BoBar

I’ve been here once for food. There’s a deal on from 5pm-6.30pm through the week for 2 burgers for £10 which was the main appeal. Assuming that the food is prepared in the same kitchen as BoVine (which is next door, and much nicer), it felt like a good place to go.
The food was pretty good, burgers were tasty, and there was a lot of meat in the burger too. The fries were delicious and I’d reccomend the food.
The service on the otherhand was just very poor. We arrived in the bar and took a seat, around 5 – 10 minutes went past and nobody came over (I’m not sure if this bar does table service for the record, but it was very quiet with 2 staff on, I felt they could have came over and explained how it works). After we bit the bullet and got our own menus from the corner, waited again and went to the bar to order the food and drinks. Drinks took nearly 10 minutes to arrive. Once the burgers arrived, we asked for ketchup, which never came. Asked again with water, to get the ketchup but no water! I’ve worked in restaurants so I’m a bit forgiving with service, especially if it’s busy, but this was just poor.
Hopefully this was just a one off, as the burgers really were tasty. Just a shame about the service.

Its an OK place to have a drink. I also had the Jimmy burger for dinner and it was really big a full burger patty with haggis on top. A lot of meat for one meal. The atmosphere is bland but servers are nice.

Soulless place to sit and have a pint. Even with a big game on and a couple of beer buddies there was something distinctly lacking about this place — think Travel Lodge reception with a bar in it. It even had a resident Alan Partridge character on hand.
Have to say the woman who was delivering drinks and food to tables was working her socks off with great customer service. The only redeeming feature.

I actually really like this place, not sure why it gets such a bad press. Been in for drinks on several occasions and always had a good evening. Its not over crowded and its not one of those places you can’t hear yourself think let alone have a chat.
They do a great selection of cocktails. My only disappointment would be their lack of choice in cider, its a bottle of Magners and thats your lot.
Its a very stylish bar in comparison to what it was years ago when I remember it in my student days as Studio One (Jingz! thats showing my age!!!) What a monumental improvement!
I’m with Gavin M on this one… YAY!!! I’m a Fan!

I knew this place was likely to be pants, but Oran Mor was heaving and we had had enough after 1 and it was a handy place to re-​lubricate on our way to Ashton Lane.
The bar is well stocked, the prices were average the music not great, but not too chartish and its a nice looking place. The problem with BoBar is this: I moved 200 miles and thought I had managed to leave the ‘far too much attitude, professional girlfriend, leering blokes’ scene in Deansgate Locks. This is Glasgow’s version.
And yes this is attached to the Hilton, but it is trying to stay away from the Hotel bar feel, but just going about it in the wrong way.
Then again I am really not its target market as I am not a Z-​list celebrity and do not wish to wake up next to one.

A bar that lacks character, charm and any feeling of atmosphere, BoBar is trying desperately to be a style bar and failing dramatically.
In the 4 years I’ve lived around Glasgow’s West End never before have my pals suggested we nip in here for a pint, or meet here before a night out. Truth is, no one actually says these things. When I popped into BoBar the other day there was no one else in the pub. I imagine it does its trade on a friday and saturday night when everyone is out in the West End except people who actually live and work here.
The failings of BoBar is a shame as the place does have one of the best locations in Glasgow. Hopefully it can pull its socks up and make a change for the better in the near future

I think the poor old Bobar has been given a bit of a hard time here, which is as much to do with crossed wires amongst the reviewers as it is to do with the place itself.
I don’t think it’s trying desperately to do anything, it’s just a hotel bar, for people that are staying in said hotel and a few punters off the street. Bearing in mind that the hotel it’s attached to is a Hilton, I don’t think it’s surprising that it’s done up as a wanky style bar, rather than a spit and sawdust for regulars.
It’s not great, perhaps not even good, but it’s a hotel bar. Jesus Christ.

Bobar an overlooked bar which is often empty, almost impossible to believe considering its prime location at the top of Byres Road.
This place really isn’t my cup of tea as I am not a fan of style bars which this place certainly is, or is trying to be.
The opening of a new steak restaurant in the Grosvenor Hotel next door might draw a few more customers in.

This place opened at the top of Byres Road in 2006. And it has no reviews until now.
In other words, it’s in arguably the most thriving social hub of the city, an area in which every other nook n cranny has been scrutinised by Unilocalers, yet this place has remain untouched. Really, that says it all.
You see, Bobar is the most sterile of the Byres Road style bars, offering little in the way of atmosphere or character. As part of the Hilton Hotel, it attracts a fair share of guests but passing trade on Byres Road tend to bypass it in favour of the far superior Oran Mor situated opposite.
Over-​priced and flashy, customers enjoy drinks to a soundtrack of glorified muzak, while yuppies and luvvies mingle. Just awful.
My girlfriend did once spot Roy Walker tucking into a salad in here, so I guess it gets an extra star for that.