The Restaurant Guide for Wine Lovers
Bottles Wine Bar and Merchants
We assessed Bottles Wine Bar and Merchants in July 2026 and this review is based on the food menu and wine list at the time of the review. As menus and wine lists change, we name styles in order for the information to remain more useful as menus change. If things have slipped you can use the Vinealto Dining app including accessing an up to date reading using 'At the Table' from the wine list in front of you in the restaurant. How we assess
Bottles is a wine shop and Italian enoteca bar in Worcester where you drink a merchant's range straight from the shelves. The wine programme is exceptional for breadth and value (well over a hundred characterful bottles at retail prices) but self-directed, thin by the glass and browsed rather than read, so it rewards confidence more than it hand-holds. It will most reward the curious wine lover who relishes choosing a bottle from a serious merchant and eating good Italian food beside it.
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The Inn at Welland
Welland, Worcestershire
Modern British
The Inn at Welland is an award-winning country inn under the Malvern Hills, cooking precise, seasonal modern British food from local produce. Its wine programme is the reason for a wine lover to seek it out, a deep, coherent, merchant-grade list, strong on Burgundy, Italy and its own local growers, and offered in full by the glass, which turns a very good cellar into one you can genuinely explore a plate at a time. It will most reward the curious drinker who wants to taste seriously above their usual bottle without committing to a whole one, and who will forgive the single missing corner of a sweet or fortified wine to finish.
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Broadway, Worcestershire
Modern British country-house
The Back Garden is the main restaurant at Dormy House above Broadway, cooking British dishes built around farms and producers from the surrounding counties. Its long, wide ranging list is strongest in Champagne, English sparkling wine, Burgundy and sweet wines, though prices are high and there is little guidance on the page. It will suit a wine lover staying at the hotel or celebrating nearby who is happy to pay for choice and to talk it through with the floor team.
Read the assessmentThe Lygon Arms: GRILL
Broadway, Worcestershire
Modern British grill
The Lygon Arms GRILL is a luxury-hotel dining room on Broadway's High Street cooking a fire-led modern British grill, with a wine list of real range, a broad by-the-glass offer, a deep English and Champagne showing, and a Cellar Selection reaching to classed-growth Bordeaux and the great Tuscan blends. The wine programme genuinely elevates the food across the menu, answering even the hardest plates by the glass and serving the puddings a sweet wine most kitchens forget, held just short of the top tier by premium pricing, an all-by-the-bottle sparkling offer and pairings left to the diner. It will most reward the table that comes to eat well over several courses and is happy to drink by the glass through the fish before a serious red or a considered cellar bottle with the steaks.
Read the assessmentRussell's of Broadway
Broadway, Worcestershire
Steak and seafood grill
Russell's of Broadway is a steak and seafood grill with rooms in the middle of the village. Its compact list covers the grill well, pours about half its wines by the glass and is generous with Champagne, though the everyday bottles are fully priced. It suits a couple or a group who want a good steak, a familiar bottle and no fuss.
Read the assessmentThe Danesbury
Worcester, Worcestershire
Modern British grill
The Danesbury is a modern British grill in Worcester built around chargrilled native-breed meat, coal-cooked fish and seasonal Wye Valley produce. Its compact list is sensibly matched to that cooking (a steak-friendly spine of reds, a helpful by-the-glass spread across every colour and a genuinely good small-format sweet-and-fortified tail) clearly described, even if it leaves the hardest fish plates for the diner to solve. It will suit the steak-lover who wants a well-priced, well-labelled bottle without fuss more than the collector chasing a deep or unusual cellar.
Read the assessmentThe Mug House Inn and Restaurant
Bewdley, Worcestershire
Riverside pub and restaurant, British with wood-fired oven
The Mug House Inn is a riverside pub and restaurant in Bewdley serving British pub cooking from a wood-fired oven. Its short wine selection covers the food competently by the bottle and rises to a few careful choices, but offers nothing by the glass, no tasting guidance and no dessert wine for a full pudding menu. It suits the pub-goer who knows roughly what they like and wants a sound bottle more than the drinker who wants to be guided plate by plate.
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