May 2007. I wish I could say that my experience echoed the more positive reviews preceding, but alas ’tis not to be. It is a rather nice-looking, unkempt and rustic affair, rambling over 2 or 3 stories of an old hotel, it looks to be. Alas the fun stopped there. I’ll give our waitress some benefit of the doubt: I think she was trying. But I also think she was hired primarily for her looks, not skill, and she wasn’t the only one not on her toes on this visit. My mother and brother both ordered coffee --ok, not a typical order at a brewpub, but it WAS lunchtime, and you’d think they could not bring COLD, I mean frigid coffee out, twice! A couple of small items on our order got messed up....the wait was far too long given the spotty business, and the food was just ok. I got a pizza which while seemingly made from scratch with decent ingredients was amazingly greasy. And the beer. Oh my. Every sample infected, sour, off. We would have been better off with the known mediocrity of Sea Dog than the unknown terrors of the Bear. Avoid!
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For a beer bar in a college town, this one is excellent. Friendly service, good food, great beer. They opened a dance club on the second floor, separat from the pub area. The back of the second floor has a deck for outdoor drinking. The third floor has pool tables, tvs and a small bar. As for food, the pizza is good and everything else fairly average.
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Bear Brew was a 5/5 for Ambiance, but they’ve actually made it worse with the recent addition of the ghetto club upstairs. Thankfully the downstairs bar remains in tact :) Service is always great with generally attractive girls as waitstaff. Selection is good, pretty much typical pub fare. It’s generally tastey but i’ve had a few not so great meals here and there.
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