The Red Lion Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food was excellent both starter and main course, well cooked and delicious."
• "Fabulous food for Christmas! The servings were good, the Yorkshire pudding perfect, the gravy was rich."
• "We were all served delicious food, and dietary requirements (allergies) were dealt with very competently."
• "Food a bit slow as over 20 of us, however it came hot to the table and was lovely."
• "Had lovely Sunday roast & dessert. Roast choices were pork, lamb, chicken or beef."
• "The food is very good, we went for a Sunday roast."
• "Tasty well cooked homemade food. I had the fish and chips, crispy batter soft fish."
• "The food and service were excellent as was the value for money."

Cons:

• "40 minutes to get a small bowl of olives and some cheese bread. Only to discover that on a Saturday night they had NO steaks."
• "Food was not as good as I have had in the past. The waitress was miserable and abrupt."
• "Food turned up with food missing. Took ages between courses before they asked if we wanted another course."
• "We waited over an hour for our main meals, my fish was awful, the batter was really greasy."
• "Caught on a bad day? The 'Thai' curry wasn't a Thai curry. It had the same colour, consistency and flavour of Sharwoods Chinese curry sauce."
• "Ordered two Sunday dinners one lamb and one beef for Easter dinner... the creamed cabbage/leeks were simply amazing!"
• "The 'Thai' curry wasn't a Thai curry. It had the same colour, consistency and flavour of Sharwoods Chinese curry sauce."
• "Sausage and mash... The sausages were tasteless and looked like they had been taken out of a freezer and deep fried. No flavour at all."

Service

Pros:

• "Although slow the staff were very pleasant."
• "This venue caters for absolutely everybody, and what a happy, friendly, welcoming reception from management, staff and locals!"
• "The pub was nicely laid out, it was a lovely atmosphere but you could chat and hear and service was at your pace and quite tailored."
• "Graham and his team were so friendly and helpful throughout. They organised an exclusive area of the garden for us to use and provided a lovely food buffet."
• "Great service and very intentive. It's been recently refurbished but still maintains that traditional feeling."
• "The person that took our order was great, gentle without rushing."
• "Staff friendly and very helpful. I had Gammon ham it was delicious."
• "The landlord has an amazing beard, I found myself watching him closely in the hope that a small bird may emerge at some point."

Cons:

• "My only criticism was that the service was very slow considering that there were only three covers."
• "Main course took over an hour to arrive. Understandable if it was busy but only one other table behind us."
• "We were given the sweet menu and wanted another drink but were left waiting for 20 mins."
• "Very poor... They had a party out back with a drum n bass MC, shouting F off into the microphone."
• "We received an immediate warm welcome and the kids loved the outside play area... The menu gave us plenty of choice."
• "Not disabled friendly if wheelchair user for the toilets. Staff did not appear to know what they were doing."
• "We waited over an hour for our main meals, my fish was awful, the batter was really greasy."
• "The waitress is too rude and people at our table were scared to ask her for the food to be reheated given how rude she was to previous requests."