The Mug HouseInn & Restaurant

The Mug House stands on Severn Side North in Bewdley, overlooking the river, its name recalling the seventeenth-century alehouse practice of sealing contracts with a mug of beer, paid to the men who hauled trows, the flat-bottomed boats that once carried goods along the Severn. Six en-suite rooms sit above the bar and restaurant, which serves from midday daily with a wood-fired oven turning out pizzas alongside a la carte dishes, pub classics, and sharing boards. Real ales share the bar with a wine list and a Sunday roast built around locally sourced meat, plus a Wednesday buy-one-get-one-free offer on smash burgers after six in the evening. Food service runs to half past eight most nights and later on Fridays and Saturdays.