The Red Lion, Southampton - pub details
Address: 55 High Street, Southampton, Hampshire, SO14 2NS [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 917 0007 (ref 6034)
Southampton Central (0.8 miles), Woolston (1.3 miles), Millbrook - Hants (1.6 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Sky TV, Jukebox
- Dartboard, Fruit machines, Quiz machines
- Food served, Real ale
- Credit cards accepted, Accommodation available, Wireless internet access
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> Current user rating: 7.4/10 (rated by 18 users)
> Local guides: Southampton pub guide, Hampshire pub guide
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user reviews of the Red Lion, Southampton
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| This is a pub to visit if you're hungry! On a busy Saturday when the rest of Southampton is jam packed with shoppers, take a moment to disapear into the Red Lion. The beer is good, local too. The scenary is amazing (you have to see it to believe it) and the food, well, it'll set you up for the day and probably the next as well. It can be quiet (sometimes a blessing), the barman can be surley, but the venue and food quite make up for this. Ekohawk - 31 Oct 2008 15:18 |
| Pride, Bombardier &, amazingly, the only outlet in Southampton (allegedly) for Pride of Romsey from Hampshire brewery just 4m away. I remarked that it wasn’t looking too clever & the kindly barman immediately went to replace the barrel & the next pint was perfect. Historic pub with extraordinary high church-like ceiling (3 storeys?), anciently timbered throughout, decorated with heraldry, coats of arms, banners, an enormous fireplace of 1280 French oak, apparently a unique example of a carved kitchen fireplace which it used to be. Old wood panelling opposite bar, upholstered settles chairs & stools to the rear, tiny lead-light windows, way above head height, to the street and, bizarrely, a parrot in a 5’ cage. The upper gallery, with creaky uneven floor, is the scene of the 1415 trial of conspirators against HenryV & they lost their heads just up the road. To the rear is a low-lit dining area, empty but playing a most inappropriate soundtrack (that shite that today’s yoof mistakenly call R&B), fortunately it was inaudible in the equally sparse pub itself. An essential architectural stop & you may just get a guest ale as good as mine. trainman - 29 Sep 2008 07:28 |
| Lovely period public house, the food was plentiful fresh and pleasant and the beer spot on! mmmpktge - 4 May 2008 22:19 |
| Although the beer was not the best, this is def worth a trip. The pub goes back to the 15th century, maybe earlier and is well amazing to look up at the beams in the back, you really get a feel of what it must've been like years ago, nothing has changed in here, quite spectacular. I bet its a matter of time before some london speculator, local jewry or venture capitalist gets his filthy hands on this place and makes it into a restaurant or something. as it is, its shit, but its original well-old shit. top stuff. BolshevistBoozehound - 15 Apr 2008 17:13 |
| Interesting pub.Beer better than previously - excellent (but expensive)pint of Pride of Romsey. anonymous - 28 Oct 2007 16:55 |
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