The Red Lion, Birmingham

This pub is rare gem in Jewellery Quarter. Famed for ornate mirror and walls in back room and giving out feeling you are in Victorian Era! was destined for demolish few years ago but seems it survived.

Official site of the Red Lion, contains menus and event details - www.theredlionbirmingham.com

A detached corner pub, with white rendered facade and black paintwork, with a beer patio. The interior has two rooms (as well as a function room), the lounge in grey and wood panel, with strange art and Sky TV. The wood bar is central and serves both main rooms. The food they serve is always decent enough and the service fine. Clientele seems to be more maturer and is often well attended - it is a sister pub to the Lord Clifden. Beer; tap stuff, with Hardy's and Hanson's MILD - always served ice cold sadly so as to impare the flavour even more than keg usually does. There are several real ales on handpull, including UBU Purity Gold and Mad Goose, Yorkshire Terrier, Holden's Golden Glow and Wye Valley Butty Back, which was very good, as ever. The decor takes a bit of getting used to, but is it a decent pub, with a good range of ales, the Butty Bach being enough to get a visit from me. The HH MILD seems to be freezing, but is when i have had it at other places and is very much worth a pint. A must go.

Official site of the Red Lion, contains menus and event details - www.theredlionbirmingham.com