Red Lion, Stratford Central, Stratford-Upon-Avon

A large detached Whitbread ‘Table Table’ pub and eatery in white with that olivey green paint work, with patio and beer garden next to the canal. Does a 2 for £10 offer weekdays. The interior in just an open plan sprawl with little areas, in that modern food factory Ember Inns, Sizzling, Table Table et al kind of way. The décor is white, plum, red, salmon, wood panel, with a white ceiling, with some arty pictures and a wine display. I would have had a look around and described it better, had I cared. We ate and the food was better than the functional stuff I expected. The service was very good here, the one chap that served us was friendly and the kind of person you hope to have behind any bar. The clientele were mixed, all eating. There was general background music at a decent level and no TV that I saw. Beer: tap stuff with London Pride and a pretty flat Wadsworth 6X on handpull. A bog standard, tediously generic, pub/eatery, which is pretty soulless and yet so many like. It was made a lot better by the service we received.