Artfarm to launch Italian restaurant in Somerset

Located within art gallery Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Da Costa will occupy the previous Roth Bar & Grill space and is named after and inspired by Artfarm co-founder Iwan Wirth’s maternal grandfather, who was born in the Veneto region of Northern Italy. 

The restaurant will utilise seasonal ingredients from the nearby Durslade Farm and the surrounding area to create dishes ‘blending the best of both worlds: quintessential Englishness with Italian culinary flair’.

The menu is billed as an exploration of traditional northern Italian recipes that acknowledges ‘the similarities between this mountainous region of Italy and the verdant county of Somerset’. 

Dishes will include Carpaccio of Durslade Farm beef and Cornish Yarg; handmade buckwheat pasta with fonduta; and grilled red mullet with fennel and caper salad.

The wine list will comprise a global selection of 100 bins with an emphasis on Italian and British small domain producers using best practice viticulture and including wines from Durslade Farm’s own vineyards. 

There will also be a selection of Amaro, aperitivi and Italian inspired cocktails.

The 74-cover space has been designed by Piet Oudolf and architectural practice Laplace. A new court yard garden has also been created.