Decided to give Black Bear a second chance. Huge mistake. Before ordering drinks we are told they are out of bacon. There is bacon on most meals they serve and many of the sandwiches. The food we did receive was really bad. Onion rings where they coated onion skin, a salad that was more dressing than lettuce, and a waffle that even my kid wouldn't eat. The only good thing about our visit was a nice waitress who should be looking for a new job. It is easy to see why the place was empty. Never again! read more

Such a cute Diner! Food is such a vibe. & Service from Sam is top tier! love her & recommended asking for her!

The hype surrounding the opening of this restaurant had us anticipating some good eats and our first experience was good. Amazingly, the food quality went to the other end of the spectrum in a matter of one week. It wasn't even close. I ordered the steak and eggs with hash browns and toast. The steak was tough and past well-done. The eggs were also overcooked and the hash browns were limp and cold. I couldn't even enjoy the toast as it was not toasted and was soggy when it arrived. Not to mention the non-existent condiments we requested. This was an expensive disappointment that has me a bit gun shy about even trying again. The inconsistency of food quality is enough for us to stay away. Hopefully, they will get it together. Burleson doesn't need a bunch of failed restaurants littering the landscape and failure is imminent based on what we received today. read more

Went to this newly opened location of Black Bear Dinner and couldn't be happier. The staff was very friendly even though they were completely slammed with customers. My server was great and even gave me a cheaper option for what I was ordering. It's a bit small compared to other BBDs but the food was the same goodness. Just know if you go at peak times there will be a wait. With as many people going BBD is going to need to open another location. See you here soon. read more

Black Bear Diner Burleson - 1 Biscuit & Country Gravy (680 cals./760 cals.) - Diners Near Me - Burleson, Texas

We have been wanting to try this place since they opened and we went for breakfast around 11. The wait was about 30 minutes and we were sat down. The server was attentive and she was super busy. I got the coffee which was really good and the egg breakfast that came w the biscuit. The biscuit was huge! The bacon was thick applewood smoked (guessing?) and had a great flavor. The breakfast potatoes were very good and honestly overall a great breakfast.My husband wanted to try the pancakes and they were also very good. My son is a bit picky so he got chicken strips which he rated "10 out of 10" read more

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The food at Black Bear diner was absolutely amazing. I had their bacon cheeseburger and my boyfriend had their chicken fried steak. We both recommended these dishes and definitely looking forward to coming back read more

Assuming 3 is average, Black Bear was below average today. I hope they can work out some kinks soon. I went in alone and sat at the counter. This gave me an interesting perspective that I was not expecting. Service was very slow. It was after the lunch hour so it wasn't a peak time. As I sat there I watched the food line working. They'd throw a plate up and people on the line would grab hot baggies of food that were on the plate and dump them out on to the plate. (Usually the sides) It all looked very unappetizing. It took about 35 minutes for my food to come out. It was chicken fried steak that was reminiscent of Grandy's CFS. Maybe that'll fly in California but not likely in Texas. I substituted my veggies for fries and they left my mashed potatoes and gravy off of my plate entirely. By the time my server came back by I was through eating. She explained that their training was fast and they're not used to having to input every item.(?) I ordered a pancake because I wanted to see if they were any good. Mushy and fell to pieces. None of my food came out hot. Barely warm. I may give them a while and try again. Maybe. It was really very disappointing. read more

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My family loves Black Bear Diner delicious food the entire family will enjoy! If you're craving breakfast, dinner or anything in between... you can't go wrong with the selection of tasty food options. Great service and friendly atmosphere make this a win/win! read more

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We came on a slow Sunday early evening. Service started good, but after order was taken that was it. I ordered the fish and chips. The fries were super salty and the fish was almost none edible. Almost like a mush texture. The onion rings were raw and full of grease. Felt like the fryer may not have been high enough and just soaked in the food. I literally had to add napkins to my place to soak up all the grease puddling. You can definitely tell it was pre battered packaged fish. I asked for extra tartar sauce when the food was dropped off and she never came back. Couldn't even tell her about how horrible the fish was because she was sitting at the bar talking. My daughter said her fries were super salty as well. Now the breakfast everyone received was delicious. My son ordered bacon and never received it. When she dropped the check she never came back, so we couldn't even tell her about the bacon we were still charged for. My husband loves this place, but it's ran its course for me. Only breakfast from this place from now one if he wants to go. read more

Black Bear Diner Burleson - Fish and chips. Save your time and money - Diners Near Me - Burleson, Texas

We were hoping for a homemade meal but what we got was pre-breaded meat. The potatoes were okay but the chicken fried steak was disappointing. The gravy was okay but a mix and not from scratch. The broccoli was good. Service was good but the food was overall disappointing. read more

My fiance and I were here today and Pearson, the manger took real good care of us today. We both had bigger burger either one of us have ever seen. It was dress with everything, no mustard and fries. The first time we went there it wasn't a good experience. But today was a totally different experience. The waitress refilled our beverage before we even asked. The burger at bacon, cheese, pickles, lettuce, tomato, grilled onion, and thousand dressing. The free were great. The took a bad experience first time to awesome experience the time,that changed my fiance outlook on the restaurant! Thank you Black Bear Diner for making the place taking care of us so well today! read more

I'm giving them two stars don't get me wrong. The food is so good and the portions are huge. However, the service here at this location is absolute trash every time I walk in there it's nobody up at the front checking people out there's never a host and the server may or may not be good. It's a 50-50 But for the most I don't dine in. I do pick up. And even that they can't do there's been times where I've sat there for 40 minutes plus waiting for my food when I have been placed my order. From the looks of it I think they just need a whole new set of employees new management new host new cashiers new servers. people who actually want to work!!!!!! read more

To start, the place just opened a few days ago and service is great. Plenty of servers, cooks, busses and host staff. Open faced Turkey sandwich had really good flavor, the gravy was good and Turkey was tasty. Chicken Fried Steak, being a chain you know it was pre-breaded. So if you want to try it, know going in that's what it is. Now it's not a cheap version and was tasty. The white gravy is not bland like you typically find in restaurants and over all good. The mashed potatoes were nice and creamy. Don't let the "Italian" in Italian green beans scare you, they are souther style coke with onion and bacon. For the size of servings you get and amount of food the price is amazing, got out of here saving a few dollars compared to other home style eateries around. Coming back for breakfast and seeing how they do then... Ooh cornbread muffins were awesome!!!! read more

Black Bear Diner Burleson - Open faced Turkey Sandwich - Diners Near Me - Burleson, Texas

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Great atmosphere and great food. Always a good place to go with the family. I have 3 small children and we always enjoy the food and servers! read more

Great tasting food. Modern day Cracker barrel with a smaller gift shop. Good Coffee. Super busy with plenty of servers. Our first visit, will be back again. read more

Black Bear Diner Burleson - Parmesan Sourdough Cheeseburger* (960 cals.) - Diners Near Me - Burleson, Texas

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You got to go. Lines on Sunday but order the counter if it's open. The food is great and fast. The biscuits are so large one can feed you. I made my own Keto low carb today. Two egg, hollandaise, Ham Steak,bacon, fruit, and decaf. Low carbs. read more

Larina had great service and the food was also great. Food came out quickly and hot! Definitely recommend!

We really enjoyed our meal at Black Bear. The Tri Tip was wonderful. I hadn't had any since we left California. We're looking to try the all-you-can-eat catfish as soon as we can. read more

We loved our visit at Black Bear . The food was great and our server was even better Taylor. Will come back

Move over Waffle house, Big Bear Dinner is Changing the Breakfast menu to Higher levels. i just ate at my first Black Bear Dinner and Wow you're not leaving this place hungry. Big Eggs, Real Bacon, and Homemade Biscuits. i highly recoiled the new dinner with an upscale interior to match. Seniors you're going to love this place as we do. Happy Trails and we'll see you here, Chris and Sharon read more

3rd time to try and won't be going back. Hamburger salad was good, but actual hamburger was mediocre. Cheap thin preformed patty. The thing I can't get past is how hateful the hostesses are and the checkout girls. Mgmt needs to train these girls in respect and communication. When I say hi and try to be friendly, don't look at me and grunt. And the checkout girl said all the right words in the most hateful and sarcastic tone. Three times and it's been this way every time. Service was slow again as well. Definitely do not plan on a return visit. read more

My family took me here for mother's day, all the food was really good and had leftovers to take home. I ordered the 2 Egg & ham omlette, it was very good. My dauther got biscuts,gray and hashbrown. These are hugh bisucuts and one seemd plenty unless you eat alot. My son got pancake volcano, also alot of food in which we took home. Our waitress was very nice and constantly poured coffee. My only complaint was the waiting area inside was small so it became very congested with people waiting, people coming to check in and those leaving. There were also alot of tables empty,despite the crowd waiting. but as soon as we sat, it seemed they filled the some of those. read more

Went here with high hopes but left slightly disappointed. Over priced due to being a chain restaurant. Service was good but food was average

Husband and I are outdoor camping and cabin living people and this little diner has all the feels of that! We absolutely love the atmosphere and service of Black Bear Diner! We can't say enough good things about how polite everyone is and how kind the waiters and waitresses are to answer any questions. I love the fact that they have fresh squeezed orange juice! That's so delicious and the coffee is amazing too! Food is awesome and delicious we've had breakfast items and lunch items and we are very much enjoying all the meals and food! You HAVE to come here and have a good southern style hospitality and food! read more

Waited over an hour, poor service disorganization throughout restaurant. Still waiting, won't be back again. read more

Black Bear Diner Burleson - Diners Near Me - Burleson, Texas

Arrived at the Resturant at 11:04. Got seated at 11:37 after being told 15-20 minute wait. Took over an hour to get some of our food with it now being 12:45 and still missing some. The issue is the kitchen - not the wait staff. Jasmine was great and kept apologizing. Not a chirp from management. Don't come here unless you have tons of time. read more

We live out of town and stop by this Black Bear ever two months and this stop this morning was bad. In the last couple months the food quality has gone way down. Menu has changed. Had chicken fried steak and it is now a frozen pre made steak. You can just tell corporate does not care anymore. We were there at 8:30am on Sunday and there has always been a wait list. Not today only 5 tables had people setting. We will never be back. At this pace a quality they will not last unless they change back. read more

I was on Instagram a few months ago and seen an ad about black bear opening and sign up to become an ambassador or something along those lines. They'll send goodies and come dine in on them. I'm like okay, cool. Yeah, right.. Like I'm going to get picked. Well, a month or so later I get messaged on Instagram that I was picked. Then I'm suddenly getting goodies in the mail. You know it didn't really hit me that this was a soft opening until a few days ago. How cool!! I've never been to a soft opening. Black Bear Diner is right off of i35. It's on the same side as Longhorns and Navy Federal. The soft opening was this morning. I love the newspaper themed menu. There's plenty to choose from. I got corned beef hash. One of my favorite things to eat for breakfast. It's a little nostalgic because my Grandpa used to make me corned beef hash and eggs and throw it all in a cup calling it Breakfast in a cup. Plus, one of my favorite trips that they took me on was to Cherokee, NC and took me to a bear themed restaurant. My plate was huge. It comes with 2 eggs, a side of your choice, a bread of your choice, and corned beef. The eggs were perfect. I really liked the thinly sliced corned beef. The grits were good, creamy, and cheesy. The biscuit was perfect and fluffy. Service went smooth. I was out of there in a timely manner. I really have no complaints. I enjoyed my first soft opening experience. I would definitely come back here once they open! read more

The food here was decent. The employees were very nice. The place was kinda small with tables backed in rather tight. I ordered the cinnamon roll french toast. It wasn't bad but it wasn't what I thought it wld be and the bacon was really good. I will be going back to try other food so more reviews to come later. read more

Black Bear Diner Burleson - Cinnamon roll french toast, bacon and eggs. - Diners Near Me - Burleson, Texas

the food was amazing pancakes delicious service was amazing and it wasn't to pricey and had my decorations to make the vibe nice read more

The atmosphere of Black Bear Diner reminds me of Colorado, warm and welcoming. The food tasted delicious, like a good homemade meal from grandma. The service was a little slow. Expect to wait on weekend mornings both before and after you get seated. Overall, our group enjoyed our meal. We will go back! read more

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Went to the Black Bear Diner for dinner. It was early about 5:30. The restaurant wasn't crowded and we were seated right away. The place was clean. The service was decent, not great but she was friendly. The food...It literally had no taste. It was terribly bland. We ordered an assortment of things. The salad had cold lettuce, but they only had bacon ranch dressing which was just a little odd and I live both bacon and ranch. Daughter got the pesto pasta. She liked the flops or bread t it wasn't served hot only warm which was disappointing. I got some meat on the serves recommendation called tip something with chicken fingers. Major disappointing! The meat was beyond bland and chewy and the chicken fighters were frozen chicken fingers. I was expecting hand breaded. Husband got the chicken fried steak. He says edible, but it was frozen and fried. He said it reminded him school lunch food. The grits weren't even warm, mashed potato's were passable, sweet potato fries were good (only hot thing we got), overall it was bland, unseasoned, tasteless, and expensive for what we got. $55 for three with no drinks. If you want an expensive tasteless dinner this place is for you- if you are expecting something like "home cooked" you would be better to pass. Maybe the breakfast food is better but I don't think I will give them another try! read more

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The food was alright the portions were big, but the hash browns were extremely burnt and the service was horrible. Our servers name was Jasmine but she didn't check in on us or get our drinks we had to ask her to refill our drinks and we got a funfetti pancake instead of normal and the other server who brought out the food seemed to not want to be there at all. When we went to pay and leave a small tip (because the service was bad) the server in the back decided to comment on that too. Over all experience was 2/10 there was no hospitality at all and would not recommend going! read more

We love the beef taco salad. It is huge can feed 2-3 people easily. The veggies are all fresh. Best taco salad I've found in Tarrant county. They offer a variety of salad dressings. We also love the blackberry cobblers so good. Perfect ratio of fruit, crust and sweetness. We prefer it ala mode. We also love the club sandwiches. We don't eat pork so we remove the ham and bacon and the chef replaced the pork with more turkey. Very good. Service is very good. The hostesses always friendly and willing to help. read more

I know we went on the 4th of July for breakfast but they were not busy and there was no wait to be seated. It took 50 minutes to get our food and we were not the only customers that waited. Bacon was great, grits not so much. read more

Second time in my life, I tipped 0, I ordered a bigfoot with French toast instead of biscuits. When the order came out, the server said: "Sorry about the long wait. If you need to speak to the manager about the cooks, you can." My order was wrong 100%: 5oz country steak, one egg, and I swapped the biscuit for French toast but didn't come out. I informed the server my order was wrong. "Hey, this is supposed to come with three eggs and.." The server said after cutting me off: "No, you are wrong. It's only two eggs, but I'll grab that for you." (Then just leaves) After that, I didn't even mention my French toast, didn't mention biscuits, didn't mention the 5oz instead of 10oz. No, no, no, I'm wrong. I don't know what I order, you're right? So right that your attitude will be your tip. Best of luck to that server and this restaurant. I'll never be back. This to the server: don't blame the cooks for time; when you serve the wrong order off the menu, you're supposed to know. The wait wasn't the issue. Lets say i was wrong and I order the country fried steak (thats 2 eggs and 1 biscut) why was there 1 egg, no biscut and when we talked about the french toast and you wrote it down why didnt you refer to that. 13$ for this! Woot, Macdonalds, I go. (take blame for your mistakes, take ownership of your attitude this is your TIP for the future) read more

Black Bear Diner Burleson - Diners Near Me - Burleson, Texas

We waited over an hour for our food. Biscuits, gravy, and hash browns were cold. Definitely could have had a better experience!!

Went there for lunch today. We had a patty melt and a bacon cheeseburger, we both had house salads as our sides. This place has a huge menu. The food was fresh and top notch, the salads seemed very fresh and homemade with scratch made dressing,we also bought and shared a chocolate cream pie for dessert. It was great, we loved everything about our lunch and service. We have made plans to go back for breakfast to see how the breakfast is but I feel pretty confident that it will be great! read more

Came here for breakfast with family on a Sunday morning. Terrible service. Had to wait 30+ minutes to be informed they were out of corned beef and hash. So the entire time we were waiting for our food; the tables next to us were served and left. The server finished with them prior to letting us know they were out and we needed to reorder. The delay was ridiculously bad we should have just walked out. read more

I was so looking forward to trying their food. What a disappointment, Chicken and Waffles were tasteless and chicken way over breaded. Sweet potato fried fries were a soggy mess. Turkey was ok but nothing you can't get anywhere. Bread pudding was thick, bland and dry even with the "shot glass" of caramel nut stuff. Another ho hum Burleson restaurant. read more

Black Bear Diner Burleson - Soggy Sweet Potato Fries - Diners Near Me - Burleson, Texas

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