Dove

Favourite pub around Broadway Market. Great food as well, served in a separate room so you can get a seat even if it's busy. @Leonard Rees: If you don't want to pay £4.95 for your beer, don't order imported American hipster pale ale!. A can of lager will cost you £1 in a supermarket but £3 or £4 in a bar. That's kind of how it works. A supermarket is not a pub.

Nothing about this pub from the outside tells you what you're going to find inside. It does look like a regular boring pub, one that you could be tempted to keep walking past in the hunt for something a bit cooler. But you'd be wrong. Live music, a huge selection of real ales, ciders and beers, as well as fruit beers, a wonderful selection of home made foods, friendly service and cosy seats make this a prime pub for whiling away the cold winter evenings. I was going to invest in a sofa for my house, but now I've discovered The Dove, I don't see the point. I am going to spend all my time in there.

Last week I complained about the price of beer in the ‘Old Brewery’ in Greenwich. A million apologies to them because it’s got nothing on The Dove! I went there last Friday with a friend and ordered 2 bottles of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. The price a whopping £9.90 -- YES THAT’S RIGHT £9.90. That’s £4.95 a bottle! Tesco are currently selling it for only £1.89 a bottle and I suspect they are still making a fair profit on it. I twice asked different the bar staff if this was correct and they confirmed it was. London Fields is not the most salubrious of areas, there were beggars in the street and it has a reputation for violence and the Dove isn’t anything special inside. I think I’m entitled to say this as I live in Hackney. Folk hereabouts must have more money than sense? For this sort of price I can drink anywhere in London and I won’t be coming back here again