Wetherspoons The Lion & the Unicorn

The Royal Festival Hall is the only building remaining from The Festival of Britain, held from May to September 1951, on the South Bank. The 27-acre Festival of Britain site extended along the riverfront from Westminster Bridge (past Hungerford Bridge) to Waterloo Bridge.

In 1951, more than eight million visitors paid to see to the ultra-modern Dome of Discovery (then the world’s largest dome), the 300 feet high Skylon tower and The Lion and The Unicorn Pavilion, from where the new pub takes its name.

The Lion & the Unicorn pub will be open from 6.30am until 12 midnight Monday to Thursday, from 6.30am until 1am on Friday and Saturday and from 7.30am until 12 midnight on Sunday.

Food will be served throughout the day, from opening until 11pm every day.

The new pub will specialise in real ales and traditional ciders, as well as craft and world beers, serving a wide range of different draught ales, as well as bottled beers, including those from local and regional brewers.

It will be open for family dining, with children, accompanied by an adult, welcome in the pub up until 9pm, throughout the week.

The pub will be wheelchair accessible and have a specially adapted toilet for people with disabilities.

The new pub interior design is inspired by the historic architecture that once made The Lion and The Unicorn Pavilion a fan favourite at the Festival of Britain, with the message of a new war-free epoch for Britain.