The Red Lion, Egham

Official site of The Red Lion - redlionegham.com

Official site of The Red Lion - redlionegham.com

A weekday lunchtime produced a completely different feel to the previous review, with a slightly upmarket modern gastropub air to the place. The bar is to one side, with various high tables to the other and a few corners, then a further room to the rear laid out for dining. Outdoors, there is a courtyard area to the side, with a small car park to the rear accessed from the roads behind. A good range of local and national beers available - Cask Marque listing.

very busy, verging on the boisterous on an early Saturday evening, as you would expect of a high street pub to be fair. Six handpumps, Windsor & Eton Knight of the Garter and Boistin Mild,Ascot Posh Pooch,Sharp's Atlantic,Harvey's Best and GK IPA.It's an opened out pub with various seating areas and an eating area to the rear. I had thought Chavs were a dying breed but no this is baseball cap city, they're all here, in fact some appear to be morphing into hipsters. The Knight of the Garter was ok and the beer range seems to have slightly improved since the previous reviews but still nothing too much to write home about and I wouldn't go out of my way again.

The first pub on our Sat lunch crawl, and a very good start. Can't remember the ale selections but the Pride was probably the best I have ever tasted and a wall poster suggested that Doom Bar bitter from the excellent cornish brewer Sharp's would be serving soon. The friendly Landlord offered to call us a cab to our furthest targetted pub but one of the attractive young barmaids had already given us a taxi#. The guv then went upstairs and printed the BITE page for the Fox & Hounds for us! Two plasmas and a small tv were all showing the match but without being intrusively loud. When we returned later, somewhat the worse for wear, there was live music in the shape of a young lad on base & an older Gorton bloke on guitar & vocals. They may not appeal to everyone but I thought they were very entertaining. Missed the train, oh dear, more beer. Good pub, will return.