Retro-fitted with Victorian cut-glass lamps, open fireplaces and a long granite bar topped with brass beer taps, this former bank building reopened as a pub in 2008. Pull up a stool and taste-test locally made Phillips Blue Buck and the house-brand Robert Service Ale. There's nightly live music, plus a nosh menu ranging from pub standards to fancier fare.
The ‘Bard’ in the name is Robert Service, the British-Canadian poet to whom the pub pays homage. The’ Banker’ references the building itself which served as a bank from 1885 to 1988 and, in 1903, briefly employed Mr Service.