Bear Inn in Solihull

Love the Bear, unspoilt oldy worldy pub. Very attentive staff and food served timely, hot and delicious. One criticism though…thought it rather pathetic that the dressed salad contain half a cherry tomato! Surely you can afford to let your customers have a whole one ??

Nice welcoming staff and good food

Food was excellent but the service, even though it wasn't very busy, was very slow . Staff weren't really very attentive.

Very welcoming. Delicious breakfast. Helpful directions from our great host. Thank you😁

Last minute meal with friends - food was delicious (Halibut was amazing) and great staff (Michelle looked after us well)

Twas an ok pub. Nice food nice atmosphere. Reasonable prices. As a random pub I didn't expect to go to it was good to fill a hour.

Brought some American friends down for lunch. They loved the place. Michelle snd Suzy very accommodating l. Food good nd prompt service.

Thank you so much, excellent service. My dad is due to have major surgery tomorrow & the pub went out of their way to help me as all he fancied was the Lamb Shank Cottage Pie but he was not in a position to go to the pub in person. This made his day after sleepless night, we will defo be in after he recovers from surgery. We can’t thank you enough.

Had a really great birthday meal here! Food was incredible and the waitress Michelle was really helpful, friendly and attentive would recommend!

Came for lunch, reasonable price, lovely atmosphere, Michelle was lovely. Would recommend.

Great food , great staff , great service .. simple

We had great service from Michelle, friendly atmosphere, and lovely food, definitely recommend this pub. Plenty of Dog treats and water for Dogs.

Steak hit or miss but rest of the menu good. Staff open to menu changes for allergies,low carb diets etc.

Enjoyed our meal, with excellent service. Nice place to come

Lovely waitress Michelle very attentive and friendly

Fantastic meal and superb service. We had a lovely waitress called Michelle who was really nice and couldn’t do enough for us ! We will certainly be back again

Our large group (7 adults 4 kids) had a lovely dinner; the menu was very extensive and the food excellent. Service was very friendly and attentive. We then returned for breakfast in the sunshine. Michelle looked after us superbly.

Absolutely amazing great service. Michelle and Leo were amazing servers, I had a lovely birthday dinner xx

Michelle was great, pub has great vibes, thanks!

Great size portion my only criticism was the roasts were not great. Other than that really enjoyed our meal (Sunday Lunch) Michelle was very helpful and attentive.

Table booked for 7 adults, 1 child, 1 infant days in advance yet no table was set up on arrival. No oat milk for coffee and the "Farmers Breakfast" was a joke, half the plate was empty and missing spinach, cheese and paprika, nowhere near worth the money paid. No staff came to ask if the food was ok either. I can't understand how the kitchen plated it up and said it was ok to go out like that. Rip off.

Cannot fault The Bear at Berkswell….another amazing meal, nothing too much trouble for Michelle & Leo, steak cooked perfectly and highly recommend the merlot & beef dripping sauce !! Will be back soon

Really nice food, popped in with my 4 year old and Michelle was really helpful and welcoming. Thank you

Lovely little pub with a great atmosphere. Food was delicious and service was excellent, couldn’t fault it.

Best Lamb Shank that I have ever had , fantastic Pub . . ,

Great food as always, quick service. Nice experience all round

Have been here before for Sunday lunch and loved it so thought we would try breakfast. Did not dissapoint, a warm friendly welcome and great service from michelle. Food was lovely amd cooked well.

Stopped off for a quick lunch en route to catching a flight from Birmingham airport.We choose from the lunch menu food was lovely and fresh, reasonably priced and attentive service. Good options for vegetarians. Would recommend and will visit again if we are over that way again.

My husband and I had a starter of hot crab and cheese with sourdough toast as a starter between us, which was gorgeous. So far , so good. But.....we had ordered fish and chips , though most people seemed to be having the Sunday roast. Most people were served ahead of us, and after 50 minutes (from the time we'd ordered) , still no main course. My husband was told it was just being plated up when he enquired. To be honest, we think it was plated up long before and forgotten . Overcooked fish , lukewarm chips (peas were ok!) An apology would have been nice. It was very busy, so we paid and left, but won't be returning.

Most enjoyable meal in a relaxed environment where the staff are polite and efficient. We were served by Michelle who was most attentive. Rob

The food was really good and a reasonable price, service was prompt and friendly. Never been here before but will definitely be back!

Michelle served us tonight and she was excellent. She was on her own but we were served very promptly and thoroughly enjoyed our evening out. Thanks!

Visited for Sunday lunch with family. Table was reserved as requested in the bar as had a dog with us. Ordered lunch and drinks, however many of the non or low alcohol beers were not available. When placing the food order a mistake was made by the member of staff taking the order. It would have been helpful if the person taking the order had read it back and confirmed it with me as this could have been rectified immediately. We then had to wait an hour for the food to appear. There was no warning given about the wait or an apology provided. When the food arrived it became apparent that one of our group had not received their food. The waiting staff were asked about it but simply disappeared. I had to go to the bar to check the order when the mistake became apparent. This was rectified quickly and the order arrived within a few minutes. The food once it came was good except for the steak that I ordered was cold. We decided not to stay for pudding and teas and coffees and paid and left. When paying an apology was made for the mistake with the order. Overall it was a disappointing experience and I would probably not return and go elsewhere in the future.

Lovely evening at the Bear Inn as always, food was lovely! Our waitress Michelle, who's served us a number of times now, is always so friendly and welcoming, even when it's super busy she's very helpful and always with a smile! 😊 Sam

First time visiting and our experience was amazing , Michelle the server couldn't be any more helpful , Nothing was to much trouble, She also took some photos of us as a family on our phones , Food was amazing. Will definitely be returning

Realy good please would go again love the food love the vibe and I was served by a waitress called Michelle who went above and beyond are expections she had grate attitude and was lovely to talk to Michelle

Always a lovely meal here, and the staff are warm and welcoming. The seasonal specials are well-thought out, often having a modern twist to a pub classic, but made to restaurant standard. Five stars

Yesterday me and my family went for a pre mothers day meal as we could not get a table for today. When we came in we was straight away brang to our table with no wait and kindness by Michelle which was a manager on duty. She was really attentive and made sure everything was okay with our meals at the exact right times. This was a truly uplifting experience for me and my family and was great for the family to reconnect and enjoy some amazing food. Managers and waitresses like Michelle should be recognised by their amazing work and wonderful attitude to customers. Would 1000% recommend here to anyone if they would like nice food and to be treated with all customer needs.

Went to the bear tonight with my husband and 3 daughters for husband birthday , food was absolutely terrible, food so over cooked chicken , fish ,steak , chips still frozen in the middle ,felt so sorry for the waitress who just kept apologising, the restaurant manager didn’t even come over and take accountability or apologise left it to the waitress , we ended up getting a refund ,the bear has gone really down hill They certainly need a new chef because the one they have certainly can’t cook ,we will not be returning , shame cause lovely location and lovely pub

New favourite place to go. Food amazing, service is great. Michelle and Alannah always welcoming and nothing is too much trouble. See you again soon.

Visited mid afternoon for our anniversary meal. The staff were lovely and welcoming. Food and service were excellent. Will definitely visit again soon.

Our Sunday Roasts (6) All of our meat roasts are served with garlic & rosemary duck fat roast potatoes, roasted root vegetables, Yorkshire pudding, sausage meat stuffing, gravy, carrot & swede mash and seasonal greens. Not impressed, potato's 10 pieces- too many- certainly frozen and not cooked in duck fat garlic and rosemary! mash wasn't mashed veg, more like hard lumps of cartot snd swede but we're edible, spring greens the smallest portion ever! no stuffing! However the roast beef was lovely even tho 'NOT PINK' Yorkshire pudding good. Ordered 2 drinks and 2 roasts, bill came with 4 extra drinks! waitress was very rushed and I expect had had a busy day, but at 6.30 in the evening it wasn't that busy. Overall I was not impressed with our meal, didn't bother with a desert. Improvement needed and portions need an overhaul as I'm sure most people would like more veg and not half a plate of potatoes! We did eat it as I wasn't going home hungry and husband helped out with the potatoes 🤣 but he wasn't too impressed either. If we return it won't be a roast, as previously we've had nice meals here.

I went to the Bear with my husband and friends last night. The food was delicious, the staff were really attentive and efficient. I was celebrating my Birthday and was made to feel very special by friends and staff alike. I highly recommend a visit.

Thank you so much, you made my friends 70th birthday special, from the moment we arrived to leaving. Staff so lovely our meals outstanding as normal. Couldn’t recommend you enough. We all had a great evening, definitely recommend for food and atmosphere. Thank you again.

I hate to do this but I have been eating here for over 20 years and always had a good meal. Its pricey, so it's a special occasion place but tonight I had the seabass with scallop and pea risotto, the portion was so small I had eat when I got home, it was very average. Husband had burger and chips but left all his chips because they were so greasy. Sad to say but there much better food places for the price. Didn't bother with the dessert menu, just incase it was as average as the mains.

Went for Sunday dinner last Sunday frozen veg frozen potatoes never again

Michelle was friendly, welcoming

I dont write reviews, but honestly this was the worst meal we have had in years. We had a Sunday roast. The roast potatoes were aunt Bessie’s. The veggies were from a tin. The meat was boiled. The gravy was bisto. My friend had a steak and his chips weren’t cooked, the pepper sauce was cold and clearly made from frozen and the cut of meat was chewy and tough. The service was very poor. Attitude when asking for anything like a high seat. I am honestly shocked this place is in business, I can’t imagine anyone goes twice. Microwave food.

We were served by alannah&andrew and we had a lovely experince. very friendly and easy to get along with. they made us feel very comfortable and alannah gave the best service weve ever had. drinks were lovely,served by Andrew and over all it was amazing. will definitely be coming again

Food discussing and servwsa appalling

Eaten here a number of times over the years and the food and service is always excellent. Even fussy teenagers clear there plates!

Great food great service would definitely recommend!

Lovely village pub, never appear to have enough real ale choice.

Amazing from start to finish. Staff, food, service, booking, triple tesco clubcard vouchers, nice looking country pub. Will now be my regular go to meal out place. Love it. See you again

Great service from barman andrew and hostess michelke never fail to give a warm generous welcome,

Lovely food, high quality and good prices, staff were attentive . Great choice of menus

We went on Sunday to try the roast dinner. Sorry, don't bother. The price you pay, You expect fresh veg. Frozen carrot are disgusting. Frozen roast potatoes weren't cooked properly. Processed meat. I would prefer to elsewhere than go here. The service was poor, they did apologise. We asked for a receipt. We didn't get it. They have done a good job revamping the pub. The kitchen and service are letting it down. A chef should be embarrassed serving the food that was sent out.

Thanks Alannah & Michelle for a great visit and the kitchen staff Alan and Dawn for a lovely brunch an dessert. Highly recommend!!

Fantastic food we had the lunch menu and went for 3 courses, superb customer service!

Valentines lunch, Husband recovering from spinal fractures, we enjoyed the food. The warm crispy duck on salad (a special) was delicious. Hope to have this again.

Really charming pub, full of character and great for a meal out. Plenty of parking round back. Best pub food i've ever had! Everything was well cooked and well seasoned, with really generous portions. Lovely staff, and the whole place is so CLEAN which sounds silly but it's so nice to go into the loos in a pub and find them spotless. All around lovely place.

We met up for a meal with friends at The Bear in Berkswell. Booked a table on-line a few days back. We were welcomed and shown to our table by staff who were polite and friendly. A good selection of food was on the menu and the prices were very reasonable. As always, the atmosphere in this beautiful ancient public house was superb.

Food always great! Shocking service now sadly! Haven’t been since I wrote this! But new reviews with photos of old menus! Hmm 🤔

Great meal lovely service.be back soon.

A beautiful country pub with great atmosphere and disappointing food. After a long wait due to there being only 1 person behind the bar, we ordered the steak and ale pie. It was pretty tasty, but was mostly pastry and the beef was like jelly. Ok for a beer in the summer, but won't be coming back for food any time soon.

Had a nice lunch, very good service, although they seemed to put everyone in one place in the pub and I would have preferred to be spread about a little more.

Just to say what a great evening we had last night. We went for Burns night & the Burns night menu was an 11/10. Service was brilliant & with the Bear being your quintessential English pub there's not much more to say apart from Thank you

Fantastic and quick service from Ashley and Michelle. Food was delicious with a good range of light and substantial options.

Lovely meal in a great atmosphere on Thursday night despite the restaurant being at full capacity, Allana, Harry and Max coped brilliantly. Congratulations to the kitchen the food was well presented and delicious. We'll be back soon.

Lovely girls night out. Lots of choice on the menu and we all enjoyed our meals. Service also very good. The dining room was not at all noisy.

Was great just waited a long time to get served

Decided to go here for some dinner my mum for some mother and daughter time and couldn't have picked a better place for it. The atmosphere was lovely and calming, a very warm welcome from the staff who's service was on top throughout our whole time there. The drinks and food food were so so tasty and tasted fresh! Me and my mum had such a lovely night and we will be returning again very soon ☺️

A spur of the moment decision to visit as we'd been driving in the area. It was fairly quiet and hence got served very quickly. The food was cooked excellently and presented very professionally. The service was prompt and friendly and this is one of the reasons why we are regular visitors to The Bear.

Great food, excellent service.Highly recommend.

Oh it was beautiful we had our boxing day meal there 13 of us , the service was top class lovely friendly staff, nothing was too much for them. The food was amazing it was perfect, price was for a three course meal so not normal prices but you were able to choose two courses or three I would highly recommend.

Thank you Michelle for our lovely food and great service lovely old place with good wines and ales we will return again soon ⚘

Good service provided by Michelle and her team nothing was to much trouble,great food at a reasonable price.

Great atmosphere, very friendly and polite staff a lovely historic building with charming character a wide selection of delicious food available would highly recommend massive thank you to max Gabriel and Michelle for your hospitality look forward to dinner with you again.😊

They double booked the room my family use to gather for our Xmas gathering

This pub was a great experience thanks to the service of Michelle. As soon as we entered the restaurant we was welcomed by Michelle and treated with kindness and respect. This service helped all of us forfill our needs to the best standard possible with recommendations on what choices we should make especially with food. Michelle needs to be recognised more for helping meet our customer needs and expectations.

Delicious food and service very good.

Had a reservation and when we arrived it took more than 5-min waiting to be seated. Our table was not cleaned properly from the previous customers. It was obvious that the pub was understaffed. It took a long time to be served and we never had the glass of water we asked for. However, the food was reasonably good and competitively priced. I believe the four stars for service are too many but I believe they deserve another chance.

After many years coming here I'm overwhelmed by the drop in standards over the last couple of months. Slow shoddy service , and seeing other tables complaining about cold food , a totally not bothered dark haired woman virtually shrugging it off as "not her problem" . Nobody behind the bar for five or ten mins at a time to take an order , hence walked out without ordering and visited a far better pub nearby. Never again. The five star reviews are so obviously fake from the same person who works there and her friends. Not very intelligent as she always seems to recommend "gristly meat pie and soggy veg" . How appealing.......

A very disappointing experience. We visited as a table of 4 on a Saturday lunchtime. We have been here many times over the years and it's always been good. We found a table easily. I'll list the issues. We ordered food and tea for the table at the bar. We waited 30 minutes even for the tea to arrive. I then went back to the bar to chase it up. I waited for 5 minutes before anyone showed up. They had forgotten our order. They acted like we were the problem. They bought tea fairly quickly but only for 2 not 4. They argued with me that I'd only ordered drinks for 2 people. Some of the food came out 50 minutes after we had ordered it. The server wasn't well presented and she smelt bad. 1 persons food was missing, just soup which which they missed. We asked the server and she looked out out. We had no cutlery provided to eat for anyone. We had to go to the bar to ask. They then couldn't find any..... It's a mess. What should have been a pleasant lunch with family was stressful with long waits, missing orders and staff that didn't seem to care. And it's not cheap! The food was ok and bordering on too cold to eat. We saw at least two other tables return food as it was cold. If they are too busy to provide good food with good service they need to look at their operating model. In a world full of beautiful country pubs we will not be choosing this place in the future.

First of all I would like to say food was brilliant. Second I would like to thank staff: Michelle and Chloe for their wonderful service. I can’t however rate it higher than a three same as atmosphere as two staff members who’s names i don’t know with a maybe irish accent and another gent with fake teeth were seemingly discourteous and unpleasant which put a bit of a damper on what was otherwise a wonderful visit.

Food is quite pleasant. Staff well.... younger staff always happy to serve,pleasant and chatty,but those who i assume are management level not so much! The man with a tan is rude and obnoxious at best and the lady is not particularly helpful. We wont be returning .Hospitalitary training is much needed. Everyone is entitled to good service and this lets this eatery down. Beautiful pub tho. Homely and cosy.Good selection of drinks and food choices.What a shame

Great day and experience coming to The Bear for dinner with my family means so much when things run perfectly. Orders correct and nice and hot. Service was excellent all very friendly. We all enjoyed our visit and will return.

Went for breakfast and a coffee. Friendly atmosphere, good food and the staff were fantastic!

Good food. Took a while to order food.

The staff were really considerate and helpful! We asked to move tables and they were really understanding about it. The food is always consistent in quality and quantity. This is literally the only place I will order Turkey as it is always juicy and so tasty! My dad and husband love the beef rib and have ordered nothing else our last few visits, my mom really enjoyed the beef cheeks. The starters are gorgeous and presented so well, as are the puddings! Honestly just what a brilliant team providing top standards for great value in a homely, welcoming environment.

Service from the young guy and attitude was simply excellent however the middle aged lady was off when we asked for an extra dish for our pudding as we can’t manage a full one. However the food as usual was brilliant. This was after paying for a bottle of wine and four mains with two puddings. £106.00

Couldn't fault the food . Belly pork and a rump steak . Both delicious and our waitress Suzy was very helpful and friendly

Brilliant team and amazing service from Michelle and the team!

Excellent food. Even better service.

Lovely meal- Great service from Michelle

Thank you for a lovely breakfast weel done santa

Pub is lovely and the staff were nice, friendly and professional. Sadly I didn't enjoy my pie, but my family all ate their dinners and said they were very nice.

Amazing breakfast with santa. Kids loved it

Great atmosphere, manager Lorraine couldn’t do enough for us all we was a big table and we was all catered for to a high standard. The bear inn is a truly pleasant experience. The breakfast was delicious and everyone’s meals were fantastic and looked great and enjoyed by all. Highly recommend this place to anyone.

Michelle was totally awesome in looking after us. Lovely evening