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The Lion & Lobster, Brighton

24 Sillwood Street
Brighton
BN1 2PS
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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 8th 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 13th September 2023 - rating: 7
[User has posted 3102 recommendations about 3102 pubs]


Moby Duck left this review about The Lion & Lobster

A nice pub internaly, traditional U shaped room with a further restaurant area to the rear. The three cask ales and two ciders were exactly the same as on Blue Scrumpys visit a month previous, with the cask ales a bit middle of the road I opted for Gun Scaramanga on keg.
Worth a drop in.

On 18th June 2023 - rating: 7
[User has posted 1868 recommendations about 1841 pubs]


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Map location corrected by Steve C
Brighton, 1.37 miles, 26 min walk (show)
Hove, 1.46 miles, 28 min walk (show)
London Road (Brighton), 1.53 miles, 29 min walk (show)
Latest updates View all updates for The Lion & Lobster, Brighton
14th Feb 2024, 21:43
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14th Feb 2024, 21:15
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