Not an ultra-hip coffee shop or luxurious bakery but it has what you came for: great bagels and coffee, friendly staff, good prices and a comfortable space. What more can you ask for in a neighborhood comfort spot? read more

As a native New Yorker I can say these are the most authentic NY-style bagels in Seattle. They are the right medium size and consistency (not huge and doughy), and come in a great range of flavors including pumpernickel, and bialys! They offer a great range of shmears as well. read more

Poor service. If you're in a hurry, go elsewhere. They seem to have a single toaster, and the staff are pretty apathetic and rude. It's a bummer because this place has good bagels. read more

See picture, these bagels are 2-3 stars at best. They're damn lucky there's no competition, literally there's no other casual bagel spots. Westman, Eltana, and zylberschtein are all different experiences - and much higher quality. read more

Bagel Oasis - This is an "everything bagel" no leftover seasonings in the bag. Seriously..? - Bagels Near Me - Seattle, Washington

I came to Bagel Oasis after a coworker from the East Coast recommended them. The staff was very helpful, guiding me through the large menu and allowing me to take my time. I ended up ordering a bagel with cream cheese and lox, which came out soon after I ordered it. The bagel itself was very good - probably the best I've had on the West Coast! Unfortunately, while the tomatoes, onions, capers, and cream cheese were piled on, my bagel slices only had a few small pieces of salmon on them. Also, the baby carrots that came on the side were old and dry. For a sandwich that cost $10, I expected more. read more

Bagel Oasis - Bagel with lox & cream cheese. The veggies & cream cheese are piled on, but there's barely any salmon. The baby carrots are old and dry. - Bagels Near Me - Seattle, Washington

Normally this is a great place I go to get a legit bagel as a treat. Today I was horrified watching the food preparation in plain view of everyone. One of The employees with long hair hanging down over the food as he was preparing it. In addition he repeatedly wiped his face with gloved hands. I pulled one of the employees aside and mentioned this should be corrected. Nothing changed and he continued to prepare the food in The same manner. Will not be returning after this. read more

So this is my second time here and I'm leaving disappointed again. Although the employees are very nice college students who are trying hard, the owner is doing a disservice to them and the shop by not properly training them. To add insult to injury, this side of veggie cream cheese cost me $3.50. People, any descent bagel shop in the US has sides of cream cheese for .50¢ What a rip off!! No wonder this place was empty on a Sunday morning read more

Bagel Oasis - This side of veggie cream cheese cost me $3.50. What a rip off!! No wonder this place was empty on. Sunday morning - Bagels Near Me - Seattle, Washington

Worst customer service. As you walk in to order they seem very annoyed that you are there. As you begin to say what you want, they abruptly tell you to order at the cashier. As they are taking your order at the cashier, they are extremely rude and feel like they have more important things to do. Bagels are overfilled with cream cheese. I won't be coming back read more

Ordered takeout through grub hub, they didn't make the order and didn't cancel it so I arrived to get it and nothing was done. They didn't offer to make it there. I asked them to refund it and they said they couldn't and to contact grub hub. Terrible customer service, the least they could have done is cancel the order before I had driven over to pick something up they couldn't bother to do read more

Horrible customer service just as the coffee and food. Never coming back! As soon as I came in for the first time the expected me to know what I want, giving dirty looks like they been up all night slaving away baking bagels. They make you pay than they get to making everything, annoying you have to wait not start right when you order. Than I asked for my bagel to be toasted and she rolled her eyes, not sure if she was looking for a recipe on toasting back there or if it was a glitch in the matrix. Overall worst spot I've been to in a while. read more

Born into a family of juice [sic] I am no stranger to bagels. Bagel Oasis was around long before Noah's, and housed the best bagels in and around the Ravenna/Wedgewood area. I'm not sure what it is about my people that makes us love bagels so, but I assume it's because the bagel itself is a metaphor for what a team of us would score in Football. The area itself has changed quite a bit. There is a crepe place. The deli/caterer closed. Guidos Pizza was replaced with something way less good. Bagel Oasis has stayed the same though, which is nice when I feel like walking Ravenna and reminiscing about the days of yore. I walked inside and waited 15 minutes for them to take my order. Based on what you know about Ravenna and/or North Seattle, please choose the most likely reason I had to wait that long to order bagels: a) Bagel Oasis was very busy that day. b) The staff was too preoccupied talking about world events. c) An elderly white lady ordered an onion bagel toasted. As the clerk grabbed the bagel from the tray, the bagel cooks in the back brought out a new slew of onion bagels. The clerk ignored it, because she already had the lady's bagel, in hand. She put in in the toaster and started conversing with the old white lady about the weather, among other things. The lady responded with one word answers and a scowl. Finally the bagel was done. The clerk put on the cream cheese and handed it to the old white lady. It was at that moment that the lady said, and I quote "That was one of the old bagels. I don't want the old bagels. Make it with one of the fresh bagels." On a related note, research has shown that if you look at skin cells under a microscope, you'll see that a lack of melanin grows more unjustifiably passive aggressive as it ages. One thing to note about Bagel Oasis is that there is a considerable price difference between the "Bagel and Cream Cheese" and a "Bagel and a Shmear of Cream Cheese." One is something like 5.00, while the other is only a little over 2.00. One is an enormous gob of cream cheese while the other is a healthy portion of cream cheese. There is no earthly reason to order the former, since the latter is exactly the same and half the price. Why they offer both is beyond me, but I'm guessing they lose customers when people that don't know that Shmear is Yiddish for "Smart People Amount" order the regular bagel with cream cheese erroneously. read more

Where do I start on the wonderfulness of Bagel Oasis? I have been going to this joint since I was a toddler. There goes little ol' me with my mom and sis in tow getting the most delicious rings of dough on the planet. Go and try any of the egg bagels (comes with or without meat, your choice). They are good enough that you'll want to slap your momma. No joke. The pumpernickel bagel is so luscious all other pumpernickel bagels pale in comparison. If you are lucky enough to get there just as they are dumping the freshly baked bagels into the basket you are one lucky duck. Those suckers warm are yet another godly experience. They have a variety of homemade smears ranging from plain to jalapeno along with salads and fairly good cookies. The sandwiches are amusing as they have names of various Seattle towns. Cute. Very cute. Now enough reading this and other reviews. Go to Bagel Oasis NOW! read more

Bagel - O- A- Shit __________ Filthiest place I've been to and beats the I-5 rest / \ areas in a very close margin. / \ / \ Read hilary M's 01/28/2007 review, it's been a \ Sponsored / year since that review and place is still the \ by / same. \ Bagel / \ Oasis / Bagel is not that good either. \ / \ / Also tried their bagel dog freshly baked using \ / their famous! Bialy dough. \ / \ / What I got after the 12 mins was a joke. A dog \ / wrapped in crunchy white dough. It was \_____ / white...c'mon brush with oil or something so it browns!! Please do not bring any AARP members or any one with low immune system to this Germ Oasis. read more

OK, I'm being a tool by reviewing this without being a bagel-eater, I guess, but I've been a few times and they commit such flagrant sins of customer service that I just want them to go. The first time I went in to grab a quick coffee before class and the customer ahead of me had returned to pick up her order, only to find that apparently someone else had claimed it when it came up. The kid at the register asked his manager if she could have her stuff remade at no charge, and THE MANAGER SAID NO. She'd already paid! He expected her to pay again! Amazing. Service is consistently slow and the place is dirty. Today, I ordered an omelet and asked if I could get a little soup instead of a bagel on the side, and the manager again said NO, even when we offered to pay the difference. What the hell? I hope those of you who sanctify your east coast-style bagels can find somewhere better! read more

Best bagels in Seattle and probably for thousands of miles Weird prices. Adding cream cheese on your bagel costs $3.30 in addition to the $1 bagel. Why? read more

Used to be my favorite bagel shop in Seattle but it seems they changed their bagels during covid. Sadly they are not nearly as good as they used to be :( read more

I feel obligated to update my review with the following: 1) Can someone name a place in Seattle with better bagels? 2) Even some of the 1-star reviews concede that the bagels are good. If a place specializes in selling bagels, and they're good, and they didn't make you sick, how can you give a 1-star rating? 3) Where are you all eating your bagels? Bagels are supposed to work like this: You walk into the bagel joint, you buy a bagel, you throw some cream cheese on it, and walk out and eat it. Bagel joints don't have to be nice to hang out in, they just need to give you a good bagel. I apologize for my frustration, but I'd hate for other people like myself who enjoy a real bagel to pass this place by because folks in Seattle prefer a clean bathroom over a great bagel. Just for clarification, I found a 4-star review for Pagliacci pizza and a 4-star review for California Pizza Kitchen from the low reviewers of Bagel Oasis. If you know a good bagel and a good pizza and can't seem to find either in Seattle, please take a chance on the Oasis. Though I will concede that I wouldn't go hang out there. --- Original Review Below --- I am rating The Bagel Oasis on one criteria only: bagel quality. I haven't written a review on Yelp for awhile, but after trying this place out, I feel obligated to help spread the word. They sell, I'm pretty certain, the best bagel you can find in the greater Seattle area. I'm from Chicago, and while it isn't quite New York when it comes to bagels, we had quite a few places that made excellent bagels to choose from. Since moving to Seattle, I've been trying to find a good bagel. I've tried quite a few places (Gilbert's, The Bagel Deli, Noah's, Zatz, Goldberg's, etc), and the only bagel that even made it to the "decent" tier was Zatz. I'm not sure how I missed the Bagel Oasis when I started this search over a year ago, but I somehow ran into some positive reviews about just a few days ago so I had to try it out this weekend. I'm more than pleasantly surprised. The bagels were excellent. Certainly in the same league as the best of Chicago, and my wife says she may even prefer them to anything we used to get back home. If you want a bagel the way a bagel is supposed to taste, The Bagel Oasis is the real deal. Now if only someone could make a decent Chicago style pizza... read more

Great location and amazing bagels! These are the type of bagel I remember as a kid in New York. Not the baked pieces of crap that most people grew up with. And just like in New York, you don't eat at the bagel shop. You grab a bag of warm bagels and head home to enjoy them with your morning news. The place itself seemed big and had plenty of moms and kids roaming about. Also a few university students. There is usually a line. A secret, bring cash and just say you are there for a bag of bagels. You'll be in and out in no time. And I need to give a special shout out to the wonderful employee who gave me an extra bagel when I was a little short on cash. Thanks! read more

I give them 2 stars solely because of the customer service. I've been going here since I was a kid, but hadn't been back in several years until today, when a random urge hit me. The food is still very good. Bagels are a little dense and chewy, but add all the delicious sandwich toppings and a pickle, and you've got a good lunch. However, the boy working the register was EXTREMELY unfriendly and surly (as other reviewers have mentioned). I was so taken aback by his demeanor, that while waiting fo r our food, my boyfriend and I wondered how he even got hired. You could barely hear him speak, and after I had finished my order, he just replied with, "Kay." Not a smile, barely any eye contact. I cant even fully convey how off-putting he was. But I felt compelled to call and talk to the manager to bring it to his attention. Of course, Mr. Surly answered the phone, and when I asked to talk to the manager, he asked, "who are you?" to which I replied, "A customer, wanting to speak to the manager." Alas, after I told the manager how off-putting the employee was (and how he repeatedly rubbed customers the wrong way), all he had to say was "Okay." !!! Wow. Someone doesn't care about their customers! Anyway, good food, super shitty customer service. read more

Coming from customer service jobs, I know it can be difficult to deal with the general public. It takes a lot for me to hit my breaking point, but this place did it for me today. It wasn't just today, but I go here every week for the people I nanny for and every week it's pretty unfavorable. The bagels are mediocre and the staff if horrendous. I am lucky if I get a smile. Beyond that, they are disorganized and often forgetful. Today for example I ordered and sat with two children waiting for the dozen while some other woman got her dozen who came in after me and took most of the bagels I wanted. Don't even ask to get the dozen cut, because the staff might cut you. Not all the staff is this way. There use to be a blonde lady who worked there that was wonderful and a young, brunette girl. Other than that, the place is run by angry old men and mindless teenagers. If it were up to me, I would no longer be going to this place. Pick up that customer service and maybe I'd give it another shot. read more

WOW. There's an idiot born every minute, and they're all on Yelp! Don't listen to the haters (seed both sides? packaged grocery bagels are better? who ARE you?). Best New York style bagels outside of New York, plus better than half the ones you can get IN New York. Seattleites are LUCKY to have this place. I live in the food capital of the US, and we don't have anything like it. People complained about bad service or having to wait too long, but maybe that's because the only good bagels are here? At 9 a.m. on a weekday morning, it was empty, and my service was super and friendly. I think it's a nice idea they have an entire breakfast menu as well; they're covering everyone's breakfast bases. The only thing that could have been better was kicking out the guy using the place as his office and shouting into his phone. I guess rude people are born every minute too. read more

These are the best bagels in Seattle. The oasis is run by transplanted New Yorkers and it shows in their product. As a native Louisianan who feels like she hit the lottery whenever she finds good Creole or Cajun food in Seattle, I'd caution comparing them against NYC but they are almost that good. Many factors go into recreating the same sense of place that can exalt a dining experience beyond the product alone -- you won't suddenly find yourself magically transported to the Upper West Side H&H. They have all the standard options. My favorite is the salt bagel, which I customize per my cravings (i.e. sometimes I knock off half, other times I go for it all). Both the breakfast and lunch sandwiches are good. My favorite of the lunch is the Fremont Rocket and for breakfast, it's where our lazy weekend household tradition of ham & egg on bagels began. Like another poster says, I (mostly) rate this place on bagels alone. I was warned away on their customer service issues alone long before I ever visited. If they could get their front of house issues worked out, I'd bump this up to 5 stars. read more

This is my favorite place to get real bagels. I often get a dozen reasonably priced and excellent bagels to go. Everyone in my family loves them. The Everything bagel is our favorite, but I've never been disappointed with any of them. I love this place. read more

As a kid growing up on Long Island, NY, I used to pass by the Queens' Bagel Oasis shop on the Long Island Expressway. That is a round-about way of saying, the bagels at "Bagel O" are truly NY bagels. I think that they make the best all-around bagel in Seattle. The owner is from NYC and uses the same recipe as he used at the Queens' bagel shop. The bagels are best hot from the oven, however they also taste good the same day un-toasted. They freeze well and taste very close to hot out of the oven when defrosted and toasted. The one downside to Bagel O bagels is that they are not as chewy as they could be. Still, they are a good size, they are slightly sweet, good crust, very, very close to Long Island bagels. I agree with the other posters about the price of a bagel with cream cheese being too high. I've found the best way around this is to buy the baker's dozen and a tub of their wonderful cream cheeses. The price per cream cheese and bagel sandwich drops by about $1.50 or more - and the bagels freeze well for two weeks. read more

Bagel Oasis has been a family tradition of mine ever since I went to Jewish school at the nearby Kadima as a wee-child. We used to stop by, buy a bag of a dozen bagels, and bring them home and pile them with lox. My sister has a friend who calls bagels in Seattle and in grocery stores "RBIs" -- Round Bread Units. I'm pretty sure most people in this city think that a bagel is a piece of bland white bread shaped into a circle with a hole in the middle. Bagel Oasis bagels are real. Bagels should taste like what you get here. Crunchy on the outside, delightfully chewy on the inside, and amazing with cream cheese and smoked salmon. I do not care what this restaurant is like on the inside...I would drive from anywhere in the city to get their bagels. I've never found better ones in the city, and I've lived here for my entire 23 years. read more

Tasty bagel, but maybe don't get it toasted. The bottom half.of my bagel was thinner so when it was toasted, the bottom was super hard and crunchy. I had to throw it away and just eat the other half. Also, seems way overpriced! $4.99 for a blueberry bagel and cream cheese?!?! WTF!! read more

I was looking forward to a toasted everything bagel with schmear this morning. Based on a recommendation, I came here this morning and was quite disappointed with the lack of service and the bagels themselves. I walked in and waited in front of 5 workers without so much as a glance, a greeting or a hello. I wait a few minutes before finally asking whether I was waiting in the right area (I wasn't). A young blonde girl finally helps me and makes me feel like she has a million other things going on that are more important than helping me and proceeds to get frustrated that she dropped some change. She was definitely not a happy employee and clearly made that known and felt. This was quite uncomfortable on a Saturday morning. On to the bagels...they were pretty disappointing to say the least. The texture was off and they were VERY dry. Not the right texture you want for a bagel which should be toasty and crispy outside but moist and chewy inside. Also the everything bagel only had a sparse sprinkle of poppy seeds and sesame seeds. Not the typical plethora of poppy, sesame, garlic, onion and salt that I'm used to so it was pretty bland. Definitely won't be back to this depressing place. read more

As one of many East Coast transplants, my search for a decent bagel brought me to Oasis. Unfortunately this place fails to capture New York or Seattle. Meh product, bad service, strange atmosphere, and insane prices mean I will not be coming back. I've been in Seattle long enough to know I can't compare these bagels to my favorite places back in Brooklyn. BUT - here are the things they are doing wrong when it comes to the real thing. Bagels: small, hole is huge, seasoned bagels are only seasoned on one side, missing that true crunch. Cream cheese was a bit bland (think Kraft) and my lox were tasteless (inexcusable for a salmon city). Place: The ordering system is strange. You order at the cash register instead of the counter. There are no signs and I was rudely pointed in the "right" direction by a person I am assuming is the owner. Forgive me for having ordered from deli counters for 30 years. The place is run by sad-looking high schoolers. I would be pretty sad too if I had a grumpy boss of a man standing cross-armed and micro-managing me. So while I waited to order, 3 people behind the counter just waited - definitely prolonging the magic. The atmosphere was boring and neither reflected a NYC feel or a Seattle feel. Uninspired and strangely quiet. No music, no laugher, no "what'll it be chief?" No hipness, no hippieness, no New Yorker. Just blah. Price: $4.55 for a bagel and cream cheese? I added lox and got a drink and a onion bagel for the road. My quick grab breakfast cost what a sit-down brunch might. Now my go to place back East is in Park Slope, Brooklyn. One of the most expensive NYC neighborhoods and I never paid close to that much. I was kind of in disbelief. What they did right- bagels are decent for Seattle. They are boiled and baked but obviously in a half-assed way. Not much better than a Safeway bagel. I'm really disappointed this place wasn't the Oasis I was hoping. I'm moving a few blocks from there in the Fall and would have been willing to give it another chance. I would have done the West Coast version of bagels (& pizza) were it's all about toppings and covering the lackluster quality of the actually thing you are eating BUT because of the ridiculous prices I'm back to having friends FedEx in real bagels. Believe it or not this may work out to be cheaper. Bummer read more

The bagels here are decent. I just moved out here from the East Coast, so I still have east coast bagel standards, but I will say that these bagels would be considered decent in NYC. Not amazing, but decent. And the coffee is good too, although be warned: if you order an iced coffee, they will do just that - pour the hot drip coffee over ice! But man, the service here is comically bad. Today I ordered an egg and bacon on a sesame bagel - not toasted cause the bagel had just come out of the oven, and no cheese cause I think that bacon and cheese is overkill. 10 minutes later, I get my bagel, and it's toasted and has cheese on it. So I go up to the counter and tell the kid about the problem. He consults with the manager owner, who sort of looks at me for a moment and says, "fine, I'll make a new one." No apology, just a lot of attitude and a reluctant agreement to make the sandwich I had actually ordered. I think the key here is to just get some unadorned bagels and bring them home. read more

Second review for this establishment, I'm seeing alot of gripes about the service. I suppose they may have some turnover issues and the hourly staff are young. They still have the best dam bagels in town and are worth any minor inconvenience I have experienced. Every Sunday, Always. Scallion cream cheese is the bomb! read more

The bagels are good. That's it. If your in a bad mood or in a hurry, DO NOT eat here. Unless you enjoy disappointment. The bagels are the only part of the oasis. The service means well but I doubt they are trained. I'm guessing the counter people, all young, are trying there best. They are using their limited life experience and doing the best they can. The older guy that works there, be he owner or manager, the one generally not smiling and walking around like he's the captain of a failed sailing expedition, I'm guessing he's been there since 4am cooking, he should take a vacation. Not like anything else could go wrong. The bagels are good. Orders are rarely right. In fact half my fun in going is seeing how the manage to get it wrong. Today we ordered our bagels toasted, they were served cold. Would return them at normal place but here, no they'd probably come back entirely different. Again, the bagels are good. read more

Bagel Oasis - Bagels. What's the difference between schmear of cream cheese and cream cheese? Not price. - Bagels Near Me - Seattle, Washington

East coaster here. These are the best you'll find in Seattle. I have no idea what the haters are talking about, 'mediocre' 'not as good as Einstein's?!? seriously? What are you smoking? I come here for the bagels($1.25/piece to go), not the smiles or chit-chat. +1 to the sesame & sourdough, though the everything needs a little help - it looks a little naked. The flavored cream cheese is def worth the extra price. These bagels/cream cheese will ruin you. You'll never be able to get a Trader Joe's/Safeway/PCC/____ bagel again. You've been warned. read more

No special bagels here and very rude people! We tried to go there 3 times and each time it was a ridiculously long wait for a simple bagel (30-45 min with no other customers) . The last time we went there we ordered and waited for 15 min and an other customer came in and ordered and got his bagel before us - when we were asking why his got done before ours - ours was not even started yet - the man just said the orders he takes have priority over the ones the girl takes - why? No explanation!!! It ridiculous how they manage this place.... It's always empty and they still don't think to change anything in there customer service.... We will def not be back since there are other bagel places in Seattle that are nicer and make a bagel in a reasonable time!!! read more

This place has been a long-time favorite of my mine for one menu item alone: The Beacon Hill. Turkey, avocado, tomato and bacon, slathered in bleu cheese dressing. I like it served on a toasted sourdough bagel. Need I say more? Probably not, but I will anyway. I hadn't had this sandwich for a long time, but while trying to think of a quick grab-and-go lunch the other day, a glorious vision of me grubbing happily on a Beacon Hill popped into my mind, so off to Ravenna I went. It was comforting to go back to Bagel Oasis and see that it was exactly as I'd left it years ago -- happy stoners casually putting together quality bagel sandwiches. At 8-10 bucks, it's not exactly the cheapest lunch in town -- but the ingredients always seem really quality, and your sandwich always comes with a bag of chips and a pickle. Worth the money, the calories, and the potential shame of leaving with bleu cheese all over your face and shirt. read more

I think someone really smart once said "Stupidity is doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for a different outcome." I'm stupid, apparently. I keep going back to Bagel Oasis, and it just gets worse! The service is SSSLLLLOOOWWWW. Good God, does it REALLY take 10 minutes to put a bagel in a bag when there are 4 people behind the counter? It does not seem to matter who is working, it is achingly snail-paced in that place. And, they get my order wrong, like every time. EVERY TIME. Boo. Even though it's around the corner from my house, and I love bagels, I will not go back anymore. read more

Having recently moved back to Seattle from the Northeast, I have been missing the familiar bagel shops which are so abundant on the East Coast. Granted, the bagels in Boston have nothing on anything in the NYC metro area, but at least there were decent establishments. Until now, I have been subsiding on grocery store bagels and avoiding the much lauded places like Grateful Bread, Great Harvest, etc simply because I'm cynical about bagels in Seattle. However upon hearing that my uncle, who hails from Brooklyn, spoke highly of only one bagel shop in Seattle -- that being Bagel Oasis -- I had to try it. Yes, the bagels and shmear are expensive. And, yes -- it's worth it. The texture and heaviness of these bagels hits the mark for me. While I don't think they compare to NYC's best, for Seattle, this is pretty good. I did appreciate the liberal amount of lox shmear applied to my garlic bagel and left feeling like I could work another 8 hours without food, which, in my opinion, is the mark of a good bagel. The heaviness should be palpable when picking up the bagel and this was certainly the case. Others here complain about the decor (or lack thereof) and the hygiene of the bagel shop. For me, this is part of the experience. People who love good bagels probably don't care about whether the tables are perfectly clean, which includes me. Would I return? Without a doubt. read more

We ordered 3 dozen bagels for a brunch that we hosted. Being an east coast native and a bagel snob, I was skeptical - but Bagel Oasis really delivered. ESPECIALLY the bialys! Everything was ready when we picked it up (we called Saturday afternoon for Sunday morning pickup) and all of them were fresh, warm and tasty. For a taste of NYC bagels in Seattle, Bagel Oasis is the way to go. read more

This place is the bomb! There bagels deserve 5 Stars! You can't even call bagels from groceries stores bagels after you've tried one of these. The reason I gave them 4 stars is because its PRICEY! $3 and some change for a bagel with a smear of cream cheese. Your killing my bank account. read more

I do not understand why it is almost impossible to get a real bagel in Seattle, but it is. Come on Seattle. We're a big city now. We can have real bagels. Note: Just because something is made of bread, and is round with a hole in the middle, does not make it a bagel. A real bagel is boiled and then baked, and has a dense, chewy texture. Pretty much all you can find in Seattle is a lot of bagel-shaped objects that are just... not real bagels. Anyway, Bagel Oasis has real bagels. They are very good and they bake them fresh in small batches all day. The salt bagels are wonderful if you knock about half the salt off first. The sourdough bagels are really, really good. Plain, poppyseed, and sesame are also great. I haven't tried the others, because I don't like onion or garlic bagels, but a friend of mine swears by their bialys. I also haven't tried the sandwiches or anything. The place is kind of... odd, but I like it. It's a little out of the way. I like to go there on my way to or back from the Magnusson dog park. It's large and quiet inside, and the staff aren't exactly friendly, but they're perfectly fine and helpful. The bagels freeze really well. I pick up a dozen every time I go and put most of them in the freezer that same night. Take them out one at a time and microwave them for about 45 seconds and it's almost like you just bought it fresh that morning. Bagel Oasis: good, real bagels. I'll keep looking and hoping for an even better real bagel place in Seattle, but meanwhile I'll be coming here a lot. read more

Listen people. This place makes the best bagels in Seattle. I've tried every other bagel place in Seattle that anyone thinks is any good and they all suck. I didn't even know I was a bagel snob until I moved here and realized that there were so many bad bagels out there. But Bagel Oasis is passable. The service is terrible and the store isn't very inviting. Who cares? Walk in, order a bunch of bagels to take home, and leave. Or, if you can, buy the bagels somewhere else- the Caffe Vita at my office carries them and that's a much better experience. Compared to NYC the bagels are ok, with a slight bit of crispiness to the exterior and a reasonably chewy interior. I'd like the exterior to be a bit crispier with a thinner crust, and the interior could use a bit more flavor and less crumb. However, in the all important of category, "How embarrassed would I be to take my New York in-laws here for a bagel?" it is clearly the highest scorer in Seattle. read more