EDIT: After some more thought I think three stars were honestly more than our experience merited.
Uncle Bear's was a bit disappointing; I feel I'm being generous giving it three stars.
Ambience: They advertise a "dog motif" which consists of customer-provided pictures of their dogs and dog food bowls full of peanuts on the table (we thought the bowls were fun). They have TVs hung on the walls playing sports which are nice though I know experts generally consider it taboo to make customers look toward the walls. The paint and furniture appears to be new and clean but there's not much in the way of decoration other than pictures of dogs which, lets' face it, at least have the cute factor.
Service: Our server seemed like she was probably new to the gig and not very well trained in so service was sub-par for us. She was rather slow with requests and just plain forgot about part of an order but by the time she came back around it didn't make sense to ask again. Food came out pretty quickly but the server had to offer many apologies for the service.
Drinks: We had to exchange a drink (arnold palmer) because it tasted awful - worse than a powdered drink mix. The server advised it's Minute Maid lemonade. The beer selection is decent and their version of a black and tan which they call a Guilt Lifter since it's Guinness and Kilt Lifter was poored well.
Food: As I mentioned before every table has a bowl of peanuts in the shell and you can toss the shells on the floor. The menu is fairly large and contains salads, burgers, pizza, tacos, pasta and more with no overall theme consistency. I always find that kind of variety off-putting because in my experience some things are poor quality and just thrown in there to try to appease every customer's taste. Our party had a combination of burgers and fajitas. All were pretty tasty but lacking anything that made them stand out over other restaurants. I wanted to order the teriyaki burger but changed my mind when I asked what the "pineapple tidbits" were and was told by the server "honestly, they're the kind out of a can" ...yuck. Don't you generally expect a grilled slice of fresh pineapple on a teriyaki burger from a grill house? The steak fries were tasty and weren't greasy. Overall the food was satisfactory but nothing that's going to come to mind at the top of the list when we're trying to decide where to eat - it was forgetable.
Really the only reason they earned the third star for me is by offering an outdoor seating area where customers are welcome to bring their dogs. Even so I doubt we'll go back (we have dogs and like to take them out some times). It's worth a try; some people seem to like it but don't expect much more than a place to fill your belly... while looking at pictures of cute puppies, haha.