Red Lion Hotel café and bar

You'll find the Red Lion tucked away on London Street, a proper working hotel with a café and bar that feels like the kind of place locals actually use rather than somewhere you'd stumble into by accident. It's got that reassuring quality of an established boozer—the sort of venue that's been doing its thing for years without needing to reinvent itself. The reviews suggest it delivers straightforward food and drink without faffing about, which is refreshing when you're after something unpretentious in the town centre.