while listening to live jazz music on set evenings. Al fresco lovers can dine in their outside space…

The menu sees starters such as Chicken Liver Parfait, Burrata with bbq broccoli and Dorset White Crab, their mains featureT-bone Steak with wild garlic, summer artichokes with herb gnocchi and ricotta, and Roast Chicken with Maitake mushrooms and black garlic. Their desserts are not to be missed either! Expect Lemon Posset, Clotted Cream Cheesecake and Salted Caramel Chocolate Ganache.

At The Chapel

Another restaurant to add to your list while in Bruton is At The Chapel. Owners Catherin Butler and Chef Steven Horrell have transformed this 17th century grade II listed chapel into a cool and glamorous dining hub with a bakery, wine shop, all-day bar and restaurant with bedrooms for guests.

The brasserie-style menu features local West Country produce with a relaxed Mediterranean approach to the British foods. Fresh pizzas from their authentic stone-built pizza ovens are served for eat in or take away. The summers here are best as you can sit outside on their sun drenched terrace sipping on small estate wines made in the most natural way possible to show maximum respect for nature and the environments from where they came.

Osip

Osip, owned by chef Merlin Labron-Johnson is a Michelin Star farm-to-table restaurant situated in the popular town of Bruton, Somerset. Since opening in 2019, their non-menu dining experience has celebrated the rural surrounding areas with fresh produce delivered every day from their local partners. Expect mostly plant based dishes and a welcoming passionate team.

Upstairs at Landrace

The restaurant above the artisan bakery in Bath is the perfect destination for those who love small plates. The menu changes everyday but expect freshly-made sourdough, gorgeous local produce and sumptuous sausage rolls. Situated on Walcot Street, clients can visit for coffee, lunch, dinner or grab something tasty from the shop. Their new mill arrives from Vermont, USA in the winter, bringing even more cosy delights to the south west.

HOLM

For a more varied menu, visit HOLM, in South Petherton. Offering only food and drinks made in the surrounding area, experience the best that Somerset has to offer in chef Nicholas Balfe’s restaurant. Inside the chic blend of minimalism and rural simplicity, sip a Somerset spritz and enjoy some Westcombe cheddar fries before retiring to one of seven exclusive rooms. Booking for the rooms open in October.

The Barrington Boar

Featured in the Michelin Guide this year and residing in the heart of South Somerset, the Barrington Boar is the gastro pub taking the locals by storm. Run by husband and wife Alasdair Clifford and Victoria Collins, the pub offers very reasonable set menus, a la carte and chef menus. It was also advertised as one of the best places for a Sunday roast in the Times. The menus explain where every item of food has come from, giving it a local feel stretching all the way to Cornwall.

The Olive Tree

Marketed as the only Michelin Star restaurant in Bath and located under the Queensberry Hotel, experienced chef Chris Cleghorn’s set menus: Nine, Six, Four and their dietary alternatives. Despite the name, The Olive Tree is not a Mediterranean restaurant; it is simply the name of one of the founders and the menus all incorporate locally sourced produce. If the menus aren’t enough to get your interest piqued, the quirky website certainly will.

Roth Bar & Grill

Bruton is certainly one of the places to visit in Somerset; this is the third Bruton restaurant to make our list. An integral part of Hauser and Wirth, the Roth Bar and Grill specialises in creating the perfect cocktails and searing the best cuts of meat from the local farm on their purpose-built fire pits. Of course, art is central to the whole experience at the Roth Bar and Grill, as Hauser and Wirth is a world-class gallery. Spend a day enjoying the exhibits and wandering through the Oudolf Field before finishing with a meal at the restaurant, cooked right in front of you.