Black Lion Hotel & Restaurant, St. Albans

The Black Lion Inn and the accompanying Savannah Bar are currently closed. A note on the door mentions a major refurbishment that is likely to go on until early 2013.

This was always more of a hotel with a bar than a pub with accommodation but the bar was very much a traditional pub. Now it is definitely a hotel with a restaurant attached. The bar area is much smaller and reminiscent of a hotel lobby bar and they seem to have gone for a retro theme with plush cubed seating and beaded curtains, not particularly easy on the eye. Becks and Star on draught along with Addlestones cider. Bottles of London Pride and Leffe were also available although the latter was not served in a Leffe glass which surprised me a little.