Italian restaurant to open on former Bar Buvette site

Marmo, which takes its name from the Italian word for marble, will open next month and is ‘inspired by early northern Italian methods of food preservation in marble basins’.

French bistro Bar Buvette, which closed in April this year after five years of trading, was a well-regarded name within Bristol’s restaurant scene.

Marmo’s menu will be driven by the ingredients sourced by Cosmo and Lily, with mussels and lemon sole coming from Cornish fishmonger Wild Harbour; Tamworth pork from Gothelney Farm in Bridgwater; and fruit and vegetables from Wilding Farm in Chew Magna.

Dishes of home-made charcuterie and pasta will regularly feature on the menu, and desserts will include home-made ice cream.

The restaurant’s wine offering ‘will showcase European producers who farm their vineyards organically or biodynamically, and use minimal or no chemical intervention in the winery’.

Cosmo and Lily, who first met eight years ago, share an extensive range of hospitality experience.

As well as training at St John, Brawn and Yard bistro in Paris, Cosmo was most recently head chef at Rubedo in London’s Stoke Newington; while Lily, having previously worked at London restaurants Luca and Six Portland Road, was manager of Bar Buvette before it closed.