HOTEL PARTNERS

Ulster Museum

Botanic Gardens
Belfast
United Kingdom BT9 5AB
44 28 9066 6630

www.nmni.com/um

IN NUVO

It’s 10 p.m. in the chandelier-dappled cocktail bar of Belfast’s boutique Merchant Hotel, a column-fronted landmark built in the 1850s as the headquarters of Ulster Bank. Judging by the ritzy clientele, there’s just as much capital here today.