Countryside Supper Clubs Worth Travelling For This Autumn & Winter
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Living in London, it’s easy to get caught up in the bubble of city life where a buzzy new restaurant seems to open every day. But when it comes to food, there’s lots of cool stuff going on across the British countryside, too, especially across the spring and summer seasons. From the Cotswolds to Somerset, hotels, restaurants and farms across the UK are hosting exciting supper clubs with top chefs – often set amid nature, just moments away from where the ingredients were grown. So which events are worth travelling for in 2026?
UK Supper Clubs Not To Miss In 2026
Osip and Ruinart’s (Re)Faire Supper Series
Osip x Ruinart Savoir (Re)Faire Supper Series, Somerset
A visit to Osip in Somerset is already pretty special – Merlin Labron-Johnson’s restaurant boasts a green Michelin star thanks to its hyperlocal, farm-to-table ethos that seeks to tell a story of a changing terroir. For just a handful of nights, diners can expect something even more special: Osip has invited Maison Ruinart to unveil an exceptional new cuvée at a supper club that spotlights the impact of climate change on champagne. At the (Re)Faire Supper nights, guests can try the new Blanc Singulier Edition 20, its 2020 vintage, alongside the Edition 19, with a menu created on the day based on the harvest and how the produce will pair with each cuvée.
Details: 20 November and 11 December 2026, 7.30pm–10pm. £290pp, including the Ruinart pairing (excluding service). Rooms are prioritised for supper guests, with supper and a stay from £665.
Address: Osip, 25 Kingsettle Hill, Hardway, Bruton, Somerset BA10 0LN
BOOK: Email [email protected] or call 01749 987277, or visit sevenrooms.com/events/osiprestaurant. More on the series at ruinart.com
The Feathered Nest Inn x Holland & Holland, Oxfordshire
The Feathered Nest is the quintessential Cotswolds inn: it’s clad in creamy Cotswold stone, boasts a roaring log fire, and has sweeping views of the idyllic Evenlode valley. Its dining room is plum, too – The Nest restaurant has three AA Rosettes, and head chef James Erasmus sources his super-seasonal produce and meats from the immediate vicinity of the pub. In the spirit of the Cotswolds, the inn is celebrating the wilder side of dining with a four-hands game dinner, inviting Joshua Hunter, head chef at Holland & Holland’s historic shooting grounds, to join Erasmus in the kitchen. Diners can expect a taste-tour of the countryside; think game liver parfait choux buns and roasted loin of sika deer.
Details: Thursday 12 November 2026. Tickets are £125 for six courses.
Address: The Feathered Nest Inn, Nether Westcote, Oxfordshire OX7 6SD. T +44 (0)1993 833030
BOOK: booking.resdiary.com or email [email protected]
NYE Supper Club at The Merry Harriers, Surrey
See in the New Year at one of the loveliest pubs in the Surrey Hills, the Merry Harriers. The pub is old school in all the right ways – it runs a weekly meat raffle, for example, and is run by old friends Sam Fiddian Green and Alex Winch of the Hilltop Kitchen – and wonderfully foodie, having bagged no.3 in The Good Food Guide’s 100 Best Pubs 2025. You can expect a knock-out farm-to-fork dinner menu, followed by a total clear of the dining room to make way for a band and DJ (we are obsessed with the fact that the pub has its own in-house one). Can’t make this one? They’ll also mark some other big moments in 2027, including Burns Night (25 January 2027) and the close of the game season (3 February 2027).
Details: 31 December 2026. £105pp, including a glass of fizz at midnight. More dates to come in 2027.
Address: The Merry Harriers, Hambledon Road, Hambledon, Surrey GU8 4DR. T 01428 682883
BOOK: Call 01428 682883, email [email protected] or visit merryharriers.com
An earlier menu at Rootle Supper Club
Supper in the Stables with Rootle Supper Club, Devon
Rootle Supper Club is a dining group from couple Will and Olivia Norton, two first-generation farmers who run a smallholding in south Devon. Their menus celebrate the best of regenerative farming, and you can expect some of your dinner companions to be the growers and producers behind the food. Over winter, you will dine in a pretty converted stable with views of Mothecombe Beach, while in warmer months the table is set in a meadow with seaside views. The plates are impressively hyperlocal – tucks into koftas of hogget reared in the very field in which you eat, or scallops hand-dived just moments away.
Details: Friday 4 and Saturday 5 December 2026, 7pm. £65pp for a four-course menu. BYOB.
Address: The Stables at Mothecombe, Mothecombe Gardens, Holbeton, Devon PL8 1LB
BOOK: tickettailor.com/events/rootle. More at instagram.com/rootle_
Literary Supper Clubs at the Double Red Duke, Bicester Village
For book lovers who like to eat, the Double Red Duke Bicester Village’s literary supper clubs pair an evening of conversation with a three-course dinner. Each night, a different author talks to Coles Books owner Nigel French about their latest work. British antiques expert and auctioneer Charlie Ross is up first, discussing Sold, his book on auctioneering, followed by fine-dining chef Sally Abé, who will talk about her memoir, A Woman’s Place Is in the Kitchen. Then it’s onto dinner – expect a menu cooked over flame and made with the best seasonal produce. Guests also take home a signed copy of the author’s book. This is the transplanted second Double Red Duke – the original, in Clanfield in the Cotswolds, is a charming coaching inn.
Details: Charlie Ross (8 December 2026) and Sally Abé (2 February 2027), in conversation with Coles Books owner Nigel French, from 6pm. Tickets are £60 per person, including a drink on arrival, a three-course dinner and a signed copy of the author’s book.
Address: The Double Red Duke, 50 Pingle Drive, Bicester Village, Oxfordshire OX26 6WD
BOOK: eventbrite.com
Updown Farmhouse
Rick Stein x Updown Farmhouse, Kent
Updown Farmhouse, from Ruth Leigh and Oli Brown, is a pretty country hotel and restaurant near Deal in Kent, and it’s hosting a run of chef nights this winter and spring. First up is Rick Stein, who arrives in December for an evening that starts with an aperitif and a Q&A about his 50-year career, hosted by Freddy Clode and Ben Benton of the Go To Food podcast (who have interviewed hospitality’s biggest names), before moving on to recipes from his new book. More guest chefs follow. On 26 February 2027, Mandy Yin, former proprietor of the much-loved Malaysian restaurant and laksa bar Sambal Shiok, brings south-east Asian heat to the Kentish countryside. And on Friday 12 March, James Ferguson and Alethea Palmer will bring Scottish Lowland warmth from their own 17th-century restaurant, Kinneuchar Inn, where nose-to-tail cooking meets British and Mediterranean influences – a combination that has seen them named best local restaurant in Scotland by The Good Food Guide.
Details: Rick Stein, Friday 11 December 2026, 6.30pm: £140 per person including a copy of his new book, or £250 for two. Mandy Yin, Friday 26 February 2027, £65 per person including an arrival aperitif. Kinneuchar Inn, Friday 12 March 2027, price TBC.
Address: Updown Farmhouse, Updown Road, Betteshanger, Deal, Kent CT14 0EF
