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The Sugar House, Narrow Lewins Mead, Bristol
Hotel du Vin Bristol
- Style
- Fine wine in the West Country
- Setting
- Restored 18th-century warehouses
It's very apt that a former sugar warehouse in Bristol has morphed into an boutique hotel offering irresistible sweet temption to wine lovers.
Need to know
- Rooms
- 40 rooms with three double-height loft suites and two loft suites.
- Rates
- £135–£360, excluding breakfast.
- Check-out
- 11am.
- Facilities
- DVD and CD player in every room. Library at reception.
- Children
- Welcome. £10 for cot or extra bed.
In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- Harveys roof suite has a very large terrace. Concha Toro is one of the biggest superior rooms. All rooms have Victorian baths and walk-in power showers.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- Bistro open for lunch and dinner, last orders 1h45 and 21h45.
- Dress code
- Relaxed.
- Top table
- Table 6.
- Last orders
- In the restaurant 21h45. Bar open 24 hours.
- Room service
- Bistro menu 12h–13h45 and 18h–22h.
- Hotel bar
- Sugar House Bar, open 24 hours, with a huge selection of rums and whiskies. Also Janneau Billiard room, Christie’s Library.
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Local restaurants
Bell’s Diner on York Road (+44 (0)117 924 0357) is a converted Fifties grocers in the Montpelier district, where you will find eat mainly French/Med fusion cooking with the occasional West Indian or Oriental dish; fresh and some wild local produce. All the meat at Quartier Vert on Whiteladies Road (+44 (0)117 973 4482) is organic, as is as much as possible of everything else – including the wine, which is all available by the glass. A cookery school and bakery, as well as café, tapas bar and Mediterranean restaurant, this foodie complex takes its raw materials seriously, with delicious results. The Glass Boat is a vintage barge where you might eat roast local venison, Welsh black beef, treacle tart with Cornish cream, or more Mediterranean dishes: Andalucian garlic soup, crème Catalan, Vacherin cheese. The waterside location is atmospheric, and the service warm. A revamped olde pubbe, the Albion on Boyces Avenue in Clifton (+44 (0)117 973 3522) serves good food, including oysters and quail’s eggs, in a bright wooden-floored dining room, or a sunny courtyard in summer.Nightlife
Speak to the concierge if you want your name put down at the door of III, a members’ club.Worth getting out of bed for
Head to Clifton Village for upmarket boutiques, gift shops and antique shops.Diary
Second weekend in August Bristol’s balloon fiesta (www.bristolfiesta.co.uk) is the biggest hot-air-balloon show in Europe. July Harbour festival (www.bristol-city.gov.uk) attracts more than 100,00 people with boat races, funfair, French food market, live music and fireworks.
For a full list of bars and restaurants in Bristol, click here
Bristol, United Kingdom
- Best for
- Babies and up – children of all ages welcome.
Recommended rooms
All rooms are large enough for at least one extra bed (£10) or cot (complimentary).
Activities
There are no special facilities for children, but the concierge is clued up on local attractions. The city's Bristol Zoo Gardens is always popular with families.
Meals
Children are welcome in the Bistro restaurant at all times, and half portions of the adult menu are available at half price, and they'll heat up milk and baby food for you.
Babysitting
This can be arranged at £10 an hour. Please give 48 hours' notice.
Baby-listening
This service isn't provided, and the walls in this listed building are too thick for baby monitors to work.
No need to pack
There are high chairs in the restaurant. Children receive a complimentary set of Arran Aromatics toiletries.
Also
Ask when you book, and the concierge will put together a pack of family-friendly information ready for when you check in – Bristol is a surprisingly child-friendly city. There are DVD and CD players in every room, and DVDs and board games to borrow from reception. Every room has a mini-bar, handy for storing milk.
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