The Red Lion - JD Wetherspoon Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Visited 3 times in June 2021 whilst on holiday in Skegness and had a lovely meal each time, the food was tasty, hot and very good value for money."
• "Nice hot food and cold beer. Service is quick even when it is busy."
• "Fish and chips were lovely, not greasy at all and served very quickly."
• "The food arrived fairly quickly it was fresh, hot and tasty."
• "The food arrived and it was hot and lovely."
• "Food nicely presented well cooked."
• "The empire burger was amazing and tasted great, me and my grandad both had one and the chips and onion rings were cooked to perfection."

Cons:

• "By 6.30 pm most food off the menu and manager and staff wasn't even polite about it I will have a drink in there again but will not have food there again as there were long hairs in my wife's salad and my burger was full of gristle."
• "Very poor ordered 3 steak meals didn't get the meals as said on menu they said they had run out of food until the next delivery. Very rude staff & manager no refund offered no alternative food offered very poor customer care also food was cold."
• "The grilled veg on my partners burger was quite disgusting and mushy, really disappointing."
• "Wouldn't recommend at all ordered breakfast waited about 45mins it was cold."
• "The chips were soft and mushy, not nice at all."
• "Couldn't be more disappointed. I ordered the curry and it was stone cold I'm not even joking it wasn't even warm there were other guests complaining staff didn't have a clue how to apologizes."
• "Absolutely disgusting the worst doesn’t even deserve to be called a meal the steak tasted like it had just come out the washing up bowl."

Service

Pros:

• "Service is quick even when it is busy."
• "Great location very chilled and relaxing place to sit and eat."
• "Clean inside with fast polite service."
• "Service was good, food arrived correctly and quickly."
• "Staff were friendly on a busy Friday night."
• "The staff were very friendly and service was quick."
• "Staff very friendly and helpful."

Cons:

• "One member of staff behind the bar was a bit grumpy."
• "Staff were preoccupied."
• "Very rude staff & manager no refund offered no alternative food offered very poor customer care also food was cold."
• "Staff were not rude, but were not very cheerful."
• "Absolutely shocking customer service rude staff, whole staff decided to stop working and took delivery, instead of serving customers."
• "The staff are just point blankly rude and haven't got a clue what's going on."
• "Staff are miserable, very rude."

Cleanliness

Pros:

• "Clean inside with fast polite service."
• "The pub was quite nice with lots of interesting historical pictures and information."
• "Exactly what everyone expects from wetherspoons. Great value, efficient and pleasant. Clean and tidy, helpful friendly staff."

Cons:

• "After my meal I went to the toilet and what a let down to wetherspoons high standards, it had broken tiles, floor skirting coming away from the walls the floor was wet the sinks dirty."
• "Gents toilet is upstairs and although it looks clean it does NOT smell clean."
• "Some tattooed woman throwing her 18 mo kid around whilst clearly drunk, some other people having a domestic, felt dark and dirty."
• "Really poor. Great fan of Wetherspoons but .. this is by far the dirtiest, scruffyest and unhygienic one we've been in."
• "The tables were unclean and the carpet was covered in rubbish and menus."
• "Not the best spoons I've been in, certainly one of the dirtiest, glasses all over the place and the toilets were filthy."
• "The toilets were filthy."

Location

Pros:

• "Opposite the train station so good place to wait."
• "Nice cosy little bolt hole when you're out shopping to nip in grab a coffee or in my case a hot choccy a bite to eat, warm up & carry on with your day."
• "Great location, nearby all day parking for £4 in the cricket club."

Cons:

• "Feels like waiting in school dinner queue when ordering meal. Practically out the door too!"
• "Very claustrophobic inside. Tired decor and very run down."
• "The interior is very dark and need of refurbishing."
• "Very dark interior, not much natural light."
• "This pub feels quite tired."