Ess-a-Bagel

Probably one of the best breakfast bagels I’ve tried! • Ess-a-Bagel did not disappoint. I got a warm bagel with creamy cheese, nicely cooked eggs, and generous turkey slices. • Well-seasoned overall, though I love a lot of pepper, so I added extra to mine, and ketchup too. • Staff were kind and quick to take and serve orders. • Went around 8:30 AM on a Thursday. There was a line, but it moved fast. • They also have a great variety of pastries. • Limited dining area, but I managed to grab a window seat. • Will definitely be back to try more!

— BA

I live in the middle of nowhere. Closest grocery store is 30 mins. Closest really good grocery store is over an hour. I love bagels and have been lucky enough to travel to NYC and I have sampled some of the bagel greats. And yes there are none better than NYC. I sent some of these bagels to my relatives for Christmas and I liked them so much I ordered some for me. 5-6 mins in Air Fryer and you are ready. Is it as good as in person? No. Is it really good ...yes!!! I am lucky to have found these. Oh yeah these bagels are not only great they are massive!

— The Hunter

Be best breakfast sandwich I’ve ever had. The line was quite long, we waited about 15 minutes to order, and we got our order in five minutes. They have a great system functioning, but it’s definitely a lot of people inside the café. We got two morning classics with bacon, egg, and cheese, and a poppyseed bagel with apple cinnamon cream cheese, which was incredible. Definitely be prepared to wait in line, we were lucky that there was no line outside the door, but it got busy very very fast. There’s very limited seating, but I’m sure if you wait around and ask people when they’re leaving, you’ll find some seating. We also got a cappuccino and it was really good.

— TM

We have walked by this place many times over the past few years and there is always a very long line of customers every weekend day. So recently we decided to try it out just after lunch when there was no line. We ordered a bagel with scallion cream cheese and an americano coffee. The coffee was quite good. The bagel on the other hand did not taste any worse or better than bagels we eat all over the city. I am assuming this place was written up and promoted on social media which attracts the crowds. Nothing special here for us.

— THE EXPLORER

Very decent bagels but Everytime I ask them to not toast my bagel they do it anyways. This morning I asked the gentleman nicely behind the counter to not toast the bagel. I watched him put it inside the toaster and I asked him about it and he said it just came out of the oven. Okay priced but extremely annoyed of this happening multiple times and their workers lying.

— Anthony Z.