The inn has built up a reputation for excellent food and was voted runner up in the Lincolnshire Life “A Taste of Excellence” awards 2008/09 in the category Best Pub Food Restaurant as well as being awarded a gold citation in the Lincolnshire Life “A Taste of Excellence“ awards 2006/07 and 2007/08. It is listed in both the AA Pub Guide and The Good Pub Guide

All our meals are homemade, freshly prepared and cooked to order. A good selection of wines is available from our wine list and our real ales are maintained to the highest quality. We try, wherever possible, to use locally sourced produce. Our meat is reared locally and provided by R C Holmes Family Butchers of Burgh le Marsh and we buy our vegetables locally. A board hanging in the bar is updated daily to show what farms have supplied the meat and vegetables you are eating. In addition to our extensive main menu, daily specials are available. Our dessert menu is huge too with over 22 choices. Sunday lunch is important at the Red Lion. We serve a traditional roast dinner with a selection of locally produced vegetables. We only use joints of meat supplied by Ashtons and we roast it ourselves.
We can cater for large parties of up to 40 in our restaurant area and are able to host every celebration imaginable (birthdays, Christmas parties, anniversaries, christenings) as well as funeral buffets. Our secluded table for two in our disused porch area is very popular with couples seeking privacy (a gentleman has even proposed marriage here - we are happy to report that the lady accepted!).

We are open for food from Wednesday to Sunday. Lunch is served between 12noon and 2pm and evening meals are served between 7pm and 9.30pm (9pm on a Sunday). We are open for B&B 7 days a week.
The accommodation at the Inn was totally refurbished in May 2007 and has been accredited 4 stars by the Lincolnshire Tourist Board. We have five bedrooms in total. There are two double rooms and one twin room on the first floor of the inn and two ground floor rooms to the rear of the inn with super king beds. Four of the rooms have en-suite shower rooms and one of our ground floor rooms has a disabled toilet and a wet room. All are decorated and furnished to a high standard and are equipped with flat screen colour TV’s with freeview, tea and coffee making facilities, hairdryers, towels and radio alarm clocks. Whether you are on holiday or a business trip, our breakfast will set you up for the day with a good selection from the buffet table together with a choice of cooked breakfast, ranging from beans on toast to a full English breakfast.