The Black Lion, Salford

Called in for one yesterday as part of a Salford mini crawl. There's a central servery with a few tables & chairs facing the bar and a small room to the right with a quiz machine. To the left is another nicely decorated room with a raised area. There are loads of pictures hanging on the walls now and they advertise band & theatre evenings. There are 4 handpumps on the bar two of which were off. This left the rather boring choice of Moorhouses Blond Witch and Hobgoblin. My pint of Hobgoblin was OK. This could be a very good pub if the beer range was more inventive, but at the moment it's just OK.

The Black Lion is a very large pub with a curved frontage that is on the corner of chapel street and blackfriars road. Once inside i went in a fairly basic room that was probably the bar, there were other rooms but i did'nt look in these. There were no real ales on the bar when i went in here i had a drink of keg Bass Special which was'nt very special,this pub was ok for a quick drink but it would have been better if there was a real ale on the bar. Pub visited 11/2/1995