Glasgow City
Radisson Blu

Radisson Blu

Argyle Street,, G2 8DP, Glasgow City, United Kingdom

Tea • Pub • Steak • Lodging


"Stayed on a Thursday night using an itison voucher which we had saved for our anniversary. I do wonder if they earmark substandard rooms for voucher stays. Arrived and checked in without any issues. We were given a discount card for food and drink which was great and completely unsolicited. But I later discovered I’d be signed up to Radisson’s loyalty scheme without my permission to get this. Not the best start. We informed them we were booked in for afternoon tea and dinner and were given all the directions. Lift to room. Wow how weird is the layout of room 530! Pilar right in the middle of the room with a large tv hanging very precariously from it. There’s minimal space between the pilar and the bed, so mind your head! And if you put something in the bin under the desk and you’re not paying attention, you’ll very likely hurt yourself on the corner of it! Everything about the room is very tired. Scuffs on everything. Stains on the carpet and the chairs. Safe didn’t work which meant carrying my tablet down to lunch and dinner. The bathroom isn’t much better. There should be a light around the mirror but I couldn’t find a switch. Don’t wait until you come out the shower to look for the spare towels, they’re next to the entrance door outside the bathroom. I’m unsure why when there are a lot of adequate empty shelves in the bathroom. The shower isn’t great with minimal water pressure and the shower door opens out, so you can’t leave the bath mat outside the shower door. You need to get it after you’ve opened it, so careful not to slip with your wet feet. The bathroom has lovely glass tiles dividing it between the bedroom. Nice until someone goes to the bathroom in the middle of the night and puts the light on! Bedroom then gets the brilliantly badly designed benefit of that light also. There is tea and coffee fashioned into the black pillar in the centre of the room. There’s a light at the back that either didn’t wort or I couldn’t find the switch for. So my phone light was needed to see what was in there! Don’t wait to the last second to look for the hairdryer. There wasn’t one in our room and I had to call reception to get one. Food...afternoon tea was delicious! The savouries were particularly good! However when we arrived they didn’t have our booking. Which is odd when we booked the hotel, dinner and afternoon tea over the phone at the same time. Anyway, they will of course set a table for us in the lovely room at the back and please wait while they do. No drink offered while we waited. The room was lovely but it could be better. The tables needed a good clean and there were stains all over the cushions. There was a fire on though which was and lovely but needed. Cup had a chip on it which was very obvious! We received the prosecco but had to then ask for the tea after we’d received the food. Just let us know if you need anything else they said but never came near us again. If you want anything you’d need to go looking for someone in the bar. Dinner...there were 3 couples including ourselves and one single gentleman in for dinner. So it was extremely quiet. There only appeared to be one girl serving which they just about got away with. Starters and drinks ordered. There was a little wait and the starters arrived. We had to ask for the drinks. Apparently they’d run out of prosecco but they were sorting that out. Fine but we still had to wait for the other wine ordered. Sadly the starters were shocking! Fish pate was full of bones and the carrot and ginger soup was so full of ginger I literally couldn’t eat it. This was swapped without any quibble. The chicken pate was just ok! We both ordered chicken for main and it was very good. Chips were also great and the side of veg was cooked to order without butter. My husband had date pudding and said it was the best he’d ever had. To round off the night we thought we’d go to the bar for a cocktail however it was so cold that we decided to take the drinks to our room. This was a mistake because they were both so bad. We would have sent them back if we had sat down there. The syrup in one cocktail was so overbearing it was undrinkable. Breakfast was massive. So much choice, as they advertise. They also do made to order food. All in all, despite all the staff being extremely lovely, we definitely won’t be back. I like an itison to try new places and then we often revisit the places we like best. This sadly won’t be on our list."

Wagamama

Wagamama

Lothian Road, G2 1PB, Glasgow City, United Kingdom

Thai • Vegan • Japanese • Vegetarian


"A lovely payday family outing on Wednesday night. LOCATION situated along West George Street, about a 50m walk from Nelson Mandela Place. It was pretty much directly across the road from ‘Stack Still’. Level access provided. DECOR very much what you would expect of a restaurant serving Asian Japanese food clean and sharp. Minimalist with dimmed internal lighting we were sat at a long table with benched seats. Not oozing comfort but modern nonetheless. STAFF brilliant! We had a couple of waiters overseeing us they brought colouring books and pencils for our son. Our plates were always cleared and we were tended to with a smile. No complaints at all. MEAL speaking of my own experience, it was superb. I opted for some steamed Gyoza (Pulled Pork) to start, followed by a Yaki Soba (Chicken and Shrimp). A big fan of both, in particular my main course which was packed with flavour. Generous portions. COST just over £60.00 for a family of three (one child) with two courses and two Smoothies ordered on the side. For me, fairly expensive the non acceptance of any Blue Light (or similar) discount was a big disappointment. Taken the above into account, I definitely feel like i’ve been won over by ‘Wagamama’, this type of food not always being my preferred choice. A moreish menu full of well cooked cuisine. However, if considering financially, it’s a place we’d visit as a family a lot less frequently than other businesses."