SOUP
Brown rice miso & vegetable soup with scallions and wakame, served with sourdough bread, and butter sml. £4.50 Lrg. £6

SPECIALS
Spicy red bean burger served with short grain rice, tomato sauce, oven roasted squash and sauté green beans. £7.20

Japanese tasting platter-
A selection of sushi, baked hajiki roll, warm udon noodle salad and a miso and wakame broth, served with a tamari dipping sauce and ginger pickle. £8.50

All items available to takeaway.

Call the cafe on 01453 840021 for more information.


- Posted By Sioux Chef Dan

In a change to our previous blog .tapas evenings will only return alongside live events which means these could occur on Fridays or Saturdays.these events wil be advertised on the blog, the website and also poster.so just to confirm that tapas evenings will no longer happen every Saturday night but will happen whenever there is a live event at the cafe. Many thanks to all of you have supported tapas in the past.


- Posted by The Star Anise Team

There will be no Sunday bruches in the month of august. Brunches will return with gusto in September alongside the jazz festival and Stroud fringe



- Posted by The Star Anise Team

MARTIN HARLEY

MONDAY 30 AUGUST 7.30 pm

Acoustic guitar blues- exciting innovative, Roots blues

Tickets on the door

JAZZ ON THE FRINGE
A WEEKEND OF COOL SOUNDS
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 3RD, SATURDAY 4TH & SUNDAY 5TH

Admission: £25.00 for a weekend pass
Friday 3 gigs an evening £12.00 evening pass - Saturday 3 gigs £12.00 evening pass (
Sunday event 11 £6.00 All daytime events (4/5/9/10 free)



Foyer Arts present an extravaganza of top quality jazz for all tastes. Lunch time singing - late nite drumming – funky organ grooves - & fresh combos

(1) Friday 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm DOM FRANKS’ ‘STRAYHORN’
Dom Franks (saxes), Alex Steele (piano) with bass and drums.
Top contemporary mainstream jazz led by melodic post-bop saxist Dom Franks. A blend of groove-heavy originals and jazz flavoured interpretations of pop hits.

(1) Friday 8.30 – 10.30 pm ‘PARADISO’ / ‘LAZY SUSANS’
Tom Johnson (fiddle/vocals), Pete Rosser (accordion/vocals) with irrepressible songs and foot stomping tunes born of 20 years of collaborative alchemy between jazz/tango squeezebox wizard and a Cajun/punk fiddling demon. With the Lazy Susans –Rachel Thomas (accordion & vocals), Zara Ramm (vocals & fiddle).
You will not be able to keep your feet still!

(1) Friday 11.00 – 1.00 am ‘TYPE SUN’
Luke Harney (solo drum/electronics), Luke Spurgeon (visuals). Spinning tales in sound and vision, ritual and performance, silicon, bronze and maple, Type Sun has been travelling dimensions of space just a phase shift from your own.

(1) Saturday 12 noon – 2.00 pm ‘INDIGO LOUNGE’
Valeka Algar (vocals/sax), Pete Rosser (piano). Valeka is an Aussie singer now based in Birmingham. She performs jazz, soul and pop classics, with added sax appeal.

(1) Saturday 2.45 – 4.45 pm ‘JAZZ JAM SESSION’
House rhythm session piano / bass/drums will lay down the grooves. All comers welcome to come along and jam sit in play.

(1) Saturday 5.30 – 7.30 pm ‘ARON KYNE SUPERGROUP’
Aron Kyne (piano), Stroud jazz hero recently graduated from Leeds College of Music, playing with a host of local jazz luminaries.

(1) Saturday 8.15 – 10.15 pm ‘PETE ROSSER GLOCTET’
Pete on piano leads debut performance of Gloucestershire jazz octet playing original contemporary sounds, featuring Emma Ordonez (trumpet), Simon Day (alto Sax), Andrew McKenzie (guitar), Saffron Young (bass) and Andy Youell (drums).

(1) Saturday 11.00 – 1.00 am ‘BIRDMAN OF ALKIJAZZ’
Tony Orell (drums/dj) with freewheeling improvisational powerhouse spins funky discs and beats the drums. You just will not be able to keep still.

(1) Sunday 12 noon – 2.00 pm JEANNE MARLOW
Jeanne (vocals), Pete Rosser (piano) – a class act with classic standards from the Gershwin/Kern/Porter era sung with style, verve and effortless swing.

(10) Sunday 2.45 – 4.45 pm ‘EDDIE PARKER/JONATHAN TAYLOR QUARTET’
Eddie Parker (flute), Jonathan Taylor (piano), Thad Kelly (bass), Andy Hague (drums). Eddie was founder member of and composer for the legendary Loose Tubes big band, and went on to record with South African panist Bheki Mseleku and Django Bates’ Delightful Precipice. Jonathan is pianist with Tango Siemre, still the UK’s leading tango ensemble.

(1) Sunday 5.30 – 7.30pm ‘END OF WEEKEND PARTY with MC3 ORGAN TRIO’
Matt Ratcliffe (organ), Matt Chandler (guitar), Tymek Jozwiak (drums) – hard bop, funk and contemporary grooves from Birmingham. Winners of the Budvar Brewed Jazz Competition at Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2010.
Join us to celebrate the first Stroud Jazz festival. This end of festival party promises to be sheer toe tapping pleasure.

Licensed Bar and Food

All tickets are available from Star Anise Arts cafe or on the door.
Contact the cafe for information 01453 840021

There will be a free leaflet available