The Red Lion, Moorgate, EC2

This is a small single room corner-site pub. There is apparently a dining room upstairs, but I didn't go wandering up there to investigate it. The pub itself only has one type of seating - tall stools either at a couple of tall tables in the centre of the room or at ledges around the sides. But for all that it does feel like a real pub, and I quite liked the ceiling panelling. Unfortunately the windows had rugby nation flags draped over them, limiting any natural light getting in - but maybe natural light's not seen as a good thing for a pub. It's a Taylor Walker pub so does offer CAMRA members a discount on real ale, and even with the discount applied our four pints still came in at over £4 a pint. There was a reasonable selection of ales on for such a small pub though, with TW 1730 (Westerham); Purity Mad Goose; GK IPA; GK Lodon Glory; and Truman's Blindside all available. The usual Taylor Walker pub grub menu was also available of course. This is a reasonable pub bearing in mind its proximity to Liverpool St Station.

Official site of The Red Lion - www.taylor-walker.co.uk

Official site of The Red Lion - www.taylor-walker.co.uk

Small bar with plenty of dark wood.Very busy and loud music.Cask beers were Pride Trooper and Trumans -Lazerus which was good.

A single bar pub that served up a very poor and vastly overprised pint of London fields Hackney Hopster by a very uninterested barmaid who obviously did not want to be there.