The Red Lion in Sutton

Well what an absolute pleasure our visit to the red lion was. the food was delicious and the manager could not have been more accommodating, she was fabulous.

Been to this pub for years and it’s always pretty quiet. Recently the lady behind the bar had forced me and my friends to keep buying drinks threatening to chuck us out if we don’t. Wouldn’t suggest coming here if you want a relaxed evening. I don’t usually comment on these things but the landlady was incredibly rude saying she’ll put a picture of me in a local group chat because I spoke out about the forceful purchasing drive.

I was liking this pub until my partner was accused of being a troublemaker in this pub. When he's never been a troublemaker in his life in this pub and when we went there yesterday, he hasn't been there for nearly 2 months. So IM really shocked of the service and the attitude of one of the people in there. So I will not be coming back to this pub no more.

Good little pub with extremely friendly staff will certainly be back.

Friendly service. We booked back room garden to celebrate kid party. Everything was top.

We had a hell of an evening here over the weekend. Initially we sat down for a couple of pints. The rugby world cup games and then England's football game ensured the crowd was buzzing. There's enough space outdoors with screens and live music. The staff are quite friendly. Honestly me and my buddy were so buzzed we didn't care much about food. Definitely coming again soon.

i have been to this little local pub amazing atmosphere welcoming the staff are very warm welcoming friendly polite kind amazing they go above and beyond to help service with a smile drinks prices are good to i love this pub and just to say to the staff you are all super incredible thankyou

Made me feel uncomfortable aswell as my family as was just stood staring at us

The Red Lion is a nice small neighborhood English pub. There are a couple of small intimate rooms. Also a large outdoor beer garden which on a summer evening was filled with families and their children. There is a cat that roams around room to room. This place is the epitome of an English neighborhood pub.

A great pub which is always pleasant to visit! They have a standard selection of pints (Kronenbourg, Guinness ect.) and these are always well poured to the top of the glass. They have Sky and all of the sports channels available if you quite like watching that with a pint. There isn't a kitchen available but you're allowed to order takeaway there if you're feeling hungry. Atmosphere is nice and the people that go there are friendly! Can sometimes be unusually empty on weekends but those times are rare. They often have bands and karaoke events if you quite fancy a sing. If you're in the area then I would definitely recommend popping in for a drink or two!

They don't offer food. However, the pub is great for football and beer :) I really like Pimms, which is in the photo 🥰🔥 The garden could be improved... :)

Nicely set out with a spacious garden. Sport on the screens, if that’s your thing. Sadly no real ales.

Fantastic PUB. Friendly people!

I been here only a few times in my life as my local and its always been a great pub with good locals and good food. Maybe a bit too small but overall a good place to go if your in town.

Excellent local pub. Friendly staff and customers

A great and friendly place. Happy and helpful staff!!

Decent pub but expensive. Paid 5.50 for pint of beer

Great atmosphere and very friendly

Great local and landlady. Love this place. Lovely outside space aswell.

I lovey pub 5mims walk from wher I live and staff all nice chat good drinks nice got met some nice people and Whitney lovey bar lady all talk to

Friendly local pub, great vibes, nice size garden. Not serving food, good choices for drinks. Friendly staff.

We recently had an engagement party at The Red Lion, we'd been a few times before and thought the prices were good and the pub and beer garden were well kept so figured it was the perfect location for a party. When booking the manager couldn't have been more helpful and this continued on the actual day, all the staff were brilliant, providing such an inclusive atmosphere. The decorations that they had set up exceeded our expectations and everything was so reasonably priced. Everyone had a great time and we really would recommend this place for anyone planning an event. We couldn't be more thankful to them for helping make our day so special!

Really friendly run pub the staff are so helpful and friendly and smiley nice size gardens cosy pub inside and all kids are so welcome up until 8pm as they don't have a food menu they got a good selection of crisps and peanuts snacks

Delicious cauliflower soup and Welsh rarebit. Main courses about £20 with a few exceptions.Nice pot of tea.

Friendly local pub. Staff are always up for a chat and know the regular patrons well which creates a homely vibe. Good for sports, not serving food currently

Just visited the Red Lion yesterday with my husband and 2 young kids. Even though we've lived locally for years we never tried out the pub thinking if it was child friendly and if taking a buggy in would be convenient but to my amazement the place is amazing especially if you go to the private area at the back adjacent to the lovely garden. We had our own wee space as it was during a quite time. A special mention to Cornor who was managing the bar and the place, he was sooo warm and welcoming and made us so comfortable. Only shame that they didn't serve food but we had some lovely drinks. Overall loved the place...we will definitely become regulars. We are also looking to book the place for a private event as we loved the staff and the ambiance :)

Friendly bar staff and a good atmosphere

Nice place to hang out with family

Great local pub. The staff are always so welcoming 😊

We held a gender reveal party at this pub in the function room. From start to finish the Manager and staff were so helpful and accommodating beyond words. I will definitely be hosting more family events in this pub. Thank you all for making our day the most memorable.

This is the closest pub to my house so its my local, your local pub is like family, "you can choose your friends but you can't choose your local". Luckily we're onto a goodun' the staff are quality, the food is nice and the beer is even better. The furniture is in good shape too so its allready better than any greene king pub. What more could you want?

Excellent.Loved it in their.The young lady on the bar before was very friendly & served us with a smile

Went today with my brother. Great service from connor 😃

Pretty good overall good selection of beverages and good food and plenty of outdoor spaces of which are lot are covered

Love this pub, great atmosphere, really good staff and guverners, very friendly crowd

Lovely little pub very friendly

Great pub, traditional, classic. But no more mask and barriers.

Good little old pub, but ruined by the usual Pubco effect. Barely any customers, except when the rowdy crowd appear because the football is on ( only if England are playing ) then disappear again. I can go to pubs in London and pay nearly half the price. And they are trying to turn it into a restaurant. The outside caters well for covered seating, but if they don't take it down by next week, they will lose the sunshine brigade. The building is old and cute and small, the staff are great.

Nice pub with decent locals. Food is pretty bad and although most of the staff are great the actual manager is not great, her behaviour is really odd and sometime erratic.

We phoned up, and told it was all good to come down.. When we got there, they wouldn't let us unless we download their app, when we explained that one didnt have a phone , left it at home, they wouldn't let us in. We explained that we were happy to give them our details , but they insisted, we must have our phones with us. And was told to leave.. We went to hastings last week for 3 days, had no problems getting in to any pub, and we went after that pub red lion to the grey hound in carshalton, had no problem getting in... Shame that the people at the red lion who made it all so complicated, one shouldn't have to have a phone to enter any premises. This is England not South Africa ( yet). Where one cannot go out without a phone or signal. I'm not ready to give up my basic human rights just yet..well actually nepver.. Shame on the landlady who didn't tell us on the phone about the requirements but instead expected us to go home to get the phone. .yeah right !

First time here because another pub was fully booked but definitely will be back lovley pub really friendly staff! A group of us was there Friday and Saturday night and both nights we enjoyed it there. Also food looked amazing definitely gonna try the food for myself next time. Look forward to seeing you again soon!

Just stopped for a sunday roast with wife and daughter. I had the roast beef. She had the chicken. They heated up our daughters pre-prepared for us which was a big hit. Service was excellent. Staff very welcoming and friendly. Roast was large, filling and very nice. Outside seating was lovely on a day like it was today. Definitely will be coming back.

Great little pub small and cosy

Questionable approach to social distancing. Pressured by manager to leave if not ordering drink, not long after finishing first drink. Comfortable seats.

Overly complicated method of ordering, witnessed new covid rules being broken without any staff resistance, older clientele, pleasant staff but constantly pressured to keep buying alcohol

It is well managed and all precaltioñs foŕ the safety of its customers ar observed

Very well organised Pub Clean, well presented local pub Food and wine menu limited but in these times understandable Good atmosphere and friendly staff All very helpful Menu was online and all orders taken by phone using the swiftly app

Since the pub re-opened after the long closure the management and bar staff are extremely unhelpful and rude. They seem to have forgotten about their regular customers and people who have given them business for the best part of 5 years in favour of large groups of rowdy males. There's no evidence of any Coronavirus protocols on site in place as people don't stick to tables, mix as they please and pass/go various different tables as they please. Avoid at all costs.

Nice friendly staff. Good measures explained because of covid

Lovely pub with friendly staff. This place has become my regular. BT and Sky Sports shown in this pub.

Always a good time when we get time to go.

Won darts finals one reason bar girl guessed what drink I wanted and got it right and even shouted good bye on way out I will be going there again

Went for a meal, but they stop serving at 6pm on a Saturday night 😳

10 of us had our work Christmas lunch here, and had to pay a deposit and select our food choices 2 weeks ahead. We rang an hour or two beforehand to make sure everything was OK, and were told it was. However, upon arrival in the restaurant we were informed that one of the starter choices (chicken liver parfait) and one of the desserts (Christmas Pudding, believe or not!) were NOT available, so some of us had to quickly make other selections. The Christmas menu options were fairly limited, so to have such a high percentage of them unavailable seemed very disappointing. The food was generally tasty, but service was very slow, and we appeared to be the ONLY people in the restaurant area having Christmas lunch for the entire time we were there. We were not even offered coffee or mince pies at the end of the meal, despite sitting there for a long time after our desserts. Even if they weren't included in the festive menu price (which is a little unusual, compared with all the places we have been in previous years), we were effectively ignored from the dessert point onwards. This is the closest establishment to our place of work to have had a Christmas lunch, and this is our first visit. Based on today's experience, I am afraid I could not recommend another visit next year. Even the music being played was just standard pub hits (Adele, etc.) without even one hint of a sleigh bell :(

Good place to shop. Friendly & helpful staff.

Good beer, been a long time since I was last there.. Will be back!

Went for a walk and found this pub. Our daughter wanted a kids Sunday lunch, £3.95 for a very generous portion. Staff friendly. Would definitely come back and try the regular menu.

A lot of money for not a lot...

Great place for a week day lunch. A varied menu. Staff are friendly and accommodating. Lovely beer garden which is a sun trap. Also a covered outside area so you can get the best of both worlds. A little patience may be required in food arriving at table (we were told about the waiting time in advance of ordering) but this wasn't a big deal as I started to read a very interesting book from the collection dotted around the dining room while my husband watched the rugby from one of the several TVs.

Fantastic place. Staff andvthe locals go above and beyond to make your experience a memorable one.

Friendly traditional pub with a nice little garden and a dartboard inside

The pub had advertised that they would be serving breakfast from 10am, thought it was a great op to find a new breakfast place closer to home - we went at 10.15 the pub was not open??

Baaaad sandwich. And a hole of a pub.

Nice friendly Pub. Good lunch 👍

This is a real English pub👌nice staff, outdoor area, not overpriced. 2 burgers for price of one, yammy Must be on yours way...

Nice place to sit and watch a match with a pint

Went to have a meal no food after 6 pm what a joke

Few friends and our children have been in here a few times on a Friday after school and had food and a few drinks and it’s always been ok , however my recent visit I was stunned at the attitude of the management, they make out like they are so child friendly but really they aren’t at all , picking at everything the children was doing ever 5 mins like they wasn’t aloud to laugh or act like children they wasn’t Mis behaving at all they are good kids Maybe if they had some colouring books and pencils the children would of been more entertained, Very disappointed I definitely will not be going back to this pub anymore the staffs attitude was disgusting- it’s more of a mans pub than family friendly for sure ! And the food was disgusting the last few times I’ve gone in here to ...

It's quite hard to get through the door but once you're in there it's ok

Beer good. No for families . Food not great, Not good for price for the quality and quantity .

Very good beer. Don't bother order food. Burger was awful and the 20 chips in metal bucket were recooked. One member of staff trying to do everything. Tried to complain and was told food was okay this was after some random woman who said she was landlady, who had just woken up came down looking like shrek on a good day. Says family pub, yeah right if your kids are 40+ and alcoholics. After speaking to regulars at bar they said it's always this bad . AVOID IF WANT A FAMILY PUB.

Lovely place nice friendly staff

Friendly staff, nice atmosphere

Good local pub, has a decent sized beer garden for the summer months. Two bar areas, one mainly for the drinkers and the rear bar for food and is a more child friendly area. Food is standard pub style with the classic favourites making an appearance.

Fantastic place for food and dri k . Very ffeindly atmosphere

Lovely church go every Sunday 01200 till 1500

Hubby and I decided to visit having not been here in years, I wasn’t disappointed lovely ambience very family friendly great food which was good value although the beer is a little pricey it’s not bad for a local pub. I thoroughly enjoyed my evening with the staff and customers being welcoming and friendly

Lovely pub with good beer garden

Nice ambiance lovely frendly staff

Lovely local pub with great service. And very reasonably priced. Highly recommended.

Very friendly pub great food Good prices refurbished well

Opened the pub out nice on a summer evening food great v nice ambience beer prices good Everyone really friendly pub

Good pub friendly staff nice cold beer

Food was ratten, had a chicken burger that tasted like it had sat in the sun all day.. avoid

Great food and service. Friendly cost pub

The amount of times we have popped in to our local pub and been disappointed by the service and behaviour of the manager of this pub. Some of the staff are so good and so lovely with great customer service which they DEFINITELY DO NOT learn from the manager! Yesterday was the last time we will be making a trip here that's for sure. How this pub is still running under the management it is now is unbelievable, the staff in that place keep it going because if it wasn't for some of them staff, the manager would be out of a job!! Rude and unbelievable!

The clasicc club sandwich is huge and tasty like no other simple sandwich I tried before. Also, the stuff if very friendly and the ambient is generally very nice and classic.

Friendly atmosphere, nice food, what more do you want, and large beer garden, worth a visit.

After seeing the review of Beckie Watts and taking all her points into consideration, I feel that I would not wish to have lunch at this pub, so that would save me a lot of wasted time and trouble. Thanks Beckie for posting your review online.

Looks good after a refurbishment, decent service and a good choice of beers.Had to wait an age for food even though the place was near on empty. Not sure if I could spend a night here but good enough for a beer or two.

Friendly atmosphere..garden so kids can go too

I had the misfortune of ordering a steak sandwich. I was asked how I would like my steak, 'medium rare' I replied. The barmaid brought out the cutlery and sauces. I was horrified, the cutlery was filthy. Dried food smeared all over it. Not a great start. After almost an hour of waiting for my delicious piece of medium rare steak in a sandwich (obviously in a decent piece of bloomer or ciabatta) I was produced with a few pieces of dried steak strips, smothered with cheese, in a two slices of cheap bread that had gone hard (probally due to microwaving the 'sandwich' to melt the cheese or leaving the cheap white bread to the elements). Apparently the 'sandwich' was to come with a dressed garnished salad. The salad (undressed) consisted of one ring of red onion, one slice of tomato and one leaf of baby gem lettuce. I could not bring myself to eat it. It was utterly horrendous. After asking for a refund as my food was untouched because of the unedibility, the 'cook' came back out with said food, slammed it down on my table and was so rude I could not believe it. She told me I would get no refund 'just because you dont like it' and stormed off. I couldnt believe it. It was like an episode from Ramseys Kitchen nightmares. If only Gordon was there. He would of thrown it at them. The owner then appeared at the bar from upstairs, hair everywhere as if she had just rolled out of bed (3:30pm). Telling me I was not getting a refund and that the dried microwaved steak slices were perfectly ok and that the bread was not in fact stale (and oh my gosh it was so stale). She came to this conclusion by poking her dirty finger on it. I got no refund or edible food. I left hungry and £6.45 lighter. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. My advice. . . . Return the pool table and forget the food.

Staff are very friendly. Ordered food, the prices aren't too bad for a pub. Wanted to watch the football and they put it on and when the channel changed the guy couldn't apologise enough for it. I would come back here, even if it is just for a pint. They have a friendly cat that loves people.

I had the misfortune of ordering a steak sandwich. I was asked how I would like my steak, 'medium rare' I replied. The barmaid brought out the cutlery and sauces. I was horrified, the cutlery was filthy. Dried food smeared all over it. Not a great start. After almost an hour of waiting for my delicious piece of medium rare steak in a sandwich (obviously in a decent piece of bloomer or ciabatta) I was produced with a few pieces of dried steak strips, smothered with cheese, in a two slices of cheap bread that had gone hard (probally due to microwaving the 'sandwich' to melt the cheese or leaving the cheap white bread to the elements). Apparently the 'sandwich' was to come with a dressed garnished salad. The salad (undressed) consisted of one ring of red onion, one slice of tomato and one leaf of baby gem lettuce. I could not bring myself to eat it. It was utterly horrendous. After asking for a refund as my food was untouched because of the unedibility, the 'cook' came back out with said food, slammed it down on my table and was so rude I could not believe it. She told me I would get no refund 'just because you dont like it' and stormed off. I couldnt believe it. It was like an episode from Ramseys Kitchen nightmares. If only Gordon was there. He would of thrown it at them. The owner then appeared at the bar from upstairs, hair everywhere as if she had just rolled out of bed (3:30pm). Telling me I was not getting a refund and that the dried microwaved steak slices were perfectly ok and that the bread was not in fact stale (and oh my gosh it was so stale). She came to this conclusion by poking her dirty finger on it. I got no refund or edible food. I left hungry and £6.45 lighter. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. My advice. . . . Return the pool table and forget the food.

Fab staff lovely pub nice garden

Excellent food friendly staff a great community pub if reckon this place to anyone if its just for a quick pint or a night out .

Good atmosphere, food great, I hadn't been for many years and I'm pleased that I popped in again

Best local pub around. Music and food is very good

Lovely pub, Staff and management friendly. Didn't eat however food looked fresh. Toilets were spotless and fresh.

Friendly staff, nice cask beer and good beer garden on a sunny day.