one of my favorite places, food is delicious Our waitress , Juanita did a brilliant service read more

Juanita is an amazing waiter!!! She helped me decide what I wanted. Got me the very last bag of Earl Grey tea. All with a smile on her face! Thank you, Juanita! read more

Juanita was my server ! Always kept my coffee HOT which is something I really look at ! And food was amazing as always .. great service ! Will be coming back ! read more

Re: All-you-can-eat Fish fry platter I noticed during Lenten, the period after Fat Tuesday until Easter Friday, many restaurants will have more fish or seafood menu items. I know BBD has battered cod on the regular everyday menu, which is above anverage Imho, it's two steps above frozen bagged battered sticks or portions in grocery stores. BBDs battered cod is ok to take care of a craving. I came in with a dining partner. I just had to order the All-you -can-eat FISH fry platter. I emphasize FISH bc that's the only item that's AYCE. First platter arrived with 2.5 pieces of hot and steamy breaded fish, 3 hush puppies, onion rings (I swapped out fries) and a separate cold Cole slaw in a separate serving dish. It also came with a lemon wedge and tartar sauce. If you want refills, it's only for the FISH and only one FISH at a time. In summary the very thin layer of fish encased in a thick breading that can cut the top of one's roof top, inner cheek and tongue needs to be better. I chatted with 2 other ppl and they weren't ordering ever again. The crust was also dark colored. On my only refill, I requested a lighter fry, which it was (See pic comparison) The onion rings were breaded like fish, which became hard as rock and difficult to eat in a few minutes. I've had there battered onion rings as an appetizer so that's what I thought I'd receive, but it did not. Our server was very nice, cordial and friendly. She was a 5 star server. Technically the dish was a zero, but her service was 5, which is a 2.5...however " could've been better " and not 3 star "good", so it stays as a 2 read more

Black Bear Diner Milpitas - Comparison of fish from first platter (left fish) vs the right fish, which is the refill. I asked for a lighter fry. - Diners Near Me - Milpitas, California

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Very fast, food came out in less then 5mins. The staff was pleasant. My server was Juanita she was great quick, came to my table regularly.

Waited a long time to be seated and an hour for our food to come out cold. Fries weren't fully cooked. Waitress was really sweet but other than that terrible experience wouldn't recommend this location they need more staff and more experienced cooks. read more

The day after July 4th, we stopped by to have a simple brunch after golf. I ordered egg benedict, and it's food. What was particularly impressive was that our table server, Juanita, was very kind. Find Juanita at the entrance. The atmosphere was not too loud, so I liked it. If you want a free breakfast, I recommend this place. read more

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I had a meetup with one of my contracted staff at a "Black Bear Diner" that was equidistant from our residences. I am never disappointed with Black Bear; it is casual, the food is always good and plentiful, the staff are great! Can't go wrong with Black Bear Diner! read more

Juanita was great, even though it was extremely busy during rush hour, she was able to deliver a great service to us. The food was good and the mocha ice coffee was delicious and highly recommend it! Thank you! read more

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Juanita was an absolute pleasure to have as our server! From the moment we sat down, she was attentive and welcoming without ever making us feel rushed. Our drinks were refilled before we even had to ask, our food came out promptly, and she checked in at just the right moments throughout the meal. Her warm, friendly attitude made the whole experience that much more enjoyable. It's clear she takes real pride in her work. We'll definitely be asking for her section next time we visit! read more

I wanted to thank Black Bear Diner and Catering for providing a delicious breakfast and excellent service for our end-of-the-school-year staff celebration. The breakfast was wonderful, and everything was well prepared and organized. Elizabeth from the catering department was so thoughtful and made our event truly memorable. Our staff truly enjoyed the meal, and we appreciate the professionalism and friendliness of your team. Thank you for helping make our event special and for contributing to a great way to celebrate the end of a successful school year. We look forward to working with you again in the future. Thank you again! Nancy read more

The wife and I went there on the May 22 /26. I had the meatloaf and the wife had the pot roast. Both were so smothered with thick gravy you could not see the meat. My meatloaf was so thin maybe 3/8 inch, last time more than a half inch or more one slice was a quarter inch. My salde was great muffin. The wife's pot-roast was shredded no big chunks and so much gravy it was sickening not like the large servings I remember. Great chowder and muffin. This is not what I remember BIG BEAR DINNER was like. The service and the restaurant inside was great. read more

Classic diner breakfast. Nice and festive for the holiday season. Food was prepared well: crispy-ish thick cut bacon (it's actually hard to do it without burning it) and cake like sweet cream pancakes. Large portions at a good value. Our server, Juanita, was attentive and friendly. We really appreciated her attention and energy on an early-ish New Year's Eve day breakfast! read more

Great food and excellent service! Juanita was friendly, attentive, and made us feel welcome.

I came for a quick breakfast to start my Saturday morning and everything was delicious. The portions are HUGE so plan for leftovers. My server Juanita was very nice and attentive. I'll definitely be back read more

Worst "corned beef hash" ever! A bunch of dried out corned beef on top of a few tiny cubes of flavorless potatoes. "Buttered" toast was equally as dry. Scrambled eggs were just OK, and the fried potatoes were dry, cold, and fairly tasteless. I was pretty much ignored once my bland meal was served. Then there was a payment device that lost the connection, and since I couldn't get anyone's attention, I paid with what cash I had. Fortunately, there I didn't have enough for much of a tip. Overall, a totally a disappointing experience! Giving one star is actually pushing it. read more

Our waitress was excellent. She was on the job so courteous well polite we are impressed. She is another reason. We will be back soon. Thank you Juanita. ! read more

Service was quick, food always a decent size. The kids pancakes look very close to their menu pictures, which is a plus for the kids. Maybe it was the day we went but our breakfast meals lacked seasoning. We had to add more hot sauce, black peppers, to give it flavor. The table we had was clean. Just wished the bathroom could be remodeled. The toilets need to be changed. read more

Employees are nice but corporate has too many illogical rules like not allowing me to swap One single .02 cent pancake for two eggs on a meal. That's what happens when companies get too top heavy and hire a bunch of Morons who can't use their heads to be in charge. read more

Our server Juanita great performance. Food was great and good portion nice atmosphere

Food was ok. No butter on the toast. Good service very friendly. Place reminds me of a hunting lodge in the mountains.

A fun, atmospheric diner! I think the biggest stand-out for me is the atmosphere this diner gives. You have bears everywhere, from decorations to the outside statues to the curtains as well. Everything is themed to be an "outdoors"-y style with wooden chairs, tables, dividers. And the menus are newspapers, which is super cute. The people are great, both staff and diners! Shout out to Jorge for being nice and courteous, and shout out to one group of diners that hugged when meeting each other for what I assumed to have been a while since meeting. Fun environment, pleasant 80s rock music on the speaker, just nice and atmospheric! The only thing for me that didn't hit the mark was the food in my opinion, as it felt like there's more of a "presentation" instead of substance. The plates convex from the bottom to make the food "pop out", and while I got the Bear's Choice with a ham steak, two scrambled eggs, and two biscuits and gravy, I'm sure I got like four large biscuits, which took over half of the plate themselves, a quarter for the ham, and another quarter for the eggs. When you get the plate, it looks super nice! When you dig in, it starts to feel like a chore to finish. The breakfast was $20, so keep that in mind when ordering as it felt more like biscuits plus two sides of protein. Besides the food, I think if you just want a nice spot to just relax, to be with friends, and maybe share a meal, Black Bear Diner is incredibly nice to have that moment. A fun, thematic diner with bears all around! read more

Black Bear Diner Milpitas - The Bear's Choice built breakfast, with 2 Biscuits & Gravy, Hickory Smoked Ham Steak, and two scrambled eggs. - Diners Near Me - Milpitas, California

Great service from Juanita and she was quite friendly. The food was tasty as always! More characters to fulfill the stupid requirement.

I'm on a quest of trying different Locations of Black Bear Diners! Service was good! What suprised me was the portion size and the biscuit! First time served a small oirtuons of hash browns and a small biscuit! We went around noonish on our way home. Not very husy and you could actually hear the music playing. read more

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Very nice service from Juanita. Ample portions but quite expensive. Be prepared to pay about $30 person all in.

My friend and I went here on a Sunday for lunch around 2:34pm and there was no wait! I used to go to their other locations often with a group of friends, so I already knew I'd most likely like this location too. We ordered the Country Fried Steak, Fettuccine Alfredo, and a side of Biscuit. The portions of all the items we ordered are huge! Haha we were confused when the biscuit arrived to our table because of how big it was! Anyways, everything tasted good, but the biscuit was the highlight for me because of it's buttery flavor and how big it was. I also liked how creamy the Fettuccine Alfredo was, but the Country Fried Steak wasn't really what I expected. That country fried steak was still good though! I'd recommend this place! I love how the inside and outside of the restaurant is decorated and all of the food was good too! It's also cool how large the portions here are! read more

Black Bear Diner Milpitas - Country Fried Steak (front), Fettuccine Alfredo (back left), & Biscuit (back right) | IG: @nomwithelaine - Diners Near Me - Milpitas, California

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Parking lot is shared with other businesses so it makes it extremely difficult to find parking. I had to drop my family off at the door so they could get us a table while I drive around the parking lot fighting for parking. Walking in on a Saturday afternoon around 1pm you better expect a wait. This place was packed, thankfully we didn't have to wait long, no more than 5 minutes. You may not wait long for a table but once you get to your table you better not come here hungry because you will be waiting a long time for your food. Once we sat our waitress was great, friendly, polite and quick with drinks. After placing our food order, we sat and waited about 30 minutes for food, felt like an eternity because we were starving since we had just left Milpitas high school from The Music in the Park event and hadn't eaten anything. Our table was right in front of the kitchen so we were able to see plates just sitting waiting for them to be picked up by the waitresses/ waiters and at one point I looked over and I saw about four waitresses and waiters just standing at the kitchen window waiting for food to be put out. I don't know if they are understaffed or they just don't know how to manage properly but something needs to change because waiting that long for our meal I think is a little not ok. I can say the food was good. I ordered the turkey club sandwich with French Fries. You can't really mess up a sandwich! Overall, I give it a four star only because our waitress was really nice. read more

Black Bear Diner Milpitas - Turkey Club (880-1040 cals.) - Diners Near Me - Milpitas, California

Juanita was great! She kept checking on us and made sure we had everything we needed without being too much. The food was great as well. Only issue was we asked for over easy eggs but got scrambled. No fault to her plus we weren't too picky. Definitely coming back either way. read more

Always a good meal at the Black Bear Diner! Juanita did a great job as our waitress, very attentive.

The food was really good it was a delicious meal to have for me and my family had a good meal here and I would have given it 5 stars but I only got one creamer but that's ok the food was delicious tho and the food came out pretty quickly and that's good I hope your guys experience was good to!!!!!!!! read more

Haven't been here for awhile. Same deco and same menu style. Still find the newspaper style menu interesting and massive, they have a full page on desserts and drinks! The prices are no longer cheap; main items like breakfast or entrees are about 20 bucks each. However, the portions are generous. The taco salad is massive, and the biscuit that comes with the omelette is also huge. Hash browns are made from fresh, not frozen packages. Service is ok, a bit slow in the beginning and the food could have come a bit faster, but overall a good old American sumptuous meal. read more

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Juanita was excellent. Good was great as usual. I'm looking forward to coming back. Did not appreciate that I needed to write a novel however to post this review! read more

Juanita's service was top tier and she remembered it was my son's birthday. The staff brought out an ice cream and sang to him. I appreciate her attentiveness and making sure we were okay. read more

Other than the delicious food, Juanita our waitress was very friendly and attentive. We will definitely come back

Love having a black bear diner so close in proximity to our house we come here all the time the food is consistently amazing and customer service is always so warm and kind we really appreciate Juanita. She's good at what she does. She makes sure you never have an empty cup of coffee. read more

What went well? Actually the customer first with Juanita. For me it's important how a server interacts with me first. First impressions is important. No matter how tired a worker is the attitude reflects on how they serve a customer. Juanita had a friendly smile and she engaged with mini conversations as if I was a regular. I love that. Secondly, the quality and quantity of my country fried chicken omelette was so great; I had left overs to bring home! My sister and I had a great lunch and best experience with Juanita. Please continue with reasonable costs of your food and quantity/portions you serve is satisfying. Thank you Black Bear.... We almost went to Denny's. I would have been disappointed. read more

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We had a amazing breakfast at Black Bear Diner and Juanita was the best. She made sure our order was accurate and checked on my family on a timely manner. Highly recommended! read more

Their food is consistently good, and their homemade sausage is surprisingly delicious! Super accommodating on substitutions I need to make because of my diet. Even if Mil's Diner is closer to where I live, I'll keep coming back to this place! read more

Unfortunately, I was not impressed by this restaurant as this was my first time at Black Bear Diner. I know they have locations all over the West Coast, so I was excited to try it out. We were seated immediately as a party of 5. We had to wait around 40 minutes after we ordered before we got our food. I think they forgot about it and they only started making it after we asked so that wasn't too great. - BBQ Ribs - This did not taste good as the rib quality felt very poor as it almost had a watery texture to it. - Steak - Honestly this was surprisingly good and if this was the only thing I ate here, I would have given Black Bear Diner 4 or 5 stars. The steak was actually very tender and there was a good marinate that permeated throughout the meat. - Garlic Parmesan Toast - This item was shredded cheese on top of heated toast. I thought the garlic and the parmesan flavors would be more incorporated into the toast but unfortunately not. I would not recommend it. - Italian Green Beans and Bacon - The bacon and the Italian green beans were incredibly soggy and the whole thing had too much water in it. Also, there wasn't much seasoning other than the fact that it was salty. Because of the wait after we ordered food as well as the lack of quality-tasting food, I'm not sure if I would come back unfortunately. read more

Black Bear Diner Milpitas - Steak Italian Green Beans with Bacon Red-Skinned Mashed Potatoes with Country Gravy - Diners Near Me - Milpitas, California

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