A great little pub a short walk out from the centre and down a residential street off of Mill Road. The walk there will be more than rewarded in the choice of ales that are on the bar and in the small taproom behind - I had the Oakham Citra and the Elgood's Wenceslas which were both on very good form.

The staff here are friendly, welcoming and knowledgeable about the beers/ciders that they sell and will give you a couple of tasters to help you to find the one for you. The food was very good with a quite a lot of veggie options too. All-in-all a pub that's worth the walk and spending an afternoon in.Always a good selection of excellent beer / Food is normally top notch and good value for money, though you may have to wait for it if they are busy / Lovely friendly atmosphere.We stumbled across this place while on a random pub crawl around Cambridge and were lucky enough to walk right into the middle of their German beer festival! It was easily the best pub of the day (and there were a few that day!) with an excellent range of beers and some good bratwurst to go with it and I thoroughly enjoyed myself!

Absolutely brilliant since ite relaunch. Excellent beer, interesting well made food, knowledgable & friendly staff. And close to the station to catch the train later.Beer was good to very good, food (fish and chips) fantastic, atmosphere was so-so. I seem to visit on quietish Mondays; hope it doesn't go the way of the Pembury.Had a lovely Venison Stew from the gastro menu, an excellent pint of Milton Pegasus then we worked our way through the rest of the pumps. Pegasus came out top!

Nice seating and decor although the high ceiling makes it a little stark and not so cosy...hardly a fault though! 10/10

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mtaylor40: Sorry that you feel the way you do about wells/youngs beers but we are tied to Wells & Youngs . I do have to say that we are lucky with their guest beer list & genereally have at least 4 changing guest beers of 8 on, that are from other brewers.

For example the 8 available today are: Wells Eagle. WelLs Bombardier. Adnams Broadside. Castlerock Elsie Mo. Bath ales Gem. St Austell Tribute. Oakham JHB Hook Norton Hooky bitter.

Have not been told our food is average before but we don't pretend to be a restaurant. This is a back street boozer, big portions, traditional homemade pub food at reasonable prices.
And our customers tell us, "the best Sunday lunch in town"

Thank you for your commentsIt's a really pubby pub, with the friendly staff more impressive than the beers from the Wells/Young list or the very average food. It's a very cosy place to with friends though.Slightly odd opening hours, you don't find many pubs closed on a Saturday afternoon these days. Whether there are restrictions on the licence or similar I don't know as the nearby Live and Let Live also shuts for much of a Saturday afternoon which I would think would be a busy time of the week for most pubs as well.

But aside from that quibble and in the face of strong competition in this part of Cambridge from the Live and Let Live and especially the Cambridge Blue I would rank it as my favourite pub in Cambridge. The range of beers at the Cambridge Blue is better, but there's always 7-8 on here and a varying selection, and I just find it slightly more lively and a slightly more interesting mix of people than at the other two pubs i've named.

Very good indeed

Stopped here for lunch as it looked good and busy which is usually a good sign. The pub was suitably packed but we were still made very welcome. The lady behind the bar was really helpful in finding us a table. Despite being warned that our meals might take about 20 minutes to be cooked (fresh to order we were told) they got to us much quicker. Very fresh and very delicious.
My London Pride was outstanding and the wife enjoyed her very chilled glass of Pinot Grigio.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED and an absolute gem of a find, we will definitely be going back. OUTSTANDING!
I wish this was my local.

We visited the Lion and Lamb with a party of friends on one of their Christmas party evenings. For £25 we got one of the best Christmas meals I have ever had , service second to none and a great party afterwards.

The girls looking after us were fantastic. Really attentive all night and definitely helped to get us in the Christmas spirit.

I have to say that it's a shame that there are not more pubs out there like this one. The food, obviously home cooked, was just fantastic. The staff friendly and the owners obviously care about their business and it shines through.

WELL DONE and thanks for making such a great effort to make our night one of the most memorable for ages.Typical locals pub, though with relatively upmarket menu and above-average beer prices. Landlord/Pride were good enough.

Forgot to mention - a small but excellent representative sample of bottled beers, mostly Belgian, as well. Fruit beers, Lambics, Trappists, and some of those really dangerous ones best avoided if driving in the next 48 hours!I must echo previous comments by others: an excellent visit this evening. Unfortunately I was driving my friend so we had only a pint of the superb Oakham Bishop's Farewell, but it's obviously popular as when it ran out halfway through pulling the second pint another barrel was swiftly connected. Just as good. Also available were Weston's Country Perry and a real cider (Pickled Pig's "Porker's Snout"), For us alemeisters there was also Theakston's OP, Nethergate's IPA, Everard's Tiger, Tring's Blonde, Mighty Oak's Oscar Wilde, and on a rare double-necked pump (one pipe with sparkler, one not - make your choice!) Bateman's session XB. A lovely pub - no children after 19:30 and friendly locals. Well worth the weather heating up and getting the bicycles out so we can enjoy more! Recommended.As good as ever, and as good a beer pub as you'll find anywhere - even had a great Bass recently (not a joke).

This was my local for years when I lived round the corner. Lovely pub. On my last visit hadn't changed at all. Plenty of choice ales (Woodforde's Wherry my favourite) and the same 3 bar layout - locals, students, middle-class mums. The latest comment (28/Dec) worries me - it was always a great pub full of nice people when I was a regular, which was most days...Six ales on - but all 'mainstream' (as in nothing out of the ordinary). Had a pint of Ringwood Bitter which weren't anything special, in fact pretty dour really. Pub was half populated by complete dickheads (and the staff too, seemed to be divided between being decent folk and complete twats). This place certainly ain't worth the trek out from town.Very enterprising back-street pub, with very good beer and an all-round pleasant atmosphere. I miss the Pedigree under the old ownership; it was the best Pedi in the country. The Emperor is pretty good too.