The Bear Hotel in Wiltshire

Love this place but food is inconsistent.

My husband and I stayed for 3 nights in the twin room. My husband has severe COPD and this room gave access to the lift making our stay much easier the staff were helpful and friendly the food was delicious we will be staying again

Lovely place really old Fashioned and probably Haunted . Very good Service and friendly lovely place for a morning Coffee. ,

This is a totally charming Hotel. On arrival I was welcomed by a very friendly and efficient receptionist. I was travelling alone so had a nice single room which had everything you could need for an overnight stay and the bed was very comfortable. I had a great evening meal very tasty and good value and breakfast Was filling and appetising. I would recommend staying there if you are in the area. I certainly would if I was in the area again

Good value pub with large rooms. Reasonable breakfast

Nice place for a beer. Lots of history. 👍

Currently the shop of the local brewery

Excellent walk-in breakfast, courteous staff and good food.

We had our Wedding here on the 16.08.2024 and we cannot Thank Tim and his Staff for helping our Day be Perfect.

I like the thought that people have been staying in this fine old building since the18th century, enjoying good food, beer and company. Yes, you’re in the town centre so the rooms at the front are not the quietest when windows are open in the summer but not a problem for us. A big shout out to Jade who was both very efficient and friendly despite being under some pressure! Very well cooked breakfast too

We really enjoyed our meal last night. We sat out in the open air at the back of the Hotel's carriage area. The menu was very varied and had several interesting vegetarian options. We enjoyed the Risotto and the Hasselback beetroot mains and several lovely desserts. It was a real surprise but a good one.

Stayed here on our way to Plymouth, staff were very friendly and helpful. We had dinner there which was excellent I had the beef pie and my wife had the lamb. Would highly recommend, the hotel itself is an old coaching Inn. Rooms were clean and quite big . My only gripe was personally I found the bed a little soft and our room was outside the kitchen extractor fans but good value. However would definitely be back for the food

A bit tired. Bedroom was quite small so you hit leg on bed end. Food was......pub grub. OK but basic choice. Room very clean though

Stayed over for a local meeting. Very impressed. The building is quaint and interesting but everything in my very pleasant and quite large room was scrupulously clean and the bed was extremely comfortable. Service and food were excellent with staff being extremely friendly and helpful. I plan to revisit with my family when I can.

I played in the cellar bar down stairs, lovely little venue, friendly crowd. Love the place

Revisiting my hometown with my partner after years away! Perfect location in the centre of the market place, easy transport links and all the shops/bars nearby. Rooms are very old and squeaky but clean and tidy, it all adds to the character of this rustic inn. Price for a four poster bed on a Thursday/Friday in June was more than reasonably. Breakfast included but it was the only letdown of the stay, lots of strange tastes. Much better to head in to town to Brogans!

Not everyday that you get to stay in a place where Royals used to stopped at centuries ago. Well situated hotel where we go back to everytime we visit the family in that lovely town. It's old but charming and the breakfast is very generous.

A lovely hotel, we always have good food and great service.....one of our favourite places to eat

Great staff, great communication, the building has a haunted feel about it .. I love it

Popped in for a drink. It was OK. Not somewhere I thought - we must go back. Service was alright, maybe as not locals nor eating (not that we were asked if we wanted too or shown a menu). It is old though and I appreciated that.

Have an annoying habit of not hearing "small portion" for the fish n chips. So you're given & charged for a large portion. Always put a biscuit in your saucer even though you've stated "I have Coeliac disease and require a gluten free diet" . On sending this back you're then left without a saucer!

We have just had Sunday lunch here today and I would recommend it to anyone, service brilliant, good atmosphere, plenty to eat both main and deserts was very tasty very pleased

Went into the Bear a couple of times on our day out in Devizes, we popped in for coffee and chocolate in the morning and then for a couple of drinks in the afternoon, a good pint of Wadworth 6X, and Mrs C said her Kingsdown sparkling apple was lovely. Very nice historic building, pleasant sat in the sun in the courtyard

Good food Great staff Lovely place 👍😊

This is the second time we have stayed here so that says it all. This is a hotel with a lot of history and character. We recognised many of the staff from our first stay a couple of years ago which again says a lot. The staff there appear very happy to be working there which spills over to the guests. Our room was great, the breakfast was lovely and the hotel location superb. However above all the team, without exception, were extremely pleasant, helpful and friendly. We will definitely go back for a third time.

Brilliant hotel. Great staff and great locations

Reliably good food and excellent, friendly service. Many thanks 👍 Excellent Sunday lunch - lovely roasties, quality meat, loads of gravy and mixed vegetables that were not over-cooked, but crunchy. Puds as delicious as ever and service as friendly and professional as always. We eat here frequently and are always quite happy to bring guests, knowing we won't be let down. (Also great to see a curry on the menu - it has been sadly missing for too long! A very tasty Goan fish curry I had the other evening).

The staff were very helpful and friendly booked for 2 nights and decided to stay 1 more the staff pulled out all the stops to accommodate us breakfast excellent good quality and variety

Great service and good quality priced food

I met with friends for lunch, the fish finger sandwich was very tasty and was accompanied with a small portion of chips.

Nice place,great staff.and good food

Excellent. Good, friendly atmosphere. Very helpful staff. Lovely ambiance.

We stayed at the Bear a few times over the passed few months and was really impressed, the management and team really know what there doing, the customer service was fantastic and the rooms were spotless and well looked after.

The roast was cold when it came out and the potatoes tasted reheated as they were very hollow and genuinely difficult to eat. The Yorkshire was also rock solid, parsnips burnt to a crisp and when I pored my gravy a layer slipped off the top before the rest poured out which immediately put me off. I also ordered chicken which was meant to come with stuffing and never did. One girl recognized I didn’t enjoy my meal and took it off the bill which was appreciated but all other staff seemed very miserable and not friendly at all and it took a long time whenever we needed staff ie collect plates, ask for deserts, needing refills, the bill etc. Considering I took my mum and her partner here for Mother’s Day I was so disappointed and probably wouldn’t return

We had a lovely evening meal, the menu was varied, the service was excellent and the food was well presented and very tasty. I would highly recommend The Bear.

Lovely food, served quickly and politely. Nothing was too much trouble even though they were busy.

Always a go to for just a couple of drinks or a full meal welcoming and friendly staff perfect ambience. Recommend.

Lovely atmosphere, friendly staff and delicious food.

Got the burger and plant based ragu, great food and great service

Visited for lunch. Excellent friendly service and food. Separate gluten-free menu.

Stale bread with soup. Ordered brown bread sandwich which arrived on white.

Excellent food, friendly staff, great service all in a historic setting

The gluten free mini fish n chips was perfect. Fab triple cooked chips but will insist on putting a biscuit in your saucer despite ordering gluten free!

This is the second time we have stayed at this hotel, we use it when we are visiting my father in law. The hotel is full of character, lovely old traditional bars with real log fires and well designed old rooms. The staff are very helpful and friendly.

Came for a Christmas party in the ballroom. The tables were very cramped in and heating was broken so the entire room was like and oven! Starters were sat around in the other room from when we entered until when they were served an hour later so who knows how long they sat around! The pate came with ‘toast’ but as it had been sat around, it was cold, rock hard toast that was also somehow chewy and made your jaw click. Would’ve been better just served with bread if they weren’t going to toast it just before you eat. The potted crayfish was congealed and both looked and tasted awful - we gave up eating that for fear of food poisioning. The roast dinner was next and was nearly inedible, the Turkey was dry and the potatoes looked as if they had been cooked a previous day and microwaved. They were soggy and not crispy and cold in the middle. The stuffing balls were raw. The only good part of the main was the vegetables (which were just bland veggies so I filled up on them as you couldn’t eat the rest). Looking around the room when the staff cleared, it looked like most people left the potatoes. The dessert on the other hand was very nice, I think the fact that it didn’t require cooking (or chucking through the microwave) really helped and it was the best part of the meal. The rest of the night was okay - dancing with friends (dj isn’t great but if you put lots of requests in then the choice of music is much better and more cheesy disco tunes). Overall, it’s really not worth paying the money for. Very overpriced for a shockingly bad meal. If I were in a restaurant, it would’ve sent back to the kitchen (although in a restaurant, I’m not a chef would have the audacity to send a meal like that out).

Friendly, cosy and welcoming pub for lunch on a chilly day. Our orders were taken really quickly and the food followed very soon. Generous portions and wonderful chips. Great choice on the menu and my fish was huge.

Delightful staff and setting in this cosy hotel, bar and restaurant in the centre of Devizes. We were staying elsewhere in the town but dropped in at The Bear for a n early evening drink. Atmosphere and service were lovely. We decided to stay for an evening meal. The menu was varied and offered both standard “pub” favourites as well as other mains alternatives but more appealing was definitely the value compared to other nearby establishments! Between us we had starters of smoked salmon served with orange, beetroot and apple - delicious and a yummy chicken terrine served with toasted sourdough. Mains of pub favourite pie & mash which came accompanied by a good sized portion of buttered fresh veg. A hopefully less calorific choice of Greek salad with chicken slouvaki came served very generously and thoroughly enjoyed. No room for desserts but including wine, very content with a bill of £62. Staff deserved the above 10% gratuity we added. Swift service, chatty and charming waitresses and polite, helpful bar staff. Highly recommend!

Waited an age to be seated as staff member was out of sight but on his mobile phone. Chose from GF menu as have Coeliac disease. Tea came with a shortbread biscuit in the saucer. Waited an age at the bar for a clean replacement cup. Same staff member on mobile phone again. Requested peas and no tartare sauce. Got mushy peas and tartare sauce. Asked if window could be opened as very stuffy. Window remained shut. On paying at the bar the same staff member was chewing something. Not what I'm used to experiencing from the Bear

Good hearty food off high quality. One of those meals where their didn’t seem too much on the plate but with quality ingredients we were both full and my wife took the rest home in a box for later. Pie and chips were excellent and would return for another visit. The youthful service good do with a bit of service trying and engage with the customer more, they were very polite though. Tips come with friendly service as well as good food.

We had afternoon tea as a family. The food was lovely, freshly made and the cakes were beautiful. The service was great too. We all had a great time. Definitely recommend.

Met with friends for a meal at the Bear Hotel in Devizes. In general terms, the environment, furnishings etc. need to be improved. For the meal, service was good, the presentation was OK. but apart from the starter, our main meal was very disappointing and I think it unlikely that we would use this venue again

Really enjoyed our meal at The Bear it has friendly service and good beer combined with veggie options: delicious roasted good cauliflower with gnocci. Good view of the market square. I will be back!

dropped in for lunch, amazing I had fish and chips and my husband ham and chips. Both were delicious and the chips are to die for. Service great we will be back.

Popped into the Bear for a beer and a snack with a friend last week. A warm welcome from Charles (front of house staff) and order processed quickly. The Beer was superb as usual; to eat we ordered a ham, egg and chips and a "Bear Burger". However, surprised to be asked to pay for bacon and extras on the burger.....£1 for a piece of bacon!! Think I shall stick to the egg and chips next time.

I have been to the Bear for many years, used to meet up with my parents there, it’s now looking dated and the staff always look so stressed out. They never look like they want to be there serving, always distracted by another task. The only thing I feel that has kept up with the times is the prices cuz it isn’t cheap at all. I have had many Sunday Lunches and to be honest the last 3 or 4 have been really disappointing, hard roasted potatoes, cold veg and tiny portions. I’m not a greedy eater but sometime you feel the chef has been caught sleeping! One evening we popped in for dinner, all we heard was the chef moaning and swearing. Deff not managed as it should be and for god sake DECORATE! It looks like it hasn’t been roaches since the 1970s Chipped paint and cables everywhere, broken skirting and roughly paint walls. This is NOT a classy place anymore and needs a refurbishment desperately. Sadly we always look forward to go there as we have many good memories there, sadly we always feel disappointed when leaving. Such a shame that it hasn’t been cared for years. It has a 3 star rating in booking dot com but if the restaurant is anything to go by lately I would give it 2stars. I like to give positive feedback but sadly I have none for The Bear.

Your memory can be a harsh mistress. I'd spent the last two Christmas' alone and having sold my business and retired, I decided to invest in a small family Christmas at the Bear. I booked, somewhat excitedly in August. Envisaging quiet chats in comfy sofas - they had been there - plenty of space for us to catch up. Alas no more, it's a food factory, those well-recalled areas are function rooms and with the bar heaving - as it should be - there was nowhere for residents to, just be. Goodness knows what had happened to The Lambton Room, once such a dignified dining room, now institutional in the worst way. On Christmas morning breakfast was served between 7-9 by a solitary waitress, serving a full house, everything about it was sad. Our names had been marked off for the second sitting for Celebratory Christmas Lunch but a table was found and sadly the joke, I had made about them not running out of food, came back to haunt me. I've eaten more generous Christmas Dinners at Sainsbury's Cafe. A couple of very meagre slices of institutional turkey and roast potatoes that were easy to ignore, combined with tight portion control, the food factory was without doubt profitable. We asked to take out coffee in the bar, which was being set up for the staff to watch films. We were intruding, the hotel was effectively non-operational until Boxing Day Breakfast, different waitress but even sadder. The hard-boiled poached eggs just about finished me off. I've been a Wadworths Woman forever - it seems - we drank 6X from the keg at my wedding, possibly that was a sign, as now I'm divorced. Your loves lose you in the end, by serving themselves.

The Property is located in the town center. Very convenient location with on site parking. The room was very comfortable and clean an breakfast was cooked to order. Would happily stay again if visiting the area.

I was staying with my partner in the Bear. We decided to 'eat in'. Once we were seated the service was quick and the food came out in a relativity short time. Both mine and my partners food was to die for! Sadly I had no room for pudding but as we intend staying here again as we do have business meetings locally I shall leave room next time. Just to add ........ as we were staying, breakfast this morning was also very very good. Only complaint, there was no breakfast fruit in a bowl. I don't want a banana or an orange.