Strickland & Holt

good coffee in a market town is rarer than it should be, and yarm high street isn't the first place you'd think to look. but strickland & holt has built a quiet reputation on that long, curved stretch of georgian storefronts in ts15, and the locals clearly know it. you don't stumble across a place like this by accident, you hear about it, you come back, you start factoring it into your saturday. stockton-on-tees has its own coffee energy, but yarm operates at a slower frequency, and that suits a shop that seems more interested in getting things right than getting things loud. worth planning your visit around a mid-morning flat white on the high street.