FINALLY....We have a website!
The waiting, the broken promises, the teflon timescales and rubbish “it’ll be worth it when it gets here” comments; we’ve done our best to make the arrival of the website feel just like getting served at the bar. Which is really the point: to put a bit of the Bank Tavern on the interweb for you to find when you should be doing more important things.
We’ve revised the House Rules, which can be found alongside any poster we’ve ever done plus other things we like in the “Mirth” section. New for 2010 is the “No middle-management twaddle” rule (leave it at the door, please); so when our web-design man said this is a feature-driven, content-rich website, we barred him. He had a point though, there are certainly plenty of buttons. Notable features we thought worth a mention are:
Have a click on the “Menu” section above to find...
IMPORTANT NEWS (No, seriously) – Not only is the new menu now available to take away, but you can e-mail your order through in advance if the Bank Tavern Call Centre number is busy!
We’ve changed the menu for the summer so it now sports new pasta dishes, salads such as the Bank Caesar Salad and a Chorizo and Honey-Glazed Sausage Salad as well as daily Fish and Grill specials and some old favourites.
We also have a calendar section, so the team can forget to update it with things. Hopefully it should develop into a rough idea of what’s going on here, which is often quite a lot. You can still phone us though if the calendar shows we have nothing planned ‘til Christmas, just in case we’ve forgotten to list something.
You can also follow random bits of Bank Commentary on Twitter (no, we never thought we would either) as well as joining the Bank Tavern group on Facebook. We’d never bombard you with anything that we’d be bored by ourselves, so have a look at our online sign up bits and join us.
We hope you enjoy the site. There’s still some work to be done and we’ll be adding features as we get a chance; like London – it’ll be lovely when it’s finished.
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