The Barley Mow, Leeds

Pub with an interesting rugby history, two bars off an entrance vestibule, one labelled “bar area” the other “dining area”, only one was open on my visit. Ironically it was the dining area although it looked more like a public bar. An L shaped counter lurks to the right as you enter, two horseshoes of keg favourites although there are two unused beer engines at the far end. The ceiling is quite low and parts are decorated with trellises and plastic ivy, there’s a right old mix of furnishings with banquette, old chairs, Britannia tables, a semi-circular bench seat and scaffolding based tables. There’s a few screens and a dart board. Quite an odd place but obviously popular with the locals.

The Barley Mow is a decent enough looking pub which has quite a long frontage. Once inside there is a large lounge to the left which is irregular shaped,the seating is mainly normal tables and chairs,plus a few tall ones and a half circular bench seat,the room is carpeted. There are three unused pumps on the bar,so this left me with John Smiths smooth crap to drink,this was a crap drink. There is a separate bar room to the right which is also a decent size,the room is oblong shaped and runs to the rear,the seating is bench type,there is a pool table to the rear. The pub does food and was fairly busy on my late Saturday afternoon visit with both drinkers and diners. Decent background music was playing,TVs were showing horse racing. Not a bad pub,just a shame there are no real ales on the bar. Pub visited 20/6/2015