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The Pizza And Pasta Was Very Delicious

Caesar Salad was simple (wet) grilled chicken served over soaking wet lettuce with no discernible Caesar sauce or features (anchovies, croutons etc), with a quarter of lemon and tiny half garlic nan. Pizza was cold, minimal toppings and served with cold, floppy, fries. Delivery time increased by ~30 mins after ordering. Overall pretty poor, although the delivery driver was nice enough. Can’t recommend, won’t order again.

Fabulous village pub with great atmosphere and excellent food that won’t break the bank!

Decent pub with nice food. Certainly better than your average pub in terms of food. Good selection of ales as well.

Excellent pizza and garlic bread Served by efficient, friendly waitresses who nothing was too much trouble Highly recommend

This restaurant is one of the best! The staff is friendly, the food is great, it's open 24 hours and you can get anything on the menu at anytime day or night. It's also locally owned.

Amzing everything. Kid friendly and short wait times.

A superb Sunday lunch here today. Generous and served piping hot with extra vegetables. Good value wine by the glass and their own brewery ales on tap. Walkers and dogs very welcome in the bar and very cheerful staff too. Birchover is a charming village and The Red Lion is somewhere we return to and highly recommend.

We booked for a meal last night and you could tell they were very understaffed. However, their level of service was excellent and the food was delicious. All staff were very friendly and were working hard to make everyone happy.

Visited around 1.50 on a Tuesday afternoon. Waited five minutes to be seated in a restaurant that had around six tables. Once seated we sat there for 15 minutes without even being served by anyone. So we decided to leave. The manager said on the way out we are busy sit down and I’ll sort you some discount. We declined as couldn’t see the service or experience improving.

Went for lunch and had a really nice meal at the restaurant. Service could have been slightly better as we were practically the only ones in the restaurant at the time, yet it took nearly 15 minutes just for them to ask what we wanted to drink. Once ordered, food and drinks both came out very quickly and the food was great!

Pre booked food for party of 9 Xmas night out mentioning allergies..service was poor waited over 2 hours for the mains where one pizza arrived with no cheese! And the others were soggy in the middle.. The allergy information was ignored and food sent out containing this! We cleared our own table as there seemed not to be many staff..the waiter who then said he was the manager was very flustered and rude... Rubbish food and rude staff..don't bother even if you pre book your food you will be waiting hours!

I have taken time to reflect before writing this review. There are several things but the thing that offends me most is that my friend had a random piece of pepperoni in her otherwise lovely fish meal. We made the server aware and he stuck his finger and thumb into the plate of food to remove it - “l’ll get rid of that for you “! I fully accept that had he taken the meal away to the kitchen he would probably done the same but it did not fill be with confidence in the Food Safety training that staff are given - obvious cross contamination issues and hand hygiene issues. Our table was booked for 6.30 and it was 8pm before we were served any food. If we wanted a drink we had to go and find someone to order from. Online orders were definitely prioritised, lots of those being dispatched as soon as the drivers arrived. The food ( apart from the vegan lasagne) was really nice but we were served in dribs and drabs with some of our party being left without food for as long as it took for some to eat theirs. We were offered free drinks as compensation what we actually got was 2teas, 3 coffees and a hot chocolate- the cold drinks were not included. The tea was served with fake cut glass tumblers to drink it out of - an accident waiting to happen pouring hot liquid into glass! The reason given was that they only had one cup. I could have understood that if the place had been full of people drinking tea, but it wasn’t. The sad thing is that having written over 1K words I have yet to mention the food! I could go on and on with bad service comments but I will stop and mention the food because hopefully they will address the service issues ASAP I had crispy belly pork, exactly as described with beautifully cooked vegetables. All of the salad/garnishes on all of the meals were lovely and fresh. The people either side of me had fish and chicken, also lovely with the same vegetables as mine. Pizzas looked yummy too. Would I go again? Maybe a different restaurant in the same chain.

We have eaten here this evening as a couple. We wanted a date night without the little ones - food was really tasty and the atmosphere was very chilled. We had garlic mushrooms and antipasto for starters and carbonara and beef stroganoff for main - all of the food was presented lovely and more importantly tasted amazing. Would definitely come back ❤️. Thank you xx

Useful place for business meeting, reasonable priced coffee shop