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The Bear (JD Wetherspoon), Maidenhead

10 High Street
Maidenhead
SL6 1QJ
Phone: 01628763030
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J D Wetherspoon

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Danny O'Revey left this review about The Bear (JD Wetherspoon)

2 storey Wetherspoons with outside street seating. Ok, good beer

On 2nd November 2020 - rating: 7
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Aqualung . left this review about The Bear (JD Wetherspoon)

This is quite an upmarket Spoons dating from Spring 2010. It's one of those that was originally a pub rather than a converted shop or office. It was covered in scaffolding on my visit but still open. This prevented any chance of a picture. It's a large square room with the bar at the back and an assortment of furniture. I completely missed spotting an upstairs area! On my Friday afternoon it was crowded mostly with people eating.
The bar has ten hand pumps which had GK IPA & Abbot, Doom Bore, Twickenham Autumn Red doubled up, White Horse Village Idiot, Bingham's Twyford Tipple & Old, Everard's Inbetween and Loddon Hullabaloo. I went for the Bingham's Old (£2.85) which was in great nick but pricey for a Spoons. The standard guest price here is £2.55.
Apart from being a bit expensive I thought this was a pretty good Spoons.

On 1st December 2015 - rating: 7
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Quinno _ left this review about The Bear (JD Wetherspoon)

Internally, little has changed since my review from 2011. This visit found an improved slab of local/guest ales, I tried the W&E Guardsman and Binghams Vanilla Stout which were both in good shape. Very busy on Saturday evening. A top Spoons this and a bit of a default option in a town lacking a good stock of quality pubs.

June 2011
Converted into a JDW at the beginning of 2010, the Bear is an interesting and welcome difference to their usual pub-by-numbers design. Split over two levels with a bar on each (linked by a cast iron spiral staircase), there’s a lot of nice period-style décor (black and silver flock wallpaper excepted), quaint curtained windows and attractive mirrored bar back. On approaching the pub, make sure you take in the large bear atop the exterior entrance porchway, staring at an attractive analogue timepiece (which was, impressively, keeping time). Alongside the usual Spoons range were three unique guest ales amongst the double-clipping - two Rebellion ales and a Loddon, which tasted good. Outside there is a sun-trap front seating area which was proving extremely popular. A factoid gleaned from the pub history section on the wall was that officers were barracked here during WWII. This is an impressive JDW and on this showing it should be on the crawl list by default. Rated 7

On 4th March 2015 - rating: 8
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Map location corrected by Roger Button
Maidenhead, 0.51 miles, 9 min walk (show)
Furze Platt, 0.99 miles, 19 min walk (show)
Taplow, 1.62 miles, 31 min walk (show)
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25th Mar 2023, 08:43
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25th Mar 2023, 08:43
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