Tuesday 23 December 2014

Christmas Eve will be Smokin at The Lion!!

Local rock n blues band Smokin Gun will be playing live here on Christmas Eve.......We will be busy, so get here early for a seat....the band starts up at 9pm......entry is free of charge and an excellent party night is definitely on the cards.

We are making a nominal charge of £3 for New Years Eve.......Shade of Blue will be providing the party sounds.....tickets are available at the bar.

Our Christmas Burger menu is available throughout the festive period from midday until 8pm........we have been quiet on food occasionally and mega busy at other times so we do appreciate your patience here.

The new craft beers are selling really well.....Nottingham Regal, Navigation American Saviour have both proven very popular alongside Meantime seasonal choices and Fullers Frontier.........we will be introducing a new bottle range very soon.

Teatime Christmas Eve is great.....log fire.....real ales....warm atmosphere....see you here at the Lion tomorow from 4pm onwards

John & Josie

Friday 19 December 2014

Mad Friday is here at The Lion!

It will be a turbo charged break up day today......we will be ready and waiting with a first class choice of cask ales, craft beers and traditional ciders.....have a look at the website for today's menu www.thelionatbasford.co.uk  Included are Little Saint Nick, our 4.7% brown bitter from Castle Rock, Thornbridge's Sequoia, Pheasantry Dancing Dragonfly and Bateman's Autumn Fall.......we have craft beers from Meantime, Fullers and Nottingham Brewery, their new Regal Lager

See you here for a pint, buffet and real log fires later.....Rock n Roll burgers served from midday!

Hats off, Christmas that is!.....to the clever brewers at Nottingham's Castle Rock Brewery for producing Little Saint Nick!.......our Christmas beer for this year.......now on sale at 27 Pub People pubs, it has been an overwhelming success........the customer feedback has been excellent and pubs are placing their 3rd and 4th orders.......we have it on sale at the Lion today.......a brown best bitter, smooth on the palate with floral notes..4.7% abv

We have had lovely support for our charity Christmas Fayre, Christmas, Quiz and Christmas Carol service, which was last night. Thanks everyone who attended..........lots of new faces arriving at he Lion....You can tell who you are as they just look around, stunned at finding such a beautiful pub in the middle of an industrial estate!!!
 
News Years Eve Tickets are going fast...£3 gets a brilliant party evening with Shades of Blue.........we are still taking Christmas bookings....this year we have done more than ever so book your office party and ask about food options........which could include our festive burger, Santa Baby!...a pulled turkey burger......call us for details 01159703506


See you at the Lion for  Mad Friday Afternoon beers later
John and Josie
Live music tonight, Sat and Sun lunchtime and Christmas Eve

Monday 15 December 2014

Pub People Christmas Ale is a Cracker!!

Hats off, Christmas that is!.....to the clever brewers at Nottingham's Castle Rock Brewery for producing Little Saint Nick!.......our Christmas beer for this year.......now on sale at 27 Pub People pubs, it has been an overwhelming success........the customer feedback has been excellent and pubs are placing their 3rd and 4th orders.......we have it on sale at the Lion today.......a brown best bitter, smooth on the palate with floral notes..4.7% abv

Our Christmas Craft Fair is this Saturday morning, here at the pub.....click on the website for all the info.... www.thelionatbasford.co.uk  Lots of last minute and unusual gifts, alongside mince pies and mulled wines.

News Years Eve Tickets are going fast...£3 gets a brilliant party evening with Shades of Blue.........we are still taking Christmas bookings....this year we have done more than ever so book your office party and ask about food options........which could include our festive burger, Santa Baby!...a pulled turkey burger

The Lion has had a new fount installed which will allow us to rotate guest keg craft beers......we will be focusing initially on locally produced craft beers.......from Castle Rock, Black Iris, Nottingham, Navigation, Derby, Thornbridge..........this will be replicated at the Bunkers Hill before Christmas.

See you at the Lion for Friday teatime beers
John and Josie
Live music tonight, Sat and Sun lunchtime







Monday 8 December 2014

New Years Eve Tickets Now On Sale!!!

New Years Eve Tickets Now On Sale!!!

Call into the Lion and get your tickets for NYE.......£3 in advance and £5 on the door.....for a fantastic evening with Shades of Blue on December 31st........lots of cask ales, ciders and mulled wines....roaring logs fires and a brilliant party atmosphere.........between now and then make sure you try our Christmas Beers....Little Saint Nick and Bar Humbug


Christmas Fair Announcement

You may know that every year we have a mega Christmas Fair here at The Lion and earlier this week we sent all the detail off to our print shop so expect lots of posters and flyers around the pub next week. It is to take place on Saturday 13th December from 12noon.

Highlights definitely include a vinyl fair, organised buy our flippin' excellent (See what we did there) chef Paul, craft gift stalls- perfect to pick something up for her indoors fellas- as well as loads of games, raffles and tombolas. We'll also have a face painting lady here so you can bring the little ones too. We will also be unveiling our Spiced Mulled Cider that day and will have our Christmas burger "Santa Baby" available, an amazing pulled turkey burger served with melted brie and cranberry sauce mmmmm.


Black Iris 'Brewery Tap' Coming Soon

As some of you may be aware, the lads from Black Iris Brewery have set up shop in a unit just down the road from us. Situated directly opposite Shipstone Street Tram Stop they've been busy for a couple of months now getting set up and we can almost smell the first brew!! We can reveal that we will have one cask line and one keg 'craft' line dedicated to Black Iris, both of which will be rotating through their brand new range. As well as the dedicated lines we are flexible enough to be able to feature more of course... we have 11 to choose from!!! We'll let you know when the keg is installed but we have word that we will have their first official brew from the new digs in the next week or so- keep your eyes on our Facebook and Twitter for news as it happens.



Rock 'n' Roll Christmas Burger Co.

If you haven't yet sorted out your Christmas get-together with the lads from work, the girls in the office, your best pals, family or whoever, our Christmas Rock 'n Roll Burger Co. menu is still available to book. you can view the menu online here, the response has been overwhelming and we're well impressed with the amount of bookings we've had so far but there's still time as it's available until Christmas Eve ;)


See you this evening!

John, Josie & Team Lion x