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A696
Higham Dykes
NE20 0DH
01661 881 440
www.catchseafood.co.uk
Accessibility? Yes
Gluten free? Yes
Seafood always seems to taste better when eaten within a skimmer’s throw of the briney from which it was yanked; there’s no finer seasoning for fish than the tang of salt in the air. So you might it slightly odd to open a seafood restaurant just off the A696, a mile or three north of Ponteland.
And yet this is where the third Catch restaurant has pitched up - the other two are in West Yorkshire, also nowhere near the sea.
The happy news is that, regardless of its longitude and latitude, it’s doing a lot of things right.
As we were met at the door by one of those lightbulb-filled name signs that seem to have become a bit of a thing, it was clear that the old Waggon Inn site has been given a pretty thorough sprucing up.
