The Lion At Basford in Nottingham

Great place, love it. Never had such a fantastic local. Brilliant in the summer too, huge beer garden. Friendly, great music, great live music, excellent beer selections. Just wish the food menu was better... burgers are good but the rest of the options not so good,

Well worth finding if you're in the city. A short tram ride and a two minute walk, if you remember to push the bell on the tram.

Best pub ever, great pints, great support when we come in with the cricket team and help us get a table for 15, great staff

Laid back city pub with Victorian features. Good range of burgers etc including some good meat, vegetarian and vegan options. Huge range of drinks. Dog friendly. LBGT etc friendly, builder friendly.

We love the Lion, the beer is impeccably kept and there are lots of real ales. The food is good and very popular. There are regular quizzes and live music at the weekends. The pub attracts a diverse customer base, a real social mix of ages and background and I think this adds to the relaxed and friendly atmosphere. It's also very much a dog pub, there are dog beds available and dog snacks too. I thoroughly recommend a visit to The Lion.

A great place to visit, if you’re looking for live entertainment, a large selection of Ales, and some great bar food! - highly recommended!

The Lion has a welcoming atmosphere and a good variety of beers for reasonable prices. The outdoor seating section is spacious. The food was unfortunately not fantastic. The wrap was OK but not worth the price. I'll let others decide whether the amount of fries was deserving of paying an extra £1.50.

Only good things to say about this place!! staff are so so friendly and they have the best pub food, like um hello pub grub tapas? Yes please. Every visit the food and service standards have been top tier, thank you so much!

Decent pub wasn't convinced about the food.

Fantastic pub. Good beer, good food, good people. There's a good sized beer garden although getting a seat inside can be a bit tricky. Plenty of live events throughout the year. Very much oet friendly. Easy to get to with a tram stop right across the road

Excellent service with a great beer choice.

Lovely pub nice & warm dog friendly and great beer and food what else could you ask for

Great pub, live music, dog friendly, big selection of proper beers. True gem

This place give you a pleasure in your soul. The hotel itself give you joy inside!

I want to express my gratitude to this team once again! Every visit to your pub lifts your spirits) Cozy, tasty and generally fun!

I don't know the place... You're welcome look

Great beer, good quiz, cracking onion rings

It's a lovely pub, has lots of board games, is quite spacious, the toilets are very clean (you have no idea how many pubs are excellent until you go to the toilets)., there is often live music ,Great selection of beers and the food is delicious and comes quite quickly. Had a burger and it was one of the best I've ever had.

Great venue for live music food was great. I had a fantastic night celebrating a friends 40th birthday. Would highly recommend for a good night out.

I went here with 3 friends and it was fantastic. Everyone was enthusiastic and the service, even though there was a lot to do, was very nice. Always happy.

Gorgeous boozer with an amazing selection of cask and craft beers. The staff are tremendously knowledgeable and helpful. Lovely burger, too, which arrived quickly and was very tasty.

Went to watch a band playing. Loved the interior of the place. Great atmosphere quick service would definitely go again

Great place, friendly staff and live music

We visited today: both myself & husband ordered festive burgers (chicken with brie) served with roasties & gravy. Absolutely delicious! Very welcoming to our little pooch as well: fabulous pub, will go for another festive burger before Christmas 🎄

One of the best pubs in Nottingham. Superb craft beer range that is constantly refreshed; excellent beer garden and really eclectic range of weekly entertainment. Couldn't recommend it more!

Splendid choice of real ale and cider. Other drinks are available. Food freshly cooked. The Lion also supports live music.

Had to leave after an hour with breathing problems ( allergic asthma ). Nine assorted dogs cavorting in main bar area. Gutted ; have been drinking in here for years. Bring back Teresa !

Brilliant pub, the band play that night kept on giving a great performance, Staff where very friendly, definitely a place to visit again

Good range of real ale, friendly mixed age group patrons, great live music at weekends

Friendly staff, great beer/lager/ale selection and the food (burgers) are amazing x

The Lion is our local, it's a proper pub with friendly atmosphere. It's won dog friendly pub of the year The food menu focuses on burgers, a great range to suit all tastes and diets. Has live music on Fri Sat and Sun. Real ales and ciders, brilliant outdoor space considering the urban location. Easy to get to on the tram (Shipstone Street stop) and next door to Black Iris Brewery

Best pub in Nottingham. Great bands, cracking selection of beers with staff theatre focus on friends and knowledgeable service.

Amazing pub, there is often live music. Great selection of beers and ales too. Food is delicious and comes quite fast, not massive portions but just enough to feel full and satisfied. Had a burger and it was one of the best I've ever had. Recommended

Staff know their customers very well and look after them accordingly with a smile and excellent service - don't eat as eating is cheatin Live bands and quizz night brings in lots of different and friendly characters

Fantastic pub, great food, friendly staff and good atmosphere 👍

Mixed review. We had the Nachos and Cod and Crab cakes to start , they were served hot and were delicious. Went downhill with the Burgers. They are so small and very gritty, almost as if something had been added to the mince to make it go further. The onion rings were so greasy, I definitely couldn't eat mine. The server who took them away agreed with me and said she would tell the Chef. She did offer us a drink on the house. Not good enough. We barely touched our food and should have been given a refund. Such a shame. It used to be a great Pub. Very telling that the place was practically empty on a Friday evening. Sorry guys, but you need to up your game.

Great pub with a good choice of drinks fantastic burgers and dog friendly

I had high hopes for this pub, I enquired for a birthday gathering, but bar staff and manager were quite stand offish and being difficult. I felt like I wasn’t wanted there! This was later confirmed when I emailed about the booking and got no reply back. Shame as I really as I liked the decore and beer! Did leave after one pint feeling rubbish as no other pubs like this in the area treat people like myself in this manor! Very disappointing!

Good old fashioned homely pub with a fantastic beer garden, friendly staff and a family favourite

Great Ale, great atmosphere, great pub, Great quiz on a wednesday night n live music at the weekend, the place is just bang on

Great atmosphere. Great customers. Bar staff excellent. Beer excellent

Excellent selection of Real Ale and a great choice of food. There's plenty of space in the beer garden, probably the best in Nottingham.

Good pub, good burgers, great beer

Super dog friendly, good tap selection. We did not have food but I will certainly be back to try the food. Toilets could do with an update. Very friendly and welcoming pub highly recomend

I only went in to meet some friends, but the atmosphere was welcoming, and the service was good overall, though it's a nice place

Fuming let a family of 6 spent over £100 to be told all kids have to sit from 6 -830 cuz they sell food. Then sell food to people inside !!

Brilliant friendly service, good food, great atmosphere, highly recommend

Went here to see a band that my mate knew. I'd only been here once, during lockdown when everyone was forced to sit outside, and I'd been itching to go back since (the beer garden is EXCELLENT but I like the cosiness of a pub indoors as well). The only pub I've been to with a well 😂, this seemed to be used as extra seating and as a place to rest one's beer during the gig. It's a beautiful pub, has lots of board games, is quite roomy, the toilets are very clean (you've no idea how many pubs are excellent until you go into the toilets). We ordered some food, which is reasonably priced. We couldn't find food service info online so I've included pictures of the menu, which also includes the service times. We wanted the nachos, but they were off the menu. So asked for loaded fries but couldn't have our first and second choices. It turned out they either had no cheese or didn't have the facilities to offer melted cheese - to be fair, this was at 8:45pm on a Saturday night and they only do roast dinners on Sundays, so perhaps they'd just run down their supplies until they would be replenished on Monday. We had the Mexican hot fries and they were very good. My only criticism is that the tables are insanely sticky. We were told this was down to the sanitiser that is used, but they were sticky to the point that we couldn't put anything on them - no phones, no arms - and when we used the Nottingham Drinker magazine so we could put things on the table, it took the paper off the magazine when we lifted it off the table. Surely that isn't right. Anyway: amazing pub, if you haven't been then go, go, go!

Lovely people, great selection of excellent beers, nice food and great beer garden. Update Dec '23: still one of the best pubs in Notts. Update July '24: as above.

Nice relaxing inside and out some foods could have bit more taste but always done well .

Burgers are amazing, great selection of beers too, fantastic local.

Always a good pint,great bands in a friendly atmosphere

Great place, friendly staff and a beautiful beer garden. Will visit again.

Fantastic selection of real ale Best burgers in the area

I was surprised how good the food was

Great atmosphere and a fabulous range of beers and ciders. Live music and lovely food. Look forward to my next visit.

Great local pub in the heart of Basford. You can always find good live gigs, as well as amazing local pints.

Went to the once a month Sunday afternoon jazz session. Very enjoyable

Always a lovely evening at the Lion

By food, I mean beer. There's a regularly changing line up and it's well kept and the bar service is prompt and friendly.

Great little pub, went yesterday afternoon. Super dog friendly and nice beers, neck oil great according to the lads. Nice food too.

Good old pub with a great range of beers traditional and crafty!

Very relaxed atmosphere, nice place to relax and have a drink

Gents has a very strong smell of urine. Female bar member either serves her mates first or just ignores you. We left. Shame. Went 50 metres down the hill to micro pub. Much better service. Won't return to the lion to be ignored. Burgers overdone last time we ate there.

Atmosphere brilliant on band night

We love the pub quiz here! Lovely staff and good selection of drinks :)

Great selection of cask, keg and craft beers, awesome burgers, lively locals.

Best traditional bitter in town!

One of the best pubs in Nottingham

Great pub with probably the most friendliest staff and locals, bearing in mind I'm from Nottingham but now live in Manchester. This is how most pubs are here up north, but this pub certainly stood out as a classic everyone welcome place and warmed my heart to be amongst the true locals. Great seating indoor and outdoor. Get down there for a pint 👌🏽 didn't get any scran but I bet its decent.

Cannot give a score for food as not yet eaten there, although the food passing me looked very appetizing. The reason for being there was to listen to a band, and the atmosphere was very good, the locals are friendly, and the bar staff are also welcoming. Only down point is because only one part of the bar serves drink, it can take a while to get served, when busy.

Fabulously friendly and comfy pub for both humans and dogs :D, with regular events and live music. Limited food options but great outdoors space and a brand range of well kept ales/stouts, lagers and cider.

Great real ale pub, dog friendly with an outside garden

Lovely food, good choice of beers and helpful staff. Not been to the lion for years after moving but glad i revisited

Great place for a beer and food 👌

Good pub grub with an excellent selection of ale ! By far the best pub in the group's repertoire !

Fabulously kept pub, clean, in a lovely oldy worldy decor. Super range of real ales, comfortable seating, menu nice and food 1st class. They also own the White Lion at Swingate in Kimberley, that is also fantastic real ales and live entertainmemt. Would recommend and also look down into the cellar from bar area !

Great little pub. Parking round the back is a little tight but just park on the road. Great service and we didn't know you did takeaway!!!! Amazing. Thanks

All six of us enjoyed the meals, thanks team The Lion at Basford.

A wonderful pub for real nail and live music, the staff are excellent.

Great atmosphere, always a band on! Friendly staff, big carpark and smoking area.

Just went in for drinks but have eaten there before. Good selection beers and lovely burgers

Great hosts.. Friendly and helpful.. Great food and roaring log fires to keep it cosy 🔥

I have loved this pub for years. Great range of beers, pub food ,live music and a cosy atmosphere. The outside area has been vastly improved recently. A good place to catch up with old friends.

Beer and place wonderful. Pity I Don live nearer. Food OK.

Lovely welcoming pub , always something going off from backgammon on a monday , to quiz night on wed and live bands at the weekend , staff are very friendly and is an all round nice place to be

Lovely local pub, friendly atmosphere and diverse clientele. I’ve not eaten here recently but the food has always been good in the past!

One of my favourite pubs in Nottingham, beer was excellent, burger & fries superb 😋

Great food and an amazing atmosphere. Everyone are so friendly

Great beer and food with a lovely atmosphere

Great place with comfortable food and a good selection of beers and ales, highly recommended.

Every time I've been there's good staff. Good food too, and very dog friendly. Lovely.

A very good place with nice people present and a dog friendly pub. Their food is 100% fresh and excellent. The only reason I have given them 4 stars is because I had to wait 40 minutes for my food however they was very busy when I was there.

The place felt just right atmosphere wise. We arrived at just before midday and there were a few people waiting outside for the place to open. Plenty of outside tables and seating and likewise indoors. The food was very tasty and plentiful. The service was very reasonable considering the food was cooked fresh and the staff were friendly and polite. We don't live in the area but would definitely go again if we are ever in the area.

Large, spacious pub selling lots and lots of ale. Plenty of seating inside and out. Friendly and knowledgeable staff who were very helpful. Also serves food. Does allow stop overs but phone ahead as carpark isn’t huge . It also has a slight slope but it didn’t bother me for the one night. Hosts live music acts.Also has 16 bit emulators to have a blast from the past! Highly recommended 🚐 🍻 🦁 👾🎤🎸

Great staff, great beers, great food. What's not to like :-)

Cracking place. Excellent ales, food great at a great price. The staff are just brilliant and can't do enough to make a visit worthwhile. I'm glad all pubs aren't like this, as it really stands out as being a gem and worth travelling to. Even the tram stops right outside!

Great food , especially sunday roast, and lots of lovely beer( a recent gem was called Crunch, a peanut butter and chocolate stout)

Friendly & lively pub with a large selection of beers and big outdoor area.

Good has suffered from shrinkflation. Beers still good though.