The Red Lion in Tendring

A pub which is made all the more better by the community it serves 🙏 thank you

I visited here a few weekends ago for my cousin's 40th birthday party. He had booked out the function room. We had a great time. The staff were fantastic. The food was lovely. The low alcohol beer - Adnams Ghost Ship - was a tasty beer and one I hadn't come across before. This is a well run establishment. Clean, well maintained with great staff. I will definitely visit again when I'm next in the area.

I adore the Red Lion ..it's my go to place if I want a cheeky beer/cider or what have you 😉 with friends or on my own .Always a Loverly welcome & friendly atmosphere ,whether it be mid week or weekend. The best part for myself is that they welcome dogs with open arms Which is great as mine is ALWAYS with me ...✨👍🏻😁🙌🏻🙌🏻✨

Great place for a drink. Awesome quiz nights and social events. Lovely local!

Only stopped for a drink but looked nice

Love this place. Can't say anymore about it!! Just perfect.

Great pub great service on this occasion I didn't eat my friend and I just went for drinks lovely garden to sit out in friendly staff I'm sure we will visit again.

Fantastic olde pub, great pizza and they allow outside food, nice friendly staff and a great fireplace in Wniter, Dog friendly , great beers brilliant outside beer garden. And located in the nicest part of Manningtree

Pub is notorious for its failures to deal with health and safety issues. It's an old building with potential charm, but that does not excuse casual attitude to repeat falls caused by the unmarked uneven steps. No food normally.

This pub doesn’t do food. You can take your takeaway food in.

Lovely old pub, lot's of snug rooms, two winged leather armchairs in front a wood burning stove. Just needs a chess board. Lovely. (Unique urinals!)

Immediately welcoming. Like walking into your own livingroom, but with a lovely person serving you beer on tap.

Lovely Real Ale Pub. With lots of different areas to sit . This pub doesn't serve food, but you can take some in with you, and there's plenty of takeaway places nearby. Lovely, chatty lady serving. Cheerful atmosphere, friendly locals. Great garden!

The best pub in Manningtree. Friendly and a decent choice of beer. If you bring your own food, they'll give you a plate and cutlery. The adjacent pizzeria is great

What's brown and sticky? A whiskey that smells like paint. After the vapes, we faint. After the walk, we talk, and we chalk (the walls of manningtree). Friendships made, lemonade burgers betrayed. Established 1605, i wonder how many pets at home stores there were then? Good beer 5 stars.

Love this pub especially because they do real ales and cider and if you're suddenly feeling peckish you can get your favourite local takeaway delivered to the pub and eat it. However they do a mean pizza if you fancy that.

Very pleasant little pub, good beers, great for chatting with friendly people, welcomes dogs, what more can you want

Brilliant pub in a small town... Happy to support and visit here

Lovely local pub with a warm atmosphere. If you are walking around Manningtree it is worth a visit even with a wet dog.

The best place for a catch with friends. Lovely atmosphere!

A fantastic pub with a great range of beers 🍻

Cracking little pub with well kept beers. Nice little garden and tables round the back/sides. It's my choice of pubs in Manningtree.

No atmosphere very expensive, no wonder people are drinking at home😔

Lovely cosy pub with a great atmosphere. Plus you can bring some take away food, and eat on the premises. I definitely recommend this establishment.

Great little pub!! Lovely atmosphere.

Live Music upstairs tonight. This was great. The bar was buzzing also. It still seems as popular as ever

Great pub, let down only by a lack of real ale.

Lovely characterful pub, best in Manningtree. Good local beers and the ability to bring your own takeaway food is a plus.

Lovely pub with a great selection of beer and a really cosy atmosphere. They also do live music, with a varied array of acts. Also have a very quirky gents toilets!

Friendly, very good comedy night

Great pub, great beer and great atmosphere

Lovely cosy pub, you can eat your takeaway there, wood burner and live music nights

Very cute pub. Hard to park as in a little village but it has a nice garden that we look forward to coming in the summer to enjoy. Very nice staff. Nice cocktails. Great service. Pretty decor. Yummy food and a good price.

Gorgeous proper pub lovely festive cocktails and friendly staff wish we lived nearer would definitely be our local 👍

Very welcoming and friendly pub and also dog friendly

Good range of well kept craft and real ales. Strong local patronage.

Decent pub that allows outside food. Always a good atmosphere.

Great pub. Can't speak for the menu: I didn't eat there.

Lovely pub. You can bring in your own takeaway Clean. Friendly. Free parking on street.

Love the place. Owner is miserable as sin but the gorgeous and helpful bar stewardesses more than make up for it. Thoroughly recommended. 6*

Great atmosphere, good real ales. Its possible to have a take away meal delivered, plates and cutlery are provided. Great Pub all round

This is a real pub. The locals are most fortunate to have it!

Lovely littke pub, great beer selection. Indoor and outdoor seating.

Cracking pub with great chilled out atmosphere. Excellent range of ales. You can order food from take aways and eat in.

Great beer and the pizza next door is to die for.

Landlord has turned this place around. Great pub.

Love the Red Lion. Good beers, friendly staff. Somewhere you can go to chat without blaring screens. Nice seating. Recommended.

Excellent and broad choice of food, really well presented with great choice of real ales. lovely surroundings and several points to if interest outside. Great gastropub.

Nice little pub and friendly staff.

Brilliant pub where you can eat your takeaways with plates, knives and forks. Friendly and knowledgeable staff who love to have a chat with customers about local history. Full of fascinating photos from the old days in Manningtree. Warm and cosy with wood burner stove.

Excellent pub great ales 🍺 Ordered a Chinese take away from a few steps away and eat it in the pub ,plates and cutlery supplies by red lion,dosnt get much better than that 👍 😀

Great pub .... as they don't do food all the time u can take in a take out and they provide plate and cutlery!! They all do great agents on and bands etc.... really nice pub!!

Best bathroom ever! Beer ok too!!

Attended a 50th birthday party lovely venue good beer great staff and clean toilets will return in the near future

It's a good and well run pub with a good selection of beers...how pubs use to be, friendly with a nice atmosphere, we've always had a pleasant time when we've come down from Manchester to see family.

Great little pub, excellent beer. Recommended!

A lovely traditional pub with well kept ale. Nice atmosphere and very comfortable. You can sit inside or outside in a few courtyards. They do not do food, but will supply plates and cutlery if you want to order a takeaway and eat there. Next door is a pizza takeaway with outside seating with is also very nice. I would highly recommend.

We started our witch walk by eating our takeaway fish and chips at this very charming and historical old pub in Manningtree. We enjoyed reading the paragraph about The Red Lion from The Manningtree Withces by A K Blakemore there.

Very nice pub made very welcome . Will be coming back again can’t wait ! .

The staff are really nice, they let you bring your own take away and grab drinks here.

Warm welcome from the Red Lion staff who could not have been more helpful.

Great to be back the Red Lion Manningtree with their excellent beer and service! Keep up the great work and see you all again soon.

Lovely pub with a good atmosphere. The day we last went unfortunately there were quite a few drunk people in the garden who broke a table and were smoking drugs outside the building. Felt sorry for the poor staff having to clean up their mess. I must say though the amount of times I have visited here it has not been like this and will definitely come back, think it was just a one off.

Lovely place, nice people good food.

Covid safe and very friendly. Good selection of drinks and everything cam be done on the app. Great pizzas too

This is an excellent pub. It has an adjoining Pizza place, but also allows customers to order food from local takeaways, even providing plates/cutlery to use. A good choice of real ales is available.

Good Covid management. Good beer selection. No complaints. Will return post pandemic.

Best flippin pub in Manningtree. Been devotees for nearly 2 decades. The newest management are doing a cracking covid safe job 😘😍

1st time at the red lion since we moved to the area. DEFO not the last lovely local pub!

Nice pub, really friendly staff and well organised for Covid. They aren't doing food but you can eat takeaways in there and they give you plates and cutlery.

Always great atmosphere..staff working really hard to make it all work during this tricky time.

Lovely pub with great service and the beer was spot on.

Quite simply its the best pub in Manningtree

Outstanding venue. In the carefree pre-lockdown world The Red was a cosmopolitan pillar of the community offering everything from awesome live music and occasionally raucous events (Oktoberfest in particular) to super chilled board gaming over niche gins and guest ales. In this brave new world, The Red has implemented the strictest but most pleasant social distancing measures (including deploying a custom web app for remote ordering) and, whilst the events side of the business lies dormant, the timely opening of the adjacent Pizza Place is a happy and delicious win. The town has three awesome pubs, but The Red has to be the winner.

Cozy, nice place to chat and play old fashioned games.

A true gem of a pub. Was here with my mum and son. The wonder lady even gave my mum a birthday bowl of chocolate eggs! We will be back in the coming months.

Best place to meet family and friends.

Best pub in Manningtree. But I really cant understand why the music volume is so low

Don, t serve food themselves, but you can take, Chinese, Indian, fish and chips in, they have plates and cutlery available

Great local friendly pub. Great selection of beers and wines. Bring or order a local take away and eat in. Few classic board games available from the bar.. Can't ask for much else!

Warm and friendly atmosphere. And you can bring your own takeaway in, they provide the plates and cutlery!

Such a nice pub! We go have some drinks and play games such as jenga, monopoly, 4 in a row etc! They organise events as well, last time we went to a comedy night and it was sooo good!

Always very friendly and efficient staff. Lovely atmosphere. Top notch local pub 🖒.

Great friendly pub with excellent ale

Good real ales and great atmosphere. The provision of plates and cutlery for bringing your own take away in is such a good idea. Well done to the management.

Yeah nice in here plenty of places to sit, clean, tidy and decent atmosphere. Best thing is you can bring in your curry or Chinese from down the road as well

Brilliant place for a drink especially those who like their real ales. You have two function rooms that are reasonably priced to hire and not being too graphic I love the loos; the urinals and wash basins are made of old metal beer barrels and the taps are more akin to valve taps.

Quirky, welcoming, unique. Order your favourite takeaway to be delivered to your table, help yourself to plates and cutlery and buy your drinks. No washing up - the red lion deals with your dirty dishes! Our perfect Friday night treat!

Informative and funny bartender and a lovely pint of Adnams Mosaic. Quality !

Lovely pub, good beer, friendly staff.

Top pub. Great beer, great atmosphere, great staff

Best pub! Dog friendly, eat your takeaway in here and it's very friendly.

Lovely bar, great staff....although, I was there for a wake and had a mid day cup of tea, so wasn't able to appreciate the red lion.

Genuine old pub, with superb entertainment, and great ales

Friendly tango class and practica on a Thursday evening. All dance levels welcome.

very stuck up . they charge for using your card .

Got locked out, bought take away for daughter and sat in pub with a couple of drinks... Absolute godsend! And lovely place to find ourselves.

Got my salad cream here. The superior Red Lion. Michael Corner was very polite and helpful.

Great pub, can bring your own food! : )

Old traditional pub, good food & beers & excellent outdoor space looking over river.