The Old Red Lion in Central Bedfordshire

Great service from Jeremy the waiter friendly, courteous and very polite the food was amazing. Had a great time. I will see you again.

Terrible service. Staff need urgent training - the food was ok but ruined multiple visits because the wait staff really aren’t good.

Absolutely terrible. Waited along time to be served a drink and then when we went to get our carvery the meat and other food was of such poor we had to leave.

I’ve been in hotel and catering for 37 years. I had been invited there for my friends birthday which we had to pre book our meals weeks in advance. We arrived for 6.30 when our table was booked. We waited ages for any drink orders and 45 minutes for our starters. The staff were not rushed off their feet so they shouldn’t have taken so long to bring drinks or our starters out. The next mistake was no one had informed the party organisers the chef was not doing the hamhock for starters which is bad management not informing the party. And the chef in his wisdom thought it would be ok just to do a chicken dish instead. Which to me is not acceptable. The starters came out willy nilly and my friend had ordered white bait which looked like miniature fish fingers gone wrong from Iceland costing maybe 49p which were also burnt. Her dip with them looked like it had been used before which was disgusting. Which was sent back as it wasn’t edible. The order of service was dreadful. And the dinner rocked up at about ten past 8. In which two dinners were sent back due to being over cooked. One look cremated and the salmon was so over cooked it was white, dry and tasteless. I don’t think I would of even given it to my cat. So we sent it all back. They did re cook the chicken which was better on arrival 25 minutes later. But it did make me think if there was even a chef in the kitchen and it was a kitchen porter cooking instead. You need to know this because how can you improve your business if your not told. I will never ever eat there again. And would never recommend anyone to eat there as it was disgusting. I’m only sorry I never took pictures.

The roast was great. Well worth the money. Lovely attentive staff member who looked after us. We used to visit quite frequently before the pub was taken over and not disappointed with the roast now.

Having heard really good things about the red lion since it’s reopened, my friend and I decided to try it today for a meal at lunchtime. I was a little disappointed that they didn’t have the mussels on as after reading the menu online I was going to have that however I decided to have the pork belly which was excellent, a very slight criticism is the cracking wasn’t crispy but that’s only slight and I still really enjoyed my meal which was excellent! My friend enjoyed her hunters chicken. We decided to have a dessert but when the menu came there was so much not available, even the coffees! I understand they’d had a problem with a delivery and beyond their control, these things happen and we really enjoyed our selection of brownies with a pot of tea, the one thing we said is the staff were all so lovely and couldn’t do enough for you which makes for a very enjoyable experience. Will definitely be back very soon and can’t wait to try the carvery!