The Bear

The Bear is one of Newton Abbot's newer openings, a bar and eatery on Wolborough Street built around cocktails and a burger menu that keeps coming up in reviews - the Bear Burger has a following of its own. There is a beer garden for when the weather allows, a function room, and a games room upstairs with darts on the ground floor.

Bottomless brunch is a regular fixture, pairing hot food with a run of cocktails, and the bar is both child-friendly and dog-friendly, which is not always a given in a venue built around drinks. Reviews consistently mention prompt service and a clean, well-decorated interior. It reads as a bar that wants to be useful for more than one kind of night out - brunch with friends, a function booking, or a casual pint with the dog under the table.