The change will also mark the launch of Pharmacy Field Kitchen, a new experiential dining and events concept that will blend seasonal cooking and hospitality with a love for the great outdoors. It will launch with a series of outdoor events in Somerset this summer.
Joining The Pharmacy and Pharmacy Field Kitchen as joint head chef is Zsuzsanna Toth, a self-taught cook and creative director who trained at Forsthaus Strelitz, a family-run farm-to-table restaurant in rural Germany and also co-founded and ran summer garden-to-table restaurant project GAIA outside Berlin before going on to cook for restaurant pop-ups and events across Europe.
Toth will work alongside joint head chef Marc Ackland, who joined The Pharmacy team in 2024 and who previously worked with acclaimed Australian chef Rachel O’Sullivan, and has spent time at The Rose in Deal and The Fort Road Hotel in Kent.
The pair, alongside Labron-Johnson, will launch Pharmacy Field Kitchen this month that is described as being an extension of the ethos at The Pharmacy and at Labron-Johnson’s flagship restaurant Osip. The food will be driven by the farms’ produce, celebrating mindful horticulture, home-grown vegetables, and the landscape surrounding Somerset with menus written daily based on the harvest with a focus on vegetables.
In the morning it will serve coffee and house-made cakes such as Madeleines, alongside pastries from The Newt in Somerset, while at lunch a short a la carte menu will features dishes such as local mozzarella and pickled radicchio and Tokyo turnip Caesar salad; plus a small menu of daily changing sandwiches, such as fried courgette flowers with hot honey and ricotta; and soft shell crab in a Somerset bun, all made with bread from Laundrace Bakery in Bath.
In the evening, the restaurant and wine bar will serves a selection of small and large plates, such as pork collar tonnato; chicory with pickled squash and kumquat; grilled Cornish mackerel, buttermilk pickled chili and wild garlic flowers; and roast poussin with pink fire radish and aioli. A pasta or gnocchi dish will always available and each day, one dessert will be on offer, such as blood orange pudding with Caramel and custard; or dark chocolate and espresso mousse with rhubarb.
Pharmacy Field Kitchen will host a series of events at one of Osip and The Pharmacy’s farms and at other locations in Somerset. The first will be in partnership with Soho Italian restaurant Bocca di Lupo, in celebration of the Italian holiday Ferragosto, taking place on 15 and 16 August, at nearby Wyke House in Champflower, Somerset. F
“I’m thrilled to be entering this new chapter at The Pharmacy with Zsuzsanna and Marc, and to be launching Pharmacy Field Kitchen with them,” says Labron-Johnson.
“We’re really excited to bring our approach to seasonal cooking, playful aesthetics, and hospitality out of Bruton, and into the wider world.”