The building at 190 E. State St. went up in 1910 and has been three things since then: a bank, a bar called the Bank Club, and daVinci's. When the fourth one moves in, the bank vault will be the only original piece left. "We're taking it down to the studs, so we're keeping the bank vault, and that's about it," co-owner Scott Slater told BoiseDev.
daVinci's last day in the building is Dec. 31. As of this Thursday, that leaves seven weeks, seven Saturdays and one city holiday party in downtown Eagle before the dining room you know is torn out.
One Corner, Four Lives
- 1910. The building is built as a bank and stays one until it closes during the Great Depression.
- The Bank Club years. For several decades after that it runs as a local bar called the Bank Club.
- The late 1990s. daVinci's takes over after renovations, and the Idaho Statesman puts the date at 1998.
- Early 2026. Scott Slater and Todd Ketlinski of Apex Brand Collection, the group behind Spitfire Tacos + Tequila and Hemlock, buy the property and its liquor license.
- Dec. 31, 2026. daVinci's serves its last night in the building.
- Roughly four months after that. Slater told the Statesman he expects the handover and interior overhaul to take about that long. BoiseDev reported a goal of having Eagle Bank Club open by May 2027.
The liquor license is part of why the building changed hands. According to the Statesman, the license belonged to the landlord, not to daVinci's, so it came with the sale. Slater said that is what made the offer "pretty attractive to come in and do something special with the building."
What the Room Turns Into
Eagle Bank Club is named for the bar and dressed to match it. The Statesman reports the exterior will get vintage-style Bank Club signage and awnings designed from old photographs. BoiseDev reported that Slater wants to take the space back to the old bar, made into a "cool, swanky restaurant that Eagle can be proud of."
Inside, the plan in the Statesman calls for about 90 seats in 2,300 square feet, with a look Slater described as a dark New York tavern "with a little bit of pop, like Beverly Hills Hotel, mid-century, that kind of coral pink color." The planned menu, as the Statesman and BoiseDev reported it:
- A plate-spanning Giant Chicken Parm
- Chicken pot pie served tableside, poured from a copper pot into an upside-down puff pastry bowl
- The Bank Club Burger, shrimp cocktail and a classic wedge salad
- Idaho finger steaks and trout as the regional dishes
- A martini-led bar that leans on vodka and gin, plus classic cocktails and a happy hour
The owners have a history of reworking old Eagle spaces. Slater told the Statesman that Ketlinski "purchased Doug's Burger Den when we converted that over to Spitfire," and that the bank building is "this iconic building he's always wanted to be a part of."
"Eagle's obviously grown a ton since the '40s and '50s. So this is kind of a revival of what we think Eagle represents now." Scott Slater, speaking to the Idaho Statesman
To make room for that, everything daVinci's added since the late 1990s goes, so the next seven weeks are the last time anyone sits in it as it is now.
The Restaurant Is Moving, and the Room Stays Behind
The restaurant isn't going away. Slater told BoiseDev that daVinci's is moving rather than closing. For now, daVinci's describes itself as a New York-style Italian restaurant with scratch-made sauces, house Italian dressing and fresh Tuscan bread.
The building stays behind. Dinner at daVinci's after New Year's will be a different meal, because it won't be in the 1910 bank on East State Street. The Statesman describes daVinci's as a fixture of downtown Eagle, and its own tagline is "the local's Italian restaurant." Part of that reputation came from the corner it sits on, and the corner gets a new tenant in 2027.
For planning, daVinci's contact page lists the restaurant as open every day. The bar opens at 4 p.m., dinner starts at 5 p.m. and the kitchen closes at 9 p.m. Those are its posted hours as of now. Restaurants in their last weeks sometimes change hours, especially around Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Eve, so call ahead before you build an evening around a table.
Fitting a Last Dinner Into Eagle's December
The city calendar between now and Dec. 31 gives you a few natural nights to go. Here is what's confirmed for downtown and city facilities:
- Saturday, Nov. 14, 8 to 10 a.m. Veterans Breakfast at the Eagle Senior Center.
- Thursday and Friday, Nov. 26 and 27. City Hall, the Senior Center and the library are closed for Thanksgiving and the observed holiday.
- Tuesday, Dec. 1, 4 to 5 p.m. Eagle Public Library's kids' class, "Countdown to Christmas & Letters to Santa."
- Saturday, Dec. 5, 2 to 6 p.m. Eagle Country Christmas at Heritage Park and Gazebo, 185 E. State St., with the tree lighting at 6 p.m.
- Wednesday, Dec. 9, 4 to 5 p.m. The Eagle Senior Center Museum Lecture Series presents "Arrows & Airways: Eagle and the early U.S. Airmail system."
- Thursday and Friday, Dec. 24 and 25. City Hall, the Senior Center and the library are closed for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
- Thursday, Dec. 31. daVinci's last day at 190 E. State St.
Dec. 5 is the evening that lines up
Heritage Park's address is 185 E. State St., and daVinci's is at 190. On the city's description, Country Christmas has carols at the gazebo, photos with Santa in his sleigh, a kids' warming tent with crafts, hot cocoa from the Girl Scouts and a holiday market. The countdown to the tree lighting ends at 6 p.m.
Going by daVinci's posted hours, dinner service will have started an hour before the tree lights, and the kitchen stays open three hours after. That makes it the one Saturday this season when the city's biggest downtown event and the old bank building's last December share an evening. It's also likely the busiest night of the season on that block, so if you want a table after the countdown, book well before Dec. 5.
Dec. 9 fills in the history
The Senior Center's "Arrows & Airways" talk is about Eagle's early years in the U.S. airmail system. It ends at 5 p.m., right when daVinci's starts dinner, so a Wednesday of local history can finish inside a 1910 building whose interior has about three weeks left.
The quieter weeknights
The seven Saturdays left before Dec. 31 are Nov. 14, 21 and 28 and Dec. 5, 12, 19 and 26. Weeknights in mid-November, before the holiday rush and the run of city closures, are probably the easiest time to get the kind of table you'd want for a goodbye meal. The last night itself falls on a Thursday that is also New Year's Eve, so make plans early if you want to be there for it.
What Downtown Eagle Looks Like Between Now and May
From January through Eagle Bank Club's opening, one of the oldest buildings on State Street will be a construction site. When it opens, it will carry the bar's old name on new signs. This is the same downtown that just finished a two-year road project and saw a run of new restaurants fill in behind it. The bank building is going the other way, back toward its own past, and keeping the vault as its one physical link to 1910.
Until Dec. 31, the room is still daVinci's. Book a table, call ahead on holiday weeks, and if you can, make it Dec. 5, when the tree at Heritage Park lights at 6 p.m.
At The Canterbury Group, we follow downtown Eagle closely, from the neighborhood itself to every storefront on State Street that changes hands. If a change like the one at the old bank building has you thinking about your own spot near downtown, or about what your home is worth as the core keeps changing, we're happy to talk it through with you. Work With Us.
