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Red Lion, SW1
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Reviews of Red Lion (Average Rating: 7 of 10) see review guidelines
Will Larter left this review about Red Lion
This small pub in an alley off Pall Mall is an absolute gem. Just a single room, with an additional function room, there are often standing drinkers in the alley at busy times of day. The name of the pub is repeated in painted statuettes both inside (in a cage!) and outside the pub, competing for attention with some very nice fielded wood panelling and diamond-paned windows. It's a delightfully calm space inside, with no background music. The bar has three hand pumps with St Austell Tribute and a very good Adnams Southwold Bitter on at the time of my visit.
Date of visit: 15th September 2022
On 25th April 2023
- rating: 8
[User has posted 3733 recommendations about 3470 pubs]
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Ian Mapp left this review about Red Lion
Find of the date.... tucked away down an unappealing alley from Pall Mall to King Street, lies this historical gem.
Outside indicates that its the 2nd oldest licenced pub in the area. Doesn't name what is the first. Rumours of tunnels used by Nell Gwynne to visit King Charles II. But aren't these rumours everywhere?
Inside, its has quite a feel of a 1930s pub to it.... wood pannelling, bench seating.
Slowly on a Friday evening, the pub filled with a mixture of tourists, regulars and the knowledgeable who know it as an oasis of calm to escape to.
Only Tribute on - in decent condition - but sometimes a pub is more than the just the beer served.
Worth finding.
On 18th January 2022
- rating: 8
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Graham Coombs left this review about Red Lion
A nice little pub down an alleyway with one smart wood-panelled room on the ground floor and something labelled the Mirror Lounge upstairs. As usual for the area, there is vertical drinking in the alleyway outside. On handpump were Tribute and Adnams Bitter, in good order.
On 16th September 2021
- rating: 7
[User has posted 3339 recommendations about 3276 pubs]
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London Victoria, 1.01 miles, 19 min walk (show)
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- Accommodation : No last updated 16 August 2017 by Tris C
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 16 August 2017 by Tris C
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 16 August 2017 by Tris C
- Beer Garden : No last updated 16 August 2017 by Tris C
- Car Park : No last updated 16 August 2017 by Tris C
- Darts : No last updated 16 August 2017 by Tris C
- Function Room : Yes last updated 16 August 2017 by Tris C
- Hot Food : No last updated 16 August 2017 by Tris C
- Jukebox : No last updated 16 August 2017 by Tris C
- Karaoke : No last updated 16 August 2017 by Tris C
- Live Music : No last updated 16 August 2017 by Tris C
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 16 August 2017 by Tris C
- Micropub : No last updated 16 August 2017 by Tris C
- Pinball : No last updated 16 August 2017 by Tris C
- Pool Table : No last updated 16 August 2017 by Tris C
- Quiz Night : No last updated 16 August 2017 by Tris C
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 25 September 2017 by hondo .
- Real Cider : No last updated 16 August 2017 by Tris C
- Wheelchair Access : No - WCs up/down steep stairs. - last updated 16 August 2017 by Tris C
- WiFi : Yes last updated 25 September 2017 by hondo .
