The Dover Forge Restaurant Reviews

Place cool and unique. We really liked the atmosphere (inside and out). The food was alright - not bad but nothing special.

Best ribs I have ever had. Very tender, perfectly smoked, with good barbecue sauce. Interesting side orders: street corn and fried pickles. We got a takeout order due to the pandemic, but did like the rustic atmosphere inside and would like to come back to eat inside. Nice staff.

Love it here food and drinks are delicious. Service is great. And you can play pool

Not good. Service was terrible and the food was poor. Staff was not friendly.

Try Last Chair or Roadhouse. Much better food and much nicer people.

I wish I could give this zero stars.
I ordered the New York Strip and I ve never been so disappointed in my entire life! My steak was completely burnt. I tried talking to the manager and politely explained that I needed a steak that it wasn t burnt, especially when it s the most expensive thing on the menu!! She took my steak and came back couple minutes later telling me there was nothing she could do other than trim the sides of my burnt steak and if I didn t want it then I d have to chose something else (as she legit laughed at my face). Incredibly disrespectful!

Unbelievably terrible experience all around. Nothing redeeming. Waited nearly two hours for below average food and absolutely zero empathy from any of the staff. I would not recommend this godawful excuse for a restaurant to my worst enemy.

We had a reservation for a nice dinner to celebrate Valentine s Day. Showed up and they couldn t find the reservation...a few minutes go by and they figure it out, but not without giving us a scare. Between waters, wine and food orders we talk to 4 different wait staff. It s unclear who our server is or why it is so convoluted. We finally order dinner. They re out of ribs. Okay that s kind of like McDonald s running out of fries... but it s a big holiday that s fine. We make no fuss and simply order something else.

An hour goes by and we do not once hear from our waiter, or anyone. No word on what s going on, no apologies , no explanation, no offer of bread or drinks or anything to help us out in the meantime. Finally 75minutes since we ordered ...and an hour and a half after we arrived , we hear that it ll be out in just a minute. Ten additional minutes later and we finally have our below average and half cold food. After finishing some of the food, waiting longer and longer and finally flagging down someone to help, we finally get our bill.... we find that not only has nothing been comped, no apology was offered, and the best part, wait for it....insult to injury, they have charged our table of 6 a full 20% for gratuity. I kindly ask if there s anything they can do given our poor experience. They say they ll ask a manager. 10 minutes later we get the bill back again, nothing has changed, no apology, and it s clear they didn t care and likely intentionally waited the extra ten minutes to give us our cards back just because we asked. Crazy. I ve had better service (and food) at a Popeyes. And Popeyes is $275 cheaper.

Experience was great, got seated right away on a Thursday night without a reservation, on another night might need one. The place is a restaurant and pool hall combo but separated enough so it s not weird. The food was tasty, tried a special skirt steak blue cheese app, truffle polenta fries and the rack of lamb special. Decor was also perfect, old school ski chalet chick.

Food was good, but they charge 18% gratuity for take out...well sometimes
Saturday and Monday night Trisha was answering the phone and added 18% to take out order, Sunday night a much more pleasant hostess took my take out order and let me decide what and if I should pay a gratuity on take out...will never order from them again!

BBQ was dry and service was subpar. Maybe better not during Covid times.