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Red Lion is the decent boozer it used to be

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Over the last few years, this place has improved, in our estimation, returning to the decent boozer it used to be. There's a range of good beers on the hand pumps and they're well-kept.

The service is friendly and efficient, the wine list is pretty decent and cheap (especially for the area) and there's good, honest, relatively inexpensive pub grub.

The self-important suits, we used to find so off-putting still frequent the place and the pub is still usually crowded just after work, but these crowds tend to go home after a pint or two and the pub settles down to being a quiet, local.

The taxi rat run in the lane outside is still as irritating as ever - so an alfresco drink in summer is often laced with particulates and accompanied by the clatter of diesels. But at quieter times - usually later in the evening - this pub's a pleasant place to be.

FOOD REVIEW: There's a separate restaurant, but there's also food served in the bar - sandwiches, pies scampi and chips etc. Not gourmet food, but decent enough.

FOOD RATING: 1 FOOD VALUE: 2

CLIENTELE: suits by day, locals by night
NEAREST STATION: Green Park station
PHONE NUMBER: 020 7499 1307
FEATURES: real ales, separate restaurant

The Red Lion
1 Waverton Street, W1J 5QN

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