Black Bear Tavern

Food once again was delicious. The TVs were on baseball and still love the decor. Service was awesome. Very attentive. We are from Jackson Alabama and have been coming to Atlanta every weekend and during the week for 2 months going to Shepherd's hospital. We are glad that we checked this place out over the past 3 weeks. Super delicious and great service. Also good cold beer.

Small little pub with a Chicago vibeThe food was good, the music was popping and the prices were just rightI ate the fried shrimp and black and blue burger

I had takeout twice which was ok so I decided to try dining in. I'm a Chicagoan so I'm always looking for Chicago style food in Atlanta. The bar is nothing fancy. Just a normal sports bar with Chicago teams and flags all over. I got a chicken buffalo wrap with fries. The wrap was good but I didn't care much for the fries. They were ok but too thin for my liking and lacked seasoning. I also asked if they had "mild sauce". They told me yes but they didn't give me real Chicago style mild sauce lol I would never get whatever sauce they gave me again. I might try takeout again but I don't feel the need to go back.

This is a great blue collar bar in a white collar area. If you want to escape the bougie for a little while Park Tavern is your place. My go to eats are the Big ass fish sandwich, Buttermilk chicken sandwich or Italian beef! If I'm in the mood to big back I get the Hamburger Horse Shoe!! I definitely recommend this spot!

Sat down because it's seat yourself. The server just looked at me and walked away. I had to go up there and get them for service. I ordered a jack and coke which took 8 minutes. It's not that busy here. He came back and I ordered food. Cheese curds and a bacon hamburger with tater tots. Burger came fast but with fries instead of tots. After I finished eating I let the server know. Burger was really good. Fries were ok but tots woulda been better. Never got the cheese curds. The only reason for 3 stars instead of 1 was because the burger was so good. Then the bears lost as usual. Ugh. The atmosphere was very chill with cheering when we could. Nice crowd, mostly groups and couples.

It's been a while since I have been to Black Bear Tavern. To my surprise, EVERYTHING is still amazing.Black Bear still provides a casual very laid-back type of environment. This was perfect as my friends and I had a long week and just wanted to partake in great laughs with great food... Upon walking in, the bartender welcomed us and advised us to sit where we would like. All of the empty tables were clean which made me very happy. LoL!Once seated, our waitress came over and greeted each of us with a warm smile and a pleasant welcome. With a traditional American Bar menu setup, we didn't require too much time to figure out what we wanted. I decided on the Southwestern Egg Rolls as my App and the Swiss and Bacon Burger as my Main!Hear Me When I Say.... Wowsersssssssssssssss!!The Southwestern Egg Rolls are packed with meat and veggies. These are not the kind of egg rolls you find in your grocer's freezer. Along with being a great portion, they were fried to golden perfection. Being set at the perfect temperature makes for a super enjoyable experience. Warm and perfectly cooked insides surrounded by Golden Fried Goodness put me in a place of tastebud-pleasing bliss. I want some more just thinking about them. LoL!The Bacon and Swiss is HUGEEEEEEEEEE... Just like I needed it to be. There is nothing like a Moist, Meaty, Well Done Burger on a Friday. Furthermore, the fresh lettuce, tomato, and pickles allow for a perfect first bite. I decided to pair my burger with Tater Tots (well done) and they literally melted in my mouth. I'm talking golden fried potatoes, lightly salted, still hot as I dipped them in the room temperature ketchup! This is how you Friday Night in the Atl. LoL! Overall, I left full, pleased with the service, and to top it all off... I had food for the next day. Oh yes... I had leftovers!!! LoL!!!

I'd been wanting to try this bar for some time since its a Chicago bar. I finally stopped in after a night out. Heidi made me a really great drink and was super sweet. I'd like to come back to try some of their food. Only criteria is they need better music.

This place is awesome! It's a Chicago dive bar. This place has plenty of free parking in the lot around the corner. We visited to watch a Bears game and definitely seems like an awesome place to catch a game. Our server was super attentive even though she was the only server on the floor. They have a huge cocktail, beer, wine menu etc. We started with the Southwestern Chicken Egg Rolls which were delicious. I got the mushroom swiss burger as my main meal and it was also good. The prices were great. This place is definitely an awesome dive bar, and if you're a Chicago sports fan this seems like a great place to watch a game.

The service was great. But let me start with parking. If you can't park on the street there's additional parking in back just got to the left of the building. The service was great the waitress see to be the one doing it all. The food on the other hand was lack luster. I ordered the Louisiana Cajun burger and it looked liked the sprinkled a little bit of tony seasoning on the top. The burger it self had no taste and the ranch had no flavor. I got tator tots and I like ranch. But the drink were good.

I would give this bar a zero if possible. I have worked in the service industry as a server in fine dining as well as casual and breweries for several years, never have I been so disrespected and appalled at behavior of a server. A young friend was celebrating his 21st birthday and we went to this bar as it was close, for him to show his ID and get a drink as one does on their 21st birthday. This was a saturday night. We were a group of 15 total, we walked in and headed to to the bar, when a server started aggressively pulling tables together and told us to sit (not kindly) at the tables, it was clear she was either stressed or unhappy at us being a big group. I asked if our group could order at the bar, as I knew only some few of us would be drinking, and didn't want to take a table. She responded "no, you'll order from me" in a direct and aggressive tone, she started taking orders and was clearly unhappy when multiple people said they didn't want anything, again, we just wanted our friend to be able to order a drink on his 21st, and it wasn't our intention to take her tables, also, there were several open table, and no wait line or any kind of busy service occurring. When she got to our side of the table, she asked for our order and we said nothing thank you, she offered us water, and we said no thank you, as we didn't want to give her the extra work of pouring and eventually clearing a bunch of waters. She then looked at us and said "you don't want anything? nothing?" in a sassy and rude way, then I proceeded to explain again that it was our friends bday, which she said she knew already, and that this is why we tried to just order at the bar, not to take her tables with 15 people. she tried to say that she's a server and this is her tables, but it was at the point where we had asked not to be seated at a table, and honestly had been met with so much attitude that any chance of us ordering a drink had passed. Then even after five people ordered, she went to the kitchen and was clearly talking to her coworkers about her unhappiness with what was going on. The manager (i assume, or bartender) came over to our side of the table and explained that there was a ten dollar minimum per person, and that we were taking her tables. We got up and left, no one received a drink. We were met with attitude from the beginning just for being a bigger group, even though the restaurant was almost empty. I didn't see, nor were we told, even when ordering or not ordering that there was a minimum until after she knew a bunch of us weren't ordering. We tried to be respectful, and all we got was attitude. It's ridiculous that in an almost empty bar, on a saturday night, before 11 you wouldn't want to take even five people's order. Trying to pretend there's a minimum, when it was never told to us when we came in, sat, or ordered... I would NEVER go here again and I don't recommend others go as well. So many great places in the city, spend your money elsewhere. HORRIBLE service.