Wolverhampton web sites
- Wolverhampton Council – plenty of information about the town, including page for visitors, cycling, trading standards and leisure facilities.
- Wolverhampton Arts and Museums: details of local museums and exhibitions.
- Enjoy Wolverhampton: promoting the city centre, with pages about local events and many facilities including places for food and drink.
- What’s on in Wolverhampton – Council information website.
- Wolverhampton “Scores on the Doors” – local food retailers scores for food safety (also see Council page).
- Grand Theatre.
- Arena Theatre.
- Lighthouse Media Centre, including cinema, gallery and cafe.
- Civic Hall and Wulfrun Hall.
- The Robin live music venue in Bilston.
- Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club and the Wanderers Women’s Team.
- Travel: West Midlands Network, the Midlands Metro and Wolverhampton railway service.
- University of Wolverhampton.
- Wolverhampton College.
- WCR FM: Wolverhampton’s Community Radio station. Taste Wolverhampton is broadcast on WCR FM on Sunday mornings 10.00am -12.00noon.
Taste Wolverhampton Food and Drink: recommended web sites
- Food Standards Agency: food alerts and the latest food news. This site provides both the Food Alerts that feature in the programme around 9.30 am, but also other everyday products that have been withdrawn from sale for one reason or another.
- Scores on the Doors: check which places in Wolverhampton are deemed safe to eat in.
- British Dietetic Association: the professional association for dietitians, with a wealth of food fact sheets: scientifically-based information about food, drink and nutrition.
- Taste Wolverhampton Facebook page.
Good Drink sites (mostly local)
- Local CAMRA branches: Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Bridgnorth, Dudley, Burton, Lichfield, Potteries, Shrewsbury, Heart of Staffordshire, Stourbridge and Halesowen, Telford and East Shropshire, and Walsall.
- What Pub? CAMRA’s on-line pubs list. Unlike other pub guides, pubs do not pay to be in the CAMRA guides.
- CAMRA HQ main web site, including lots of information about beer, why CAMRA supports real ale and what real ale is, links to all CAMRA branches with web sites and how you can join the Campaign for Real Ale.
- Marstons: the owners of Wolverhampton & Dudley brewery, Marstons, Jennings, Wychbold and others.
- Morton’s Brewery: brewing in Essington, a small village on the Cannock side of Wolverhampton, and owners of Hail to the Ale: the first micropub in the West Midlands, sited at Pendeford Avenue, Wolverhampton, which opened in September 2013.
- The Keg and Comfort is the second micropub in Wolverhampton, operating on the Stafford Road.
- The Starting Gate in Penn (link to Facebook page as website unknown) is the city’s third micropub.
- Newbridge Brewery, based in Bilston.
- New Invention Brewery, producing very modern beer styles.
- Tomelier Wine Pilots: Tom and Matt provide our fortnightly guide to the world of wine in WCR’s Taste Wolverhampton. If you have any questions, email wine@tastewolverhampton.co.uk.
- West Midlands page of the Pub History Society’s Bibliography of Publications relating to Public Houses, Inns and Taverns.
Good Food sites
- Waitrose’s Good Food Guide has receommendations for the Midlands.
- Independent Birmingham: a guide with a subcription app that comes with enticing discounts.
Being listed on this page should not necessarily be construed as a recommendation. Please send recommendations for the page and the events calendar via the Contact page.
Updated 17th September 2020.