For some weird reason this put me in mind of The Blue Anchor. The Thai food there is absolutely excellent and Apple, the chef, is very much her own person. However, in normal times, it's still a proper blokes pub with shit lager and a pool table - nothing pretentious at all. Though the owners have turned the saloon bar into a restaurant space, which you don't have in the Star, there's nothing to stop you having a red curry while you're playing pool or watching footy if that's what you want and they do take away for phone orders and passing trade. Furthermore, the mass produced lager and cider works better with their spicy dishes than a more complex beer IMO. It shouldn't work - but it does.
This has the potential to simply be good beer with delicious, sustainable and wankily pretentious large beer snacks. It's making me hanker for the end of lockdown even more TBF. Sigh.
