I really like the Dove as a nice social place to go to. Lovely looking pub with a good selection of beers.

But after going on Sunday for a friend's birthday meal I was once again reminded never to bother to eat there. I ordered the seafood Waterzooi - a traditional Flemish creamy fish stew. It had 3 mussels, 2 prawns and 4 pieces of salmon in it, and 3 pieces of bread to soak up the sauce. That was it. Think more teeny-tiny starter, then main course for £11! Tasted nice, but an incredible rip off. Especially when I asked for more bread and was charge for the it!

Friends who had the roast beef seemed to fare much better on quantity.

Waffle for pudding was ok, but not homemade and not a hot waffle with icecream, more a lukewarm waffle with icecream. And again overpriced for what it was.

And they used to do a good selection of bowls of mussels, but now you can only have mussels with Thai sauce or tomato & chorizio.

The chippy a few doors down was a much better option in the evening!

i went here last Sunday lunchtime to introduce a Polish friend to a good old Sunday Roast... what a mistake... the whole place smelled of stale beer, service was surly, charge on debit cards (whatever the amount!) and the sunday roast was horrible! Roast potatoes tasted deep-fried, meat was grey and bland, apple sauce was from a jar and i reckon the Yorkshire pudding was from Aldi! For a TENNER!!!Avoid.

This is one of the most UNFRIENDLY pubs I've ever been to.They don't care about anything in there, but making money! So much for the social aspect of pubs!Do NOT go there if you're planning on a nice night out or even worse: celebrating your birthday in there. You're not allowed to sing happy birthday, nor eat a piece of your birthday cake and the bouncer will watch you buy a drink if you want to use the toilet!!!It s****!!!

Wow free Belgian Beer tasting !!!!!!!! I love this place. Just moved here from Bristol and on my first visit would you believe they had organised a beer tasting event. And it was FREE - free beer and free food and a lovely guy called Phil who is a real pro and knows everything there is to know about belgian beers. What a treat.
Only slight downside was very busy, so we all squeezed in together. But what a knight !

As a long standing regular of the Dove I must say I think the posting below is highly dubious, sounds like a 'carry on film' Are we bitter and twisted by any chance?

The Dove is busy and thats because its good. The food is great and the staff for a busy pub do everything they can to be friedly If you are a regular then you know you can't run tabs - what other pub can you ? If someone nicked you food
( what!!!!???) then surely that is the people who nicked its fault and not the guy behind the bar.

Sounds like going out is a bit too much strees and perhaps this busy poplular venue it not the right place for someone of a sensitive nature.

AVOID AT ALL COSTS !!!

As per reviews below... bad temper staff, cold and delayed food and the inconvenience of no open tabs and long wait for drinks.

Staff with no experience in catering or customer relations/satisfactions skills.
(for some strange reason the manager is never present when asked ?!)

Appalling service and... as bad as everything else, no open tabs so I had to leave my food on the table getting cold, in order to get up to order and pay for a Guinness at the bar ! Not only had to wait for my turn to be served, pouring a Guinness is a lengthy process ! When I got to the table, my food was gone still half eaten !!!

No one could care less about my missing food and we were rushed with the our table being cleaned and set up again, even before we had a chance to order our desert.

Since we had to pay again for that separately, we decided to leave straight away.

Why can't I rate 0 (zero ?) and why does it show as 5**** after all the (extremely) bad reviews ???

I went to the Dove for Valentines day and it was FAB! My boyfriend chose the place and I have never been there before. They had really pulled out all the stops with the oysters and sea food menu. Roses on every table and beautiful table cloths. The staff were efficient and I really hate it when people complain if the staff try and keep the tempo down, we dont all want to sit next to a table of cackling party goers ! If you want to there is witherspoons. Anyhow there we smooching couples everywhere and the food was divine. I would prefer to trust the VIEW LONDON REVIEW than a disgruntled guest no matter how much they spent.

I'm so glad to read other reviews below and to find other people had the same experience. Went there saturday night for a friends leaving do. I was very impressed with the pub and looked forward to a light hearted evening. However, this was not to be the case. There were at least 2 members of staff constantly paroling the pub like prison guards - wild eyed, and all together rather menacing. One of these threatening creatures soon came to our table to order us to keep the noise down - ironically as one of my friends was telling a story about the last time he'd been in there he'd been asked to stop laughing. We were told it wasn't that sort of pub and that was that. We had numerous warnings for laughing and standing in the way and generally enjoying ourselves. My girlfriend overheard one of the male bar staff make a very threatening and aggressive comment to his colleague regarding one of our party and so we eventually left. We must have spent at least £600 in there between us. Never again. If i wanted to be savaged by a pit bull i'd go to a dogs home.