Red Lion, Banbury

The Red Lion is an early opener. In fact it opens at 9am for breakfast and it was our intention to have a quick meal and a drink to set up a day's crawling in the Banbury area. However, our arrival at 11:05 was 5 minutes after they stopped serving breakfast. We were invited to wait for lunch to start at midday, but didn't have the time. So instead, we went hungry. The interior is split into a couple of different sections, but all customers appeared to be either single people reading newspapers or working from the pub or couples who had finished their breakfasts and were nursing cups of coffee or tea. There is a large garden area across the car park from the pub. It looks like this used to be a Marston's pub, but has since changed hands. The ale choice was limited to Courage Directors & Young's Ordinary. Unless I could come here at the strictly defined meal times, I see little reason to pay a return visit. A little more flexibility wouldn't have gone amiss. Poor service.

Official site of Red Lion - www.the-red-lion-at-bloxham.co.uk

Official site of Red Lion - www.the-red-lion-at-bloxham.co.uk