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The Lion & Lobster, Brighton

24 Sillwood Street
Brighton
BN1 2PS

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Brighton Central

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Real Ale Ray left this review about The Lion & Lobster

A good traditional back street pub managed by Portobello Brewery. The interior was Edwardian in style and had a lot of curios and pictures adorning the walls. Four handpumps serving Lion Bitter a house beer from Portobello, Harveys Bitter and two ciders and an extensive range of keg lagers. The landlord was friendly and chatty, beer was in good shape. The downside for us was the type of music and the levels on a relaxing Thursday afternoon sup, no need for it in such a splendid pub.

On 13^th April 2025 - rating: 7
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Will Larter left this review about The Lion & Lobster

Really good back street pub with five hand pump, one used as a posing place for a couple of ciders, the other four having cask beers on (see photo). A notice about cocktails had accidentally obscured the house beer, Portobello Lion & Lobster Bitter. This was a really good bitter in the regional style, so I was really glad I'd spotted it. Only £4.70/pint. The interior is warm and attractive, with plenty of pictures on the walls including a tremendous steam locomotive. It was lively for a midweek afternoon, with several groups of people whose conversations occasionally overpowered the background music. They're staying open late for the Superbowl this weekend, too late for me to change my arrangements to be here. Maybe next year.

On 8^th February 2024 - rating: 8
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Lion & Lobster

Located down a quiet side street just off the seafront and a short walk from the i360, this is a very pleasant traditional, street corner pub. The interior wraps around three sides of an attractive dark wood servery with matching counter and canopy – the latter liberally decorated with old jugs, pictures, model ships and other such junk. There’s a good amount of seating available around the perimeter, including some decent tables and chairs, nice, padded button backed banquettes and an uncomfortable looking hard bench booth to one side. The whole pub has been painted in dark shades and is lit primarily by fairy lights, so even during the daytime, the place has a warm and cosy feel to it, enhanced by plenty of traditional décor, such as a large painting of a train, lots of retro advertisements and a great many framed pictures, which cover lots of the wall space, especially in the cosy right-hand side of the room, and also line the pillars that support the bar canopy. There’s a bookshelf to the left which had a big stack of board games on it, which we ended up taking advantage of, having dived in here to escape the bitterly cold weather outside.
On the bar, there were five operational handpulls, dispensing Harvey’s Sussex Best, Dark Star Hophead and Portobello Lobster Bitter plus two real ciders. The Hophead was in very good condition and slipped down nicely, although the Lobster Bitter wasn’t quite on a par and I regretted not sticking to the Hophead. The barmaid here was really friendly and there was a decent crowd in, which grew and grew as the afternoon progressed, ensuring a nice atmosphere.
This is a pretty good pub that I’m surprised I hadn’t heard about prior to this particular visit to Brighton. The traditional interior and decent beer meant that it was easy to settle down here for a session and with a few other decent pubs this side of the city centre, it would be easy to incorporate this place into future pub crawls

On 13^th September 2023 - rating: 7
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