Michelin
- Michelin Red Guide every year since 2003
Good Pub Guide
- Entry every year since 2003
'Splendid range of drinks and imaginative food in civilised dining pub, open fires, good garden'
AA Guide
- AA Pub of the Year 2006
- AA One Rosette /travel/details/pub/awarded every year since 2003
The Good Food Guide
- Entry every year since 2003
Hardens Restaurant Guide
- Entry every Year since 2004
- "Why can't all pubs care as much about the food" as this "friendly" and "informal" hostelry, which attracts rating overall only a fraction below those of it's more famous sibling (The Olive Branch, Clipsham); as well as food there is a "wide range of wines and beers" - both in the bar and dining room.
Leicestershire & Rutland Restaurant Awards
- Local Produce Menu of the Year 2008
Observer Food Monthly - July 2007
Ten Great Country Pubs
'The food is exceptional and that includes its ploughman's that comes with fine home-made pork pie. If Melton Mowbray is the only area allowed to claim rights to the pie then the Red Lion should also be given legal status under the EU 'protected-name scheme' as the best place in England to consume your pie with a pint.'
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The Guardian - 22nd October 2005
'but it's dinner time and there's a grub pub to visit in nearby Stathern where the Rutland Inn Company has opened The Red Lion. Here pasta comes with mussels, grilled squid and white wine and saffron vierge, and your white wine in a rustic pail for a cooler. Nice touch. I'm liking Lincolnshire's take on tradition.'
Red Lion Inn Good Pub Guide Review 2008
Read this years review of the Red Lion Inn...
Red Lion Observer Article
Read about the Red Lion Inn the July Observer Food Monthly, Summer Drinks review....
Michelin Guide 2008 'we most liked' the Red Lion Inn Stathern
Read the review of the Red Lion Inn, one of only two pubs in the East Midlands awarded the 'we most liked' stamp..
