The Lion, Birmingham

The Auld Triangle has changed names again. It is now The Lion. A square room with decent furnishings. A few TV screens (including a large projector screen) showing the football. There is a DJ booth in one corner. Still no ale choice so we had Coors. We were the only customers although the Spoons over the road was packed!

This is a detached pub, now re-opened after a period of closure. It looks modern, and it is to a certain degree, as it is a rebuild (1950s?). The current pub sits on the site of a hotel, of the same name, which was at least Victorian. The Sainsbury Supermarket and the car park were once a school and the space behind the pub was a bowling green in the 1950s. The pub consistes of a brick 'house', with a white rendered low-level extension in which the pub is housed. I saw one room. It was quite tidy, being in coffee, chocolate and a flowery grey patterned wallpaper. A set of wood shelves was in one corner with a few ornaments on. An almost pulpit like wood area is in the middle of an otherwise bare room and a few photos are on the walls. There was a silent TV and a jukebox that was sadly drowned out by the loud karaoke. The service was OK and a few regulars were in, inflicting, or suffering the singing. Beer; no real ale, just the usual tap stuff, with M&B MILD - I had a shandy. One for the locals.