Bear Inn Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Food excellent service excellent."
• "Lovely food, a good atmosphere and friendly attentive staff."
• "Food was terrific and staff couldn’t do enough for you."
• "Excellent service and excellent food 11/10."
• "The food was cooked to perfection and tasted magnificent!"
• "The food is excellent and also the prices are fair."
• "The food was really lovely."

Cons:

• "The roast potatoes were soft and had no colour to them what so ever and the dead looking vegetables were unedable."
• "The food came out cold."
• "The lasagna was mushy and had a funny taste to it."
• "Food luke warm. Disappointing festive menu with only one veggie option and no flexibility to include other options on vegan menu into the festive 2 or 3 course price."
• "The food wasnt exactly the best, we both had brewers chicken, which was dry with too much cheese and very fatty bacon."
• "The food was poor quality and zapped in the microwave fare."
• "Both main meals were so over cooked. My seabass was dry and the texture of cardboard."

Service

Pros:

• "Service very good."
• "We were well looked after, food was amazing and plentiful."
• "The staff were helpful and friendly would recommend a visit."
• "The staff are truly amazing! We feel extremely welcome every time we dine there and the service is great, even when they are really busy."
• "Great staff. great food. Always willing to help if you ever have a problem."
• "The staff were very attentive."
• "Staff were very friendly and service was prompt."

Cons:

• "Waited a bit too long between courses."
• "We waited 10 minutes to even get acknowledged from standing at the entrance."
• "Young naive waiting staff with an attitude."
• "Impatient staff rushing to take plates when others were still eating."
• "We never got checked on, I had to take our empty glasses to the bar myself to order more drinks."
• "Service very slow had to ask for the bill even tho it was empty and the waitress stood talking."
• "Nearly 15 min wait to bring 3 drinks over wasn’t exactly what I expected."

Ambience

Pros:

• "Fabulous atmosphere."
• "The pub itself is lovely, as are the staff at front of house."
• "The bear has a warm and cosy atmosphere and feels very intimate, you don't even notice the other people around you."
• "Went on mothering sunday and had a lovely time, service and food was great, not as busy as I thought it might be which was nice, plenty of room to relax after the meal and chat by the open fire."
• "It's a very traditional quaint English pub set in a lovely village."
• "The pub itself being a 16th century inn was of particular interest to me."
• "Plenty of atmosphere in this ancient public house. Oak timbers, an open fire."

Cons:

• "The only thing that spoilt it was you would not have known it was Valentines night."
• "The garden had rubbish dotted around it. What a shame."
• "Overall not a good experience."
• "Spacing was a little close between tables, making it a bit noisy."
• "Only seats available were in the dinning section, which my wife and I were quickly ushered away from."
• "Tables outside we're dirty, not serving food outside but no signs to let you know."
• "No local beers at all, which is a crying shame."

Value

Pros:

• "The prices are on the high side but they do have a few deals for the budget conscious."
• "The food was good and very reasonably priced on the lunch menu."
• "Car parking is free and you can always find a space."
• "Cost - Very good and I personally think worth it."
• "The food was good and very reasonably priced on the lunch menu."
• "The food was fresh and great quality and good value for money."
• "Food reasonably priced."

Cons:

• "The menu was not exciting so we left and had a much better choice at the Saracen's Head and cheaper."
• "For the prices on the menu we would expect it to be amazing."
• "It's a little pricey fo what it is but not too bad."
• "The bill was £72 for 2 people."
• "The bill was £251.00 which is a lot of money to pay when the food was so poor."
• "No choice of pale or dark ales - only amber ales available, which was disappointing."
• "It’s described as 'triple-cooked chips' on a menu but it looked and tasted just like normal chips fried once from frozen."