{"node_image_licence":"","summary":"","opening_hours_text":"","timestamp":"2005-10-13T21:31:07","username":"Housekeeping Robot","categories":["Beer Gardens","Fuller's","Good Beer Guide","Pub Food","Pubs","Real Ale","River"],"node_image":"","website":"","version_indpt_url":"http://london.openguides.org/wiki/Dove_Inn%2C_W6_9TA","version":"9","locales":["Hammersmith"],"os_y":"","node_image_url":"","phone":"020 8748 5405","country":"United Kingdom","longitude":"-0.234970","url":"http://london.openguides.org/wiki/id=Dove_Inn%2C_W6_9TA;version=9","content":"* Nearest Tube Station: [[Ravenscourt Park Station | Ravenscourt Park]]\n\nA very nice Fullers' pub on the Thames near Hammersmith. Serves the usual selection of Fuller's beer (ESB, London Pride and a seasonal), which is all very well kept. Oh, and the usual selection of lagers, cocktails etc. Honeydew was �2.60 a pint. (May 2004)\n\nThey serve food between 12-3 and 6-9 most days. The food was pricey and only of acceptable quality. The menu (written in unnecessarily wordy restaurantese) offers a wide choice, but none of the actual food was anything spectacular. Lamb shank with mash and two veg was �11.25, a sirloin steak was �9.95 and sausage and mash was �8.25. (May 2004)\n\nOf the food tried during our visit, the sausage and mash should come in for particular criticism: the sausage tasted of bread, the mash tasted of nothing and the gravy tasted of gravy granules. \nThe one outstanding item on the menu was the profiteroles (�3.95); the dessert menu changes regularly, however.\n\nThe night we were there it was noisy and very crowded the whole evening. I suspect this was to do with the weather and it being the Thursday before a bank holiday weekend. Service was efficient and friendly nevertheless.\n\nThe place is often busy, as it's quite small. Service copes well though. -Jakob\n\nThe pub features a tiny public bar off its front room, with space for two bar stools and not a lot else; this appeared in the 1989 Guinness Book of Records as, unsurprisingly, the \"World's Smallest Public Bar\". The pub backs directly onto the river, with a pleasant patio on the bank at two levels. The toilets are rather cramped. Disabled access is poor: everything but the front room is up a short flight of stairs, including the toilets.\n\nThe pub has another claim to fame - the words to 'Rule Britannia' were written upstairs when it was still a coffee house and inn.\n\nFood is a bit pricey, but has been decent pub grub whenever I've been there - I usually go for the steak pie. Also the bar staff randomly carded my flatmates _after_ pulling their pints, much to my amusement. Good beer though, and great after a walk along the river.\n\n\n==== Other Reviews ====\n[http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/show.shtml/159/Dove_Inn/Hammersmith BITE]","os_x":"","formatted_content":"
A very nice Fullers' pub on the Thames near Hammersmith. Serves the usual selection of Fuller's beer (ESB, London Pride and a seasonal), which is all very well kept. Oh, and the usual selection of lagers, cocktails etc. Honeydew was �2.60 a pint. (May 2004)
\nThey serve food between 12-3 and 6-9 most days. The food was pricey and only of acceptable quality. The menu (written in unnecessarily wordy restaurantese) offers a wide choice, but none of the actual food was anything spectacular. Lamb shank with mash and two veg was �11.25, a sirloin steak was �9.95 and sausage and mash was �8.25. (May 2004)
\nOf the food tried during our visit, the sausage and mash should come in for particular criticism: the sausage tasted of bread, the mash tasted of nothing and the gravy tasted of gravy granules. \nThe one outstanding item on the menu was the profiteroles (�3.95); the dessert menu changes regularly, however.
\nThe night we were there it was noisy and very crowded the whole evening. I suspect this was to do with the weather and it being the Thursday before a bank holiday weekend. Service was efficient and friendly nevertheless.
\nThe place is often busy, as it's quite small. Service copes well though. -Jakob
\nThe pub features a tiny public bar off its front room, with space for two bar stools and not a lot else; this appeared in the 1989 Guinness Book of Records as, unsurprisingly, the \"World's Smallest Public Bar\". The pub backs directly onto the river, with a pleasant patio on the bank at two levels. The toilets are rather cramped. Disabled access is poor: everything but the front room is up a short flight of stairs, including the toilets.
\nThe pub has another claim to fame - the words to 'Rule Britannia' were written upstairs when it was still a coffee house and inn.
\nFood is a bit pricey, but has been decent pub grub whenever I've been there - I usually go for the steak pie. Also the bar staff randomly carded my flatmates _after_ pulling their pints, much to my amusement. Good beer though, and great after a walk along the river.
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