Black Bear Diner

Our go to for up state! love the breakfasts need to try lunch and dinner!! Their pancakes are amazing!! And totally worth the wait!!

Great food and they took care to make dining a safe experience with the risk of covid

We were sending our daughter off to college and needed some where decent to eat for a goodbye dinner that was not pricey. This matched and my 14 year son had eaten at another Black Bear Diner somewhere else and loved it.
1st let me say the biscuits were some of the best I have ever had. They were almost as big as a softball and and yes soft and very flavorful. Wow!!! The salad was fresh and can't go wrong there. The dinners were regular. Nothing that popped for me to say WOW! It was good just average. The fried chicken is the normal frozen type that you can get at most establishments and they all look and taste identical. I was hoping for more of a home fried not box fried. The mashed potatoes are good, homemade and have the peels in them buy just a little to many peels. The chicken strips were same I can get at a gas station. The pot roast was the winner out of our 3 meals. Tender and flavorful. Our service was nice but was business get the job done service. We fried many times to get anything towards a regular human conversation and he was just polite and about the meals. Although he messed up on the pot roast and brought mashed and baked potatoes and forgot the veggies. Dessert was hard ordering. I went for the cheesecake and he kept trying to get me to order strawberries on it. I wanted either huckleberry, blueberry or cherry in that order. Each time I said one he would ask if we don't have that would you like strawberries. No I don't want strawberries. I got frozen black berries and wasn't even asked if I wanted that. Then my wife ordered the banana split that comes WITH strawberries and he left them off. ??!!

So this rating got a 3 based on the food for the most part. If it were the service it would be a 1.5 or 2.
Stull good to go to especially for the biscuits alone.