The River House Hotel & Mezz Bar, Temple Bar, Dublin 2,

The property comprises a 4 storey over basement Hotel and Bar extending to 1,397 sqm. The property benefits from dual frontage onto both Temple Lane South and Eustace Street. The property’s ground floor level comprises the former Molly Malones bar (licensed premises) with the basement comprising the

The property comprises a 4 storey over basement Hotel and Bar extending to 1,397 sqm. The property benefits from dual frontage onto both Temple Lane South and Eustace Street.

The property’s ground floor level comprises the former Molly Malones bar (licensed premises) with the basement comprising the former “Mezz” nightclub, both which benefit from dual access on Temple Lane South and Eustace Street.

The upper floors contain 29 en-suite bedrooms for guest accommodation.

Licensed Premises Opportunity

Temple Bar is nationally and internationally recognised as Dublin’s primary tourist district with huge numbers of daily visitors packed into a relatively small district. The licensed premises within this quadrant trade extremely well and as a result it is exceptionally rare for a freehold licensed premises within Temple Bar to become available. The premises incudes two large, licensed floor plates – the ground floor with an entrance onto Eustace Street and the basement with an entrance onto Temple Lane. The licensed area is over 7,200 sq.ft in total presenting a significant opportunity to create a high volume, high margin beverage driven business from the passing tourist footfall.

Hotel Undersupply:

Temple Bar is Dublin’s most coveted hotel trading location home to just 14 hotels with an average size of 74 keys per hotel. The hostel accommodation in temple bar is even fewer with just 5 hotels averaging 24 dormitories per hostel. This significant undersupply of quality hotel rooms, combined with the areas high density tourist population creates the potential for premium room rates with occupancy levels above 80%.