In the centre of Mudgee, this is one of the town's older corner hotels, kept for people who like a room above a working bar. Seven bedrooms sit upstairs off a verandah, sharing bathrooms and a kitchen, with electric blankets against the cold country nights; a separate three-bedroom cottage sleeps larger groups and comes with a breakfast basket. Downstairs there is indoor and outdoor dining and a long list of gins. Modest, sociable, and unmistakably local.