Golden Lion Pub

Can’t be beat. Great food, friendly service, and a good selection of beer. Primarily a student pub so beware of crowds during the school year, especially Wednesday at supper time.

look not super exciting from outside, but once insde, look nice, good amount of place, american size pint are served for 4.50 $ the pint. On est descendu boire une bière avant de revenir a Montréal. Mon ami est allé s’acheté un bidule trouvé sur Kijiji dans le creux de l’Estrie a courte distance de L’unviersité Bishop…
5 – 6 pintes, un lunch et des nouveaux amis plus tard, je suis sorti un peu plus saoul que j’aurais aimé l’être pour un 7 heures le soir.
Il y a 5 bières. la Pale ale, la amber, la brown, la bitter et la stout. La stout est ok, le brown et la bitter c’était pour mois les meilleurs. beau coins pour les gens du coins et les étudiants qui se saoule soit au bar de l’université, soit au mulligan, un place un peu plus sketch et sinon t’As le Lion Pub qui attire les fans du sports universitaire, les amateurs de bière, les sportifs de salons qui veulent écouter une game de hockey ou simplement boire et manger pour pas cher. un cheese bacon de bon format avec rondelle d’oignon, 10:35 $ pas pire pas pire!

I may be writing this through nostalgia coloured glasses, but I love the Lion! I am a born and bred Lennoxviller (or Lennoxviillian?) and have been coming here for as long as I have been of legal drinking age. Yes, the place is a bit of a college pub and the food is no better than average pub food (with the exception of the awesome and MASSIVE chicken wings) but the atmosphere is great. It is a proper locals pub (complete with bar regulars) that oozes character. The sadly rarely open upstairs is a beautiful intimate lounge that has a piano and bay windows while the most often open downstairs is a standard pub but with walls that are covered in old beer cans and bottles as well as old serving trays. If you ever needed to know every advertising slogan from the long gone Dow Brewery, just go to the lion and look at the walls. The patio is also great, right in the centre of Lennoxville, which is a great place to people (and truck) watch.
The beer is the real selling point and their major selling point. They have a great variety of brews made next door and the prices are very good. My personal favourite is the Bitter, but that is not for everyone as it will punch you in the face with hoppiness. The most popular is the Pride, an English style Brown ale that ranks with the best Brown’s I have had anywhere. The Amber is quite popular as well, but It’s not as good as I remember it from my college days, maybe back then I just hadn’t tried enough new beers. They also do a good pale ale, that goes down well on a hot day on the patio but I usually prefer the darker beers. They also have seasonal beers as well that are good, including a popular blueberry beer in the summer.

College town pub food is the best choice at this spot… Service is awesome, their own beer on tap is fabulous (try the red)… And the patio rounds it all out!