The Red Lion, Stoke Newington, N16

Official site of The Red Lion - www.frontierpubs.co.uk

Official site of The Red Lion - www.frontierpubs.co.uk

Doom Bar, Sharp's Atlantic, and Timothy Taylor Landlord (£2 a half) were available here. "Lidya Bistro" laminated menus are on the bar counter, featuring a breakfast menu on one side (Englich breakfast is £5.95), and a dinner menu on the other side seemed to Greek based, including a hot meze plate (£11.50), moussaka (£9.95), falafel (£8.45), and kebabs (£9.95). Fair enough if you like that sort of food. The exterior still has some interesting old Truman, Hanbury and Buxton signage, but the interior's nothing to write home about. The main bar area is a single room with curtains and walls all black, and with the ceiling painted a dark brown. There's no decor to speak of, apart from on the ceiling, where there are large posters of events taking place (in here presumably) in each month of the year. There are signs notifying us of the heated garden, and the games room upstairs. The room was dominated by the enormous pull down screen, which was showing MCFC having a hard time of it at Stoke City when I was in here on Saturday afternoon. Furnishings are a mix of normal tables and chairs and sofas, the latter taking up far more space than they deserve. This seemed to me quite a gloomy pub with small windows somewhat obscured by the curtains, and with the use of black not helping. This is not a bad pub, and it does have three ales on, but I found it a bit bleak, although others will no doubt like it.

Seems to me its now called the Red Lion although outside the have lions are painted gold not red.Anyway a dull gloomy ,empty pub with Landlord.Doombar and Pride.If you don't have to name the brewers only the beers its a boring pub.