I wish our pub would get someone - anyone - else to do their food. Delightful staff, dreadful cooks.
There’s a nice micro-brewery fairly near us. They have no kitchen, so one evening a week they open as a taproom, with tables outside (it’s on an industrial estate), live music and a different food vans on rotation (often themed to match the music). It’s a great, if sometimes chilly, night out and very popular with a good mix of ages. The tables are generally full all evening, and there are often people sitting on kerbs, bringing their own chairs, or just standing up.
A (not quite as) local cidery does something similar on summer weekend afternoons into evening - also very busy, so much so that it’s now ticketed, as they have limited outside space.
We go to both fairly frequently; if the food any given week isn’t to my taste (rare, I’m not fussy, and hate cooking), I just buy drinks.