The Red Lion

211 E Green St, Champaign
(217) 367-9915

Recent Reviews

Bruce

Absolutely terrible. I paid 20 dollars for cover and then got denied entry when I tried to get back in after grabbing ciggaretes for my friend. Security was awful, even after my friends came out to vouche for me. Claimed I was "swaying too much" to let back in. If you're looking for a good time, don't go to this bar, they will harass you. Bouncer looked like he had never been touched lovingly by any woman in his life, is probabaly a disappointment to his parents, and is hopefully depressed and hates his life every waking minute. Weird looking beard too. Floor is sticky.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Ben Stoner

The wish version of medieval times that serves underages

The Gibbehhh

Absolutely terrible. My first impression is the smell. The whole building reeks of feces and vomit. Everything is sticky, there's this weird, chunky mystery liquid flooding the floor, and drinks are obscenely overpriced. $8 for a shot of fireball. EIGHT DOLLARS. You can get it at any other bar for less than $4. Never going back. My expectations were rock bottom, and I was still disappointed.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Ethan E

Smelled like throw up will never attend again.

Atmosphere: 1

Service: 2

Joe D.

I've been around the world to some of the worst bars anyone has ever seen, and this is the worst place I have ever been and not in a good way. Unless you're 17 and a freshman at U of I avoid like the plague. And I didn't even mention the smell.

Zach Stair

After the long wait to get inside it was like a horror scene to walk into. It was so incredibly unclean that I had to shower as soon as I got home. Staff only seemed to care about harassing people at the doors instead of anything else about this place. Will not be back here!

T

Physically and verbally abusive staff. Smells of urine and vomit, sticky floors with constant layer of swamp water. Overpriced cover and even drinks a lot of the time. By far worst bar I’ve been to.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Official_ NaNa

I don’t go to this school, but I was visiting with a group of girls from my school. When we finally got to the front of the line, the other girls I was with were let in fairly quickly. I was handing them my money and ID when the guy said “you don’t look like you go here. Show me your school ID” I said I wasn’t a student and they charged me $20. I asked the other girls if they were up charged or asked like I had been and they all said no and were shocked to find that I had been stopped. A key thing to note is that all of the girls were lighter than me and I was the only black girl in the group. You could say it was for other reasons but I know it was racially motivated.

Service: 1

Andrew M.

security was racially profiling customers and charging extraneous amounts to different customers. after waiting 30m in line security says "that's not how things work around here bud" and rejects our entire group

Andrzej Ciborowski

Soooo much fun, and yes I was dancing on the tables ?

Sharon Dhali

This female bartender was very rascist towards us, she wouldn’t serve us and she gave us dirty looks for complaining about waiting over 45 minutes to get a drink. This place is messy and smells bad, management is terrible and the bartenders treat the customers rudely. NEVER going back to this place again.

M.C. Brown

Bouncers aren’t complete douchebags like they are Kams. Place smells horrible but had a good time. Only complaints were that cover was expensive and I got overcharged on my drinks

Colette Bartosz

The bouncer accused me of being intoxicated when I was absolutely sober. I explained to him that I was okay and only was emotional because I was uncomfortable and needed to find my friends. His coworker also tried to reason with him. He still refused to let me back in with no logical explanation as to why.

Cole B

The bouncer accused me of being intoxicated when I was absolutely sober. I explained to him that I was okay and only was emotional because I was uncomfortable and needed to find my friends. His coworker also tried to reason with him. He still refused to let me back in with no logical explanation as to why.

Eunjoo Kim

Different every nightLast sem it rocked but this sem it was lame

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