Rock Rose Dover in Dover

reasonable food at a fair price with good service

Great visit today, attentive staff, great food and good value

Our party of nine order their food at 6.45pm and was advised that our meal should be ready in about forty minutes due to the restaurant being very busy but unfortunately our food finally arrived after 7.45pm

Good choice of food at reasonable prices. Reasonable drink prices and friendly staff.

Service was outstanding, incredibly friendly and helpful. The food was delivered quickly and looked and tasted outstanding. The spicy burger was huge and packed with flavour and the skin on fries were crispy and melt in the middle. And the burger sauce made everything taste a hundred times better. The meals were affordable and the pitchers tasted delicious and were a good deal. The Salted Caramel Cookie Brownie was gooey and decadent with a light vanilla ice cream on the side, a good portion size and a delicious dessert. A great thank you to our server, Ryan, who made us feel welcome and maintained an upbeat attitude throughout the experience.

Been here fir over 1hour 15 minutes after ordering and still nothing. It not even busy. What joke! What food would I recommend. How would I know!

Been here a few times now when travelling for work. Staff are polite and efficient. Carvery is high quality. Good value for money. Relaxed atmosphere. Don't feel rushed.

We just had the fish and chips and it was superb. The service was friendly and welcoming. Will definitely be back.

Nice food, great service, reasonably priced.

Lovely waiting staff. Really engaged with our children and showed an interest in their interests. Very attentive. Very prompt with delivering food orders

Just had a mixed grill and it was cooked to near perfection 🙂. Will be again telling family and friends how good the food and atmosphere is.

This was the first time going here, the staff were warm and welcoming, and very pleasent indeed. Whole place was clean and inviting. Food was very good as well. Will definitely return and recommend in the future. We had the carvery lots of vegetables to chose from and 3 differently prepared potatoe dishes.

They do great food and the staff are always freindly and helpful.

Brilliant food and service would definitely recommend

Server at the till when ordering was a life saver, fab customer service and very friendly.

Great return visit. Been here a number of times and it never disappoints. Great food, choice of drinks and great friendly service. Great places to visit

Nice carvery, draught soft drinks price is ridiculous though.

Staff are very friendly and promt. We diddnt wait long for our food and as always the food was on point. My family local go to.

Staff very helpful and cheerful, food excellent.

very good service and enjoyable food. very helpful in changing our pre booking from 9 to 15 on the day

Was a nice quiet evening. The only issue to me, it's an self order place lacks the personal touch of a waiter or waitress. The bowls for the starter were rusted, and in contact with the food, a bit of a food safety issue. In general, the food was average, not enough sauces on the plate, but it tasted ok. Would go again but wouldn't be near the top of any list as a must go place.

Excellent staff and service always very friendly and helpful

Met up with a friend today . The atmosphere was great food and service was amazing too. Thanks 👍

Lovely restaurant, great staff great prices fantastic carvery can't be beaten verygood top marks all round

Excellent choice of menu, carvery very good, staff friendly and attentive. Good value for money. WOULD GO AGAIN and again

Food is good, very good. I am a huge fan of the burgher so I order it most of the time. Is a cosy place, when you seat there you will just lay back and relax. Even when the place is full is never too loud and you can have a normal conversation without shouting. At list twice a month we are there and just enjoy a nice meal and some chill. Service is always fast and the staff is always smiling and nice. Strongly recommend this place.

Everyone enjoyed their food, great value of money and the atmosphere was lovely and relaxed

We went for a family meal at The Rock Rose. Husband had a mega mixed grill and my daughter and I both had steak. I honestly couldn't fault our visit here. The meal was perfectly cooked, the staff are always friendly and welcoming and the atmosphere is always relaxed, and the floors and bar were very clean.

Great, very helpful service. Lovely dinner

Valentine's night repeat visit. meals arrived quickly and hot,staff were really friendly and helpful,nice relaxed atmosphere.

Popped in last minute for a spot of lunch. Didn't have a booking and wanted a table by a window. Mel quickly got a table ready for us and nothing seemed too much trouble, even they it was busy. All went for the carvery which was spot on. Now our go-to place, food was well priced and good portions. See you again soon...

Very nice visit enjoyed the roast dinner, prawn cocktail and cauliflower wings

Had lunch here with a group of friends. Been here a few times and the staff are always friendly and helpful. Food is always nice and hot, prompt service and nice atmosphere. Good selection of food on the menu and prices are very reasonable. Lots of space and tables to sit at. Nice place to eat and enjoy a drink.

A lovely experience with friends and children. Greeted at the door and then Ryan seated us. He also made sure we had everything we needed and checked everything was okay.

We have visited today for a carvery, from the minute we arrived we have had excellent service. The manager Melanie helped us to an accessible table for my husband, all the team were so friendly and approachable and offered help straight away for my husband who is partially sighted which was a great help for me when visiting with young children. The chefs serving the carvery I think their names were Ben and Ryan were so friendly and brilliant with my children helping them with their plates and making them laugh. The staff have gone above and beyond to help us out and make our visit as easy and enjoyable as possible. 👍

It was OK, carvery was spot on Came back today 16-02-25 after a stroke and sight lose. Melanie the manager was great helped us out put us in an area easier to get to and from table to carvery. All staff were so helpful and kind seeing me with cane and offering help at every stage. Very good service can not recommend enough well done and thank you for your kindness. A true breath of fresh air

Had a lovely meal with friends very clean

My wife had the roast, which was good for the money, I had beef chilli which was absolutely terrible and cost more than the roast. A soon full of chilli and a spoon full of rice and far more nachos on the plate than anything else. Not again that's for shore.

Always consistently good at the Rock Rose. Sometimes forget that we need to order at the bar and not always reminded of this. Food always arrives promptly. Beef burgers a little overdone but in general good value for money

We absolutely love this place. Food is always amazing. Staff are so friendly and make you feel so welcome. Highly Recommended A*****

Carvery today - spot on. Beef, turkey & gammon, 7 veg (roasties to die for), yorkshires, stuffing, gravy and sauces. Finished off with lovely coffee. We’ll be going again.,

Staff very attentive, service quite fast, food very nice, plenty of choice. Very clean.

Solid gastro-pub with quick service. Most people come for the carvery, but the set menu food is usually better. Always comes out hot and full of flavour. Staff are attentive and always willing to help. Try to avoid Sundays as they have long lines for the carvery.

Went here to treat Mum and sister to a Sunday Lunch. Had not been to this place since it changed hands and it was a very nice surprise. The place was clean and well looked after, the staff were all friendly and efficient and had good communication. The Carvery was a pleasant surprise and a good value for money even given its typically more expensive on a Sunday. I could image midweek would be a steal. The food was all good and nicely cooked (carrots maybe left a little long under the heat lamp) and I NEED the recipe for the red pepper dophenires potatos, they were lush. Note, they only give you one square of Stuffing at this carvery when I like it to be on the self services. Would recommend and would go again.

Great food. Happy pleasant staff.

Thursday/ steak night, first there was no rump steak so we had to pay extra to get sirloin , there was 5 people in our party and 4 of had the steak , 1 steak mediam well done / came as well done ,the next 3 was ment to mediam rare/ which came as rare and so tough it was uncuttable . As the visit was for a birthday celebration it spoilt the whole occasion, I will not be going back for a long .

Wonderful staff and brilliant fair priced food

We booked a table online for 17:45 arrived a bit earlier at 17:30 but got sat right away. Ordered our food at 17:39 and waited over an hour and 10 minutes for it to be delivered. Apparently we were behind a table of 40 people so there was a long wait on food. We were never informed about this, we weren't told when we were seated, when we ordered food and only figured out the delay after asking a waitress who was nothing but apologetic. The food was great but the wait put a stain on the entire evening.

Friendly, helpful, staff, service is good, carvery is value for money, lovely large place.

Lovely, goidcrs Ge on menu and easy to find with good parking.

Good food and great value for money.

Good food, Waiters and bartenders are really nice and friendly. We are happy 😊

Really lovely staff. Splendid food.

The staff were very pleasant and the food was lovely. Will definitely be coming back.

Great staff and great food. We attended here for my eldest son's birthday we received a warm welcome and the service was on point. We ordered our food was was delicious. We would of had dessert but my daughter in law started labour so didn't have the chance the staff were very helpful and went above and beyond to make sure my daughter in law was comfortable. So a very big thankyou from myself to the team. Will deffo recommend the rock and rose to family and friends. We will see you again in the very nearly future.

Staff always friendly and accommodateing food was good.

Lovely atmosphere and an excellent choice of Gluten Free food.

It was fantastic the scan and order at the table was so much easier and the food was fantastic 👌

Great value food. Good serves even though understaffed that evening due to staff sickness. Waiter/barman was very helpful & cheerful

Food took nearly an hour to arrive and was only warm -not very appetising

Came here for the first time to have some food. I had the cowboy burger and it was yummy. The staff were lovely and welcoming. Would definitely recommend this place.

Our 3rd trip to the Rock Rose at lunchtime. The staff were friendly and efficient. Food was of good quality and the building was very clean.

The place itself is fine and staff are friendly. However the food is well below average. We had 2 regular roasts with 2 pigs in blankets each. It's £2.50 each extra for these plus an extra £3.00 each because it's a Sunday on top of the normal price. The gravy was just warm water with brown food colouring. The minute portion of meat was not enough for a small child. The roast potatoes tasted off. The mash potatoes did taste ok as well as the peas and leaks but it would be really hard to mess these up. They also do burgers which looked ok my advice is to stay home and cook your own or visit a friend's if you want a roast dinner.

Brilliant food, everyone is friendly good prices

Another excellent trip to the Rock Rose this time tried one of their specials,and yet again it did not disappoint. Great service ! Thanks

Lunch with another family (adults and kids). Food was good, warm and timely. Our server Liv and manager Mel were exceptional in their assistance with one of our party who has a rare allergy. They were extremely helpful and conscientious with the allergy order and subsequently the guest was confident to eat and enjoy. Again thanks to Liv and Mel. We will definitely be back.

Fantastic environment and the Carvery has been amazing every time would recommend to anyone!! Thank you look forward to our next visit

Ryan was absolutely brilliant and very accommodating! Seriously impressed withe the service, thankyou x

We was very impressed with our meals well the whole service really, especially on new years day, easy booking system, staff were very friendly🥰 and we loved the food were defo be back X

All staff friendly helpful and happy to help

Super carvery and delicious scampi and chips here today. Thought I had booked but hadn't but Ryan was fabulous sorted out the proble and found us a great seat ( suitable for our elderly relative) he was really friendly and helpful throughout the meal and he made our visit! Will be back!

Staff friendly and helpful. Beef in carvery was tough.

Good service.. easy to order online. Drinks and food arrived quickly. Staff friendly, efficient and attentive.

We had the carvery, delicious, HAZEL WAS OUR WAITRESS, VERY NICE LADY..

Very enjoyable visit on Boxing Day, good food and happy atmosphere.

As always good food and pleasant staff.

Its a friendly lovely warm place 2 b x

We went for Christmas dinner. The food was good, although the choice of veg was limited. Sadly, whilst the waiting staff were very friendly and helpful, there weren't enough of them and service was very slow. We had a 2 hour time slot for our meal and were still waiting for our desserts long after that had passed.

Thank you to all the staff who gave up their Boxing Day to serve us. The set menu food was great & we had a lovely time.

We had a 3 course Festive Menu meal. The restaurant had set our table with Xmas themed serviettes and we even got a Xmas cracker each. Our waitress, Hazel was very helpful, friendly and greeted us with a smile. She's a credit to your restaurant.

Very lovely food we come regularly the staff are always very helpful friendly and happy. This business is very child and disability aware and accessible a big thank you to them and wish them a wonderful Christmas and new year.

Always a lovely meal here and a good atmosphere. We were especially impressed by the fact that there was only one staff member taking orders and preparing drinks from the bar as they were short staffed and she was doing an amazing job without getting flustered!

Nice staff, nice food, nice experience as always

Lovely carvery. Roast pork and beef were really tasty. High turnover of meats on Sunday. Great place to bring the kids for a family meal out. Well done to Mandy, Sabrina and team. A*

I took my wife and father-in-law for Sunday lunch. The carvery was very well cooked and the staff, as always, very friendly and helpful.

Always great food and great service at The Rock Rose - servers Bethany and Olivia fantastic

Lovely service from Bethany, very friendly and helpful throughout service.

We has a group festive meal for 11 people. Everything went smoothly from start to finish. The staff were excellent and friendly. The food was good and well presented. Excellent value. We will be back!!

The staff were great very friendly and attentive when there. The food was good and great value for money. Even when we had been charged incorrectly which we can understand can happen especially when there were multiple Christmas parties on. Staff were on hand to quickly resolve and rectify the problems which was much appreciated! Will definitely be back at some point

Olivia very polite and helpful excellent service given by her.

Superb place all round. From the welcoming staff, service and all round in house perfection

Service was excellent. Staff were all really friendly and helpful. Food was decent. Only complaint was that the fries were a little cold by the time they arrived.

Service, super polite and friendly, and helpful. Nothing was too much trouble.

Brilliant night had a group Christmas meal and we played bingo and quiz was well done by paul and Brilliant service from lovley Charlene and meal was lush thanks for making it super nice 😊

Very enjoyable evening with my family great choice on menu staff v helpful I had burger with all the trimmings and loved it

The staff at the Rock Rose are always so welcoming. The foods always constant and good value

Good meal,service & atmosphere.

It was ok sat in bar area would rather had been in a quieter area. We were both wanting a mega mixed grill they didn't have any mixed grills pretty poor I think we had a burger which was nice.

Great venue, fantastic staff, great food

Rusty dish and was told leave after we had finished our meals