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Monday 5:30pm - 11pm Tuesday 5:30pm - 11pm Wednesday 5:30pm - 11pm Thursday 5:30pm - 11pm Friday 5pm - 12am Saturday 12pm - 12am

Blue Lion Inn

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Blue Lion Inn

Public House offering great food, real ales, live music, darts and BT Sports

19/06/2026

Live here tomorrow 🏉🏉

18/06/2026

Unfortunately no food here tomorrow night (Friday 19th). We do however have lots of top quality beer 🍺

16/06/2026

Englands opener tomorrow, Come on England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

11/06/2026

Live here this Saturday

02/06/2026

📢 PLEASE SUPPORT THIS IMPORTANT CAMPAIGN FOR HOSPITALITY 📢

As many of you know, our industry continues to face increasing costs and financial pressures. A new nationwide campaign, backed by leading hospitality figures including Tom Kerridge, is calling on the Government to reduce VAT for hospitality businesses from 20% to 10%, bringing the UK more in line with many European countries.

This could make a significant difference to pubs, bars, restaurants, cafés and hotels across the country, helping to protect jobs, support investment and safeguard the future of our industry.

✅ Please take a moment to sign the petition
(Link in comments! 👇👇👇)

🙏 Once you’ve signed, please:
• Share it with your friends and family
• Post it across your social media channels
• Encourage your teams and customers to get involved
• Share it in local community groups where appropriate

Every signature counts, and the more support we can generate, the stronger the message we send to Government.

Thank you for your support. Let’s get behind our industry and make our voices heard.

30/05/2026

Arsenal v PSG Champions League final live here today 5pm k.o ⚽️⚽️

12/05/2026

Please see Tracey’s new price list. Please also note that the pub will not be open until 6.00pm tomorrow so haircuts from 6-7 only

10/05/2026

𝐖𝐞’𝐫𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠!🍴

We’re looking for both a 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥-𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 and a 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭-𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 chef to run the kitchen here at the Blue Lion to cover lunch times and evenings.

𝐀 𝐛𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐮𝐬:

We’re a family-run pub in the heart of Lewdown, a small village on the Devon/Cornwall border. We pride ourselves on being a welcoming local with great food and a friendly atmosphere.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞’𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫:

- Someone with the enthusiasm and creativity to take the kitchen under their wing.

- Confident in creating their own menus and regularly updating the specials board.

- Clean, organised, and committed to maintaining high kitchen hygiene standards, including end-of-shift cleaning and deep cleans during quieter periods.

- Comfortable managing kitchen stock and placing regular orders.

- Friendly, easy-going, and able to work well as part of a small team.

If you’re passionate about good food and want the freedom to shape the kitchen in a supportive, family-run pub, we’d love to hear from you.

☎️ 01566 738238
💻 [email protected]

04/05/2026

⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️Steak Special ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

For tomorrow night (Tuesday) our steak deal is back 😋 our rump and sirloin steak meals will be discounted by £5 each, limited steaks available 😳😛😋

26/02/2026

📣 PUBS ARE SO EXPENSIVE: PART 2! 📣

Following on from yesterday’s post!

A number of people still queried “why pubs are so expensive”…

And a follower, Kyle Michael, has kindly allowed me to share his post below to explain things a little more!

So here goes…

🤔 What is so hard for some to understand?

🤷‍♂️ Pubs are NOT expensive, the perception of cost is being distorted by the lack of disposable income, not the price!

🏛️ Blame that on government, not the publican who has cut and cut and cut his profit to keep going!

⚖️ Let’s compare beer prices to wages!

Prices used below are the average in April each year, together with the minimum wage at the same time.

Year Pint Min wage %

1998 1.87 3.00 62.3
2000 1.99 3.60 55.2
2005 2.41 4.85 49.6
2010 2.94 5.93 49.6
2015 3.44 6.40 53.7
2020 3.72 8.72 42.6 **
2023 4.56 10.41 43.8
2024 4.77 11.44 41.6
2025 5.17 12.21 41.6

** pubs shut in April 2020 so used July figure, but VAT had been reduced so pint price was artificially lower.

📣 If pubs had stayed with the same % as in 1998, an average pint would now be £7.73!

🚨 YEP: SEVEN POUND SEVENTY THREE! 🚨

👌 Time to adjust your minds and expectations and keep things real, or you simply won't have any pubs left.

Sources:
ONS for Beer Prices https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/timeseries/czms/mm23

Business Info for Min wage
https://www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk/content/national-minimum-wage-previous-rates

So what do you think? Are pubs being greedy? Or is it the government? Let me know below! 👇👇👇

Address

Lew
Okehampton
EX204DL

Opening Hours

Monday	5:30pm - 11pm
Tuesday	5:30pm - 11pm
Wednesday	5:30pm - 11pm
Thursday	5:30pm - 11pm
Friday	5pm - 12am
Saturday	12pm - 12am

Website

http://bluelioninn.co.uk/

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