Red Lion

Homely village local with changing beers, fair-priced food and neat colourful garden

Features

Speciality beers
Cask ales
Sandwiches
Garden
  • Sandwiches sold

Bar food times: 12-2, 6.30-8.30; not Sun evening, Mon

Typical main dish: fish pie

Typical main dish price: £12.50

Average two course evening meal price: £19.00

  • Speciality beers
  • Cask ales

Price of cheapest bitter: £3.60

Name of cheapest bitter: Tring Side Pocket

  • Dogs allowed in the bar

The good pub guide review

Perhaps one of the secrets to this pub's success is the fact that in 1982 it became the first pub in the country to be owned by the local community ' and they've never looked back. It's a busy and cheerful place. The main room on the left has grey wainscoting, sturdy, well varnished furniture including padded country kitchen chairs and cast-iron-framed tables on patterned carpet, a generous window seat, fox hunting prints and a log fire in a brick fireplace. The somewhat smaller room on the right has steeplechase prints, varnished plank panelling and brocaded bar stools on flagstones around the servery; background music, darts and dominoes. Timothy Taylors Landlord and Tring Side Pocket for a Toad with guests such as Butcombe Original, Oakham JHB and Wolf in Sheeps Clothing on handpump, five farm ciders, seven wines by the glass (including an English house wine), a perry and winter mulled wine. A few picnic-sets on grass at the front face lime trees on the peaceful village green opposite, while the pergola-covered back terrace and good-sized sheltered garden with its colourful herbaceous border have seats and picnic-sets (some shade is provided by a tall ash tree). Check the website for details of circular walks from the pub.

The good pub guide food review

Enjoyable home-made food from a changing menu includes sandwiches, sweet potato and spinach curry, prawns with garlic and chilli, wild mushroom, stilton and broccoli crumble, Asian-spiced sea bass, steak and red wine pie, chilli con carne, spiced lentil or lamb moussaka, moules frites, and puddings such as crème brûlée and passion-fruit pavlova.

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Contact Details

Red Lion, The Green, Preston, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG4 7UD

(01462) 459585

Opening Hours

Weekdays: 12-3, 5-11

Saturday: 12-midnight

Sunday: 12-10.30

Winter: 12-4, 7-10.30 Sun