You'll drive down a quiet lane near North Aston, park in a field, and wonder if you've taken a wrong turn. You haven't. What's waiting is one of the most original restaurants in the county: a handbuilt yurt, a Bib Gourmand, and cooking that feels genuinely alive.
Rosara is the kind of place that shouldn't work on paper. A restaurant in a yurt, built from upcycled materials, in a hamlet most people have never heard of. But everything about it is quietly deliberate. The kitchen garden and a neighbouring regenerative farm supply most of what lands on the table, and the cooking (bold, Mediterranean-leaning, confidently seasoned) has the warmth of something shared rather than performed. The Michelin Bib Gourmand is well earned, though the place feels far too relaxed to care much about accolades.
If the weather's kind, there are private dining huts tucked around the grounds, which suit a birthday or a long evening with friends. Dogs are welcome, portions are generous, and the whole thing wraps up with a feeling you rarely get from a restaurant: that the people behind it are cooking for the pleasure of it, and you've been let in on something good. It's about fifteen minutes from the cottage, and worth every one of them.
“We go back again and again. The food is brilliant, the setting is completely its own thing, and you leave feeling like you've been somewhere that actually matters.”
All of this on the doorstep, and your own thatched cottage to come home to. Sleeps seven, less than a mile from Soho Farmhouse.