Upstairs bar bistro, opened in late 2013. The original Bentinck Hotel ground floor bar of this building was converted in early 2013 to a Starbucks. Now consists of a main room and a smaller side room. A full menu is available with breakfasts from 7am. Hotel accommodation is on the higher floors of the building. Opposite Nottingham Railway Station's main exit.
Historic Interest
Citizens Bar & Bistro is in the old Bentinck Hotel, a Grade II listed building (No. 1255176) located in Nottingham City Council's Station Conservation Area.
Public house. c1900, altered mid and late C20. Red brick, with pink and grey granite plinth and pilasters to ground floor, ashlar dressings and slate mansard roof. Renaissance Revival style. Moulded string courses, coped gables with finials. Windows are transomed casements on the first floor and plain sashes above. 3 storeys plus attics; 3 x 3 bays. Corner site with domed corner tower and a major gable to each front. Ground floor has continuous shopfront on both returns, with transomed windows in rusticated surrounds and a doorway at each end. At the corner, a segment-arched window. Station street front has a triple window on the first floor, with a single window to left and a recessed bay window to right. Above, 7 windows. Gable has 2 windows, flanked by single box dormers. Carrington Street front has similar fenestration, with 3 first floor windows and 4 above. INTERIOR refitted late C20, retaining foliage panelled plaster ceilings, and cornice and arches with vine trail decoration (Historic England).
[Nottingham City Council; Bridge Ward / Nottingham South Parliamentary constituency]
Bentinck Hotel, Nottingham