The Lion at Farnsfield

First time visiting The Lion, we came on Sunday. The Sunday lunch was great, amazing flavours from all the elements and very filling. One of the best Sunday lunches I've had. The only thing to let it down was the beef which was very tough and chewy. Same for the other 5 people in our group that had it too. I'll definitely come back but would avoid the beef next time.

I had a Sunday lunch here last weekend and it was absolutely fantastic. I particularly loved the Yorkshire pudding burger! Great selection of cocktails too. Will definitely be back! Thank you :-)

An excellent lunch - good choice but the daily special was superb. Well done all.

Beautiful home cooked food, made to order. Well worth a visit. I've been a few times and everytime it's lovely.

Dog friendly, good food and cocktails most of the time. However consistently very slow service, occasionally over cooked food and rude management! Be warned- they ask for feedback but give this at your own peril! The manger, Sam, is extremely unprofessional and insulting if you dare to point out the food was burnt, drinks orders were wrong and warm or service was slow. After complaining, rather than trying to rectify the points raised, the manger became extremely defensive and aggressive in tone, preceding to complain about the customers of her establishment, stating, ‘…angry when their drink is warm, disgusted it took 30 minutes to cook fresh food.. the list goes on and on.’ Considering the prices of food and drinks at The Lion, I don’t think it an unreasonable expectation that drink orders be correct and wine served cold, starters served within a reasonable time and correctly cooked- not burnt. Further more, the manger took great offence over my estimate of time it took to be served. A direct quote from her correspondence to me, ’those times you’ve quoted weren’t truthful, which makes it even sadder…you got called out on exaggerating the truth of timings, which is understandably a little embarrassing’ … this was in reference to me estimating that our starters took an hour to arrive when I fact the cctv reported they in fact took 46 minutes- 14 minute difference to my estimate. Instead of apologising and offering to rectify, the manager chose to use this 14 minute difference to childishly insult and name call. I have no doubt her usual aggressive style, using guilt tripping and name calling, would work on some more timid customers however unfortunately for her bullying tactics do no work on me. I believe in honest feedback so that establishments can improve. It appears Sam, the manager of the The Lion, believes that the customers are the problem, not her training and management of her staff. The young staff need better training and better management to lead them. Sad to say we won’t be returning due to the appalling response received on providing feedback.

Had the duck and can honestly say it was cooked to perfection. The service was bang on and the decor lovely.

Lovely decor & surroundings . The food was tasty, hot & well presented , wasn't quite perfect enough for 5 stars (the chicken wings starter although tasty, were actually sweet chilli and not salt n pepper, left fingers very sticky and no water bowl provided ) but I would still recommend the food and visit again . The service however was slow especially with drinks. No offer of water for the table and had to be asked twice before it came . Nice menu and lovely atmosphere. Overall 4/5