The Bank on College Green is setting its stall out as a bar and pub primarily, but it also does lunch and restaurant food during the day.

Its gourmet sandwiches like the Open Boston Prawn Sandwich on wholemeal bread with Avocado and Marie Rose sauce looks terrific and will cost you €8.50.

Pasta courses like the Egg Tagliatelle with smoked chicken, roasted bell peppers, sweet thai chilies and pine kernels are very good indeed (€11.50)

There's a good selection of main courses like the Thai Scented Green Curry of Chicken with coconut milk and basmati rice (€11.50)  and the Roast Rack of Wicklow Lamb with Gratin Dauphinoise, Rosemary-scented jus and confit of garlic (€22). 

Also, The Bank offers Dubliners another decent lunchtime meal option at the weekend. On Saturday and Sunday, they serve brunch until 5pm and the Mezzanine area is available for private hire.

The building is a beautifully restored specimen of Victorian commercial architecture designed in 1893 by William Henry Lynn when the site was turned into a branch of the Belfast Bank.

Before that, the Great Britain Mutual Life Assurance Company traded there from 1876. Before that again, it was a Watch & Clock Manufacturer, a Department store (Reside & Co.) and originally Bigwoods Wool Emporium.

The Dublin bar was once the main banking hall and is a temple to money power with its stained glass ceiling (which fills the room with natural light), mosaic tiled floors and beautiful hand-carved plasterwork.

The Bank on College Green,
20-22 College Green,
Dublin 2.
Tel.: 01-6770677
Fax: 01-6770881
e-mail: info@bankoncollegegreen.com