The Bear - JD Wetherspoon in Windsor and Maidenhead

Tried out the Bear for breakfast as quick and easy plus it saves us cooking and cleaning. We had a traditional breakfast with some extra bacon and mushrooms, miners Benedict and 2 hot drinks. Our mugs arrived quickly and drinks are self service but easy to get. Our food arrived not long after and hit the spot; young lady who brought was lovely and polite as well as helpful. Breakfast disappeared quickly along with a second hot drink. Staff checked on whether we’d enjoyed breakfast and overall our experience was very positive. Used the app to order breakfast and found it easy to use. A nice breakfast and experience for us so we’ll be heading back.

Excellent service from friendly and efficient staff. The food quality was good but, I was disgusted at the size of the Burger my son had for his main considering the price! I am a lady with small hands, the whole bun and burger was the same size as the palm of my hand, it was more like a kids menu size.

Always great prices on food and drinks.

A typical Wetherspoons but you know what you’re getting. Good fast service. Very useful asset to have in any town centre. I even came here each morning from the Travelodge for breakfast, less than 10 mins walk.

You got to love a Wetherspoon !

Drinks came very quickly via the app, pub had a warm and friendly vibe and it was in walking distance to watch Maidenhead United. Would definitely return

Excellent as ever, a great Wetherspoon pub😊

I've never been but heard a lot about it through Mike. Can't wait to pay a visit!

love the breakfast and fish and chips. good value for money.

Friendly staff and a good selection of drinks, snacks and food.

Excellent pub. Very good beers to enjoy with a variety of dishes. Very good value for money.

The atmosphere was good, and the staff was very friendly 👌

Fantastic place, never disappointed with Wetherspoon. Cosy, spacious, there's even a fireplace.

A fantastic centuries old pub (with a Royal connection) with original fixtures and flagstone floors, just refurbished. Superb food, atmosphere and staff........well worth a detour!

Great menu, staff are 99% accurate with orders, food choice is good. Due to the type of pub you do get rough ones.

Nice choice of ales and very well priced

Typical relaxed atmosphere and excellent service.

Very good place to drink beers in Maidenhead. It has a wide beer menu at different prices. The food is good with an extensive menu with a wide variety of burgers, steaks, chicken, curries, pizzas, etc... The pub has several floors and is usually quite busy. I recommend it

You can always rely on weather spoons for great prices , really good tasking food. Honestly I’m not your average customer I like high standards. The bear has really gone over my expectations and I was so happy with the food and service. Really friendly staff , smiling and fast service. Food was boiling hot! Definitely one of the best pub brands in the uk. So many times I would find a nice pub only to get there and they are not serving food. You can always count on Wetherspoons! Thanks a lot !! 😀😀👍🏻👍🏻

Great choice of real ales in excellent condition. Very helpful staff with my mobility problems, and the table service (which I don’t normally use) proved to be invaluable.

Amazing service. Eddie leading by example

Had American Burger with chips. Burger great but very small and chip portion was lacking.

The food was particularly great in this pub. Piping hot. Service friendly and building and pub very clean.

Busy spoons, food was quick enough, lovely pint of San Miguel 👌🏾

I regularly enjoy the Freedom breakfast after an early morning swim. It great value for money, served quickly and furthermore it’s nice and hot. Highly recommended.

Great place for food and drinks with friends

Staff behind the bar couldn't do enough to help you and serve you quickly floor staff very perlight

Had a quiet time inside in one of the corners and all services were great and polite staff.

Very good experience nice comfortable place great staff and great prices anf great food my only reservation is about the queuing system at the bar or rather a lack of it You could be there at busy times awhile waiting yet someone can walk up and walk right up to the till and get served straight away most people are decent human beings and will point out who was there before them but some dont Morgan is excellent as is Lorna

Great place to meet up with friends. Has a good atmosphere and staff are great. Recommend any chance i get.

Friendly feeling good value food good service.

Lovely staff .First time visiting Maidenhead and I really enjoyed this Spoons.

Just recently refreshed, lovely place, super fast service, friendly staff, best in town. Delicious food.

Plenty of space only 2 guest's ales one not on...5 pumps but 3 taken by Abbott, Doom bar and green king IPA...food good and fast service but decor tired... Re visiting and a great breakfast with a lovely breakfast stout

Cheap and cheerful, and the manager is fantastic

This is a great place for a meal and wonderful selection of real ales. Always friendly service and a great choice of food at an affordable price. Appeals to a variety of people from old to young

Very enjoyable breakfast. Well worth the price as always.

Classic pub, as a pub should be. Good beer, very acceptable food and impeccable service.

A classic spoon, nothing more, nothing less. Food is done in quick time, and tastes good. The outdoors seating and seating upstairs are definitely a plus. Our usual..

Love this place, on of the better spoons in the area. Been around for years and have just been refurbished.

Food was well cooked good price staff exceptional probably best spoons experience so far

Nice bar next to the Riverwalk and as usual with a wheatherspoon bar, food is well priced.

I went to the Bear with a group of friends on a Saturday night and we had a great time. We all had different dishes and everybody enjoyed their food. I had a ribeye steak, chips peas and onion ring sides and it was tasty and hot.The beer was great and it went down well which made the walk home a bit wobbly.

My regular haunt. Refurb needs a bit of tweaking. Atmosphere is good until Gen-Z come in.

Nice clean and friendly example of a Wetherspoons pub. Gets busy. Can sit inside, upstairs or ground floor or outside to the front of the building on the pavement.

Best place in Maidenhead for a weekend get together with friends/family.

Big & charming venue, improved service, good food considering the nature of the chain.

Eddie has the top 5 best customer service in this establishment by far, very helpful and very kinda and lovely to chat to

Superb choice of curry’s on ‘curry night’. The food was very tasty and the service excellent. Waiting time was no longer than 10 minutes. The pub was spotlessly clean and staff very attentive. The manager introduced himself to our group and could be seen continuously monitoring the customers to ensure all were served and dishes cleared away quickly. Wetherspoons are always value for money but the service and level of professionalism at The Bear was above any we have visited before.

OMG this place is the cleanest, most decadent spoons I have ever been in. Doesn’t even feel like a spoons! Not even any p155 on the floor in the toilets! layla is wonderful, made the whole experience worth it!

Something seems to have changed with kitchen staff as the breakfast egg was rock hard and the food was cold.

Love the new make over very nice friendly place

Very dirty place, toilet facilities disgusting, worst weatherspoons I've been in.

Typical large 'spoons with outside seating. Good selection of beers., and the usual menu options. Could use additional staff at the bar as there was quite a wait, with only one person serving

Large wetherspoons with usual fare. Ordered on the app but the dark beers listed were not available. The pub is closing in 2 weeks for refurbishment so maybe that has something to do with it.

Good value for money and very friendly helpful staff.

Perfect location, fantastic atmosphere

Yes all was fine Everthing youd expect from a "Spoons"

Only our first day will let you know after 5day

Fire alarm went off multiple times as soon as I was served. Ordered a beer with my meal that didn’t come so had to ask multiple staff and then was told that tap was out despite being available on the app at the point of purchase so had to have another beer. Food was cold by the time we were allowed back into the property. When I requested a refund, the manager was very aggressive. I understand the alarm going off is a concern but there was no evacuation protocol in place and people went back inside prior to the building being inspected only to be told to wait outside again. Food was good despite being cold but the management needs addressing ASAP.

Typical Wetherspoon good value food and beer.

Decent atmosphere standered spoons fayre great price great time

Just a typical spoons pub...beer was okay and staff not that attentive.

We mostly have just Sunday breakfast here and it's fantastic value for money. Not perfect as it's never quite hot enough but I love the fact they grill the bacon. I have the freedom breakfast as it includes Muchrooms and an extra egg instead of the sausage which to be frank is not great in the tradition Breakfast. I even forgive them the rather shabby interior because Breakfast anywhere else on a Sunday is considerably more expensive. And the bear breakfast is a lot better cooked then some other places in maidenhead

Brilliant food. Cheap drinks. Nice staff. Love the place.

Can't beat the pricing. Nice location and the food is fantastic and not overcooked. Will definitely eat here again

Have been here many times over the years. One of the better Wetherspoons in terms of building, service and quality of food served. The Bear is a large, two story branch situated at the eastern end of the High St. About 10 minutes walk from the Train station. When I visited, had a Vegetarian Breakfast that was of good presentation, quality and temperature. The price when I visited was £4.99. Edit 6th June 2024: This pub now serves the 'Top Plates, Low Rates' deals, which provide very good value for money in this day and age. Image included of menu.

The Wetherspoon standard never disappoints and is always the same.

Ordered food and had it delivered @8.30 only to be told by the doorman that we needed to leave by 9pm because we had children. The manger was unsympathetic and said half an hour was ample to eat food! When asked if he had children he said no!! To which I replied how do you expect children to eat within half an hour especially those with additional needs! No compensation received

Not my favourite this one. It's OK but can be difficult to find a vacant table at night so lord knows what it's like during the day. Also had missing items on curry (naan) and burger (sauce)

The service wasn't great for desserts, they messed up mine and my friends order, waiter said that I had eaten someone elses dessert when it was what I had ordered. I also had to chase my order had been waiting for 20 minutes when others got the dessert they had ordered in less than half the time of me and it was something as simple as ice cream. also the bananas were not prepared very well for the ice cream there were stringy bits on them which should have been removed in the preparation.

It could of bean better to many people with political views on Israel

Don't order the American triple cheese burger. Itd a child sized rip off. Pathetic for a £12 burger. Update, just don't buy burgers at all from here. They are all terrible.

Came in on a Thursday evening for a drink and bite to eat after a terrible 12 hour shift at work, only to be challenged about my age (I’m almost 30) but I completely understand the laws and showed my ID. Only for the group of 4 I came with (all 28 - 34 year olds) to be challenged by a “manager” called Kim. To which she demanded for us to be out of the premises before 9pm bearing in mind 3/4 of us had ID and were clearly over 25. She then removed my drink from in front on me on my table and demanded me out and my friends out all because ONE of our group of four didn’t have ID?!. We were no trouble, not loud, nor rude, we had all simply had a bad day at work and wanted to unwind so we could leave after eating. We weren’t on a “wild” night out, so why she decided to act in this manner I don’t know but being someone that’s recently moved to Maidenhead I will not be coming back to this place after being spoken to, disrespected and mistreated by the staff within the bear.

Food quickly served. Plenty of tables available.

As someone working here, we are constantly improving every aspect of the pub. Our pub manager Eddie is amazing, always striving for the best experience for the customer

Great pricing and a good location, right in the middle of town with decent service. The food is pretty standard pub grub with some 'flair'. Not much of a vibe though with occasional music(scarce). Decent outside area with seating and tables.

Can't fault the service, food, drinks or the atmosphere at this place. A definite first stop on the weekends before hitting the more expensive places and a great place to hang out with friends or just to have a nice meal.

Good value food. An appetising good selection of beers. Quieter upstairs.

Can you ever really get excited about a spoons? That said it is reliable

I shall never visit this place again ! Served by a manager who was very arrogant & rude ! Paid for drinks by cash with £20, given change for £10 & when i questioned my change, he was adamant he gave me a £10, but luckily another customer witnessed he was wrong, but still argued !

Bar staff ignored little old lady that was waiting to be served for ages in favour of loud entitled regulars. Bar staff argumentative when pointed out.

Friendly staff good fast service 👌

Regularly pop in for breakfast when I’m staying in town and it’s always a friendly welcome. Decent breakfast in clean & tidy settings.

Old 17th century Inn in the centre of Maidenhead refurbished tastefully by Wetherspoon. Good food and drink with efficient staff. Excellent value especially for the real ales and cider plus excellent value wines. We always enjoy our visits when we're in the town.

As with all Wetherspoons, you can't really beat the price.

Good clean spoons with a large bar area and plenty of seating both inside and out

Good beer good food good service friendly staff

Great Spoons now. Good turnaround from what was a distinctly average Spoons. Beer selection and keeping now good. Food quality massively improved. Staff now seem happy and attentive. Incredible difference to what used to be. August 2023 update all still good. October 2023 update. First beer end of barrel and pizza slightly not as well cooked as normal. Staff offered replacement but had to leave. Overall still OK. January 2024 update. Great beer selection. Wings and pizza Great. March 2024 update beer selection still good. Food consistent and good. Still going back.

Friendly place for lunch and drinks. Very clean and comfortable

OK for a quick, impromptu lunch with friends that we'd not seen for a while.

The food is just amazing, very fast service, nice and polite. Prices on products is cheap as well.

Really nice pub for a pre match beer and dinner. Busy but well organised so no waiting for service. Decent food too

Loved the Bear! Eddie made our experience here five stars. Not usually a spoons frequenter but it's changed my mind completely about the chain. A lovely place and the service was impeccable. Will def be returning!

The new GM Eddie has inherited a awful lot of history yet is the first person to try and get things done. The place still needs basics like toilets and decor sorting and the cleaning regime is much better but needs improvement I would assume it's the people doing it. Aside from that the effort being put in can't be faulted.

Went there to watch two of the Six Nations rugby matches over the weekend - incredibly relaxed atmosphere, great service and really affordable food & drinks!

Called in the Bear 🐻 Sunday for breakfast. Best Wetherspoons breakfast we have had. Really nice & the eggs were cooked to perfection so well done to the chef. Harry was the waiter who served us, brought our food and cutlery etc he was very good. What I really liked was how he cleared as he went not walking past tables without taking dirty dishes and glasses with him. The Moon Under The Water Milton Keynes could learn a lot from the staff in the Bear!!! We had fish and chips the night before also good.

Nice spoons with cheerful staff

Breakfast was served fast even with a full house on Saturday.

We all had the sirloin steak meal asked for rare steak & got well done so was a bit disappointed. Other than that everything was cooked OK but Not hot, plates cold. Try abit harder please coz its a lovely pub.