The Best Supper Clubs Grounded in Sustainability to Book Now
Osip kitchen (credit: Dave Watts)
First emerging in 1930s Beverly Hills as a way to come together with prohibition behind them, today in the UK, supper clubs have never been stronger. Whether it's an increasingly isolated population drawn to their screens or the desire to disassociate from fast food culture and simply enjoy food with good company, society in the present day has several reasons to desire them. Either way, it seems just as important as the connections to others that might blossom during the meal is the connection with where what’s on your plate comes from. Without further ado, here we have the best supper clubs that care about the ingredients and processes behind their cooking, for an evening that’s as nourishing for the body and planet as it is the soul.
Osip Collaborates
Sprawled out on land on the outskirts of Bruton, Somerset, Osip is welcoming fellow Michelin Green Star recipients in a new collaboration series, namely Plot26. Using the best produce available on the day from Osip's two local farms and orchard, the restaurants will work together to honour the deep-rooted relationship of the kitchen and the garden.
Growing season dish (credit: Soren Reed)
To kick off the series, on Tuesday 19 May Osip is welcoming Copenhagen's renowned 2 Michelin-starred and Green-starred Kadeau – known for seasonal techniques such as foraging in the warmer months and preservation in the colder season. Following this, restaurants set to partake in the series include Michelin and Green-starred farm-to-table Le Doyenné from just outside Paris in June; contemporary Caribbean Celele – whose menu is based on the culinary culture and biodiversity of the Colombian Caribbean – in July; and Canada's top restaurant Pearl Morissette, hailing from Ontario's wine country, in November.
If Osip’s previous collaborations are anything to go by, where the restaurant’s founder and chef Merlin Labron-Johnson worked with renowned Japanese culinary masters such as Tetsuro Maeda of Txispa and Endo Kazutoshi of Endo at the Rotunda, the gastronomic union will be inventive, meticulous and exquisite on the taste in one fell swoop.
Osip’s exterior
The Osip and Kadeua Plot 26 set menu will cost £215pp with supplementary drinks pairings available. Reservations can be made for 6.30pm and 7.30pm. There will be 28 tickets across two sittings on the night.
For bookings and further details, head here.
Evelyn's Table x Billecart-Salmon
Soho’s beer cellar (credit: Leif Carlsson)
There's no other restaurant quite like Evelyn's Table. In a converted beer cellar beneath Soho, 12 seats around a marble table and open kitchen come alive each evening.
On Thursday 18 June, the fine dining menu is joining forces with the seventh-generation family-owned French Champagne house Billecart-Salmon. The Champagne house crafts its delicate rosés and long-aged brut cuvées with biodynamic and organic practices in the vineyard, avoiding pesticides and herbicides and keeping yields low. They promote biodiversity by planting cover crops, using sheep for grazing between vines and installing beehives.
Renowned for producing elegant and expressive cuvées and complex vintages, the supper club will suit anyone with a refined palate for both their food and their wine.
Evelyn Table’s subterranean chef counter
Tickets cost £250 and include a special 5-course tasting menu and full wine pairing, available soon here.
Daylesford – The Market Garden
The Cotswold Market Garden, that’s been sowing the organic farming seed through visionary founder Carole Bamford for forty years, is leading intimate farm-led supper clubs shaped by what is being harvested at peak freshness. For the occasion, guests are invited to join the chef and growers in the garden, with a drink in hand, before gathering for a seasonal three-course dinner at the farm.
On 6 June, the soil and supper be a ceremony celebrating land and ritual, led by Jez Taylor and Dr Guy Hayward of the British Pilgrimage Trust. To accompany the menu, folk music and Ceilidh dancing at Heritage House. With a menu that moves from slow roast Daylesford lamb shoulder, tomato & mint dressing, to gnocchi with wild garlic pesto, pea shoots, followed by dark chocolate mousse with honeycomb or market garden strawberries and lemon curd, in a serene garden setting – and what could possibly disappoint.
Blossom-filled field at Daylesford farm
Tickets are £80 per person, and available here