Red Lion Hotel café and bar in Basingstoke and Deane

We had a lovely evening on Valentine’s Day. The set menu was executed well and the cooking excellent. Service was very friendly, we’ll be back! It’s also dog friendly.

Take away order, took around 45-50 mins to be ready for pick up. Mushroom rice 3 stars - a little bland, Peshwari Naan 3 stars - had better, Keema Naan 4 stars, Shashlik 5 stars - succulent chicken pieces very tasty, Korai Lamb also 5 stars - a decent amount of tender lamb (differs from some of the other reviews). Both mains were good quality and did not include the usual dump of food colouring that blights other takeaways and restaurants. It is also worth noting the really competitive prices here, definitely worth a visit. Can't understand some of the one star reviews.

Quick click and collect order. Straight in, straight out all fresh. Brilliant

Ordered 2 meals and a starter to come altogether. Got the starter first. Then over an hour of waiting for mains to come. Table of 7 who arrived a while after us got their starters and mains before us. We only received our food when we asked where it was and turns out it had been waiting under the hot light for ages. By the time we got our food we had to take it to go as our 1 year old was tired and kicking off by this point. No apology was given or discount offered. Very disappointed as we rarely go out to eat. Seems like delivery orders were prioritised. A lot of money spent to then eat our cold food at home!

It is shut ! Why can’t Google tell you this ?!? It is too hard to even get to doing a review !!!!