One of the few pubs I had left to do in Swords, this one evaded me on a previous mop-up visit as it had recently closed. This was when it was still called The Star, more of which later.
There were slightly more bouncers outside the pub than I'd normally be happy with at 6pm on a Friday, but they weren't doing anything in particular, nor did I see a reason to have them there yet - I'd guess they were just starting their shift.
In its prior life as The Star, there was quite a varied audience here - a page on a local website mentions the extensive pool lounge, a (by then finished) Russian club and trad music nights; with a fairly traditional suburban bar and lounge.
The pub has been mildly modernised and is now quite food focused, but the front bar area is still designed for drinking first, and while you can get food here, nobody was being offered it first thing. I would think its still entirely normal to go in here for pints and never look at the menu, but as we were going there for dinner, we did.
One of the options on the menu is the "Star of the Arch" burger, which must surely be a reference to the pubs long standing but now former name?
The food met expectations and was priced at about what you'd expect these days - shockingly expensive in my mind that fondly remembers pubs having €10 burger-and-a-pint deals, but really not bad in the year it actually is.
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