BJ's Restaurant and Sandwich Shop

One of the best burgers I ever had.
Mar 6th, 2024

Feb 2nd, 2024

This is hands down my favorite restaurant and BURGER in Big Bear! Cash only, in an effort to keep prices low, and boy are the prices a steal! Their specialties are burgers and sandwiches, and they have fantastic homemade sides including potato salad, macaroni salad, and a balsamic coleslaw. You can get beer / wine for ~$3/4 per glass, and pitchers offered as well! Its family owned and run, the waitress & cook are the owners, I believe! It does have limited indoor seating, but they turn over tables quickly, and theres lots of room for outdoor seating in summer / if you have your warn gear on in the winter. The building is old, and the seating is picnic table style, so there is some aging. The decor is hilarious vintage Big Bear in the best of ways, a legitimate version of what an Applebees tries for. Families welcome. To combat an early review on the cleanliness 1. Ive been here many times and I was not aware they even severed French fries? Never mind how greasy they are. Also, youre mad that food that had been deep fried is greasy? Hmm 2. Ive seen into this kitchen many times (anyone can from the dining room) and while its not aesthetically pretty, its clean. Ive worked in many kitchens, and it meets the standards. 3. A bathroom is not a kitchen. They dont cook in the bathroom. Complaint noted, but did you tell the staff or just troll about it on the internet? Parking: Shared a parking lot with a few businesses including the Market, but street parking nearby if full (which is rare).
Dec 29th, 2023

Holy Hotdogs! I had a beef dip and went back to try a bacon cheeseburger. The beef dip was good and the burger was one of the best Ive ever had! Good grilled cheese too. Cash only is a bit inconvenient but the food is great!
Oct 17th, 2023

This place gets 1 star only due to the kindness of the server and her patience. The place has been around forever so I don't expect it to look new what I do expect though is it to be clean. It's not remotely clean, it's less clean than a hotel room where 10 drunk teenagers stayed for 30 days without ever cleaning. The benches, sticky, like my hand stuck to them, the bathroom, the door was the first indication and it was insanely sticky as if it hadn't been wiped down in a year, not a figure of speech. The bathroom looks like a set from an episode of SVU where they found a body. Standing water in the bathroom, bathroom floor cracked all the way though, zero paper towels and if you walk out the bathroom don't look into the kitchen to the right, it's the stuff of nightmares. Now to food, half our order was wrong, the server though was fantastic and was quick to fix / help with everything. She was kind, great with kids, super pleasant and is the best thing here. Food quality was bad, really really bad. Some of my favorite places are small, local BBQ places (like manny or dons in Yucca or 29). The food was caked in oil / butter, meat was sparse and incredibly fatty, potato salad was runny, like tip the container over and it just ran out runny. Avoid, seriously, go anywhere else. Unfortunate as I was hoping this place would be a gem but after digging it was just a dirt clod.
Dec 17th, 2023