Dallis M.
Yelp
This review is about the hotel, not the bistro.
I stayed at Hotel Du Vin - Glasgow, for two nights, and I can tell you, I've never stayed anywhere better.
First of all, I didn't know the place existed and it was a surprise given to me and my new husband by our friends on our wedding night.
When we entered, we were greeted, first of all by a doorman, which is a new thing for me. He called me 'Ma'am'. Also, new for me.
The maitre'd approached us once inside the door, a bellhop helped us with our bags, and we were welcomed into the front sitting room, complete with roaring fire in the ornate fireplace. While the maitre'd looked up our reservation, we were given glasses of champagne to enjoy by the fireplace while our room was being prepared.
First impression when I entered the room? Oh. My. God.
It was gorgeous. We had our own fireplace, which was lit for us before we entered, a desk, a vanity, a dining table, two chairs, four poster bed, wardrobe. The maitre'd showed us around the room and down the hall (yes, down the hall!) to the bathroom, which boasted marble floors, pristine tiling, sink, toilet, full bathtub big enough for two, and of course, the monsoon shower.
Our towels were neatly folded in a linen cupboard, and we had real glasses perched at the side of the sink.
Breakfast was included in our room, but there was none of this, 'come down to the lobby between 9 and 11' that you get with most hotels. No, indeed, we were given a menu card where we checked the boxes of what we wanted, and then the time we wanted it.
It arrived on a tray at the specified time; coffee, tea, fruit compot, croissants with little jars of jam and pats of butter on the side. And real napkins, like, the cloth kind.
We sat in the morning, eating our breakfast by the warmth of the fire and thought, 'This is hotel heaven'.
The hotel also has an outdoor heated gazebo where, it was boasted in our welcome book, 'you can take a cigar or a brandy'.
Nice.
We had brunch one morning in the cafe area which looked as though, before the smoking ban, it might have been a place where gentlemen would take a cigar and a brandy after dinner.
I had what would normally be called a 'bacon roll', but it wasn't. It was thick toasted bread with gammon, a poached egg and a little serving pitcher of hollandaise sauce to pour on top.
You definately would need cutlery with this; and possibly the poshest bacon roll I've ever eaten in my life.
We were sad to leave when our two nights were up. We were helped out with our bags by the bellhop, with the doorman holding the door open and opening the door to our cab.
I do have plans to go back, perhaps when I've saved enough. Definitely worth it.