Applewood is an early 00s housing development built around a "main street", with traditional retail units under apartments, and a more traditional pub than the often standalone bar/restaurant building that 00s developments often got - and which has often failed or never opened to begin with.
And indeed if you were told that the punnily named Orchard had been there since the 1960s, once inside, you might find it hard to disagree.
It's a quite traditional pub, with the normal lounge and bar split that's often missing in the newer suburban pubs - and only ladies toilets in the lounge, something that would not be common by the 00s.
There's a solitary craft beer tap, a hazy from Galway Hooker that I'd not seen offered anywhere before; a rare sight in suburbia and a welcome change from products from the two main macros.
All in this seems to be one of the better presented and operated of the modern suburban pubs.
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