Joyce/North Star Tavern (Small Town WNY TV Series - Companion Podcast #14)

North Star Tavern

7340 Seneca Street, Elma, NY 14059

Phone: +1 716 805 7117

https://www.thenorthstartavern.com

Having grown  up in the Southtowns of Buffalo, just  a few miles from the border of East Aurora, The North Star Tavern is so buried in my muscle memory of the place that even through 15 years away, it was one of the businesses that I would often recall when I would think of the pretty drive up Seneca Street into East Aurora from my childhood home. Now, the fact that I have a real Walter Mitty fantasy about the place, is an entire other story as I'm a huge fan of the show Newhart, and if you recall, the show is set in an Old, Historically important Inn up in Vermont... and as far as Inns go.. The North Star tavern (to me) always reminded me of the Inn on the show and in my minds eye, I always had this fantasy that it would someday reopen it's top floor as a hotel or B&B just like it was back when it was when it first built as an overnight stop for travelers through the area. I recently had a chance to talk to Joyce (one half of the new owners of the Inn) between rushes on a busy Thursday night about the Inns history, improvements, menu items, additions and even the Inns most permanent ... ethereal... resident...

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