Got milk? Or a Nike swoosh? How about "comfort food with a twist"?Indeed, what kind of wacky restaurant concept might we expect from one of the nation's top corporate-relations experts - a man who's run campaigns for such iconic enterprises as the American dairy industry and Nike - when he comes back home and turns restaurateur?
That would be Anchorage resident Kevin Grangier, former sole owner of award-winning CarryOn Communications Inc. of Los Angeles, New York and … St. Matthews.
Now affable proprietor of the Village Anchor Pub and Roost and the Sea Hag Pub, Grainger and an impressive staff are basking these days in the warmth of a substantial buzz.
Located in a new retail cluster (assembled by Grainger's fellow Anchorage squire, pizza mogul John Schnatter), the Village Anchor is housed on two floors of the historic Anchorage train station, which Schnatter had moved around the corner and up a hill to its new location and which has been beautifully refurbished with yellow clapboard with white trim.
With a breezy Victorian-themed lanai and umbrella'd patios, surrounded by herb and flower gardens, the Pub and the Hag have become instant destinations for both outdoor and indoor dining.
Step inside and you'll find a welcoming rendition of an ancient stone-walled, copper-bar pub downstairs (the Sea Hag), and an opulent dining room upstairs (the Village Pub & Roost), a French-looking bistro decked out in red velvet, antique sconces, a bar of its own and, inscrutably, a collection of Old Masters in heavy golden frames covering the ceiling.
Perhaps this all is not that distant from the milk mustache after all.
Read the full review on LouisvilleHotBytes.com:
http://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/villa ... akes-roost
and in LEO Weekly:
http://leoweekly.com/dining/village-anc ... akes-roost
Village Anchor Pub & Roost
11507 Park Road
708-1850
http://www.villageanchor.com
Robin Garr's rating: 89 points