Reviews for Black Bear Diner Murrieta in Murrieta, CA

Had a great dine-in experience here! The food is so comforting and delicous. The cornbread was surprisingly good!!! Me and my... boyfriend thought it was a biscuit and we don?t usually eat biscuit but I had a bit of it and it was so soft! Our server told usit was in fact a cornbread. ???? Read more

I?ve been to this one twice now and the other in Long Beach a few times and I?ve always had a decent experience. This last time... was only a little too much because of the hash browns. See pictures. Hands down, the nastiest hash browns I have ever had. Iasked for extra crispy, so not sure if that had anything to do with it, but I don?t think so because it wasn?t burnt. It had avery weird taste to it. But besides that, everything else was fantastic. The Huckleberry Shake and Berry Lemonade were bothterrific as was the food. My brother?s plate, the stuffed French toast and sausage was bomb. My steak and eggs and grits weregood too. Read more

My pictures do the place no justice. The restaurant is a decent size decorated so uniquely with wood and bears cabin feel. They... have baby clothes for sale upon entering the restaurant and other items to the right next to the music box. Didn't look right.You also see cake slices and mini pies for sale. I bought the chocolate pie. Still gotta try it. The employees are really nice,welcoming, professional, and accommodating. It gets really busy. We waited about 15 minutes to be seated. Waited maybe 20minutes for our food. Both waiting times were average for an establishment like this. The prices are a bit higher compared toother surrounding restaurants/diners. But the food is so worth it! Portions are decent and the food is tasty. Even my ArnoldPalmer tasted way better here than other restaurants. The menu is a bit overwhelming because it's like a newspaper. It has abunch of other information that has nothing to do with the food menu. All the writing blends in no color or pictures. They use asymbol next to bigger food items if you are really hungry. I believe they have vegetarian options too and a kids menu. There isa restroom in the restaurant. The place was kept clean. Definitely recommend and definitely am returning. You might not havegood luck with parking because it is small. Read more

The Bear paw little chicken fried steak was good, crispy on the outside and juicy meat inside. the gravy was good, not typically... salty but I didn't quite like the mashed potato. The flavor was strange, tangy, no real potato flavor. I came back because Ilove looking at the wooden bear decor. Read more

So we have drove past this place a few times and finally went inside. It is super cute inside! I love all the bear stuff! The... vibe was totally there! We got there on a Saturday morning and was seated pretty quickly. It was around 10 am. I was very quickto be disappointed because they were out of the cinnamon French toast and the huckleberry lemonade. You know when you havesomething on your mind and when you can?t have it, nothing else sounds good? Well, that was me. I settled for two sweet creampancakes. My husband got the grizzi. We got the cub bear pancakes for my son. The bear pancakes are super cute! I will givethat to them. The sweet cream pancakes were pretty delicious and my husbands meal was allot! Overall, the food was very good. Iwas just disappointed they were out of the food I really wanted. Another discouraging moment was once our server dropped offthe food she never came back to see if we needed anything. My husband was waiting for 10 mins to ask for Tabasco and he finallyjust went up to the host and asked for. They also only gave us two sets of silverware for our family of 3? I will definitely becoming back to try those items and update my review. Read more

Decided to eat here for lunch we haven't been here since precovid. It was not busy at all at 2 o'clock in the afternoon so it... was nice and we got seated right away. I ordered the country fried steak breakfast with over easy eggs a biscuit and grits.Pretty standard flavor it's very hard to mess up a countryfights steak and this one was good and juicy. I added extra gravyonline also so that I could have some with my biscuit. I put my eggs on my grits added a pot of butter and some pepper and thatwas surprisingly a very good side dish. The wife ordered the chicken club she wanted the turkey sandwich but they were out. Theportions are huge and she was only able to finish a quarter of sandwich because of the salad. Besides salad was super fresh anda big portion we always order blue cheese and Italian dressing with our salads and it tasted very good. The 5 year old orderedthe many corn dogs I had to try one myself they weren't over salty and actually actually tasted really good for a kid's meal andthe fruit didn't taste like it was sitting there all day and was cut at 8:00 in the morning. We actually had a very good mealhere and we will definitely be back. Read more

Great food, service was outstanding. The parking is small for it. Had a hard time finding a parking space for a Saturday morning... it was expected. I had the hobo omelet with fresh fruit and toast. I got full really fast they packed with good serving ofmeats. I liked the atmosphere and the theme of the bears throughout the place. Read more

A bit pricey. Overall great food and love to eat here with my younger brothers. The servers could be a bit more polite in my... opinion.(I worked in the food industry for a while.) It is a great family place to eat. Read more