Red Lion Inn

The Red Lion is located in the beautiful Vale of Belvoir and comprises a stone-floored bar, a comfortable lounge with plenty of reading material, an elegant dining room and an informal eating area. Whatever the season, there are treats to be enjoyed here: logs crackling in the stove, daily-changing specials boards, superb value lunch offers, cookery demonstrations, and wine evenings - all this and regional ales too. Menus change seasonally in accordance with locally supplied produce, and offer a mix of classic pub food and innovative country cooking. Typical of chef Sean Hope's dishes are ham hock with home-made piccalilli and Hambleton bakery sour dough; pigeon breast with Puy lentil, bacon and rocket salad; lamb faggots with Grasmere Farm black pudding and red cabbage; and Longhorn rump steak from Northfield Farm with all the trimmings. Desserts too reflect a serious attention to detail: quince brûlée with shortbread biscuit and Rearsby treacle tart with blackberry compôte are two examples.