The Dove Street Inn

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 🍻

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.

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!