Hathersage’s former bank, which has been unoccupied for the last five years, has recently undergone a £1 million refurbishment to be modified into a lively restaurant and cocktail bar. The Bank House Bar & Restaurant is located in the centre of Hathersage and is scheduled to open to the public on Saturday the 29th of September. The restaurant will generate over 20 jobs for the local area and will include extensive training for staff.
Spread across three levels will be a cocktail bar on the ground floor, a restaurant on the first floor and an intimate dining experience on the second floor. Built in 1910, the structure has distinctive neo-Jacobean architectural characteristics whilst the interior has more of a vintage European style. The bar has also managed to salvage many of the banks original features, which Managing Director of The Bank House Bar & Restaurant, Samuel Bell, has attributed to being an essential part to “preserve its heritage and convert a redundant space into a vibrant and welcoming restaurant and bar.”
Lawrence Key, Operations Director of The Bank House Bar & Restaurant.
The bar will offer a contemporary Mediterranean style menu, which has been described as “a playful take on British cuisine with broad European influences emphasizing local, rustic, seasonal and sustainable ingredients” by Operations Director, Lawrence Key. It is set to be a mix between the eccentric and the ordinary to create a unique enjoyable experience. Lawrence added that the cocktail menu was “inspired by the building’s banking heritage and offers clever flavour combinations and unique technical presentations”.
The Bank House Bar & Restaurant will be open from 10am-11pm Monday to Sunday, from the 29th of September onward.
