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So here I sit in Sarah’s Bagel Cafe, formerly Andy’s deli. I have just run the Fit One 10K and I’m starving. It’s about 45 degrees out and the rain is starting to come down. I’m watching Saturday Market patrons out the window, most of whom are ill-prepared for the inclement weather. I was promised just a short wait for my Asiago bagel with veggie cream cheese and a tall black coffee. I decide to pick up a slice of pumpkin chocolate chip bread to-go. What the hell, fall is definitely in the air today. A handful of people come and go, getting bagels and coffee. Why this place isn’t packed to the gills is beyond me, especially on a day like today. Veggie cream cheese is a godsend for me. This place did not disappoint. TONS of crunchy veggie chunks litter the thick spread. The bagel was the perfect warmth, crunchy on the outside and chewy in the middle with a great Asiago flavor. 5 stars for that combo. Wow. Not sure what the coffee is. Could be regular ‘ol Boyd’s or Farmer Bros. It was fresh, though. I’m not a coffee snob. I’m happy as long as it’s black, hot and not sour. Friendly people in here who aim to please. I really enjoyed it. Can’t think of a better way to spend $7.75 right now. That’s a bargain for what all I got. Give it a try.

The Bagelry – Menu with Prices – 1401 Walnut St, Cincinnati

Cute little shop in an area of OTR that I hope continues to grow. I’ve had their bagels at Rooted, and had heard rave reviews about their lox bagel, which is one of my favorite foods of all time (+ haven’t found a place in Cincinnati that can do a lox bagel correctly yet). After finally making it to the brick & mortar location, I opted to try a few other things on my first visit. I got an egg sandwich + wheat bagel to eat right away, and a rosemary bagel with the vegan cheddar cheese spread for later. The egg sandwich was phenomenal. The bagel was great (very obviously boiled! yay!) + the perfect mix of crunchy and chewy. Lots of egg, and wrapped perfectly so that I could eat it on the go. The rosemary bagel was also delicious – I liked it better than the wheat bagel. I was so excited they had 3 vegan cream cheese flavors when I visited – such a rarity for Cincy! – but the cheddar cashew cream cheese was just okay. I probably did it wrong by pairing it with the rosemary bagel, but it did nothing for me, and wasn’t as good as other cashew cheese I’ve tried. Bummer. Definitely coming back for the lox bagel when I’m back in Cincy next. What a great addition to OTR!

The Press Cafe – Menu with Prices – 2079 Compton Ave # 106, Corona

I’m convinced that I’ve never had a bagel w/ cream cheese this tasty. The bagel is a good size and the cream cheese is fresh. This isn’t a bagel you get from a grocery store, very soft and crunchy in the right places being that it was toasted. I also ordered a hot chocolate , so tasty. More than enough hot chocolate (medium sized) . I can say that I was taken aback at the price but after receiving my food it was a little (a little) more understandable. For a hot chocolate and bagel with cream cheese I spent $10 and some change. The lady at the counter was very nice, the music is perfect. There isn’t a lot of seating , like two chairs and this seems more like the place for people on the go, but I’m not complaining.

Solid Ground Cafe Menu with Prices 742 Huntington Ave, Boston

UPDATE: It’s been a few months, and this is still an awesome coffee spot. Summer time is almost here, and their cold brew is great–robust flavor, but smooth enough to drink it black if you like that. However, I must say the food is still lacking. Every bakery item I’ve had was dry and too flaky. They only put cream cheese on one side of a bagel, and then make it into a sandwich (which is literally half the amount of cream cheese you need). The biscuit also lacks enough jam or butter, and I found the nut-butter & jam sandwich was served on square, Nature’s Own-looking slices of bread—for $4.50, I expect some 2″ thick, soft, nutty slices. Overall, this is still a favorite spot, but I find myself getting coffee to go, and then grabbing food elsewhere. (It reminds me too much of the saltine cracker challenge from middle school.)

New York Bagel & Deli – Menu with Prices – 3720 W Lake Rd, Erie

I cannot rate this place highly enough. The customer service was fantastic and our breakfast sandwiches were so delicious. My boyfriend and I both had an egg, cheese, and sausage veggie bagel. After we checked out, we saw the immense selection of homemade cream cheese and decided to order another plain bagel to try the cream cheese. She gave us extra bagels. We joked with them that we would drive the whole way to Erie (from Altoona, PA) just for a bagel but we think now after trying the cream cheese we really would, haha! What better way to word this review than to say, “Would Drive 4 hours for these bagels.” 10/10

Williamsburg Bagel – Menu with Prices – 343 Roebling St, Brooklyn

This is not your regular bagel place. Located just a few blocks from the Marcy Ave stop sits this bagel place just on the outskirts of the Hasidic neighborhood. There are more bagel varieties than bagel flavors, this isn’t a bad thing. You can get a bagel stick! You could get a regular bagel with cream cheese, a classic bagel with lox. All will not disappoint. But since you’re here, you should get the crunchy fried lox. It’s unlike anything you’ve ever had (and will have again). It’s delicious and very satisfying. This is also not a place you can sit and eat. Take it and maybe go to Domino Park and enjoy this new found delight. You’re welcome.

Genuine Water Bagels Menu with Prices 305 S Washington St, Alexandria

When I wake up, sometimes I just crave a toasted bagel with cream cheese, and a tall glass of milk. Today, I visited Genuine Water Bagels. A small, and compact restaurant, that supplied nothing of that with their bagels. The cashier was electric early in the morning, and provided smiles on a tired soul. I had an everything bagel with butter, while my boyfriend had the lox sandwich on a toasted asiago bagel with smokes salmon, capers, onions, and a tomato. Both of us were satisfied, and more than anything, filled us with good food, and smiles. I recommend 10 times over.

Water Street Bagel Co. – Menu with Prices – 239 E Water St, Syracuse

Having been living England for the past few years, I felt like I have been deprived the right to decent bagels (please don’t tell me that I haven’t looked hard enough; I have, very very hard. So my grief is genuine). When I finally came back and was informed there is a new bagel shop in town, of course I had to go early in the morning LOL So I went with my husband on a Wednesday morning, and we were both very pleased that we went. I got a everything bagel with garlic cream cheese, and my husband got the western bagel. with one bite, I knew right away I have gotten myself a good bagel; it was chewy but not so much so that you will end up sporting a superman jawline for the rest of the day; it was also soft but too soft that it would just become an unchewable, muddy texture once met with saliva. Yeah… I have been through many bad bagel relationships in the past LOL I did question my choice of an everything bagel with garlic cream cheese right before work; but hey I might have been a nuisance in the office that day, but my spirit was the most beautiful of them all.

Hill Street Donut House – Menu with Prices – 1926 S Coast Hwy, Oceanside

While I have genuine nostalgia 4 anything that still has the hill street name in it. I did not have a fantastic experience at the donut shop. I stopped to get a quick bagel and coffee before an appointment, they did not have much of a selection on breakfast sandwiches Etc and when I ordered a bagel the gentleman offered me plain or everything. Those are your choices. After a bit of time the coffee and the bagel came out and I went to my car to snack on the way to my appointment and much to my shock there were no condiments for the bagel in the bag. No cream cheese no butter no Jam nothing! I mean what the heck who just needs a plain bagel with nothing! The coffee also was not strong and delicious as I always anticipate coffee to be and the visit left me feeling very unsatisfied. I doubt I will be back anytime soon

Bagelsaurus – Menu with Prices – 1796 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge

Getting a Bagelsaurus bagel is no joke. It requires a trip to Porter Square and, on a Saturday, a 30 minute wait outside in the line wrapping down the block. I’d advise you pick up 6 or a dozen and stash in the freezer so you can satisfy that craving without the odyssey. M-F you can call ahead with pre-order, but on weekends, walk-in only. On the weekend, if you’re planning to get a bunch and you’re not picky about variety, you can mostly bypass the wait via the Grab Bags express line: 8am-10am, mixed baker’s dozen of assorted flavors (you don’t get to pick flavors) for $25, option to add spreads ($5/ tub) and/or coffee. No substitutions, no bagel sandwich add-ons. Is a bagel *really* worth all of this? For a Bagelsaurus bagel, yes. My obsession began in the office kitchen: I picked up a bagel as I would any other breakfast food leftover from a meeting. I could tell by the exterior they looked super legit: crispy exterior, lots of bubbles. I toasted it and topped with some of the weird-bits-in-it cream cheese. I took a bite, and my life was forever changed. This was, hands down, the BEST bagel in Boston. How do they do it?! It’s so chewy soft inside, but so crispy eggy perfect outside! Oh, and the cream cheese with weird bits in it? Honey. Rosemary. Cream cheese. Honestly, why isn’t all cream cheese honey rosemary? On a sea salt bagel, this is the pinnacle of perfection. It’s Peak Bagel. Your search is over, but your journey is just beginning.

Bagel Station Inc – Menu with Prices – 129 Oakwood Dr, Winston-Salem

He said: Winston-Salem seems to just give and give, and what better way to wrap up another visit than to grab some bagels on the way out of town? We beat the crowd and got great, quick service on a Sunday morning. This place beats out so many others we’ve tried on our various travels that I’d like to pretend those others never happened. The bagels are super-fresh and the cream cheese is smooth and tasty. My only knock is finding the cream cheese oddly buttery. To be fair: She got no such flavor. All-in-all this place nails it. I got my usual: a sesame with cream cheese and a poppy without (so I could put one half on the other to get just the right amount of spread) and was really happy with it. This was a great stop before the short drive home. She said: Despite the absence of a pumpernickel bagel (my favorite), Bagel Station was definitely a great choice for a quick bite on the way out of town. I chose the wheat everything bagel (toasted) with cream cheese, and the bagel had the right consistency inside and out. I liked the cream cheese, too. It wasn’t super thick, so it didn’t coat the inside of my mouth as I ate, and it was the perfect amount. We did get some hot water for our tea for the ride, and the carafe holding the hot water had previously had hazelnut coffee so the water tasted a bit like hazelnut. We managed, but it made the tea’s flavor not-so-great. We’ve found that it’s hard to find a really good bagel place, so we’ll happily visit Bagel Station whenever we’re in Winston-Salem. Potty Points: No trip to the potty for me on this trip!

Fresh Start Market and Espresso – Menu with Prices – 3020 Center St NE, Salem

I used to love going to this place for a quick breakfast. But we went today without having gone for awhile and the quality has gone waaaaaaaay down hill. We ordered a plain bagel, toasted, with cream cheese and a bagel sausage breakfast sandwich. The biggest issue was the breakfast sandwich. What we got, was a microwaved Jimmy Dean biscuit sandwich. This is obviously not a bagel sandwich. Also, even if I had been okay with a biscuit sandwich, I definitely don’t want a gross, greasy, msg filled, microwaved sandwich. But even the plain bagel with cream cheese was a failure. The bagel itself was terrible. It was thin, dense and very dry. When they toasted it, it got even drier and was burnt in places. And the tiny serving of cream cheese they provided barely covered one side of the bagel. This was a huge let down. However! I do have to say, I went here for lunch a couple of weeks ago and got a black bean burger that was very good. So, go ahead and give it a shot for lunch, but for breakfast, you are better off just buying something in the frozen section and microwaving it yourself. It would probably be cheaper and you’d at least be able to pick out something you actually want.

Great Bagel & Bakery – Menu with Prices – 3650 Boston Rd Suite 108, Lexington

Honestly I really wish I could give a better review. I went in this morning, was able to order quickly and get my bagels quickly as there were no other customers in the building. Very cute establishment- looked very clean! The staff wasn’t very friendly, obviously wanted me to make a decision quick and leave. As I was looking at the bagels, not even close to the register, a young guy at the register just said “what can I get for you.” In a “hurry up I’ve got better things to do than watch you stare at the bagels.” I was going to try one of their lattes or espresso drinks but I felt like that would really annoy them based on the behavior I got, so I just ordered four bagels to go, sliced only, and still thanked them multiple times and tipped. I remember working food-based customer service, i definitely empathize. But that’s not even why I’m rating this a lower score, I’ll still go back to a business if I’ve had a bad customer service experience… the biggest problem was the taste of the bagels. The bagels are SUPER dense, hard to chew, and lack flavor. I ordered two Asiago, one everything and one blueberry. The Asiago didn’t taste or even smell like anything but a whole wheat bagel- the blueberry tasted almost like the blueberries were expired? Sort of like permanent marker flavor when you got a big bite of blueberry. Ended up giving most of this one to my dog. My husband ate the everything, said it also tasted like a whole wheat bagel with some “everything” seasoning on top- and didn’t care to try the Asiago after he smelled it and said the same thing I did above. Super SUPER disappointed- I was so excited that this local business was opening so close to us. Like I said- only tried those 3 flavors of bagel, no drinks or cream cheese or anything from them. So maybe one of those things would’ve been a game-changer? But the name is “great bagel” so I’m not confident about it. Sadly I don’t think we will be going back. I genuinely wish good luck in future to the business though- hopefully we just came on a bad batch day and it isn’t normally like that.