Red Lion Pub - West Dorset

Visiting Beaminster and wondering where to eat. One of our party was vegetarian and we liked the look of the posted menu. We made a good choice and were not disappointed. Two of our party of four had vegetable lasagne, one had venison and one lamb pie. All of us were very impressed with the main course and also with the excellent desserts. We were very well looked after and I can strongly recommend eating here and look forward to returning.

Great place for a meal at any time , specials to choose from as well as favourites. The food is always lovely and freshly cooked as well as being very reasonably priced. Easy to park and situated in a lovely small town which is full of surprises, packs a lot into a small area. Also they have an art gallery within the pub which has a selection of very reasonably priced art to suit all budgets and all from local artists. Always a great place to stop and have a meal.

This is the third time we have eaten at the Red Lion eight of us in our group the food was good and I like the landlord Bryan very dry! Prices are reassemble, beer good. I had home made pizza. Not keen on Black Pepper on chips. That should be my decision.

Really like the pub pub staying locally for a week so have had supper here good simple food done well. Staff and landlord friendly. Particularly like Bryan the landlord nice funny helpful bloke.

This place was empty whereas the pub next doors was very busy. We decided to give this place a go, could it really be that bad....? Unfortunately, this place ain 't good. Received the wrong food, ordered pulled pork burger as they said it was real pork and very popular. Got a ropey findus beef burger served instead, so politely mentioned this only to be told by the owner 'we don 't have pulled pork burger on menu! ' What?! Am I making it up then? 'Oooer, well there 's some pork in that beef burger! ' There was No sorry, no attempt to put it right no adjustment on bill (as findus burger is much cheaper), instead the owner blamed us. Albeit the sever/chef was polite, overall the service was completely atrocious, incompetent, dismissive and they just don 't get it! Now I know why it was so empty. Shame as they are sat on a goldmine. Something very wrong here. Avoid for now.