Katch, Northallerton

A basic old pub that was almost empty on a Saturday afternoon in September, this may have been down to the lack of service or perhaps to no food being served. There is a lot of vertical drinking space here, the open plan room is L shaped with a matching and very nicely carved counter, two handpumps, one with John Smiths Cask and the other a light up Black Sheep job, considering the lack of custom and the distracted bar man I stuck to bottled beer. One end is a comfortable bar area with bench seating in the bay and Britannia tables plus a screen and dart board, the longer arm of the L is supplied with tables and chairs. At the rear is a dining room although it contains a pool table. Almost everything in the pub is painted either black or white, the walls are white and all the furniture and woodwork is black. I suspect this is a more popular pub in the evenings with 18-30s but I was only in the town for the afternoon.