Red Lion in South Northamptonshire

Good food and beer in a cosy warm pub I'm

Fantastic meal out, very reasonably priced, also sell Xmas Trees during November and December

Upon arrival met by owner who seemed quite offish Went for a shower at 17:30 and no hot water , shower not very clean , no WiFi as apparently cable is broken but found cable coiled up next to the pole complete with connecter

I visited with my family, and I had the days special, which was satay chicken, which was very good. My son had the lasagne, and my wife had the vegetable lasagne. Which they both thoroughly enjoyed. Nice chilled out atmosphere and friendly staff. Will be going back.😄

Stayed at the campsite for one night and had some food in the pub. Facilities very basic and not very attractive. Lights in the shower not working in the morning, so not usable. Food very bland (I had a chicken curry) - below average. Service staff was trying their best, but very inexperienced. You get much better facilties at a better price at other campsites in the area.

Lovely people,lovely food and atmosphere,would recommend 👌 😋

Very nice location, well kept site. Facilities always very clean. The play park was great for the kids they loved it

Some great folks but no water hookup.⁶

We had a 4 night stay at the lovely campsite. Host was friendly, approachable. Site well maintained. Lovely little shop on site with all the essential . Unisex facilities which were always clean . Highly recommend The Red Lion pub campsite . We had a lovely evening meal in the pub and all allergies were catered for. 100 percent recommend. Will be returning Kids play park was perfect and keep our children entertained for hours

Fish and Chip Friday, fantastic value £12, for fish and chips plus glass of wine, a real bargain, excellent food, cooked to perfection

A very welcoming atmosphere 😊 wonderful food, Fabulous hosts excellent value for money will definitely go again

My wife & I visited this lovely quaint village in our campervan and stayed for 3 nights with our dog on the site behind the pub. The site was tidy & the toilets/shower block was clean with lovely hot water. Washing up facilities were also available & good. My wife is disabled & everything was easy for her to use with the shower room being fully accessible. Access to the pub was good for her too. The food & drink in the pub was excellent. The prices were very fair too. We went in on Wednesday which is steak night. The service was friendly and quick. We'll definitely be back to this gem of a place.

Fabulous place to eat. Sat outside in the sunshine with the dogs (not sure if they are allowed inside). Will definitely be returning.

Fabulous lunch after walking with a group of 10 of us. Very prompt friendly service . The chips were best ever, crisp and dry. Would have no hesitation in recommending this pub.

Stayed for a couple of days on campsite, Staff were very helpful and friendly, Food was lovely, although a bit more stilton in the sauce would have been tastier.

Pre Christmas Dinner with the family. There was nothing I liked for starter so just had mains and pudding. Everything was cooked well. Service was good. Atmosphere was lovely Christmas songs were playing we were still able to chat amongst ourselves.

Very good value for money and good service

Well what a great place for delicious food. We had fish and chips with peas. The plates were hot and the food very hot. The batter crisp and delicious. The fish cooked to perfection. Amazing chips. Served by a beautiful young lady that was quick and efficient. The pub was clean and had a warm atmosphere.

Able to camp for the evening, the owners were fantastic.. site was clean. Food and beer selection was great. Service brilliant. Will go again

Brilliant value excellent service family run Brilliant hospitality highly recommended fantastic pub must go

Lovely, homely, traditional pub with good honest food at the best prices around.

First ever visit here, I wasn't disappointed, food and drink excellent, service and prices very very good, highly recommend a visit.

Great campsite toilet and shower very clean hot water for washing up. Good meal and drinks in the pub nice friendly staff and welcome. Bus stop right outside pub for those who don’t want to drive.Will come again.

We went here for steak night. What a lovely location! There was plants for sale, little animals to see, a campsite. A wonderful, charming pub. Our hosts were polite and took the time to chat. Definitely a place to visit.

Great food, amazing service, food came out so fast, hot and the best tasting food we’ve had in a long time. Great price too! Staff were attentive and friendly, couldn’t fault a single thing. Thank you 😊 we’ll be back.. frequently!

Mike made us feel very welcome. Nice quiet camp site and the food in the pub was superb.

We were staying at the campsite so it was easy for us to try out the pub onsite and we were glad we did 😀 we had a lunchtime drink and then enjoyed a lovely meal outside on the under cover terrace - we had our dog with us 😁 and the service was friendly, polite and quick ! Food was delicious and great value - we are here for a week so we will be back 😋

Average food and rubbish service... ended up clearing our own plates and paying at the bar or we'd have been there all night.

Lovely family run pub, good choice of beers, and superb food.

Three of us had Pie's for lunch today. Food and service was excellent.

Always lovely food and the service was excellent

Village pub serving good ales and well-cooked food from a simple menu. Very friendly and helpful staff. Watch out for limited opening hours (not open some days), but a popular pub with locals when open

Lovely place with great hosts and brilliant food. Definitely recommend.

Lovely pub great hosts food one of the best value in the area pie excellent always look forward to a visit

Great food, great beer. We stayed in the campsite at back of pub. Nice site with all facilities you would need. Pub is not dog friendly, campsite is

Comfortable pub with good beer, fire in the winter months and covered outside seating. Best of all an egg stall and micro shop in the car park what a perfect excuse for a beer "just popping out for some eggs dear " 😆. Can't comment on the food.

Excellent food, modest prices and a warm welcome. Highly recommended.

Lovely food and a great place to park over in motorhome

Popped in after a walk with the grandchildren whilst visiting our sons family before sitting down to lunch. Landlord chatty and friendly as were the locals. A comfortable friendly pub that serves food and a good pint of real ale.

Friendly, traditional pub offering standard pub grub at good prices. Lovely atmosphere and a cosy woodburner! Well worth a visit.

Called in on Tuesday evening,(steak night) Steak grilled to perfection. Excellent value for money.

Excellent food at a reasonable price. We were accompanied by a person with mobility problems and the staff could not have been more helpful. We'll be back!

Lovely place. Nice friendly people. Delicious food. Top marks!

Lovely meal and hosts very friendly returned 2 days later for Sunday roast and just as lovely cannot wait to return to the area

Good to see the place getting back to normal. Good village pub fare at a reasonable price with a great atmosphere.

Hugely disappointed at how much the Black Lion has gone downhill. We have been coming here for 2 years and have brought many friends and family for a Sunday Roast as in the past it has been the very best. It now seems that they are under new management and the service and quality of the food has dropped to a minimal standard. We brought our family for a roast expecting our usually lovely experience but were greeted with poor service, the wrong food being brought out, instructions ignored and a vodka and coke served in a pint of coke?! The food was disgusting...somewhat reminent of a school dinner, the meat thinly sliced and the gravy watery. The meal then ended with completely the wrong receipt being brought to the table with 5 extra items added. It's been a good run Black Lion but we will not be returning! Time to find a new roast!

Great little pub next to the park with good food and nice atmosphere. Staff are friendly and decor is great

I love the Black Lion as a venue for meet ups and special occasions. The surroundings are beautiful as it is a listed building and the dining room is very cosy with lots of candle light. The food is excellent and service is amazing, nothing is too much trouble for the staff who are very helpful and polite.

Mother's Day lunch was a Sunday Roast at the Kilburn Black Lion next to the fireplace, it was lovely. We've been coming for many years and it's just the best.

Absolutely appalling , took my mother for mother's day , group of 4 , waiters didn't even acknowledge us , didn't receive menus for ages , asked for water 5 times each time was told " it's on its way" , so my pregnant girlfriend didn't have a drink well over half an hour, service was a disgrace, food was mediocre , waited over an hour for it tho , meanwhile others who came in after us received Thiers first , then once finished , didn't receive desert menus , when asked , the waiter said isn't someone looking after you , and walked away dismissively , thus resulting in us getting up and leaving , even when paying the bill they didn't come and pick it up until we were walking away, ruined my mother's day.

We went here on Christmas Day and it had a great atmosphere. Food was lovely, and huge portions.

I came here with my boyfriend on Sunday for the roast and we had booked a table for 4.30pm. At this rather early time, once we’d been seated we were really disappointed to find that there was no pork or beef left. We weren’t particularly inspired by the other roast options, so we decided to order from the regular menu. I ordered the tuna steak, which was unfortunately also unavailable, so we settled for 2 burgers. Whilst they were massive and definitely filling, the meat was dry and we both found it really hard to get through them even though we were super hungry! We also ordered the brie to start which was mainly bread and salad with two very small slices of brie - not what we were expecting at all. There was a party behind us who were really drunk and loud and who dropped several glasses and knocked into my chair several times whilst getting up to sing around each other. It wasn’t exactly the relaxing afternoon we’d hoped for! This was a real shame, as we’ve previously come for the roast and have had an excellent meal. I’d like to come back again, but it’s super disappointing when so much is unavailable and the alternative choice you make isn’t great!

Good venue, bad staff. Has been the case twice now.

Went with partner for Sunday lunch - relatively quiet at 4pm, so lots of space and chilled atmosphere despite international football being on. It is a really beautiful pub decor wise! I went for the chicken and my partner had the veggie Wellington. Chicken was generous but rather dry, which was a shame and I don't feel there was enough veg (some may consider this to be a positive thing I'm sure!) That was my only niggle - in comparison my partner said her veg Wellington was amazing and she really enjoyed it. Service was great, especially when we asked if we could change one of the orders slightly - very accommodating, would come again but go for lamb/pork instead!

Pre dinner theatre. Very good service. Beautiful building. Food imaginative and well cooked. Will be back

Very good gastro-pub food, friendly service, very nice ambiance. Just across the street from the Tricycle

We've been here a few times and think it's great. On top of great food and fabulous service, its worth a visit for the buildings original features alone.

I booked the Black Lion primarily because it is opposite the Tricycle Theatre and a friend and I were attending a show there. Having no idea what to expect we were delighted as the Black Lion is an old fashioned pub with a dining room and services bar meals. When I say old fashioned this includes the original features of the pub from the very early 19th century. I have never seen anything like this in situ and would recommend the venue for that reason alone. That said the menu was very good, as we enjoyed the pre-theatre menu, with soup and a delicious gnocchi for me, chicken for my friend, as well as a well priced bottle of wine. The service was excellent, attentive enough, without being overly so, while friendly. I hope to find an excuse to visit again soon.

We went to the Black Lion before a play at the Tricycle Theatre. The menu is interesting and you can see this pub is putting in the effort to provide good food.

Went with two friends to Black Lion, Kilburn, prior to matinee performance at The Tricycle Theatre. Never been before. I shall be back whenever I visit the Tricycle. And if I lived nearer Kilburn, I would become a regular. Excellent friendly service, well thought out menu, good food and outstanding value.

We had Christmas lunch at The Black Lion. We maid reservation before going to London, and meet very good service all the way through. The pub is large and has a very nice atmosphere. The staff are friendly and the food is good.

Such a great find. The pub is absolutely beautiful, such an impressive ceiling and decor. Friendly staff, good food, open fires what more could you ask for for a Sunday lunch?! Would thoroughly recommend

I went for Sunday lunch at the Black Lion with my daughter. We both ordered scallops to start which were delicious. To follow we both had the roast beef with all the trimmings, which was reasonably good though not outstanding. Our waitress was lovely and the prices were reasonable. However although the dining room was quite pleasant, it was virtually empty, most diners seemed to opt to eat in the bar, so not much ambiance. I would go again but probably eat in the bar.

A very pleasant evening out with my wife. The barman recommended the guest lager which was actually an American craft beer reminiscent of Sam Adams. I tried it and it was very good. There was a reasonable amount of choice on the menu and my...

We took my Nan here for lunch to celebrate our anniversary - and despite the fact we were the only ones in the restaurant for the majority of our meal, the whole experience was fab. Food was amazing quality and very generous portion sizes (in fact, after starter and main, we didn't have enough space for dessert, sadly!) - and the service was very attentive, without being over-the-top. Would definitely go back...

Beautiful pub with lots of original features. Service very good, attentive and considerate. Sunday roast was amazing, home cooked, we tried the pork and lamb, definitely go back. The alternative to roast was salmon or salads, both salads Surf and Turf and blackened Chicken were very good, so lots of hard choices to make! Bit disappointed about the puddings I had heard they were home made and excellent, but the creme brûlée was very thick too thick but edible and the rhubarb crumble was very very dry. A lovely place to enjoy a drink and some great food.

Firstly, a quite outstanding pub in its own right - breathe taking architectural features (ceiling etc), and a huge long bar. One of the best in London in my opinion. So to the dining, in the dining room (with equally impressive ceiling). We booked for 5 people and when we arrived had a warm welcome. Negatives: tables and chairs a bit of a second hand store mish mash, our table was really wobbly and hardly fit for purpose. My steamed spinach with garlic (part of the chicken & mushroom pie plate) was not steamed and had no garlic (just oldish leave out of a pack). Service, although staff are remarkably good, was slow (although they were really busy, and had a mass booking/function which they coped with really well). BUT that's where the negatives end. My chicken and mushroom pie was the best I have ever had, full of flavour; others had roast beef (looked and tasted amazing with lashings of awesome gravy), roast lamb, and burger. All amazing and memorable, and selection of deserts too. Top value for money, and a place We would highly recommend. We will definitely be back for more of the same.

Wonderful place, staff are amazingly friendly, the pub is a wonderful old pub, beautiful! The food, amazing and what is nice is the chef takes a massive pride in what he is doing, he came to our table to talk to us on Friday night to see what we wanted... He even convinced us that a pudding was a must! Can't wait to go back, the steak was to die for!!

Great looking venue and really welcoming waiting staff led us to have high hopes... Faded quickly as food started to arrive. Very underwhelming, small portioned starters we let ride as not everyone gets these right and the mains sounded good. Unfortunately these arrived with under seasoned, tough and untrimmed (lamb) on an overcooked student-like pile of risotto that looked like every left over in the kitchen had been stirred in. An average steak was also served up with completely blackened burnt chips and massive tasteless onion rings and a cold sauce. At the end of a long day we decided to just eat what we could and finish our bottle of wine but even this was disturbed by screaming and shouting from the kitchen, clearly audible to all diners. I used to work in kitchens and understand a momentary incident can cause staff to boil over but this continued for over 30 minutes! The venue has great potential and in some of it's (Italian) front of house staff some excellent people who made us feel really welcome... The kitchen however is failing and needs correcting from the top down.

I had Sunday lunch here last week with my partner and when I left I was full, the portions were huge which makes it hard to critic the food too badly but I was expecting a really great British meal and left feeling disappointed. The service from the Irish barman were second to none and made moving our booking from the restaurant to the bar very easy and helped us choose a few drinks. I liked the look of most starters but felt all the garnishes were strange so I skipped, however my partner had the scallops which were almost raw (let it be said I like them opaque or even medium rare) they had no colour and were cold, they had not been prepped and still had roes attached, I cant even recall the garnish as we didnt eat them. The pork belly main was a great piece of meat and I really enjoyed the flavour, it had been cooked slow and very well, but that was it, the veg that accompanied was not seasoned and ranged from raw to over done. The roast potatoes were black instead of crispy and clearly means they were warmed in microwave or hot held with a lid on, the potatoes had not even been peeled?! To finish the crumble was inedible and the butter or fat used in it had split and lacked enough crumble top to balance. The ice cream was good quality. All in all was less than forty pound so cannot grumble too much, but just wanted it to be good, and it was far from it.

Really lovely meal - beautiful venue. Definitely be going back when in Kilburn.

Delicious Sunday roast, both meat and vegetarian options. The vegetarian Wellington pie was top! All food cooked in the pub fresh. We finished with warm chocolate brownie with vanilla ice-cream. Also excellent!