Carlton George Hotel

You're walking into one of Glasgow's smarter addresses here, right in the heart of the merchant city where the Victorian sandstone meets serious hospitality. The Carlton George has the kind of polish you'd expect from a proper city-centre hotel—slick without being stuffy—with a bar that takes its drinks seriously and a restaurant that doesn't rely on being posh to justify itself. It's the sort of place where business folk and couples on decent nights out feel equally at home, and where the staff actually seem to know what they're doing behind the bar.