The Red Lion in South Northamptonshire

Absolutely fantastic! I had the lamb chops and it was the best pub lunch I've had for decades. Great value all round. Congratulations to the staff and the chefs.

Excellent breakfast. Probably the best I’ve had. Would totally recommend!

Absolutely lovely place to stop.for food... really tasty.. Nice selection of beers.. has a shop in the garden too... would recommend 👌

Such a great little village pub with amazing food!

If you’re after a delicious meal and a nice atmosphere - search no longer! This pub/barn shop has it all. The best service, most tasty foods, freshly baked sausage rolls and scotch eggs, mouth watering focaccias and pasties and THE best sandwiches!!!! You will have the best breakfast and lunch here and a few awesome goodies to take home from the shop. Bronnie (the owner), Maria, Max and Eddie serving and Justin (the owner) and Ollie in the kitchen - BOOM! You will NOT regret booking your meal here. We as a family of four with friends here and there keep coming back! No competition

Travelled from Ross-on-Wye to celebrate a friend’s birthday who was travelling from the opposite direction, so I was hoping I had made the right choice and wasn’t disappointed! The decor and atmosphere is welcoming and staff friendly and polite. I had the Festive Pie with mash and it was delicious, the gravy was amazing. My friend had the fish and chips which he said was also delicious. If I am in the area again will definitely eat there again. 😊

Wonderful food, perfect pudding and lovely atmosphere.

Very tasty food and very professional staff and very reasonable prices all ways a pleasure to go back 😇😇😇😇👍👍👍👍

This is an excellent restaurant with a varied selection on the menu and especially good value specials that are added. The service is also warm and friendly and well worth travelling out to from Towcester or Banbury and combining it with a walk round the lovely village. There is also a barn shop attached selling a comprehensive range of deli type products. Only wish the Red Lion was in our village. Highly Recommended.

Amazing food and a great menu! Highly recommend to anyone looking for a nice delicious meal! Really nice beer garden too. The haddock goujons we’re some of the best I’ve ever had!

Excellent food and very friendly and helpful service

Food was lovely,great breakfast and excellent price,staff friendly and helpful

Lovely building and great food. Let down by the abrupt staff.

Lovely pub. Good service, great fresh food. Reasonable prices. Will return

Came here for my Father's 90th birthday, (9 of us) and it was a perfect venue for that. We had an area to ourselves so it wasn't too noisy so he could hear. Great choice of food which everyone enjoyed. The staff were excellent and went above and beyond - we had supplied our own cake which they kindly allowed us, and provided plates, and even a box to take the remainders home with us. Thank you Red Lion!

Lovely food, friendly staff and dog friendly.

Great pub. Fantastic food. Very welcoming hosts.. 5 Star experience

Lovely place for a meal and a drink. Good service. Shop in the garden always with tempting things. Booked our next lunch visit.

Super nice service, good food, nice beer garden. Plan spotting inclusive 😀

A lovely lunch with family spent in the garden. Great food and service.

Never been there before, but i shared a lunch with a lovely lady. So all in all it was very good

Really nice venue with a great menu and atmosphere.

Only popped in for a pint all very nice and friendly.

Nice pint. Was there over a back holiday but they went y open much

Great food, friendly service, gorgeous location.

Delicious food and a warm welcome, what a great place

Lovely meal, lovely environment. Staff friendly and helpful.

Great place to lunch, varied menu, high quality food, lovely surroundings!

I think this may have been the third visit here over the last 3 or so years. Each time we've been greeted and taken to a table where people are nicely spread out, we were not all huddled in one area with other diners. The food was well presented and each time we've commented to each other that it was clearly made to order and not some nasty microwave fare. We will be returning.

We have been to this pub many times but not recently until Wednesday for lunch. Great to see same owners serving brilliant, good value food. Place was packed and we are not surprised. Well done.

Lovely food. Really nice people, all in a friendly, comfortable atmosphere. What’s not to like?

Great food, friendly staff in attractive surroundings.

Highly recommend this gem of a place. Great food, professional and efficient service. Decor is charming and lovely, and cleanliness level is excellent - right down to the toilets. So far, we’ve had the steak, burger, steak pie, pork steak daily special, and bacon & egg sandwiches. Ate every single morsel, because it’s all just so scrumptious! Even the side salad - fresh, and the dressing is yummilicious. Desserts are great too. They have a separate indoor seating area for guests with dogs. Ample parking spaces as well. Overall, two thumbs up.

I booked a table for 13 people at short notice for December 27th 2022 due to another venue letting me down. Very tasty choices and good value from that month's menu. Cosy feel and obviously very popular judging by the fact that all their tables were full of happy people eating and drinking well. Thanks for taking my call Brinny. I'll suggest meeting up with my sister's family there again when my lot travel down from Nottingham.

It was so lovely to come back here after the Covid madness. Brownin is always so professional and organised and she's so friendly too. She trains her staff so well and the prices were not bad at all. Thank you for an amazing meal you served up for 13 of us just 2 days after Christmas. You were so busy and the pub and restaurant were packed. Thank goodness we booked before hand! Happy new year to you and your staff. See you again soon!

Very friendly staff, great food and drink. Shop out the back has some fantastic food.

Another excellent meal in very pleasant surroundings. Staff were attentive and very helpful. We will be back!

Fabulous coffee. The staff are very friendly and welcoming. Great place to stop on a bike ride or anything else for that matter.

Lovely place, lovely people, lovely food ✅

Food, ambience and service all excellent.

Wasn't particularly impressed with the main course, but enjoyed the dessert.

One of those pubs that ticks all boxes. Would love to live nearer as we really enjoyed visiting the area and The Red Lion. A proper community pub with a shop attached, good customer service, attractive setting, chilled music, food and drink were all top notch especially the Purity beer on draft produced a feel good vibe. Hope to return in the near future.

A great little country pub ...Drinks and food on visit was 5 star ..

This is a lovely daytime restaurant/cafe with good food and garden, but the opening hours are so restrictive (closing at 6pm, only open certain days) that I don't think it's really a pub any more.

Shop in the barn is excellent-especially for home prepared meals

Fantastic range of food in shop, we love shop there.

Very accommodating, staff were warm and welcoming. Popped in for a mid morning coffee and sausage roll from the farm shop half way through a rainy dog walk. Dogs were welcomed and the wet wellies. Will be doing jt again very soon!

Amazing place to dine and yummy food. Fab decor and happy, attentive staff

We've been here a few times over the years. The food is outstanding, as is the attention to detail in the dishes. The service is attentive, very family-friendly and prices are very good considering the high quality of the dishes here. I had the exquisite Korean Chicken to start, with a long-time favourite of mine, the Red Lion Burger for my main along with a pint of Purity's Lawless Lager. Amongst the menu highlights on our table were; Foccacia Bread, King Prawns and Olives and Almonds and wonderful Crispy Coconut Crumbed Tiger Prawn Skewers with a Sweet Chilli & Mango Dipping Sauce (specials menu). Mains recommended by our party were Sole, Surf n' Turf and from the specials menu - Lamb, Chickpea & Sweet Potato Curry with Basmati Rice, Flatbread & Mango Chutney. We didn't have desserts as we normally would today, as we were celebrating a birthday and planned to have cake at home (although this was kindly offered by the pub owners). If we'd stayed for dessert, the choice of ice cream is superb and I'm sure we'd have seriously enjoyed pud too. Thank you Red Lion, enjoy your well-deserved holidays and see you again soon! X

Absolutely stunning food, great atmosphere and the FOH had a naughty twinkle in his eyes to match his sense of humour! I'm a huge fan of this pub and definitely visit again!

Really high quality food and nice speciality wines. Staff are attentive, and service is great

Amazing food. And what a lovely couple that own it.. very friendly

Poor Bar service No Guinness No draught Cider

Amazing meal, great hosts. Would highly recommend

Excellent food and well kept beer. I had the haggis and Belly Pork and my partner the Korean Fried Chicken and Sea Bass. Also a decent shop in the Barn.

A return to the Red Lion for my traditional birthday dinner after missing last year due to covid restrictions. Same great service and food, the only difference is their earlier opening/closing hours (understandably). Bronni and Justin, with support from Ollie run a tight kitchen producing consistently great food, and fantastic that they've now added the Barn Shop so that you can stock up on their beautiful focaccia and meals to cook at home, as well as fresh and store cupboard essentials. Pictured are the Chicken Saltimbocca with basil mash (my choice, and absolutely yummy) and the beef Phat Boy pie (his choice). I'm not a pie fan, but the filling was succulent and juicy I started with their excellent spicy crab cake and also shared his focaccia - no room for dessert!

Very enjoyable lunchtime pint and burger, great staff, lovely atmosphere.

Beautiful food. Fabulous service. I'd love to have an establishment like this in my neighbourhood. The locals are very lucky!!

Lovely cute atmosphere, very welcoming staff. Visited after a wedding the day before so was in the area but hadn't booked but they were able to accommodate us on a side table. Had the fish and chips which was lovely and very filling. Certainly recommend 5*

We went for a small family celebration lunch recently. I'd not been before and the rest of my family promised me the Red Lion is usually much better; however, they're running a reduced menu right now still which is fairly uninspiring. I had the sole, which wasn't bad, but came with a very greasy lukewarm potato rosti. The cheesecake dessert wasn't at all as described on the menu and the white was pretty poor quality. However, I'd have overlooked these issues if not for a few more. Firstly, when booking we'd mentioned one of our party is vegan and assured that wasn't a problem; however the only vegan starter was the olives and almonds (although the waitress then told us the almonds are in a non-vegan coating), the only main was arancini minus the parmesan they are otherwise served with and the only dessert was sorbet. I was surprised that in 2021, a fairly upmarket place like this has, as served, 0 vegan starters, 0 vegan mains and 1 vegan dessert on the menu. The bigger issue was the service, the staff were very slow and seemingly deaf to any and all requests. The waiter that served us was frankly rude. The waitress was much more polite if somewhat overbearing. For the price, I definitely wouldn't return.

Dropped in for lunch and was blown away. A beautiful pub garden, kept immaculately, with a deli off to one side. I had a the scotch egg special - smoked haddock and spring onion with charred tender stem on a rosti with shellfish sauce. It was divine. Attentive and friendly service. Very highly recommend.

Just had one of the best meals ever. The menu was very varied and lovely to have fish dishes on the menu. Food was beautifully presented with good portions. Lovely relaxed atmosphere but attentive staff. Will definitely be back.

Excellent. Can't wait to come back

Only the third 5* I've ever given, yet again four perfect meals in nice surroundings and with lovely staff!

A lovely friendly pub ,they have dog friendly seating in the gardens a barn were you can buy some different food drink and ice cream.The food in the pub was very tasty and not the usual menu a very nice selection for every body to try well worth a visit.

Third time with friends, excellent yet again, so that's now a dozen perfect meals!!

Lovely pub, food and service and good value. Will come again.

Absolutely delicious food and brilliant service 100% recommend

This pub has nailed it. Fabulous food, excellent service and very friendly helpful staff. Reasonably priced delicious food. Quick friendly service, what more could you ask for. We will definitely be back.

Had a lovely meal and drinks in the garden. Lots of tempting treats in the Red Lion Barn shop too.

Great food and service although diabolical facilities as toilet seat was broken. Stressful start but lovely time..

You can always guaranteed good food. The staff are helpful and friendly , good service.

I have used this pub numerous years and recommend it as we have always had first class service also used the barn . Tonight we had ordered takeaway through been misheard I got the wrong meal . I rang and spoke to Bronie and she actually drove over and brought the meal I wanted I mean a busy busy pub doing takeaway and took that extra time to look after you certainly goes above and beyond in my book . Thank you..

Fantastic pub with covid friendly outside spaces and a small shop. Great choice of whiskey! Keep up the great work, together we will survive this evil virus

Nicely kept gardens, car park and barn shop/bar/cafe. Looking forward to having a pint in the main pub when it opens later this month.

Friendly excellent service. Food fantastic in the garden with a more extended menu. A real joy to go for lunch and value for money, but will take my own cutlery next time. Not Red Lion fault covids fault. Disposable everything. They are now offering non alcoholic beer which was excellent. Such a sensible idea.

Great food and a warm welcome - there's also a lovely little shop selling all sorts of goodies and a pleasant garden to sit in

Small pub in small village but absolutely packed for lunch. Lovely food and (Purity!) beers served by cheerful staff to garden tables in full compliance with current restrictions / recommendations. Check opening times before you visit.

Warm welcome and really good food. Highly recommend a visit. Will definitely go back soon.

Excellent Sunday lunch, with a dog friendly section. If you are tempted by the hand made chocolates, they are every bit as good as the food.

We had lunch here with friends today - Great food and staff all very friendly and helpful, we look forward to returning again soon.

Our first visit to the red lion and certainly won't be our last. Very nice friendly staff. The lamb is to die for and certainly the best I've ever eaten. Desserts were also fantastic. Well done

Food was amazing and staff very friendly

Delicious food, excellent service. Very pleased to have found such a fine place to eat.

Great atmosphere and great food!!! Can’t wait to come back :)

Food was excellent and good beer choice.

The meal was excellent...but we missed the complimentary truffle at the end of the meal! Next time!😄

A group of 4 of us turned up the moment the pub opened at 5:30pm, without a reservation, on a Saturday night, but hoping for an early meal and a warm welcome from one of the most well regarded pubs in the area. Instead we encountered an ice cold reception from the bar staff, and an incredibly awkward argument between some other visitors fighting over a table the moment we set foot in the door. An inauspicious start... Anyway, we managed to secure ourselves a spot in the bar area on a table that wasn’t reserved until 8pm. Things were looking up, or so we thought. After waiting about 30 minutes for possibly the slowest barman on earth to serve our drinks order, and having had some genial chat with a few of the more friendly locals, we asked if we could see the menus to order some food. A (very polite and apologetic) waitress then arrived at the table and attempted to explain that, because we didn’t have a reservation, we couldn’t order food. She said that the chef, who possibly thinks of him or herself as a bit of a superstar, Marco Pierre White type character, (despite serving pretty standard gastropub fare from the looks of it) had only ordered enough food to serve those who had booked in for the evening. As the menu was a la carte, rather than set courses or pre ordered in advance, and had several dishes in each section to choose from, this excuse made absolutely no sense at all. Is the chef blessed of supernatural powers, able to predict precisely which guest will order precisely which starter, main, or dessert, and so is able to precisely order the exact amount of ingredients required, and not a drop more, contributing to a remarkable zero waste operation? Or perhaps the chef is the sort of inhospitable, curmudgeonly type that doesn’t take kindly to four out-of-towners turning up to his local pub for local people unannounced, and having the temerity to want to give them some extra business? Who knows... We pleaded with the waitress, as we’d walked for miles and had no food back at our place, if we could just have some chips or whatever other scraps the chef had knocking around, and we’d be out of their hair long before 8pm. She went back to her chef master to ask for clemency, but to no avail. As a form of compensation for not being able to eat any of the menu, we could at least take one home with us: there were lots of them rolled up into little scrolls in a box on the way to the bogs, presumably souvenirs for the guests lucky enough to sample the exotic delights of breaded calamari on their visit. Perhaps the chef could save money on all that extra paper and invest in a few extra chips to feed some walk-ins instead? My grandmother ran her own pub for fifteen years and would turn in her grave to hear about a publican treating their guests so shoddily and turning away good business, God rest her soul. Our evening was thankfully rescued with a Chinese takeaway, delivered by a lovey chap who even picked us up on the walk back to our accommodation and drove us the rest of the way. Now that’s what I call hospitality.

Great food, very generous portions. The beef was excellent. Good deserts too.

Wonderfully staff after 3 full on days at F1 Silverstone. Great G&T and pork pies. Thank you.

Good pub. Friendly, decent beer.

Food is very good and the service excellent. This is another country pub that has benefitted from a root and branch change into gastro pub. EVERYTHING has been spruced up not just the interior of the pub, the garden, the out buildings, the car park. No detail has escaped the new owner's attention.

Staff food and ambience are great.

Lovely food and service and superb value.

Excellent food lovely atmosphere

Seriously one of best meals I have had in this area over the last 20 years!!!!!!

Great really enjoyed the food. Service was friendly and good. The facilities are worth seeing. Overall a great night.

Excellent food, good choice well presented and drinks to match. The staff were all friendly, helpful and made you feel very welcome. Dropped one star for the squeeze in the bar pre meal and the background noise in the restaurant which made it hard to hear for some of our party. All that said the place was packed and we had to book well in advance for a Saturday night, that tells you something.

Lovely little bistro pub the food was delicious and great portion sizes, the staff were very friendly and welcoming highly recommended if in the area.

Excellent as always! We have never been disappointed by the food, quick and friendly service and the overall atmosphere.