The Dove Street Inn 76 St. Helens St, Ipswich, IP4 2LA

The Dove Street Inn is an excellent pub offering a vast range of real ales
at affordable prices. Unusually there is a live web-based stock list which
is updated at least once a day. More can be found at:
http://www.dovestreetinn.co.uk/

Beers are generally well kept and this is a must for people visiting Ipswich
who like real ale.

The food is generally quite basic and it includes home made chilli, curry
and some decent quality pies and pasties.

I visited this pub last Friday with a friend. we wanted a nibble and opted
for a cheese platter each. at £5.00 we did not think the platter would be
massive. We were wrong about size for sure. each platter consisted of a
whole packet of cream crackers, at least half a pound of mature cheddar and
most of a medium sized onion cut up into pieces. Neither me or my friend
ate even half our platter as it was so big and boring!! We gave them away
for the rest of the pub to nibble on.

So, while the ales are excellent and the food is generally very acceptable,
the cheese platter needs to be changed. there needs to be a variety of
biscuits and not so many of them. 2 or 3 different kinds of cheese would
also be good as well as a bit of celery to complement the onion. The cheese
platter did give us a laugh though if nothing else!

Over all I give this pub 9 out of 10.

It is not at all pretentious and the range of ales on offer is amazing for a
pub of its size. The live stock information is particularly welcome and
unique as far as I know.