Pub favourites
Comforting classics, proper portions and the sort of food that suits lunch, tea or a relaxed catch-up.
Homemade pub food
Come hungry, leave happy.
The Black Lion is known for proper homemade food: pub favourites, weekly specials, freshly made pies, hand-cut chips and Sunday lunches made for families, regulars and anyone who has been thinking about tea since lunch.
Built around comfort, company and a decent plate.
This is not a glossy chain-pub food pitch. It is homemade pub food from a family-run local, with dogs welcome in the bar and beer garden, plus a restaurant side kept for dining without paws under the table.
Think proper pub favourites, hand-cut chips, pies made fresh, comforting plates and weekly specials that give regulars something new to ask about. It is food for real appetites, not tiny towers of nonsense.
The menus are ready to browse below: main menu for the full homemade line-up, Sunday menu for roast day, and a kids menu for smaller appetites.
Good food is only part of the table.
Weekly specials
Fresh reasons to come back, from seasonal plates to the kind of specials regulars ask about before they sit down.
Freshly made pies
Homemade pies, hand-cut chips and good gravy energy. No fuss, just proper pub comfort.
Easy to find, hard to leave.
The Black Lion895 London Road
Trent Vale, Stoke-on-Trent
ST4 5NZ
Opening hours
Open every day from midday, with food served daily.
- Mon-Tue
- 12:00 - 22:00
- Wednesday-Thursday
- 12:00 - 23:00
- Friday-Saturday
- 12:00 - late
- Sunday
- 12:00 - 23:00
Food: Mon-Sat 12:00 - 19:45, Sun 12:00 - 18:45.