The Bank on College Green

Name

The Bank on College Green

Legal name

The Bank on College Green

Website

https://bankoncollegegreen.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Restaurant and Bar Hospitality

NAICS

Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) (722410), Full-Service Restaurants (722511), Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) (72241)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

Lounge Bars & Hotel Bars (THAFAEAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Wine Bars (THAFAEAF), Pubs & Gastropubs (CRANACAB)

Keywords

• Farm-to-table dining
• Historic bar venue
• Private dining events
• Craft cocktail bar
• Irish restaurant hospitality

Headquarters

HQ city

Dublin 2

HQ country

Ireland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Food and Beverage Sales: The primary revenue stream comes from serving seasonally changing farm-to-table food menu and drinks including cocktails, wine, and light bites. Revenue is generated through dine-in service across multiple seating areas including the main banking hall, mezzanine level, and private rooms.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

The Bank on College Green operates a bar and restaurant serving a seasonally changing, farm-to-table menu of contemporary Irish cuisine alongside bespoke seasonal cocktails and curated wine lists. Service is delivered across four distinct in-house spaces — the main banking hall, the mezzanine level, the main bar, and the private Bank Managers Room — and includes weekday/saturday/Sunday lunch, brunch, and dinner service, plus group booking and private event hosting for parties of 6 to 50+ guests. Gift vouchers are also retailed via the Voucherme platform.

Product overview

The Bank on College Green is a historic bar and restaurant occupying a former Victorian Belfast Bank building from 1894. The venue operates as a single unified hospitality establishment offering food and drink service across multiple distinct spaces: the main banking hall dining area, an intimate mezzanine level, the main bar for casual gatherings, and a private dining room (The Bank Managers Room). The business serves contemporary Irish cuisine with seasonal, locally-sourced ingredients alongside bespoke cocktails and curated wine selections. Group booking and voucher services support event catering and gifting needs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Food Service (Seasonal Farm-to-Table Menu)

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• VouchermeminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorThird-party voucher platform used for selling gift vouchers and vouchers to customers. Extends distribution reach beyond the venue's own booking system.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Etto: Independently owned Dublin upscale-casual restaurant with a strong wine and seasonal-food focus — comparable size, independent ownership structure, and city-centre premium positioning.
• Sophie's Restaurant & Bar: Up-casual Dublin dining and cocktail venue with a distinctive atmospheric interior, comparable in targeting professionals, tourists, and group bookings in the city centre.
• The Fumbally: Independent Dublin food-led venue with a seasonally rotating Irish-produce-driven menu; similar independent-operator profile and city-centre premium-casual audience overlap.
• Café en Seine: Iconic Dublin bar-restaurant operating in a landmark period interior, offering full food menus alongside cocktail-focused bar service in a high-traffic city centre location — directly comparable concept and audience.
• The Bridge 1859: A heritage bar and restaurant in Dublin city centre that similarly combines a historic building setting with upscale-casual food and drink service, targeting the same overlap of corporate, tourist, and local clientele.
• The Washerwoman: Dublin gastropub/bar-restaurant featuring seasonally driven Irish menus and a strong cocktail programme, comparable in offering upscale-casual all-day dining with food-led positioning.
• D'Olier Street Restaurant: Dublin city-centre bar and restaurant serving contemporary Irish cuisine with a strong cocktail and wine focus, comparable in independent ownership and premium-casual all-day positioning.

Regional players

• Lemon & Lime (Dublin bar group): Dublin-based bar and restaurant operator running multiple heritage and atmospheric venues across the city centre, providing a useful regional multi-unit comp for unit economics and city-centre F&B operations.

Broad incumbents

• The Shelbourne Hotel (Lord Mayor's Lounge): Iconic Dublin heritage hotel whose bar and afternoon-service venues operate with comparable Georgian/Victorian atmospheric positioning and target the same tourist, corporate, and luxury local segments.
• The Dean Hotel (大厅 / The Dean Bar): Dublin boutique hotel whose ground-floor restaurant and bar compete for the same after-work, tourist and group-booking trade as The Bank on College Green.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/the-bank-on-college-green

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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