Dovre Club

Divey bar in the Mission? Check.
Heavy rotation of Pogues and Dubliners on the jukebox? Check.
Prices fair? Check.
Pool table and a surprising amount of seating? Check check check.
Dovre Club is very good. If you like dives that have a crowd of regulars and a pool table you’ll feel right at home.

The girlfriend and I felt like a martini before turning in early this evening. We Unilocaled martini, and this place popped up. We love it! Cool little joint. $ 7 Kettle One martinis, nice folks, and good ‘ol rock and roll on the juke box.
It was their 17 year anniversary to boot. Happy Anniversary Dovre Club!

Pinball and pool. Excellent happy hour specials. Irish paraphernalia on the walls.

Came here for a drink with my wife. I like the space, the wrap around bar is fun. Drinks are inexpensive and the crowd is chill on an afternoon.
Keep it up guys!

Walked by this awesome gem of a dive bar SO MANY times over the years, and finally went in last Friday. Divey, friendly bartender, good stiff drinks at a reasonable price. The power went out after we got our drink, and it was really fun! A kindly patron went out and bought candles, and it was cozy and a nice change of pace. Will definitely be coming back.

I like the energy of this bar! Cool local people and the drinks are super cheap. We ordered two beers and two shots and total came up to 20 bucks. You can’t beat that. They also have a juke box that has a large selection of music! Will return

I love the Dovre. I miss the Dovre, so many miles away. Filled with regulars, this is my kind of place, and my home away from home (The Horse Brass) when I’m down south. Cheers to Elvis.

Met a girl here with a mother of pearl dragon inlaid into a black pool queue. She then won 5 out of 9 games and I had to do a car bomb (Irish whiskey shot dropped into a pint of Guinness for the millennials) after each loss. She won 5 straight as I recall. She threw me into a cab, took me to her bed, made me some soup, and tucked me in. So, you meet some interesting girls at the Dovre.

love this bar, great bartenders, cheap drinks, chips and snacks and good selection at the jukebox. the crowd tends to be older and this is a good spot to so some afternoon drinking. I always play some pool or put some music on and hang out with my friends. they make a GREAT michelada here and its never too crowded. real divey, real good time.

One of the last real mission outposts. Unpretentious, no douche bags and awesome bartenders. Long live the Dovre Club!!! If you haven’t been here before. Stay OUT!!!

Decent neighborhood bar, with a pretty cool jukebox, a «bookshelf», pool table, and interesting posters. The interior is pretty spacious, and the crowd varies. Everyone there is pretty normal, and generally everyone there is with a group, so this a good place to stop by if you have a small group with you.

This is like a grungier hole-​in-​the-​wall (HITW) version of Cheers — where everyone knows your name.
I’m not from San Fran or anywhere in California, but I went back to this bar hours after leaving … and the people there — both workers and patrons — remembered me! Hah. What a friendly bunch. :)
Dee was the «day» bartender. She was a hoot! So friendly, playful, helpful, and fun! I would definitely go back to visit her. These are the kinds of bartenders that make these kinds of HITW dive bars special. …Stereotyping? Maybe. But whatevs. Dee is awesome.
This is the place to get your fernet on. Dovre popped my fernet cherry! This is the place where I was first introduced to this minty black licorice drink. It’s not exactly minty, but it did leave a menthol-​like finish in my mouth. And it’s pretty dark in color and almost syrupy. …Only at a place like this would I try something so bold and scary-​looking like fernet. Hah. (TGF HITW bars like the Dovre.)
VERDICT
Go for it. If you’re any sort of dive bar enthusiast as I, you will quickly become a Dovre regular. No joke. I was only in the area for a day /​night… and I felt right at home!

It’s ironic that I grew up in this neighborhood and would always pass by this bar on my way to a doctor’s appointment so many times, but tonight was the first time I went. It was chill and not so loud so you can actually hear a conversation even if music is playing in the background. They have a tv hooked up on each side of the bar which was cool since they were playing the Home Run Derby at the time. Anyway the only reason why I stepped foot here is I’m in a pool league and the match just happened to be at this bar. The pool table is nice. Plays just like a bar table should. Who wouldn’t like to sip a beer while sitting on a leather couch too. That’s all I need. The only minor complaint I have is it tends to get a bit too warm here even with the doors open.

Pear Cider gives you the grossest breath. But I guess that’s what I get for ordering a Pear Cider.
This place is a dive, which is cool, and which I like, but it was a boring dive. There was nothing going on that made me intensely want to return. Three stars for letting me watch the Food Network Channel.

Dovre Club is a real dirtbag’s paradise, so naturally I feel right at home here. It even looks enticingly seedy from the outside. Actually they’ve got books in the bar for your reading pleasure, so it’s a little more highbrow than your average s-​hole. Good tunes, cheap beer and mouth-​wateringly large shots. And I mean «mouth-​watering» in that «Uh-​oh, I think I’m gonna throw up» juicy mouth sort of way.
Quiet by bar standards and out-​of-​the-​way by Mission standards, the Dovre is a nice neighborhood place to puke n’ rally.

This casual bar gets 4 stars for:
1. Charging just $ 4 a beer (in SF too!).
2. Being spacious and quiet enough that you can come with a group of your friends and chat.
3. Having a decent selection of beers on tap — Boont Amber Ale, Widmer, Blue Moon, Guinness, Sierra Nevada and some others.
4. Being conveniently located. Just a few blocks from the 24^th BART and El Farolito.
It smells like stale beer when you first walk in, but once you get a few drinks in you, it’s not that noticeable. It’s cash only, but there’s an ATM in the bar. There’s also a pool table and a few tvs.

Not a bad dive bar so long as you stay out of the restroom,. Not only will you seem the same couple of bartenders if you frequent the place but you will see the same bar patrons in the same seats each time as well (maybe there are bunks in the back). Anyways the place totally has the Cheers vibe down. And that’s always a really cool thing to see in a big city.
The lay out of the bar is well thought out and makes the most of the limited space. The bar itself is a horseshoe that devides the place into two rooms. One room is just seating and the other has a pool table. There are books around to read if your date or friends bore you I guess. A little weird but I love to read so right on. (Although once I start drinking I typically have to close one eye to focus on the words.) The pool table was free when I last played and that in itself deserves a couple of stars.
Since Dovre does not have a Patio all the smokers congregate right outside of the door to the bar in front of the cross walk at 26^th and Valencia. The last time I ate across the street at SouthEnd I could literally smell the smoke (and I’m a smoker so if I noticed that’s impressive). There are often dogs hanging out so it is a dog friendly bar for which I gave them another star. The drinks are super stiff and reasonably priced. Friendly bartenders, speedy service– plus plus!
The clientele is extremely eclectic. 9pm on a Friday night you will see guys in skinny jeans, guys in baggy jeans nearly around their knees, old guys, young guys, tough guys, nerds. But not quite as many women– except those there with one of the previously mentioned guys. A great spot for a single lady. She will feel like she’s hunting– at a buffet table.

I don’t really see what’s not to like in this bar, except for personality issues with staff. Being that Dee the bartender was nice to me, I like this place.
The drinks are reasonably priced, and they have a nice happy hour special. There’s a lot of space in the bar area, and they have a pool table on the other side. I like the layout of this place.
This is kind of a no-​nonsense bar. It is divey, and being in the Mission, it will fill up with hipsters on weekends after 9PM. Expect lots of skinny pants and cigarettes outside.

I had an Elvis sighting; he’s serving drinks at Dovre club.
Actually the owner of the place is named Elvis. I didn’t ask him about it because I’m sure he’s tired of the question.
Dovre club used to be on 18^th street, in The Women’s building, but was evicted years ago. I don’t know if Elvis owned the old Dovre Club, he looks a little young to have, but this location is a vast improvement.
The Staff and regulars are a friendly bunch. Elvis himself is a great host; more in line with what they’d call a Publican in the old country than the typical American Bar owner.
I brought in a large group of people, over 40 and maybe better than 50, and Elvis was not only easy to deal with but he knows how to treat someone that brings in business.
Dovre is definitely in the rotation.

Ah, the Dovre Club. I remember when they got kicked out of the Women’s Building on 18^th St… ol’ Paddy Nolan would be rolling in his grave. (And by «remember», I mean read it in the newspaper article framed on the wall here. Now that would have been one cool spot for a pub). They’re also known to throw a St Patrick’s party so hot it just about burns the block down (now that I *was* around to see – and a mighty big cloud o’ smoke it was…)
Most of the time, though, Dovre Club is just an unassuming, rather shabby Irish Pub that the hipsters haven’t yet seen fit to colonize. Despite the authenticity, it’s not that full of Irish either – at happy hour it was just a bunch of locals enjoying their cheap drinks and chatting it up with the bartender lady. I’ll definitely be back to toast the final defeat of the British (and of my ancestors, the Ulster Scots) in Northern Ireland… I’m sure Paddy would want drinks to be on the house, ya?