Red Lion Hotel, Atherstone

This is a fair sized hotel where the bar area consists of a very long corridor that has areas off either side. The bar counter and hotel reception are to the left and what looked like a conservatory area to the rear. It's all quite modern and there are quite a few glass panes above which on a hot sunny day meant the heat was building up. The bar has three hand pumps which had one unused, Doom Bore and Church End Goat's Milk. I went for the Goat's Milk which was an expensive £3.95 and hazy but tasted OK. This is the sort of place that attracts old men wearing shorts and baseball caps and who don't realise how ridiculous they look. It's more of a hotel bar than a pub so I doubt that I would return.

The Red Lion is a very large pub / hotel which is painted white on the outside. Once inside a very long corridor runs to the rear of the pub with rooms off it,the front left is an Italian type bistro,the room to the front right looked quite smart with mainly normal tables and chairs,this room is called the Kings Library,i went into the main bar area which is in the middle of the pub with the corridor running through it,this room looked quite smart with the bar on the left side,there were some normal tables and chairs in the middle area which had a stone floor,the right side is carpeted and had normal tables and chairs and some bench seating,there are two more rooms to the rear. There were two real ales on the bar,i had a drink of Church End Goats Milk which was quite a nice drink,the other beer was GK Abbot. The pub was quite busy on my Saturday afternoon visit with a good mix of mainly drinkers. I thought this was a comfortable pub,the sort of place to take your wife of girlfriend to. Pub visited 25/10/2014