Hotel Neptune Bar

This is the cocktail bar at 122 Fountain Street in Downcity Providence, tucked behind a curtain off the lobby of a 52-room boutique hotel. A name note first, because it will save you confusion: the hotel opened as The Dean, ran under that name for eleven years, and rebranded to Neptune — an Ash hotel — on 2 June 2026. The bar traded for years as The Dean Bar and much of the local coverage still calls it that. Google and the hotel's own site have moved to the Neptune naming. Same room, same curtain, same address.

The bar is done in a European style — dark, compact, built for conversation rather than volume — and it keeps genuinely late hours by Providence standards: one in the morning through the week and two on Friday and Saturday, from a four o'clock open at weekends. For anyone not drinking, that late window matters more than it might seem, because it is when the alternatives thin out.

Two non-alcoholic builds are documented in current Providence coverage. One is a Paloma made with grapefruit and an agave alternative in place of tequila, which keeps the drink's dry, slightly bitter character rather than sweetening it. The other is a zero-proof Cosmopolitan. Both are recognisable classics rendered without spirit rather than invented mocktails, which suits a bar whose main list runs to European classics.

The wider building is worth knowing about: alongside this bar, Neptune houses a coffee shop in its lobby library, a full-service restaurant, and Boombox, a karaoke den with private singing rooms and its own bar. A new restaurant and bar concept has been announced for the hotel, so expect the ground floor to keep changing. We have not published drink prices or a full list, as the bar does not publish a menu online.