Wharf Tavern, Solihull

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The Wharf Tavern has a tile floored bar with two-seater tables and accompanying chairs along the front wall that is faced by the serving counter that supports premium keg options alongside Carling, Inch’s cider and a T-bar with three flavours of Old Mout cider. There’re also four hand pumps, the Old Speckled Hen was off, so the available cask options were Abbot, Old Golden Hen and Belhaven 80 Shilling. What I suppose is the public bar area is found up the right-hand side of the bar where there’re high tables with benches and stools, a dartboard, and above a brown painted brick fireplace is a television that was airing muted BBC News while some background music played. Sky and TNT Sports are both advertised, but there was nothing worth watching during my recent midweek lunchtime visit. The larger split-level left-hand side of the pub is mainly used as a dining area, so all the tables have knives, forks and napkins as well as the Greene King food menu.
Out the back seating wraps around the outside of the pub and there are stairs down to a well-kept beer garden with picnic tables and a wood chipped children’s play area. There is also some covered garden furniture that is overlooked by a large television that was again was airing muted BBC News. The garden sits next to a spur of the passing canal, but the mooring area is now overgrown and unusable. There’s a large managed car park at the rear, so vehicle registration must be entered into the tablet at the counter. I found the service to be polite, and the garden was a nice spot on a sunny afternoon, so I’d stop off again when next passing.

On 22^nd July 2026 - rating: 7
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