About

The Star Hotel was purchased in 1899 by co-owner Roland Toma’s grandparents, becoming the Continental Ice Bar in the early 1900s. It was initially little more than a cottage which was built upon over the years.

The owners supplied ice cream and ginger beer to the Inverclyde area, changing the name to Cafe Continental before WWII.

The Toma family spent the duration of the war in an internment camp on the Isle of Man. During this time the first floor of the Cafe became “Toc H”, an international charity for servicemen while the ground floor became the Norwegian Navy Club base.

In 1946 the building returned to being a cafe and remained so until 1985 when it changed to its present form.