Dover Gardens Tavern

I recently discovered their dry rub wings and have been going back weekly getting them to go! Try them, you won’t regret it! Awesome!!!

Love this place! I go here for lunch a lot as my office is right down the street. Their perch sandwich is outstanding. The perch comes with melted cheese on it with outstanding tartar sauce on the side. The fries are amazing as well. The staff here is very friendly, attentive and fun to chat with.

My favorite local bar! Very friendly and attentive bartenders, inexpensive drinks, and delicious food.

cool little dive spot. Dig the re-​build. just what you expect from a local bar. Good service, nice prices fun times. grab your friends and head out to the dove like i do. great place to play some darts. there is almost always someone that is playing. its nice to see a place like that get so much business. always a great time there. Staff is awesome, food is good.

I love that this place is open again. We were so upset when it closed due to the accident. This was the place that we could walk to from our apartment and have a good time. Definitely will continue to return here because the service is great, we love the atmosphere and we really like the local feel.
Definitely a place worth a try.

I’m glad the place is open again. No frills type place. Open atmosphere now that they redid the place. Eight or so beers on tap, nothing to go crazy over. The wings are really good. You can play keno here which is a plus.

Friendly bartenders and prompt service are enough to earn 3 stars for me. Cheap drinks and an open environment give it 4 for me. As of reopening the bar has tvs and a more open feel behind it. Other than that? Same place it was over a year ago. Limited but simple menu. They have burgers and fries! It’s bar food people! Go down the road for a giant menu if you’d like but if your game plan is good drinks and friendly service in a clean yet divey environment I would head here.

Great local bar newly reopened from calamity. Nice open feel, friendly tenders and as always great food!

dover gardens is fine. nice that it has reopened. interior has been modernized and renovated very nicely. male dominated crowd. menu is very limited currently.

Today was the Grand Reopening. So happy to be able to go back to my favorite dive bar. Great staff as well as a plethora of drink and food specials. But it is a dive bar so if you’re looking for more than that this is not the place for you. But if you are looking for a laid back hole in the wall with good old fashioned bar food and an excellent beer menu this is the place for you. So go in and help this local staple get back to its former glory.

Absolutely a joke compared to what it used to be.
Management is clueless. Servers and bartenders are clueless. Bar special was $ 2.99 for miller lite and then bartender told me it was $ 3.25 after the first one I bought was $ 3 even. Price must have went up in the hour I was there. Sandwiches were jokes. Barely a handful of chips. Bar glasses smelled of skunk. When was the last time the tap lines were cleaned? $ 5.50 for a short Sam Adams??? I know this is a dive bar, but the girls working there are clueless clueless clueless. Can’t make a drink. Can’t find the beers. Can’t remember orders.
Ever hear of Jon Taffer? Read his book. Never going back.

In a city overrun with all sorts of corporate restaurants and drinking establishments the Dirty Gardens is a true gem. I had my first drink here in 1996 and I can tell you nothing has really changed except for the bar stools and they cleaned/​painted the ceilings and walls. Oh and the driveway is not gravel anymore. It has since been paved. P. S. don’t try and learn how to ride a motorcycle buzzed and on gravel.
They have really stepped up their game as far as craft beer selection and taking care of their tap system while maintaining that old school Brothel feel. Yes this was a Brother way back in the day and I am pretty sure this is the oldest standing structure in Westlake. Stop in and sing or watch people make fools of themselves on the weekends singing Karaōke with Marie. The infux of collared custies that someone spoke of in previous reviews are people exiling from the Ironwood down the street. Nobody will or should pay those prices for bottled craft beer. Or the $ 6.50 or $ 7 they think they can charge for a Guinness.

The best hole-​in-​the-​wall bar in Westlake. As all the other reviews said, it is a dive bar. But they have good drinks, decent beer, inviting environment, and good bartenders.

Would come here again. Friendly staff and patrons

I still love this place, but what happened??? Everyone there was wearing shirts with collars and they had decent beers on tap.
Something is wrong with this picture… they are about to lose their «dive bar» status.
Good burgers, nice and greasy! Cheap food and cheap drinks. Just don’t wear a shirt with a collar.

Dive bar!
My dad apparently likes to go to Dover Gardens from time to time. The Gardens are the epitome of a dive bar.
— Wooden exterior: CHECK
— An interior that doesn’t have too much light: CHECK
— Cheap beer on tap (in this case, Labatt’s Blue): CHECK
— Keno!: CHECK
— Losing at Keno!: CHECK
— A place where bands can play: CHECK
— Bartenders: CHECK
It’s a nice awesome dive bar that has everything a dive bar should have: sports stuff, keno, gambling, bands apparently. All good stuff.

It’s a dump, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. This may be the one place in the Cleveland metropolitan area were I have not run into a douchebag wearing Ed Hardy/​Affliction/​Tapout.
In other words, you’ll find real salt of the earth people here doing what should be done in a tavern… drinking.

Ok, being from California I didn’t think I would ever find Dollar Pints. They have them here. Wen’t here on a whim, doesn’t look like much from the outside and is your typical Bar on the inside. Pool tables in back some Pub tables and a Bar in front with a small stage for I am assumiung local bands. We went on a Friday night and it was a very good time. They had Kareoke and an awesome mix of people. Just an all around fun atmosphere. Even it was our first time there it didn’t seem like it. We felt welcomed and had a great time the Staff was friendly and even when it got really packed they always made it around to the table. We will definately be going back.