Longfellow's Wayside Inn Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

When we stayed with our cousins in Sturbridge MA last year, we met Wanda. We talked with her for well over an hour at that time and then became Facebook friends. She invited us to join her for lunch on this visit and offered a number of choices. We chose Longfellow’s Wayside Inn because of its history, its location and its menu. The food was good and the company even better. Despite our protests, she insisted on buying. Thank you Wanda! The Wayside Inn is a historic inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts, United States. The inn is included on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the listed Wayside Inn Historic District. It became an inn, called Howe 's Tavern, in 1716, making it the oldest continuously operating inn in the United States. In 1862, the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow visited the inn with his publisher James T. Fields shortly after it had become the Red Horse Tavern. He noted it was a rambling, tumble-down building, two hundred years old; and till now in the family of the Howes . He soon set his compilation of poems Tales of a Wayside Inn here and originally considered titling it Sudbury Tales.

Fantastic staff and great selection of comfort food.

The Wayside Inn is so beautiful, our waitress was wonderful, we ordered the sirloin steak medium rare and the lobster casserole,. Appetizer was artichoke dip. The lobster casserole was perfect, steak came out raw, we sent it back and the new one was bloody as well. The artichoke dip was without flavor. I think they were just having a bad night. We will be back.

Best prime rib in the state, I ordered the English man 's cut with butter nut squash and mashed. One word outstanding . I arrived in a 36 foot motorhome and there 's was parking across the road. Drove Rt 95 onto Rt 20, nice roads, easy access. Loved this historical place.

We visited the pub and restaurant in this historic Inn. The dining rooms ,which are many, range in sizes. This would be a great venue for small to medium sized parties.