The Wheatsheaf, Northampton

The front door opens into the bar area with the counter ahead and seating at tables and chairs to left and right. To the rear is a restaurant area reached by corridors either side of the counter or direct from the rear car park via a separate door. This is finished in pastel shades of grey and furnished with blonde wood tables and chairs, it is decorated with pictures of food and there’s a big glass cupboard of wine. There is also a rear section of B&B accommodation with a garden beyond. Returning to the public bar the counter is home to five pulls, one with cider and four with pretty well known beers, Tribute, Directors, Hooky, and a house badged beer from Banks’s. Floored with carpet and wide boards with dado railed white walls there’s little actual decoration, the ceiling is exposed beams in white and there’s a big modern feature fireplace at one end. Some walls are panelled perhaps from pre-refurbishment days, the woodwork is finished in now standard but previously trendy light grey. Staff are all good, the customers are the usual mix of pub goers and diners from the harmless to the irritating gobshite. Sadly this pub marked my first sighting of bar blockers since March 2020, and all the more detestable due to their welcome absence on the meantime. Best pub in the village for food.

Official site of The Wheatsheaf - www.wheatsheafcrick.com

Official site of The Wheatsheaf - www.wheatsheafcrick.com