The Golden Lion in Forest Heath

Stop for lunch on way to Great Yarmouth Nice and bright inside,I had steak and chips,wife had scampi & chips Both good value and tasted very nice Recommended 👍

Been here meny times the food is always good. The staff quick. Toilets clean. Its not the ritz quality but it's a great spoons! Can't beat free coffee refill.

A very busy pub, good beer and food, with hard working staff

Very busy on Friday night but pleasant food+drink at respectable prices

What's not to like. All good. My favourite stop on way back from London.

The All Day Brunch is £4.91 Inc unlimited Lavazza. The place is so solid I travel here to Eat. Nothing about the Lion is not good, it is Golden

Excellent breakfast. The service was super quick, two breakfasts in the time it takes to get a coffee and hot chocolate. Refills great. Coffee is good.

It was an enjoyable experience, food came in decent time, Was worth coming in, friendly staff and decent beers on draught.

Great place cheap beer and food . It is what it is !

It's OK not my kind of place to eat

Visited on a date one September Saturday. We initially arrived at lunchtime and it was heaving with standard families and spoons heroes. So we left and returned around 3 and it had quietened down considerably. Plenty of space and a large garden area with standard stupid no smoking area OUTSIDE!Why? Standard spoons drink tariff and food. Toilets upstairs. Some reviews refer to rough wildlife in here but no worse than any other spoons I've visited. Maybe they're a bit shorter! Horse racing on the telly. Warm sunshine when we visited so air conditioning indoors felt quite chilly when going for a wee. But overall nothing wrong with this pub at all. I'm going to go again for sure.

After refit nice food good and quick.

Good beer selection. Bar service not bad but probably better to use the app. Main advantage, low price.

Very nice pub. Great team of staff. Always pay a visit when in Newmarket.

We were with friends and their teenage daughters I bought a round of drinks and the two girls had Pepsi shortly after getting back to the table one of the staff lifted both the Pepsis and accused me of buying them alcohol. The way it was done was really disgusting and unprofessional. I had to find the person who had served me to tell him they were only Pepsi very embarrassing. Not going back

Nice range of drinks and decent food although they had run out of a lot but it was a Sunday afternoon when I went

A very nice place with good food and accessible prices.

A busy pub, yippee. Breakfast service just right perfect for us.

A good atmosphere when I visited on a Tuesday lunchtime. Nice beer garden and friendly folk. A.good selection of ales 🍺 👌

Fantastic value one of the best fish & chips I've ever had !

Always good food and service 😋 Staff are excellent and keep the tables cleared quickly 👌 nice place to visit and eat.

For a town where there’s dog walkers everywhere, got told to leave with my ‘mut’, would not recommend visiting if you want drinks or food, they’d rather have clientele that’s off their faces and not able to string a sentence together than someone with a dog for food. My dog is also a registered assistant dog and even then still didn’t care. They’ll happily have people bring their own cans of cheap ciders and sit out the front than an actual paying customer! Wasn’t until after they took my money for the drinks they told me he wasn’t allowed outside.

Typical weatherspoons, decent food at a decent price, usual sticky red carpets.

The Manager is completely rude and disrespectful and abusive. Last time i was there he used force to make me leave after paying out for a meal there. The manager also supports with bad behaviour from his staff and allows gossip to happen about guests there. Food is ridiculous, came out ever cold or under cooked, when complaining all they did was put it in the microwave to heat up for a minute then brings it back out. Worst service and experience I’ve had and would not recommend the place.

Very nice Wetherspoons in the centre of thown on the high street. Fairly standard by being spacious with the usual décor. Seating inside and out, with table service on the app or order from the bar. It's a spoons, you know the sketch. A little tighter than usual with the breakfast portion sizes.

Very nice and very clean weather spoons. Friendly staff had a good laugh with them.

Can get busy at the weekend but good service and the food is good

Typical spoons fayre. Only problem they have 2 table 59s which caused a bit of a problem when ordering online.

It's a wetherspoons. Simple food, half decent beer. This one has too many older gamblers, horse people and slightly miserable older men. But aside from that it isn't too bad at all. Haha wierdly I always get on well here and end up talking about revolutions🤣🙄. Let's go

Food getting worse and worse. Never been great but at least good value, not any more, just dry, overcooked meat everytime now.

Breakfast in Newmarket at 8am was our choice of a start to the day on a Saturday morning. The pub was eerily deserted and we took a seat in and settled in. Wetherspoons have a way of making you feel comfortable by having every one of it's pub's interiors look exactly the same as every other. The Golden Lion is no different in that respect. Another dreadful carpet, a few booths, long bar, coffee machines and a ten mile hike to empty your bladder, or worse. A breakfast wrap and a sausage bap/roll/cob were ordered from the exceptionally friendly server who just seemed delighted to have human contact at that time in the morning. A short wait and the breakfast feast soon arrived. Hot, cooked, tasty, there were no complaints at all. Even the coffee was very nice indeed and merited a second cup. It was a pleasant enough visit and we will certainly return.

Nice place for food and drinks.

It was busy, the staff were pleasant, prompt and helpful.

Like most, it gets busy in here, and i have struggled to get a table before, but generally you will get one. Order from the bar or table so very convenient, food is quickly served as i think they have a max time of 10 mins from order to table?. Food is good though, i love the chicken katsu and the fried breakfasts. Just cant go wrong with food and a pint and these prices.

Its a Weatherspoons so you know what to expect. The garden is nice and so are the toilets

Love the spoons 2 pints of Abbott ale and chicken jalfrezi Can't beat it

No dogs allowed even in the garden, it’s 2024 people, noisy snotty nosed kids welcome, well behaved dogs not… Your loss, pop to the pub either up or down the road to be welcomed…

dan on the bar is my literal favourite he’s always such a good man n friendly n everytime i come here from liverpool my first thought is if my fav bartenders in. he deserves some more appreciation 🤍🤍 truly boosts the whole spoons experience xx

Came for dinner with wife and son on Saturday night. Food was tasty and the service was very prompt. The pub was busy and a good atmosphere!

We're regular customers at Wetherspoons as we love the breakfasts that are served. A pub kept tidy, with friendly hard-working staff, in a suitable location. The breakfasts are fantastic! The only concern that we have is to do with the coffee machine. Sometimes the coffee tastes lovely, whilst other times it can taste foul. We're not sure if this is due to the machine's cleaning cycle or another reason, but I feel this is something Wetherspoons should really look into. Even if after a cleaning cycle, the machine could have an additional water rinse. Or the quality of ingredients. Other than that, we really enjoy our visits.

Cheep and cheerful. Extremely busy Bank Holiday Monday but fast service.

It’s a good Weatherspoons! We stopped in for a quick chicken burger and a beer on a random Wednesday evening. Food was standard spoons grub, my only criticism was that the side of halloumi was burnt, but we still ate it! I had one of the cask ales which was well kept. The place was clean and tidy, staff were brilliant and the atmosphere was standard spoons.

Great service and good quick food, exactly what you would expect.

Great prices and great service ❤️❤️👌

Great service and the food was just what we ordered 😀

Good beer garden, and cheap lunch options. Good place for afternoons

Brilliant clean toilets excellany

It is weird that they don't allow dogs in but then serve humans with dog food

Very friendly and helpful staff.

We had such a fun time here with a group of friends food and alcohol was good and cheap

Always the best value, and generally consistent. And when you order a small fish n chips, they deliver exactly that (£1 coin}

Food was delicious and good value for money.

Food is disgusting and cold. manger was rude never again. Do yourself a favour keep away from this place and one thing the beans on the plate there was about 30 beans 🤣🤣🤣 disgusting place

Was ok food stood too long under hot lights so eggs over done

Visited for breakfast midweek. Quick service for both drinks and food. Food wasn't very hot. Bathrooms clean and tidy but upstairs. Large restaurant area, and outside area.

Good pub serving good food at a good price service was quick and staff both friendly and attentive

Dreadful food. Cold. Definitely not eating again. Total waste of money. Bar Staff great and feel sorry for the fact they are being let down by kitchen.

It's a Spoons, you know what your getting and that's what makes them popular

The small breakfast I ordered was great I got unlimited coffee and ice cream for desert it was a bargain 😋

Lovely Breakfast well worth the money, very quick service.

Good selection of beers, cheap prices and reasonable bar food. Staff are friendly.

It's a spoons! And while many people trash it, I love em. This one is no different.

Actually, one of the better breakfasts I've had in a Wetherspoons.

The person behind the till was having personal issues talking about her family and didn't need to hear that while eating breakfast

Curry deal good value, piping hot and quick service

Just ordered the chicken barriito salad. Had. No chicken! 🤢. . This my fav...its has happened twice now...what's so sad is this is my favourite dish!..... P. S...they bought the chicken out 20 min after I'd finished 🤣.

My partner & I decided to stop off for breakfast here, I ordered a large breakfast & he ordered American breakfast…totally disappointed…cheap sausages, bacon undercooked & only one piece of bacon, bean hard & no taste, mushroom looks like it was sat on the plate for a month, toast burnt, both meals came out cold, hot drinks cold & weak….waste of money & when I spoke to a member of staff she said sorry but nothing else. We shall not be coming back. I am actually sat at the table writing this review & still not one member of staff have come to speak to us….

Great spoons for a couple of drinks and a great breakfast

Friendly staff and great service

Very loud and the language was colourful. Food was good and the service was ok.

Went in out of the rain, stood at the bar waiting to be served, female bar person stood the other end and said who's next? So we had to walk down to her! My husband asked for a pint of Stella and without asking if we wanted anything else she asked for the money, I said hang on my husband wants something too. He turned to look at what beers they had and she rolled her eyes poured my drink then went and got his, told us the price no please or thank you, very rude girl.

Burgers were fairly disappointing, would have happily spent a few pounds more for a more substantial option

Had a large mixed grill, wasn't massively impressed all the meats kinda tasted the same. However, for the price, it's probably worth it. Service was great and staff friendly. Would return but order something different.

Not the best I've been in,bucket in middle of floor catching water,as roof was leaking,

Good place for drinks and food.

Has I never write a review me and my husband some times has a ride to Newmarket we was going to have something to eat in the golden lion but both want to the toilets and they were absolutely filthy if the toilet not clean what else isn't

Good breakfast at a great price

Always good service, and the staff are friendly, they will recommend various drinks if you ask

Breakfast was quite cheap as always being a Werherspoons, but sadly not happy with a rather tasteless sausage served. I can appreciate that in order to keep cost down cheaper alternatives may be used, but that was a real letdown in otherwise nice breakfast for its price. Bacon, hash brown, beans all very nice indeed. Otherwise a nice pub and I am sure that food is nice otherwise.

Very upset and angry.i entered the pub with my friend via the beer garden and took a table in the smoking area.my friend has a 4 month old toy poodle puppy.there were no signs to say dogs not allowed.when the bar staff btought our meals-on plates- she told us that we must leave immediately.we were not allowed to eat our food.she offered to give us takeaway cartons but could only find one,so we had to squash both meals in the one box.the lid couldnt close so we had to eat it as soon as possible before it got cold and spoily even more.i appreciate that the pub have the right to ban dogs but there should have been a sign up..there were children running kicking a ball in the garden weaving in and out of tables but that was acceptable,whereas a small puppy on a lead sat quietly under the table wasnt.i dont regard this as good service.my meal out with a friend was ruined

The food was really good as was the service.

... friendly atmosphere.. really polite staff ! good surroundings\atmosphere.... would suggest Having a Visit happily !! . ..

Nice and spacious pub located along the High Street. Good value drinks and reasonable priced food items... staff is efficient and friendly during our visit

Nice Wetherspoons in the high street of Newmarket visited after a visit to the nation horse racing museum

Not sure what's happened to the food here, half cooked chips and burnt burger and crispy eggs

Nice, well cooked breakfast, especially the bacon and grilled tomatoes - just a little burnt. Baked beans were straight on the plate but the bean juice didn't run everywhere ruining everything else, but I'd prefer them in a separate bowl.

Lovely pub for a few cheap drinks. Haven't tried their food.

Took a while to clear tables but nice atmosphere. Only 10 chips came with the double burger, when I mentioned it to the waitress she just walked away.

Good place to go for a work night out.

Couple of pints and burger, done the job

Popped in for quick cup of tea, discovered you pay for one and the rest are free!

I love whetherspoons chains some are better than others. Been going to this one for a year. Placed an order today waited 15mins order never materialised. Went to the bar staff ignored me called the staff several times before she acknowledged me, whilst other staff was putting glasses back and the other staff was doing a drink order. Even the woman who ingored me several times eventually responded to me when I ask where my food was. She tried to tell me I hadn’t placed an order when I provided her proof the order was placed. I ask to speak to manager, manager came over but never introduced theirself. Prior to coming over the same boy that ignored me, putting away the glasses approached me, I couldn’t make out what he had said but assumed he was asking how could he help, so I ask if he was the manager. He replied no pulling some weird facial expressions and walked off. Another person came over and never introduced theirselves so I ask whether they were manager. The person replied yes, so I explained what had happened which she didn’t seem to care. During conversation a male came over confirming my order. The manager walked off without during conversation, I ask the male who he was he said deputy manager. ( which been nice if he could of said who he was) The woman from the kitchen started shouting stating at me,I had placed an order and moved tables which wasn’t the case clearly other people do that shouldn’t assume everyone else does this. when I told her this wasn’t the case she didn’t apologise just let going on and on. Doing hand gestures. Nor did any of the staff( manager or deputy manager pull her up on her attitude or behaviour. Deputy manger just said you put the wrong table number down wrong which is an easy mistake. ( try telling your staff this) I walked off after this, member of staff ( the boy how got in a strop and the manager stood beside my table talking looking back at me. When they saw I saw them they moved clearly was talking about me. High turn over, short staff and rude staff. ( manager or supervisor don’t pull staff up when witnessing it) No common sense, or how to introduce theirselfs to customers Know nothing about customer service This pub is terrible will never ever come in her again Atmosphere is great in here but not due to staff due to other customers that make the atmosphere great

really quick service and good food

It was ok as I would expect a Wetherspoons to be.

Served quickly. Friendly staff.

Food was okay but not very hot when we went in for breakfast

It's a spoons. Decent service and usual selection of drinks

Good Wetherspoons pub. Usual good value food and service. A bit busy at the time, but OK.

Waited 1hr 20min for drinks. Absolutely shocking.

Classic wetherspoons, massive beer garden, friendly people.