The Dove Street Inn in Ipswich

Just popped in on the way back tomout hotel and found this amazingly friendly place. Bar staff and landlady were very attentive. Didn't eat so can't comment on the food. Definitely worth a visit if you're passing.

A great pub, huge range of ales, lagers and craft beers on draught and super-friendly staff.

Stumbled upon this place by accident. Really nice landlord. Loved his hospitality, thank you

Awesome place, friendly staff and customers

Lovely traditional pub. Excellent beer, food and service. Highly recommended.

Simply the best selection of great beer in Ipswich.

Lovely, welcoming bar, friendly customers and staff, happy to share their knowledge of beers,nice atmosphere

Great beer selection, good atmosphere

Although it may not be located in everyones favourite road in Ipswich, The Dove is a very safe environment and manage to keep their clientele to non trouble making peaceful folk (in fact no riff raff even try to use it). I have been using this pub for 10 years nearly and have never seen so much as even the smallest of disagreements. One of my favourite places to stop by for a few pints whenever I am in town. Management and staff all use the place socially themselves unlike many pubs/restaurant etc. Food is efficiently prepared by their capable staff. This is a decent and very clean and well run establishment that is actually a bit of a gem for Ipswich. Has different areas for people that enjoy chatting or for those that enjoy watching sport and there is also a lovely 'Olde-Worlde' back room that be closed off for functions like comedy nights etc. Outside is another very decent sized covered aree for functions and also a covered drinking and smoking area. All age groups use the Dove week in, week out, it's actually a lovely place and i have just scratched the surface with my review.

A staple of any Ipswich pub crawl. The usual superb range of ales to accommodate all tastes. Friendly ladies behind the bar and nice and quiet when I visited Saturday lunchtime. Highly recommended!

Best selection of beers in Ipswich

Lovely pub with a great range of real ales, well worth seeking out

Fantastic pub, staff are always friendly and eager to offer you to recommendations on beers you may like if you want a change from your normal pint. They also offer little tasters before you buy a full pint!

Brilliant pub with a good selection of ales to choose from. The Dove Street Inn was quite spacious, with a few different rooms away from the main bar area. The pub itself was very clean and served food. Although saying that the occasion I was there with a couple of mates they had stopped serving. This wasn't an issue though as the landlord was very accommodating in letting us order and eat a takeaway inside the pub.

Very friendly pub, good service.

Great beer quality and choice. Friendly owner/managers and staff with a wealth of knowledge about the products they were selling.

Great pub with a fantastic range of real ales!

A great pub, fantastic staff and a welcoming atmosphere. I go for the monthly storytelling club and look forward to a good pint, good food and great venue.

Fantastic boozer with friendly bar staff. Excellent selection of well kept beers and bar food/snacks.

Always a nice proper older style feel but in a good way pub. The vegan friendly ale is icing on this lovely welcoming cake

Very friendly, good atmosphere, good beer. Good old fashioned Town pub we tried before going to the Regent Theatre. We'll return

A proper pub. Went to Ipswich to watch football and drink some real ale. They brew their own beer and also have a great selection of other real ales. The staff and locals are very friendly. Highly recommended for a visit.

Seems to be quite roomy inside (although the party sat outside as we were quite a large group). Very nice and friendly and very close for after work drinks

I'm in there now. So as I'm currently experiencing my review ,I can't really comment.

Great pub if you are in the area

Following Blackburn Rovers gets me around the country a fair bit, and what is a football match without a decent pub? Pointless!! Ipswich has always been a bit hit and miss (in over forty years) BUT..... No longer! To my eternal shame, I've never been there before. Fantastic would be a sleight. The beer, the the staff, the interior and all round "good egg-ness" is something to behold. Every town (hopefully) has one. Just got to track them down. Well! I've tracked it down. Feel free to follow. Fantastic establishment and long may it thrive

The warmest welcome always from all the staff. Their Balti Shepherds Pie is to die for!

Just so homely. No music, no flashing lights. Just people and chat. Brilliant ❤️ 👏

Visited the Pub, had a GREAT meal

A fantastic pub! Brilliant staff! Excellent beer1

Great selection of beers and ciders.

Drinks in old friendly pub with great atmosphere

Always a friendly welcome. And great prices.🍻

Once I walked to Ipswich from the east, and ended up here. Another time from the south, and I ended up here. Likewise the north. Just seem to find my way to the Dove by accident. Must have a beer-detecting compass. Not just a real ale pub, has all sorts of beers, many you'll never have heard of. And a good crew of locals as well as friendly staff to boot. Great place on a wet day too. Commended.

As an Ipswich resident, I have been visiting the Dove for years. It has consistently been one of, if not the best pub in the town for many years. So many choices of drinks from craft can beers, kegged beer, ciders and fruit wines. Another one of our regular favourites is the Balti Shepherds Pie, not to be missed!

Great selection of beers plenty of space and great staff

Amazing place the beer is so fresh and well looked after

Excellent that is all I can say!

Great pub with a wide selection of decent beers, for all tastes. Much larger inside than you'd think. Lots of nice quiet areas too, and loads of great games. One of the best in Ipswich.

A fantastic selection of beers, great atmosphere and service.

Well we tried 5 pubs in Ipswich and the dove home deer was the best out of all staff joint top for friendliness all very clean and nice inside

Really enjoyable pub, the sort of place where the landlady will come and say hi and get to know patrons. Great range of bevarages, craft options, local options, options from all over the world. Love the atmosphere, probably my favourite pub at the moment!

great beer, always loads of options and the staff are really nice - you won't find a better pub !

Fab range of beers and a range of seating options - the traditional section down the side is my fav

Good range of beers, decent prices and Karen's homemade veggie balti shepherds pie is really tasty.

One of the best pubs in town. There's always something new to try.

Significant improvement in the range of real ale since my last visit a couple of years ago

If I could give no stars I would... We walked in and my poor dad simply asked the blonde lady behind the bar where we order our food, to which he received a disgustingly rude look and a patronising ‘urm... at the bar?’. To feel as if you are troubling the staff is a terrible feeling. We sat down for about 1 minute before I suggested we leave to go to somewhere else that didn’t have a horrible vibe and staff weren’t rude to my dad! We ended up going to the Greyhound pub in Ipswich where the staff were lovely, atmosphere was warm, and the food was delicious!

Fab boozer great food very friendly and dog friendly

My favourite pub in Ipswich. Always friendly staff and patrons.

The food was very good and the beer was good too.

Excellent pub , large selection of Ales and Largers.

Great selection of beers and very friendly staff. The Balti Shepherds Pie is amazing.

Great atmosphere, very friendly and welcoming staff. Lots of seating for footie games, and events out back. Perfect place to have a chilled out time. Even has its own beer brewed on site 🍻

Friendly staff and great cask ales. Glad this was the nearest pub during my visit to Ipswich.

Good friendly atmosphere. Friendly staff. Can get busy as quite a popular pub. Good place to start the evening. Good location. Well worth a visit.

Nice real ale pub with friendly staff, good prices and a warm welcoming atmosphere. Untappd verified too which is a plus

Great selection of beers nice atmosphere

Very good food menu and reasonably priced pints.

Without a doubt, not just the best pub in Ipswich but the best pub I have been in, and I have been in a few over the years. The reason is, the Dove Inn is unique in many ways. So, what makes is so different. I love the atmosphere most of all, it really is a traditional pub, if you are a real ale person then this is where you need to drink, a wide range of traditional ales that are well cared for. They even have their own brewery. Sadly, I am more of a Moretti lager man myself but do occasionally try the ales. The staff are very polite, well trained, and new customers are treated the same as years old regulars. There is a large outside covered area, where my wife and I held our wedding reception on the 26 August this year. We had over sixty guests. We discussed our reception with Karen the co-owner, she is a professional caterer, we did not need to go into fine details of what sort of buffet we required because she knows what she is doing, so we left it to her. Everyone of our guest commented, not just on the quality and quantity of the buffet food, but the constant topping up, so nothing sat there for long, and the hot items served where hot when they were eaten. Tink our waitress was a knockout with our guests because of her natural friendly approach to everyone and everything. Service with a big natural smile. Ady co-owner was constantly seen checking that everything was going to plan. As this was the third catered for event at the Dove Inn over the past five years, we were already confident that our special day would be special, and it was. As requested, Tink relentlessly also topped up our guest’s glasses with prosecco, red and white wines which we paid for, however many of our guests preferred to pay for the real ales at the bar. Everyone with out a doubt loved the Dove Inn. If you have never been in the Dove Inn before, take my advice, give it a try, you will not regret it. They do provide a food menu, which is not too extensive, because of the challenges over the past two years and let’s face it things are not completely back to normal. We go there for lunch sometimes and the food is good and certainly not expensive.

Lovely bar with great service, will be back!

Some good quality real ale and a good selection of whisky.

Number 1 for beer and number 1 for staff and service

Today the dove hosted my daughters wedding. It was perfect, fantastic barbecue and what a range of craft beers. Nothing was to much trouble for the staff. Thank you so much. Highly recommend the dove.

Great real ale craft beers and food

Lovely place lovely people great ale house

Always friendly, helpful and welcoming pub, and always with a great selection of ales and other drinks, well-kept. Good, straightforward food usually available if you feel hungry. Beer festivals popular.

Best pub in Ipswich, great choice of beers and great staff

Great selection of drinks and great atmosphere

A huge selection of beers, the pub is friendly and inviting, with a large outdoor area. One of the finest pubs in Ipswich.

Affordable prices and clean, pleasant atmosphere.

Nice enough place and staff were very good and freindly but the drinks are very expensive especially soft drinks.

A great range of beers, lagers and ciders with friendly, attentive staff.

A real gem of a pub. So nice to walk in and see such a choice of 12 well-kept real ales on. Large conservatory and beer garden out the back including many tables under cover.

Local pub, great selection of beers and ales. Good service

Excellent beer, good food, friendly welcome.

Best pub in Ipswich been visiting for year's and very friendly

Perfect place to watch an FA cup final. Great selection of ales. Friendly staff. Balti shepherd's pie was ace

Great range of real ales, friendly helpful staff. Recommended.

Beers are always good here and the staff are tops.

Good beer nice atmosphere and friendly

Will not be visiting again...apparently its OK to serve regulars at 1124pm but not me at 1126pm.and when you say you will take it further you get told to f..k off by the bar staff...think you need to get your house in order Mr landlord...Will be telling my large network of friends all about this and to choose wisely if thinking of going..an opology would be nice.....

Very good quality food and service, very friendly staff. Not confined to only one area, there's about 5 including the covered beer garden.

Excellent pub with a great range of cask and keg beers. Friendly and prompt service.

Fab place, bigger than you think with plenty of space. Great beers and brilliant, friendly staff. Really need to go here again.

First class range of local and national beers served by traditional means in a pleasant town centre location.

Fantastic pub and even better the wife loves it

Proper pub is The Dove. Only trouble is they do too many cask and not enough IPA kegs for my liking. Still they know their demographic and that probably doesn't include the likes of fussy old me! Still really like the pub though.

Great pub, lots of ales to choose from and the fellow drinkers are all friendly with a tale to tell if you fancy it. Owners very friendly as are the bar staff, too place to go.

Great pub,fantastic staff everyone made welcome - Great food etc.

Friendly bar staff,great selection of well kept ales, and the Balti Shepherds Pie is to die for! Lovely pub

As always the pub has a friendly atmosphere and a great choice of beers.

Great pub with fabulous staff and fantastic beers 🍻

Great pub. V large and dog friendly. Covered smoking area for those winter evening. Good selection of beers, ciders and Gins. Would recommend.

Classic pub with great selection of beers

Such a joy to return here after being away for so long.

Great choice of beers and ciders, excellent outdoor areas and an all-round cracking pub for a relaxing pint or two

Lovely pub very traditional always lovely friendly people to talk to

A classic staple of the Ipswich pub scene. Fantastic ales from around East Anglia and a sprawling beer garden full of funky nooks.

Great staff and range of drinks.