Hotel du Vin & Bistro Brighton

We had a private dining room here on a work conference, and the food and drink were excellent. Staff were very friendly and fun.

The room was comfortable and spacious, and breakfast was also great. I may have felt differently about it if I was the one footing the bill, but as it stands I can't fault!

I'm not usually a fan of chains but Hotel Du Vin is a great example of a boutique chain that oozes luxury and sophistication.

There's only 43 rooms including 3 loft suites but we're talking deep, roll top baths, comfy, handsprung beds and incredibly Egyptian cotton bedding. If you can bear to leave your room and venture out, there's lovely courtyard areas and a reception room where you can curl up with a newspaper and glass of wine. Which reminds me, the wine and cocktail list at Hotel Du Vin is second to none. I could drink here every day and I don't think I'd be served anything I didn't love!

I've yet to eat in the Bistro but a couple of neighbours have been and all raved about it. There's also spa and massage treatments available and live jazz on the first and third Sunday of the month. They get a bonus point too for owning a beach hut - which you can hire per day or week. What more could you want from a hotel?

I came here a few years ago and the food was superb! So I was really excited about going here for the French market buffet lunch on Sunday. The seafood buffet was beautiful- lots to choose from with different preparations of prawns and potted crab! The bellini I had was also delicious and beautifully presented. However, with the main meals, they did not have any mushroom risotto as stated on menu and the pumpkin risotto they offered instead was really quite bland and the arborio rice even seemed a little under done which was a shame.
The creme brulee was ok but huge! I imagine this would have been ideal for a lot of people but I felt it was quantity over quality a little bit. I was keen to return after the last visit but not so much this time.

Hotel du Vin is Brighton's most expensive and exclusive hotel and restaurant, and this is reflected in every aspect of what this place has to offer. Everything here is to the highest quality, from the amazing restaurant/gastro-pub/bistro to the rooms themselves. Everything here is to a truly high standard, but massively overpriced, losing Hotel du Vin the five star rating it truly deserves.

I didn't realise Hotel du Vin was a boutique chain until recently: having only noticed it in Brighton, I assumed it was another of these ridiculously expensive, privately run hotels that dot the Brighton seafront between the two piers. It certainly seems that way from the outside, as the decor and set-up is professional yet quirky: an old fashioned thatch sandwiched between two tall towers. This charming eccentricity extends indoors as well: the rooms are designed in a casually peculiar way, often mixing epochs and colours for some... interesting results!

However, under this there are all the signs of a well-run, professional business. The bistro bar/restaurant serves absolutely excellent food, and the wine and cocktail list is impressively long. The spa treatments on offer, while expensive, are apparently very nice, and there's even a rentable beach hut. Nothing has been skimped on here.

All of this does come at a price, and it's a rather hefty one at that. Everything is quite simply too expensive: a common Brighton issue, but the prices here are so astronomical that they blow a lot of the town's other price-hikers out of the water. I suppose what is on offer is of the finest quality, but it is all excessively rich. I suppose Hotel du Vin are trying to attract a certain type of clientele... and if you sit in the lobby for long enough, you will see some faces you recognise!

While Hotel du Vin is a lovely experience, be it to stay or have a meal or treat yourself to a massage, but make sure you're bringing plenty of cash with you!

Nice hotel by the water but not with sea views. Very good staff and nice boutique feel. 15 min walk from the train station

The greatest waste of money you can spend on meal in Brighton.
Came here for lunch in the bar on a quiet Monday. My party of three ordered two bottles of sparkling water, the salad that arrived with no dressing on it, the Normandy chicken, a tiny piece of chicken that arrived with no chips and had a side of the most tastless cider sauce. We also asked for coffee with the meal. I myself got the burger which was below average and not very flavoursome and absolutely not worth the £16 price tag.

After double checking the menu to see if the chicken came with chips we had to go and look for a new waiter, as ours disappeared and ask for the dressing and chips. The coffee arrived at the same time my empty plate was collected.
Overall this meal was nothing short of a massive disappointment. If the venue itself wasn't a lovely, clean and in a great location I would of dropped down to one star but I can't fault the hotels interior or exterior. There was a look of horror when then bill came to just under £65.

I have organised several private functions at this venue and they have always treated us very well. I have also dined here for lunch with the inlaws and greatly enjoyed the food. The service at lunch, however, was disappointing. They got our orders wrong and took a long time to correct it. It is also extremely pricey. I would go back but it would need to be for a special occasion.

After hunting the boardwalk for a chill place to sit in the sun and have fish and chips - and coming up frustrated with super long lines or extremely slow/cash only service, my guy and I walked up to the street level with only one thing on the brain: FOOD NOW.... we found Pub Du Vin sort of on accident while we were hauling down a small street looking for a restaurant.

Holy cow I'm SO glad we did.

We shared the cobb salad and the haddock & chips --- mmmmmmmm. Plenty enough for two people. The fish and chips were elegantly plated with mushy peas and house made tartar sauce with capers.

Best fish and chips I've ever had- hands down. It was light and crunchy, while flavorful and juicy.

Skip the boardwalk bs and do it right @ the Pub!

Hotel du Vin...pure luxury! This Brighton hotel is part of a fairly small and incredibly luxurious chain of hotels that inhabit the UK's trendiest towns. You will certainly pay for your experience, but if you've got the cash to splash, Hotel to Vin is the place to do it!

I had a fairly amusing experience here back in 2003. I had literally just moved into my room on campus at Sussex Univeristy and my parents announced that they were coming to Brighton for their 20th wedding anniversary. Let's just say I was not yet convinced about university life and was certainly not enamoured with my room in halls. Feeling a bit fragile, I met my parents at their hotel (yes you've guessed it, Hotel du Vin). Well, the disparity between my new room and theirs was, frankly, hilarious. They had sweeping views of the beach, two free standing baths in their room, the plushest bed I've ever seen, surround-sound music and TV and a beautifully tiled turquoise bathroom with twin shower heads. I had a cell room and a shower shared between twelve! Subsequently, I spent as much time hanging around my parents as possible that weekend, eating their posh food and soaking up the glorious sumptuousness of their hotel room. I probably cramped their style a little (whoops!), but at least I got to experience this most lavish, lovely hotel!
The building is really beautiful, the views are great and the restaarant is do die for- what more could you want form a boutique hotel?

First of all we arrived and we had made a reservation for 7 people so the guy gave us the table and it was a table for 6 and we said we're 7 people not 6 so the guy quickly squished a 7 th place on the table and it was very uncomfortable so we complained and the guy was a arrogant rude shi* and he said we were fine so we complained and gave a formal letter to the general manager and he hasn't replied. Don't go