Star Bar & Grill

This is an excellent eatery.  The food is very tasty and the specials are a real bargain.  (i.e. a large grilled tenderloin and a side for six bucks).  It's a fun place to dine with plenty of menu choices.  I was tempted to try the triple pork sandwich but gave the arteries a little break.

On the downside, I didn't see a whole lot of healthy options but that's okay.  The grilled tenderloin was very tasty and not too hard on the waste line.  You can still watch the fat and calories if so inclined.

Overall, this is a very nice place to dine and I would happily bring friends and family.  For a small town, it's a powerful contender.  Give it a try!   I wish I could give it 4.5 stars!

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Star Bar is much more than just a bar to this this growing bedroom community.  As the town's only drinking establishment, it is the de facto town hall, general store and barbershop all rolled into one.  Located three blocks off Hwy 151 in the heart of the original town, before new housing developments made Fairfax a SW Cedar Rapids suburb.  It's the kind of place where everyone turns around to see who walking in the front door because it's likely someone they know.  The crowd is friendly and lively, a mix of young and old.  You'll find card players and dart throwers in the back room.  There's a patio out back, but I haven't seen much activity there since the smoking ban took affect (thank God for that, you can see your hand in front of face now).  The food's all pretty good with the usual bar fare and drinks are cheap.  Town bars can be a lot of fun and this one is an oasis in an otherwise sleepy little burb-town. (I just made up that word, but it fits).

This is the local bar in Fairfax. Since I grew up there, I have to give it five stars. The place has some history though. It used to be The Star Bar Saloon, Hotel & Livery; rumored to be a place where Jesse James occasionally stayed. When I was a kid, they still had the hitching posts up out front. They are proudly the oldest bar to be serving Budweiser in the western United States.